This is the latest news from the School of Social Policy, its Departments and Research Centres.
News
- Description
- Vanessa Wilkes will be the main speaker at this event, drawing on her PhD research to discuss 'Finding a way to measure social impact: the institutional work of individuals within housing organisations'.
- Date:
- 31/01/2013
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences, Students
- Description
- Students from the UK and around the world will have free access to some of the country's top universities thanks to FutureLearn Ltd, an entirely new company being launched by The Open University (OU).
- Date:
- 14/12/2012
- Categories:
- Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
- Description
- University of Birmingham Social Work students are gaining experience behind bars in a unique initiative that sees them help care for vulnerable detainees in police custody.
- Date:
- 12/12/2012
- Categories:
- Social Sciences, Students
- Description
- Social Work at Birmingham is ranked 1st out of the Russell Group of UK Universities for 2012.
- Date:
- 05/12/2012
- Categories:
- Social Sciences, Students
- 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:
- 28/11/2012
- Categories:
- Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
- 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:
- 02/11/2012
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences, Students