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| We are very pleased to welcome our first cohort of Vanguard Fellows. We look forward to their research collaborations and contribution to our interdisciplinary
research environment – including through some of the seminars and workshops in our events section. |
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Sound artist and composer Caroline Devine is working with Professor Bill Chaplin’s research group who are playing a leading role in the NASA TESS Mission, which will be launched from Cape Canaveral in 2018. TESS will study the brightest stars in the night sky, “sounding” the stars by detecting their oscillations, and search for planets orbiting them. Our project partners are the Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark and there are plans for sound installations and events in Birmingham and Aarhus.
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IAS Distinguished Visiting Fellow
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Stephen Brown is Professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, and is he hosted by Dr Jonathan Fisher, International Development Department, School of Government and Society. Professor Brown’s research focuses on the intersection of the policies and practices of Northern countries and other international actors with politics in Southern countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
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We are delighted to announce that the call is open for University of Birmingham UK and Nanyang Technological University Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowships
This new IAS joint fellowship programme aims to attract outstanding early and mid-career researchers from global leading institutions, operating at the cutting edge of their disciplines to work collaboratively with colleagues at the University of Birmingham UK (UoB) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU).
The deadline for applications is 12 March 2018 and full details can be found on the IAS website.
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Upcoming Workshops and Events
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12 February
Putting Patients at the Heart of Healthcare
Workshop Leaders: Prof Melanie Calvert, Dr Derek Kyte, Institute of Applied Health Research
This IAS workshop aims to bring together leading experts in electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROM) methodology, with key stakeholders including CPROR members based across a number of Colleges at UoB, patient partners, clinicians from UHB and BCH, industry and national/international experts. Together, they will explore mechanisms for embedding efficient routine ePROM data capture within the NHS to facilitate efficient service delivery, improved patient care and enhanced patient outcomes.
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6 March
IAS Lunchtime Seminar: Toward a Political Geography of Abortion
Time: 1.00–2.00pm Birmingham Law School
Location: Senior Common Room, Birmingham Law School
Workshop Leader: Dr Sydney Calkin, Durham, IAS Vanguard Fellow
This seminar discusses the case for a political geography of abortion that moves beyond a state-based framework to account for changing patterns of resistance and restriction on abortion, and reproductive politics as a key site for political geography debates on power, states, and territory. All welcome.
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19–27 March
3rd UBIAS Intercontinental Academia, Laws: Rigidity and Dynamics
Location: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This workshop will bring together a network of future research leaders to collaborate on paradigm-shifting cross-disciplinary research, mentored by eminent researchers from across the globe.
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2 May
IAS Lunchtime Seminar. Empowerment Inc.: Can corporations really ‘empower’ women, and do we even want them to?
Workshop Leaders: Dr Lauren McCarthy IAS Vanguard Fellow
Corporations love telling us to ‘ban bossy’, ‘lean in’ and ‘shine’, and women’s empowerment programmes have become the poster-child of corporate social responsibility (CSR), especially in developing countries. This seminar will explore explores the paradoxes of CSR when we examine it through the lens of gender. What is lost, and what is gained, by the establishment of Empowerment Inc.? All welcome.
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21 June
Adversities, Trauma and Resilience in Periods of Transition
Workshop Leader: Dr Janine Natalya Clark.
‘Periods of transition’ has been broadly defined to cover: societies who are in transition from conflict to peace; communities who are in transition after natural disasters; and individuals who are in transition after having experienced trauma. This workshop aims to foster an inter-disciplinary discussion on the concept of resilience and its meaning in these different contexts.
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