This is the latest news from the School of Social Policy, its Departments and Research Centres.
News
- Description
- National Housing Federation join forces with HSMC to host a one-day summit on Building better health: joint working between health, housing and social care.
- Date:
- 09/04/2013
- Categories:
- Social Sciences
- Description
- IRiS academic and Birmingham Fellow Dr Nando Sigona is one of the founding editors of the new journal Migration Studies launched today. The journal is published by Oxford University Press.
- Date:
- 28/03/2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- IRIS academic contributes to the Birmingham Brief on the subject of Bulgarian and Romanian immigration to the UK.
- Date:
- 22/03/2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Karen Rowlingson, Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management (CHASM), contributes to opinion on the 2013 Budget discussing the bedroom tax, benefits and the minimum wage.
- Date:
- 20/03/2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- A new report published in February by the housing regulator in New South Wales, Australia, on Strategic Stewardship for the growing community housing set, draws on research by Professor David Mullins.
- Date:
- 06/03/2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- The winner of the William Plowden Fellowship, Dr Richard Lang from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria joins Professor David Mullins in TSRC and Housing and Communities Group for three months on April 10 to undertake research on 'Bringing real localism into practice through co-operative housing governance'.
- Date:
- 05/03/2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- David Mullins and Halima Sacranie are undertaking a study of self help housing projects in the Midlands, funded by the Building and Social Housing Foundation.
- Date:
- 05/03/2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- The Health Services Management Centre and Birmingham Business School, as part of a consortium of internationally-renowned institutions, have been selected to support the NHS to deliver the largest and most comprehensive programme of leadership development, ever undertaken in the NHS.
- Date:
- 01/03/2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences, Students