Workshop Archives In 'Workshops and Events' Workshops and EventsPropose an IAS WorkshopWorkshop Archives Back to 'The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)' This is a list of previous IAS workshops and events that have already taken place. IAS workshops are typically one day in length and topics are be cross-disciplinary, bringing together expertise from across the breadth of our University. 2020 9th September - Disability and the Life Course 2019 15th-16th December - Localizing Water-Energy-Food Nexus Innovation in Qatar25th November - Macrophage heterogeneity in resolving atherosclerosis and obesity: convergence and divergence20th November - Macrophages in Health and Disease20th November - Hydro-hazards in New Zealand: from alpine water towers to water-scarce drylands19th November - Rebuilding Laboratories14th November - 'Hiding in plain sight': new data and methods helping to illuminate illicit and informal flows13th November - Place Matters: Exploring New Sites of the Humanities Practices8th November - Rethinking the Racial Politics of Decadence: Taking Wilde to Sri Lanka and Beardsley to Harlem29th October - Research for Development in the C21st: what do we need from a Global Challenges Research Fund27th September - Resilience and the future of UK Treescapes23rd September - Exploring interdisciplinary approaches towards mental health, well-being and forced displacement: lessons from across the Globe20th September - An historical perspective on elevated CO2 research: Early insights guiding today's research agenda18th September - First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War26th June - Thinking with Animals24th June - Planetary Health13th-14th June - Anonymity: Past, Present and Futures unknown8th June - Star Machines – Vibrations of the Universe3rd June - 2050 Childhoods - Working with Children: A Kitbag Approach20th May - The ASPIRE project: Analysing migrant and refugee women's experiences of domestic violence in Australia16th May - The Human Right to Mental Health: from global policies to the Brazilian context.16th-17th May - Terrorspheres. The sensitive experience of XXI century urban security15th May - Book Launch: Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus14th May - Supporting resilience and social inclusion for young people of refugee backgrounds: An Australian case study9th May - Eyewitness memory for events: the role of trauma and intoxicatio8th May - Hydrologic Exchange Along River Corridors: Its Nested Nature and Characteristic Spatial and Temporal Scales8th May - Follow That Trajectory!26th March - CERN: A Collective Machinery to Test Laws Against Nature26th March - A Physicist's Search for Simplicity and Unity21st March - Mixing Water, Transducing Energy, Shaping Membranes: Far from Equilibrium Biological Interfaces21st March - Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes21st March - Making Sense of Corruption - Cancelled21st March - Inaugural Grace Frankland Memorial Lecture21st March - Race, Inclusion and Excellence in Law Schools: A Perspective From Three Continents20th March - Bringing Genomic Data into Historical Research20th March - On the Phases of Gravity20th March - The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics19th-27th March - 3rd UBIAS Intercontinental Academia - Academic Profiles19th-27th March - 3rd UBIAS Intercontinental Academia19th-27th March - 3rd UBIAS Intercontinental Academia18th March - Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry18th March - Human Well Being and Economic Accounting5th March - Myths, Mysteries and Science of Edible Bird's Nest1st March - Call for Papers: Anonymity: Past, Present and Futures Unknown7th February - The Citizen in Citizen Science7th February - Humour and Resilience in the Face of (everyday) Global Challenges 2018 17th December - Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Sustainable Development in the United Kingdom and the Middle East13th December - Robotics-enabled Sustainable Manufacturing – IAS Lunchtime Lecture5th December - Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Sustainable Development: Law and Governance Innovations for Integrated Decision-Making5th December - Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasi-experimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles – IAS Public Lecture20th November - Children's Engagement with Digital Technologies: Implications for Health and Wellbeing16th-17th November - Methodological Advances in the Study of Civil War and Political Violence8th November - Representing Home: Art, Visual Culture, and the Interdisciplinary Study of Home24th October - Network Medicine22nd October - Models of infectious disease transmission with complex pathogen and population characteristics17th October - The World in the Year 1000: When Globalization Began16th October - Globalisation in the Year 1000 and Lessons for the Present19th September - New Advances in Biological Mass Spectrometry10th September - Introduction to Inter-Continental Academia (ICA): global networks and interdisciplinary research4th September - Perspectives and experiences of intersectoral systems-based approaches to childhood obesity prevention27th-28th August - Brain stimulation and its applications to memory: best practice6th July - Suicide and self-harm in children and young people: An interdisciplinary approach to prevention29th June - Data Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and the Turing Institute21st June - Interdisciplinary Reflections on Adversities, Trauma and Resilience6th June - (Dis)Connect: Privacy in a Digital Age1st June - Humanhood – Dance Meets Science17th-18th May - Understanding and Fighting Gender Inequality16th May - Seeing, feeling, and showing bodies-in-place: on reflexivity and multi-sensory mediations10th May - Bodies 2.0. Embodied processes and technologies in the flows of urban capitalism2nd May - Empowerment Inc.: Can corporations really 'empower' women, and do we even want them to?20th April - Molecular architecture and engineering – Nano-scale craftsmanship using organometallic chemistry19th-27th March - 3rd UBIAS Intercontinental Academia19th-27th March - Update on ICA 3 - Laws: An Intellectual Adventure12th-14th March - Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Process Tracing6th March - Toward a Political Geography of Abortion27th February - Spatiality and Abortion Travel27th February - View from a Vanguard – Dr Sydney Calkin12th February - Putting Patients at the Heart of Healthcare7th February - Dancing the Dow: A matter of Truth and Knowledge boundary challenges in a contemporary world of 'climate change deniers' and 'fake news 2017 14th December - Automated Clinical Epidemiology Studies (ACES) to bridge Public Health and Basic Science Research11th December - Model Parameterisation in Healthcare and Life Sciences: Extracting Knowledge from Data6th December - Building Mental Health Research Network23rd November - Muslim Societies and Islam22nd November - Challenges to Wellbeing – Prof Lisa Bortolotti22nd November - Challenges to Wellbeing: The Experience of Loneliness and the Threat of Epistemic Injustice in the Clinical Encounter9th November - Patient-reported outcomes for symptom monitoring in oncology - Lunchtime Lecture30th October - In spitting distance: towards a University of Birmingham centre for the analysis of oral fluids30th October - Salivaomics, Saliva Diagnostics & Saliva Liquid Biopsy25th October - Preserving Cultural Heritages; Sustaining Social Diversities25th-26th October - IAS UoB and TUM-IAS Joint Workshop 20172nd October - Transnational Medication Practices, Migration and Superdiversity20th September - Debt and Debt Relief15th September - Mapping the Future - Charting the research potential of the UoB Cartography Collection13th-14th July - New Frontiers in Colloid Science6th July - The Politics of Education in Societies in Transition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives29th June - Environment Care: Mapping the Chemosphere13th June - Beach Water Quality and Public Health in the North American Great Lakes: The Science, Technology & Policy Behind Beach Management18th May - Audiences, Readers, Listeners, Users – Understanding reception in a digital age11th May - Designing Research on the Governance of Renewable Natural Resources in Developing Countries11th May - Accelerating Drug Repurposing in the UK25th April - The Challenge of Interdisciplinary Research Between History and Genomics24th April - Genomic Data and Longobard History8th March - Jutta Thielen – del Pozo, EC Joint Research Centre Scientific Development Unit1st March - Children and Childhood Network Inaugural Meeting8th February - FOOD MATTERS: Sustainable Diets and Nutrition To Tackle Obesity and Diabetes in Diverse Communities13th January - Midlands Cardiovascular Sciences (CVS)12th January - The Mysteries of Black Holes Historic Archives 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012