Latest news and events from the Institute of Applied Social Studies.
Latest news
- Description
- Birmingham Perspective: Karen Rowlingson contributes to the Autumn Statement 2012.
- Date:
- 04 December 2012
- Description
- Earlier this term, social work students and academics, together with a service user contributor, took part in an international exchange trip to Rotterdam University.
- Date:
- 28 November 2012
- Description
- On 24 October Steve Vertovec gave a public lecture on Diversification and 'diversity': configurations, representations and encounters as part of the College of Social Science Distinguished Speaker series.
- Date:
- 28 November 2012
- Description
- IASS's Chris Allen was part of a delegation who met with Baroness Sayeeda Warsi at the Foreign & Commonwealth Offices in London. The meeting was arranged to discuss the future work programme of the Cross-Government Working Group on Anti-Muslim Hatred on which Chris Allen sits in an independent expert capacity.
- Date:
- 02 November 2012
- Description
- Few would imagine what the Birmingham Foundation Academy's Social Policy students had planned for them earlier this week. Instead of their normal lecture, the students were taken on a 'walked lecture' around the city of Birmingham.
- Date:
- 02 November 2012
- Description
- Professor David Mullins and Pat Niner of the Institute of Applied Social Studies, have been working with Fillip Sosenko of Herriot-Watt University on an evaluation of a new scheme to allocate all social housing in six North Yorkshire local authorities.
- Date:
- 01 November 2012
IASS Events
- Date
- 09 June 2013 (11:00-16:00)
- Location:
- Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham
- Description
- As part of the University's Community Day on Sunday 9 June, the Social Work Department at the Institute of Applied Social Studies are hosting a 'Survivor Performance Arts and Exhibition' in the Muirhead Tower.
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Date
- 11 (09:00) - 12 June 2013 (16:30)
- Location:
- School of Education, University of Birmingham
- Description
- The University of Birmingham's MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism and the IRiS Institute for Research on Superdiversity, will host a two-day seminar on 'Conceptualizing multilingualism under superdiversity: membership claims, social categories and emblems of authenticity', 11-12 June 2013 at the School of Education, University of Birmingham.
- 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