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Date Posted: Mon, April 10 2006, 11:48:48-4
Heroines & Heroes: Symbolism, Embodiment and Identity Conference
Palma, Spain, Universitat de les Balears
28-29th September 2006
International Institute for the Study of Englishness
details: www.iise.co.uk
email: contact@iise.co.uk
Postgraduates are welcome (subsidized fee). A selection
of papers presented will be published in a special edition of the
journal Identity, Self & Symbolism and others in a book.
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Gender and Citizenship in a Multi-Cultural Context - sixth European gender research conference
The sixth European gender research conference will be held at the
University of Lodz in Poland from Thursday 31 August to Sunday 3 September.
The conference plans to be a high-level, interdisciplinary event focused on
gender research in a wide but well-defined range of thematic areas. It is a
triennial event organised by the Association of Institutions for Feminist
Education and Research in Europe.
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MSc in Social Research and Digital Design
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
A Masters programme about the design, creation, understanding and
evaluation of today's digital technologies.
The MSc in Social Research and Digital Design is a new postgraduate
programme taught in one of the leading (5*) sociology departments in
the United Kingdom. The department has a long history of vocationally
oriented postgraduate courses in social research. Among its staff are
internationally renowned academics working on the production and consumption of communication technologies, the internet, and consumer electronics, using innovative methodological approaches.
This new programme combines these areas of expertise to equip students
with both the social scientific resources to investigate and evaluate
digital technologies and media in society today, and sufficient technical
resources to understand and contribute to their design.
Modules include:
The design and use of digital technologies
Social theory and its application to technology
The sociology of new technology
Web publishing
Research design and survey methods
Field methods
and a range of electives, including computational social science,
knowledge management and e-business
The programme also includes a dissertation involving a student's own
research and development, an optional placement in business, and many
practical exercises and projects.
The programme lasts for twelve months. Applicants should have a first
degree in the social sciences.
Further details may be found at http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/srdd/
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A Summer School on Evidence Based Policy Research to be held at Kings College, London3-7 July 2006
This week-long School, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, is intended for MPhil/PhD students registered at a UK University undertaking research on topics relevant to public policy. They may, for example, be seeking to explore the nature of policy issues or policy processes, comparing policy over time or between countries, analysing policy delivery or evaluating the performance of policies. The School will be open to postgraduates from any discipline, working in any field of public policy. The School is provided by the ESRC UK Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice at Kings College, London which supports and develops the contribution of social science to policy and practice. Professor Charlotte Humphrey, Director of the Centre, will direct the School and colleagues from the Centre will be tutors. Information on the work of the Centre can be found on http://www.evidencenetwork.org/.
The School has three aims:
1. to enhance doctoral students’ perspectives on how policy is made and delivered in fields relevant to their research
2. to introduce students to the sources - and the challenges they represent to researchers - which they will need to access for policy relevant research
3. to develop students’ skills in the methods and techniques appropriate to undertaking policy relevant research.
Each day’s programme will comprise a mix of presentations by course staff, exercises (including discussion groups and hands on practice with sources and methods), and seminars with expert outside speakers. Participants will receive a course pack with reference material for retention. Attached is a draft timetable in order to see the theme of the summer school and the timings.
The School will be held at Kings College’s campus at Waterloo, Central London. Residential accommodation will be available on campus in single en-suite study bedrooms for those who require it. All disability can be accommodated, and most areas of the campus are accessible, please indicate when applying if you have any form of disability and we can follow this up by an assessment of your needs. This prospectus and the course material can be made available in alternative formats e.g. large print or on disc, if required.
The School will be free, but participants will need to pay for their own accommodation, meals and travel. Once offered a place at the School, participants will be asked to pay a deposit of £100, returnable upon completion of the School. For an application form email Jane Bailey: jane.e.bailey@kcl.ac.uk
The closing date for applications is 5 May 2006. Offers of School places will be made by 19 May 2006
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Conference on 'Health, Risk and Society'
British Sociological Association Risk and Society Study Group in collaboration with the ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk network
3-5th September 2006, University of Kent, Canterbury
Further details and book:
Kirstie Coxon, CHSS University of Kent
k.coxon@kent.ac.uk
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Research Methods Festival
Organised by the ESRC Research Methods Programme in collaboration with the National Centre for Research Methods and a number of ESRC Research and Resource Centres and Programmes.
The Festival is being held at St Catherine's College, Oxford from17 - 20
July 2006 and aims to engage social scientists across a wide range of disciplines and sectors and at different points in their research careers.
The programme runs from 3.30pm on Monday 17 July to 5.30pm on Thursday
20 July. Most sessions are organised as half-days, but some are only 45
minutes and some are all day. Most sessions need to be booked and will
close when numbers reach capacity. Registration is £20 for each day and
includes lunch, coffee and tea.
The programme includes sessions on methods for analysing spatial and
social change over time; methodological issues in understanding the role
of 'place' and the analysis of 'place'; linking data to inform decision
making concerning urban change; optimising the use of partial
information in urban and regional systems; resources for census users
and ONS resources.
Contributors include: Nigel Thrift, Charles Manski, Mike Batty, Adam
Tickell, Simon Burgess, Bob Barr, Paul Norman, Ludi Simpson, David Martin
For further information, including programme and online booking form,
visit the Festival website at:
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/festival/
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PhD Studentships
University of Glasgow, Department of Urban Studies
We have up to three ESRC-funded PhD studentships available from September
2006. These can be held either on a 'Plus 3' or '1 Plus 3' basis. We welcome
applications from final year students, recent graduates or postgraduates.
Urban Studies is an interdisciplinary department which is at the forefront
of research in many applied areas including housing policy, urban policy,
planning and property, crime and place, labour markets, regeneration, urban
governance and social exclusion.
We welcome applications that fit with any of the department's research
interests. Further details on how to apply are available at:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/urbanstudies/index.html
or email Susanna Oelschlagel: Susanna.O@socsci.gla.ac.uk
For an informal discussion contact Keith Kintrea 0141 330 5875
K.Kintrea@socsci.gla.ac.uk
Your application must reach us by 20th April at the latest.
Susanna Oelschlagel
27 Bute Gardens
GLASGOW G12 8RS
Tel 0141 330 3669
Fax 0141 330 4983
www.gla.ac.uk/urbanstudies
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The University of Edinburgh Evaluation Summer School
30-31 May and 5-7 June 2006.
This Summer School is being organised by the Evaluation Programme at RUHBC with the support of NHS Health Scotland. The Summer School will bring to Scotland four world-class evaluation scholars and practitioners with considerable practical experience in implementing and evaluating interventions. The main application area will be public health and health improvement but the approaches and methodologies are drawn from and applicable to many other areas of public policy and practice.
Four classes will be offered at a total cost of £500 for the full course
programme. See the website www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/ruhbc/summerschool
for information.
Health Scotland have reserved a total of 15 places on this Summer School.
Health Scotland are offering bursaries to cover course fees to those working
in health improvement in Scotland with a remit or professional interest
in evaluation and health improvement programmes and interventions. An
application form can be applied for via the website. Completed application
forms should be returned by 31 March and Health Scotland will let you know
by 7 April if you have secured a place.
Caroline R Rees
Project Secretary
Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change University of Edinburgh
Medical School Teviot Place Edinburgh EH8 9AG
0131 651 1156
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Longitudinal Data Analysis for Social Science Researchers
www.longitudinal.stir.ac.uk
Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
1 day introductory seminar, Friday 28th April 2006, 10.30 am - 4.00 pm
This seminar is designed to provide a brief and highly accessible
introduction to quantitative longitudinal data for social researchers and
post-graduate students who are completely new to this area.
This seminar is aimed at researchers whose interests are substantive rather
than methodological and who may wish to engage with longitudinal data but
have no clear point of access.
Topics include:
* What is longitudinal data
* Longitudinal survey data sources
* Household panel studies
* Cohort studies
* Getting started with longitudinal analysis techniques
* Questions and answers
The seminar is FREE. Places are limited to 25.
To book a place please contact jennifer.gordon@stir.ac.uk Phone Number:
01786 466 300, Fax 01786 466299.
For further information please contact Dr Vernon Gayle, Phone Number:
01786 467708, Fax 01786 466299.
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The Michael Young Prize 2006
The ESRC have today announced a call for submissions to the above
competition, launched in Honour of the late Lord Young. This is the
first of what will become an annual competition to be run by the ESRC
with support from the Young Foundation.
The prize is aimed to encourage new researchers conducting research of
evident social value and public relevance to communicate in a clear way
for the non-academic audience.
Eligible researchers are those within three years of a successful viva
for their PhD or of equivalent professional standing and currently
employed in the UK. Research in any discipline within the ESRC's remit
is eligible.
Further details about this call are available on our website (see link
below)
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/PO/Young/
Call for papers
This year's University of Aberdeen, College of Arts and Social
Sciences PG Conference will be held on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th June.
The closing date for Abstracts is 12 May.
Details of how to register, submit papers or posters for the poster
session can be found on our website:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/pgradconf/
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MLitt/PhD Programme
LUGANO DOCTORAL AND POSTDOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL on Soft and Critical Systems Thinking
Are you interested in integrating principles of soft and critical
systems thinking with your current research or professional practice?
Would you like to get a first-hand introduction to Soft Systems
Methodology(SSM) and Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH)?
If these themes interest you, but you have not been able thus far to
participate in one of the earlier Lugano Summer Schools taking place
in May/June, there is now for the first time a chance to attend in
September.
PLACE: University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland
DATES: 18-29 September 2006
FACULTY: Peter Checkland and Werner Ulrich
NEW: This Summer School now offers an option to prepare and publish a
paper, with the support of the LSS Faculty, in which you explain the way you
are going to integrate soft and critical systems thinking -- the ideas you
hopefully will pick up in the Summer School -- with your current
research or professional practice. Guaranteed publication for papers of adequate academic quality in the new LSS Monograph Series, published as an open-access on-line series. (No need to prepare and submit a paper in
advance, though, nor to write any paper unless desired.)
NEW: Participants from countries other than Western Europe, North
America, Australia/New Zealand, and Japan, pay a somewhat reduced tuition.
DEADLINES:
Application: by 1 June 2006 >> Required action: completion of the
registration form Notification of admission: within one week following
your application >> through email by the School Director Payment of
tuition: by1 July 2006 >> Required action: tuition needs to be credited to the
Summer School account by this date at the very latest, according to
instructions sent along with the notification of admission.
MORE INFO: School web site at http://www.lss.lu.unisi.ch/ .
A one-page Summer School Flyer is available in the School web site.
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5 Postgraduate Bursaries for British American Conference 18-20th June,
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Medical Sociology In The 21st Century: Themes and Trends, Dilemmas and Debates
We are pleased to announce that the Foundation for the Sociology of
Health and Illness has made available funds for 5 bursaries for Ph.D.
students to attend the above conference.
Following on from the very successful Joint British and American
Medical Sociology Conference in 1999 at Royal Holloway, postgraduates
in medical sociologists from the UK, America, Canada and beyond, are
invited to participate in another opportunity to promote intellectual
and personal interaction within the medical sociology communities
across the globe. See http://www.britammedsoc.com/index.html
To apply for a bursary Ph.D. students are asked to:
1. submit an abstract of up to 500 words. The purpose of these
abstracts is to share delegates? interests, and allow participants to
be listed in the conference programme. The abstracts should take the
form of a detailed description of the student's background, interests
and expertise and might also include: information about a current
research or theoretical paper, project or agenda and/or an outline of a
dilemma or contentious issue.
2. write up to 500 words on how attendance at the event will further
their studies and future career.
3. detail funding and how the bursary would be used to ensure participation.
The deadline for applications is the 31st March. Provided candidates
meet the above criteria bursaries will be awarded on a first come basis
with 2 allocated to US students, 2 for UK applicants and 1 for those
applying from elsewhere.
Applications for a bursary should be sent to Linda McKie (on behalf of
the conference organising team) by email; l.mckie@gcal.ac.uk.
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ANALYSING QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS course
11-12 May2006
Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford
11th and 12 May 2006
AIMS OF THE COURSE
* To introduce the principles of qualitative data analysis, with
particular emphasis on thematic analysis techniques.
* To demonstrate how to develop themes and codes from interview transcripts.
* To use practical exercises and small group work to develop competence
in these techniques.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
* Those planning to undertake or manage qualitative research using
in-depth or semi-structured interviews.
* Those who have already collected qualitative data that they are
unsure how to analyse.
WHAT WILL THE COURSE CONSIST OF?
* There will be two full-time taught days (11th & 12th May 2006), with
the option of taking a couple of hours practical work home on the first
afternoon.
* Participation in both taught days is required
* An optional session on how qualitative data can be written up for
peer reviewed publications (at the end of the course).
WHAT WILL THE COURSE COST?
* The course costs £250. This includes: tuition, lunch, tea, coffee and
teaching packs.
COURSE TUTORS
§Sue Ziebland, University Research lecturer/Research Director
§Alison Chapple, Senior Research Fellow
§Louise Locock, Senior Research Fellow
DIPEx Research Group, Department of Primary Health Care
University of Oxford
FOR AN APPLICATION FORM, CONTACT:
Francie Smee: dipexadmin@dphpc.ox.ac.uk
Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Old Road
Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 78LF
Tel: 01865 226672
Postgraduate opportunities at the Center for Research on Families and Relationships
CRFR has three ESRC awards, two starting in 2006 and one in 2007. We are
interested in applications from all social science disciplines, but
particularly social policy and sociology, including sociology of health and
illness and concerning any area of research on any aspect of families and
relationships.
The following areas would be of particular interest: food and families;
families and the family law system; transmission of advantage and
disadvantage in diverse families; social and health inequalities within and
between families; friendships and varieties of living arrangements;
practices of intimacy; migration; ageing, disability and social
relationships; dementia and social relationships. We particularly want to
encourage proposals that involve secondary analysis of large data sets.
Applicants wanting to use qualitative or mixed method approaches can also
apply.
CRFR has a vibrant research community in which postgraduates are fully
integrated.
Our current research on families and relationships is organised under five
themes:
Families, relationships, government and services
Social inclusion, families and relationships
Older people, families and relationships
Children, young people, families and relationships
Health and well being, families and relationships
Applications are welcome either from students who have completed a Masters
course with ESRC recognition who can apply for three years funding, or from
those wishing to complete research training for one year, followed by three
years research degree funding.
For informal enquiries, please contact crfr@ed.ac.uk
For further information visit our website:
http://www.crfr.ac.uk/Research/researchopps.html
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