Latest news and events from the Institute of Applied Social Studies.
Latest news
- Description
- Following the recently completed SDO-funded project 'Older people's experiences of care transitions', which explored older service user and carers' experiences of transitions in care, academics at the University of Birmingham have put together a resource pack for others to use.
- Date:
- 18 June 2013
- Description
- The Institute for Research into Superdiversity, IRiS, was officially launched on the 13th June 2013 at the Banqueting Suite in Birmingham City Council House. The event was attended by over 150 people representing a mix of local community groups, agencies and institutions, and academics from as far afield as Nicaragua and the US.
- Date:
- 17 June 2013
- Description
- This one-day interdisciplinary colloquium aims to explore the interlocking and myriad intersections between race, biopolitics and violence in Francophone postcolonial culture, politics and thought, considering Caribbean, African and American contexts.
- Date:
- 17 June 2013
- Description
- The next IRiS PRP meeting will bring together the new recruits of this flagship programme and will be an opportunity for practitioner researchers to meet their academic mentors who are based in a number of different schools across the university, and will be offering ongoing support to the individuals engaged in the programme
- Date:
- 12 June 2013
- Description
- IASS's Chris Allen writes in this week's Huffington Post, 'Arson, attack and accusation: The need for balance and realism when considering Islamophobia'
- Date:
- 12 June 2013
- Description
- In response to the brutal murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south London just over a fortnight ago, IASS's Chris Allen has been extremely busy.
- Date:
- 12 June 2013
IASS Events
- Date
- 04 July 2013 (16:15-17:30)
- Location:
- Law Building, Moot Room, University of Birmingham
- Description
- Housing and Communities Research Network seminar, 4 July 2013, to discuss the Peabody Anti-Social Behaviour Report, 'Supporting Peabody Communities - a fresh approach to antisocial behaviour'.
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Date
- 17 July 2013 (09:00-17:00)
- Location:
- TBC
- Description
- This cross-disciplinary, one-day workshop will build on recent revelations of sexual abuse by high profile public figures such as Jimmy Saville, Cyril Smith and Stuart Hall.
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences