IAS workshops are typically one day in length and topics should be cross-disciplinary, bringing together expertise from across the breadth of our University.
Below are details of our upcoming workshops which aim to explore cutting-edge issues in research through cross-departmental collaboration.
If you are interested in attending any of the below events, please contact ias@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
More information on proposing an IAS workshop can be found at Propose an IAS Workshop.
- Date
- Monday 17th December 2018
- Location:
- Jekyll Room, Winterbourne House & Garden
- Description
- This workshop will facilitate comparative and collaborative research on key strategies, technologies and techniques needed to govern and address the close interactions between water, energy, food and climate change in Qatar and the United Kingdom.
- Categories:
- Arts and Law, Lectures Talks and Workshops, Research, Social Sciences
- Date
- Tuesday 19th - Wednesday 27th March 2019
- Location:
- University of Birmingham
- Description
- The ICA seeks to create a global network of future research leaders by constructing an arena in which the very best early/mid-career scholars will work together on paradigm-shifting cross-disciplinary research, mentored by some of the most eminent researchers from across the globe. This immersive and intense experience is expected to transform the scholar's own approach to research, enhance their awareness of the work, relevance and potential impact of other disciplines, and to inspire and facilitate new collaborations between distant disciplines; our aim is to make a real, yet volatile, intellectual cocktail that leads to meaningful outputs.
- Date
- Thursday 16th May 2019
- Location:
- Alan Walters Building: 223 Harvard Theatre
- Description
- Since 9/11 we appear to have entered an almost Hobbesian world of violence and chaos in parts of the Muslim world like Syria and Yemen. In addition, some 60,000 people have been killed in the so-called 'War on Terror' in Pakistan alone.
- Date
- Wednesday 26th June 2019
- Location:
- Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre
- Description
- Our increased understanding of animals comes at a time when we are now in a race to preserve the ever-increasing numbers of threatened species and their habitats. With every discovery, there is more urgency for us reassess the longstanding relationships between humans and other species in the world.