This is the latest news from the School of Social Policy, its Departments and Research Centres.
News
- Description
- Around 75 students gathered in the Business School on Thursday 27 September to take part in the 'QuestionTime@IASS' event. Based on the popular BBC1 television programme, the IASS event brought together an eight strong panel of politicians, policymakers and commentators.
- Date:
- 03/10/2012
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
- Description
- The University Graduate School is pleased to announce that it has ten Doctoral Elite Researcher Scholarships which will commence in the 2013-2014 academic year.
- Date:
- 03/10/2012
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences, Students
- Description
- Following the passage of the Health and Social Care Act, this new PG Certificate in Healthcare Commissioning is designed specifically for clinical commissioners, all those involved in new CCGs and emerging commissioning support organisations.
- Date:
- 02/10/2012
- Categories:
- Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
- Description
- Professor Steven Vertovec, Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen and Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Gottingen, will deliver a guest lecture on 'Diversification and 'diversity': configurations, representations and encounters' and will explore his ideas around 'super-diversity'.
- Date:
- 24/07/2012
- Categories:
- Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
- Description
- CHASM ran a new module for final-year undergraduates in social policy, 'Your Money and Your Life: from welfare state to personal finance'. A total of 25 students took the module, giving it an average satisfaction rating of 4.7 out of 5.
- Date:
- 16/07/2012
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
- Description
- QuestionTime@ IASS will be a key event for returning social policy and social work students, based on the BBC1 televisition programme, Question Time.
- Date:
- 05/07/2012
- Categories:
- Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
- Description
- Applications invited for PG certificate programme for the national Clinical Leadership Fellowship following success of last year's programme.
- Date:
- 06/06/2012
- Categories:
- Social Sciences, Students, Teaching
- Description
- The University's School of Social Policy hosts a seminar entitled 'Happiness is not enough: the Politics and Policy of Wellbeing'.
- Date:
- 09/03/2012
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences, Students