Keep up to date with the latest news and events from around the school and the wide-ranging projects our staff and students get involved with.
Forthcoming events
- Date
- Thursday 23rd May 2013
- Location:
- 99 Rosebery Avenue London, Body and Soul, EC1R 4RE
- Description
- This free workshop offers you the opportunity to hear the learning gained from our work with over 70 health and wellbeing boards across the country and to find out how they can improve integrated care.
- Date
- Thursday 20th June 2013
- Description
- Our Undergraduate Open Days offer you the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current undergraduates and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham. You will be able to tour the campus and accommodation, and speak to us about everything from our courses, finance, support services, careers, sports and much much more. There is a comprehensive programme of talks offering you information and advice, so you are able to tailor your day at the University of Birmingham to match your interests and requirements.
- Date
- Friday 21st June 2013
- Description
- Our Undergraduate Open Days offer you the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current undergraduates and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham. You will be able to tour the campus and accommodation, and speak to us about everything from our courses, finance, support services, careers, sports and much much more. There is a comprehensive programme of talks offering you information and advice, so you are able to tailor your day at the University of Birmingham to match your interests and requirements.
- Date
- Saturday 22nd June 2013
- Description
- Our Undergraduate Open Days offer you the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current undergraduates and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham. You will be able to tour the campus and accommodation, and speak to us about everything from our courses, finance, support services, careers, sports and much much more. There is a comprehensive programme of talks offering you information and advice, so you are able to tailor your day at the University of Birmingham to match your interests and requirements.
- Date
- Monday 24th June - Friday 5th July 2013
- Description
- From the 24th of June until the 5th of July 2013, the University of Antwerp (BE), Universidad de Cantabria (ES), University of Birmingham (UK), Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL), University of Florence (IT) and the University of Olomouc (CZ) jointly organise the first Summer School on the Politics and Economics of Aid.
- Date
- Monday 1st July 2013
- Location:
- Edgbaston campus, University of Birmingham
- Description
- Scrutiny has been endorsed in the Localism Bill and potentially it has much to contribute at times of financial crisis, but it is still a tender plant and above all it depends on good chairing. Chairing an overview and scrutiny committee, or any other overview and scrutiny event, requires very special skills. Whoever takes the chair should be involved in planning before the meeting, and needs to keep a firm hand on the wheel as it develops. This seminar will explore the skills and techniques needed to chair overview and scrutiny committees or panels.
- Date
- Thursday 4th July 2013
- Location:
- Edgbaston campus, University of Birmingham
- Description
- One day seminar - This seminar is for those who want to develop the skills and the techniques involved in support for Overview and Scrutiny. It will provide training for those who are relatively newly appointed, but others, including Democratic Services Officers, Committee Services and Policy Officers, as well as more experienced scrutiny officers, will find it a useful means of refreshing and updating their skills.
- Date
- Thursday 4th July 2013
- Description
- What's it like studying at Birmingham? To help you find out more about the student experience here, we are running a number of online chat sessions for subjects in the department. Current students and staff will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the degree programme here and the student experience at Birmingham.
- Date
- Thursday 8th August 2013
- Description
- What's it like studying at Birmingham? To help you find out more about the student experience here, we are running a number of online chat sessions for subjects in the department. Current students and staff will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the degree programme here and the student experience at Birmingham.
- Date
- Sunday 11th August 2013
- Description
- The postgraduate open day gives you the opportunity to talk to INLOGOV staff and find out more about the wide portfolio of taught and research opportunities available in the Institute. Whatever stage you are at with your career, a visit to the open day will clarify your options and help you plan your next step.
- Date
- Monday 23rd September - Tuesday 29th October 2013
- Description
- Accredited five day programme - This course has grown out of INLOGOV's longstanding experience of research and development programmes for officers, board members and politicians involved in strategic commissioning across a wide range of public service organisations. It examines the strengths and limitations of models of commissioning across levels of government, as well as in specific service sectors.
- Date
- Monday 30th September - Friday 4th October 2013
- Description
- Accredited five day programme - Social care services for both adults and children and families face radical and sustained challenges. Accordingly, this one-week intensive residential programme has been designed to bring together commissioning and contracting staff from across the UK to develop and refine their knowledge and skills in partnership with academic staff and leading visiting speakers, including practitioners at the forefront of developments.
- Date
- Monday 30th September - Wednesday 2nd October 2013
- Description
- This three day programme works through the stages and techniques of the scrutiny process, and the ways in which it may be used both to hold executives to account and to develop policy. It may be used as an induction and training in the principles of good scrutiny for those who are new or relatively new to the topic (including an update on issues for scrutiny raised by new legislation and the Coalition's approach to local government). It will also assist those with experience of scrutiny to develop their skills and improve their practice.
- Date
- Monday 14th October 2013
- Description
- Our Undergraduate Open Days offer you the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current undergraduates and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham. You will be able to tour the campus and accommodation, and speak to us about everything from our courses, finance, support services, careers, sports and much much more. There is a comprehensive programme of talks offering you information and advice, so you are able to tailor your day at the University of Birmingham to match your interests and requirements.
- Date
- Saturday 26th October 2013
- Description
- Our Undergraduate Open Days offer you the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand from our current undergraduates and teaching staff about living and learning at Birmingham. You will be able to tour the campus and accommodation, and speak to us about everything from our courses, finance, support services, careers, sports and much much more. There is a comprehensive programme of talks offering you information and advice, so you are able to tailor your day at the University of Birmingham to match your interests and requirements.
- Date
- Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th November 2013
- Description
- Accredited short course (accreditation is subject to University approval) - This programme is designed for those involved or interested in scrutiny in local government, but the material covered here, i.e. applied research techniques for policy analysts, is extremely relevant to policy analysts, or those aspiring to become policy analysts, interested in learning about practical research and information gathering techniques.
- Date
- Saturday 16th November 2013
- Description
- The DSA Annual Conference 2013 will be co-hosted by the University of Birmingham's International Development Department and will also be celebrating their 50th Anniversary. It will take the form of a one day Conference with an open call for panels and papers, reflecting a more democratic process of bringing together current research and thinking on development related issues.
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