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Events Archive 2012

Find out details of forthcoming and recent events happening at the School and involving School Staff, including public seminars, research events, conferences and open days.

January February March April May June July August September October November December

January

11/01/12 Education, Culture and Society Research Group: Prof David James (Wales DTC) - White middle class identities and urban schooling – when ‘bad’ choices bring advantage
18/01/12 Cardiff University Social Work Research and Practice Seminar: Heather Ottaway (SOCSI)
18/01/12 The Childhood Research Group: Mike Ward (SOCSI)
19/01/12 Lecture: Professor Tony Onwuegbuzie (Sam Houston State University): Putting the mixed back into quantitative and qualitative research: Moving towards the radical middle
19/01/12 Prof Phil Brown presents a talk to the Council of the European Union (Brussels)
25/01/12 Medicine, Science and Culture’ Research Interest Group: Thinking through the social study of science and technology: science and knowledge as culture - Tiago Ribeiro Duarte and (SOCSI) Dr Mara Miele (CPLAN)
25/01/12 Joint Health, Well-being and Social Care / Childhood Research Group Seminar: Dr Helen Lomax (Open University)
26/01/12 Cardiff University Social Work Research and Practice Seminar: Professor John Carpenter (School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol)
31/01/12 Alcohol Use in adolescence: harms and advice - Professor Glyn Lewis (BRISTOL)
31/01/12 Prof Phillip Brown debates at New Political Economy Network Seminar

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February 

07/02/12 An introduction to quantitative research for qualitative researchers
08/02/12 Education, Culture and Society Research Group: Dr Peter Hemming (SOCSI) - Primary schooling and the politics of scale: the difference that faith makes
09/02/12 CCLJ - Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Seminar: Sophie Chambers
09/02/12 An introduction to quantitative research for qualitative researchers
18/02/12 House of Beasts Symposium: Enquiries into the Human and the Animal
22/02/12 The Childhood Research Group: Communication Techniques

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March 

01/03/12 CCLJ - Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Seminar: Danielle Rayner
01/03/12 Cardiff sciSCREEN: A Dangerous Method
05/03/12 Gender, work and community after de-industrialisation - a psychosocial approach to affect - Prof Valerie Walkerdine Book Launch (London)
08/03/12 The Glamorgan Lecture Series - A Conversation with Robin Murray (LSE) and Professor Stephen Yeo (Heritage Trust)
09/03/12 Studying Martial Arts in the Media and in the Gym
13/03/12 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Alcohol and Young People (IPAP) Seminar 2
14/03/12 Education, Culture and Society Research Group: Dr Gabrielle Ivinson and Dr Emma Renold (SOCSI) - Boys, skills and class: educational failure or community survival? Insights from Vygotsky and Bernstein
14/03/12 Ethnography, Culture and Interpretive Analysis Research Group
20/03/12 Cardiff Philosophy Cafe: Professor Peter Sedgwick (Philosophy, Cardiff University)
22/03/12 CCLJ - Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Seminar: Visiting Lecture: Kevin Stenson (Kent University and London Metropolitan University)
28-29/03/12 WISERD Conference 2012 – Devolution, Place and Change
28/03/12 Medicine, Science and Culture (MeSC) Research Interest Group: Research in the NHS: Procedural ethics and ethics in practice
29/03/12 Ethnography, Culture and Interpretive Analysis Research Group: Prof Mick Bloor (SIRC, SOCSI) Researcher Safety
30/03/12 Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation: A Matter of Equality, Rights and Voice. A Conference for Young People, Practitioners and Policy Makers

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April 

05/04/12 The Sustainable Places Research Institute: Dr Neil Stephens (Cesagen) - Constructing ethical spaces for growing meat from stem cells: promise, risk and animal ethics
17/04/12 Cesagen Seminar: Dita Wickins-Drazilova on Animal cloning
18/04/12 The Childhood Research Group: Rhiannon Evans (CISHE)
26/04/12 CCLJ - Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Colloquium: Developments in Hate Crime Research
30/04/12 Sexual Objectification, Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse: Engaging with Research, Policy and Practice
30/04/12 Subjectivity, de-industrialisation and regeneration in the south Wales valleys and beyond (Valerie Walkerdine)

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May 

03/05/12 Lecture - Professor Roberto Franzosi (Emory University): Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA)
09/05/12 Education, Culture and Society Research Group: Prof Sally Power (SOCSI) - National loyalties in the global war for talent
15/05/12 University Graduate College presents: Inter-disciplinary Psychosocial Seminar Series
15/05/12 Philosophy Cafe: Should we pay our debts? Dr Chris Groves (Cesagen)
16/05/12 The Childhood Doctoral Group Seminar: Dr Anne Crowley
17/05/12 CCLJ - Centre for Crime, Law and Justice Seminar: Alexander Schuckter and Christian Bueger
18/05/12 Ethnography, Culture and Interpretive Analysis Research Group: Street Research and Researcher Safety
23/05/12 Medicine, Science and Culture (MeSC) Research Interest Group: Prostitution and Pimping in the Public Engagement of Science: A view from the arts and social science
29/05/12 Symposium on the Unconscious: University Graduate College Sponsored Event, Inter-disciplinary Psychosocial Seminar Series
31/05/12 Cross School Research: Earth, Ecosystems and People, ft Prof. Susan Baker (SOCSI)
31/05-02/06 Casciope sponsored event: Love to Death: Transforming Opera Incorporating the Royal Musical Association Annual Conference

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June 

11/06/12 Smoking and Alcohol Misuse Prevention: Current and future policies - Professor Linda Bauld (Stirling)
13/06/12 Education, Culture and Society Research Group: Doctoral Research Seminar
13/06/12 Seminar: Dr Simon Williams (Northwestern University)
14/06/12 Cardiff School of Social Sciences Alumni Networking Event
20/06/12 Ethnography Group: writing up workshop
25/06/12 The Gender and Sexualities Research Group: Gender, place, culture and identity: beyond the metropolis
28/06/12 SKOPE: New Directions of Research on Social Inequalities and Social Mobility

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July 

03/07/12 Transitions Within Learning and Within the Labour Market 
04/07/12 Engaging Those Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEETs) 
05/07/12 The Glamorgan Lecture Series - Dr Tony Jewell, CMO Wales
05/07/12 CUREMeDE: Health Sciences Workshop & Seminar Series 2012 - Using Smartphone technology with foundation doctors: lessons learned
06/07/12 Social and Behavioural Sciences Teaching in Medicine: Current state of the art and future directions
11/07/12 Education, Culture and Society Research Group: Dr Sin Yi Cheung (SOCSI) and Dr Jenny Phillimore (University of Birmingham) - Social Capital and Refugee Integration
11/07/12 DECIPHer: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Alcohol and Young People (IPAP) - Professor David Foxcroft (Oxford Brookes University)
12/07/12 WISERD Seminar: Exploring the use of Visual Media in the Communication of Research

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August

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September

11/09/12 Equality2020 - Creating Our Vision for Wales 
18/09/12 BSA Medical Sociology Regional (Wales) Meeting: 'Medical Sociology 1978 - 2008 and Beyond: Thoughts from Exile' 

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October

03/10/12 Education Policy Analysis Seminar Series: WISERDEDUCATION: an introduction 
03/10/12 Social Work Research & Practice Lecture: On Munro’s view of social work in terms of systems and risks 
04/10/12 Unequal Wales Seminar Series: An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in Wales
09/10/12 NIESR Employment Seminar Series: ''Work Organisation, Job Design, Job Quality and Skills - why they are linked and why this matters for policy' 
11/10/12-12/10/12 A short course on concepts and methods in casual inference
15/10/12 The Challenges of Human Trafficking in Wales: Putting the Rhetoric into Practice
17/10/12 Social Work Research & Practice Lecture: Child practice reviews: Changing the culture in child protection 
25/10/12 Growing meat from stem cells
27/10/12 Humanities and Social Science Information Day 2012
 
29/10/12-30/10/12 GIS for criminology and law
31/10/12 Social Work Research & Practice Lecture: Sustainable social services in Wales

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November

01/11/12-02/11/12 ESRC RDI teaching quantitative methods - Teaching data analysis with real life data 
07/11/12 Seminar: Developing the Use of Research Evidence through Policy Trials - Innovation in Wales 
07/11/12 Lecture: Investigating community led energy demand reduction initiatives through the lens of “energy biographies” 
07/11/12 ESRC Festival of Social Science Lecture: Discussing whole genome sequencing in medical practice 
07/11/12 Education Policy Analysis Seminar Series: Bilingual Welsh-English children's acquisition of vocabulary and reading: implications for bilingual education
09/11/12 Making research real - teaching quantitative methods
12/11/12 The Glamorgan Lecture Series: 'Fat Places? Exploring Environmental Causes of Obesity'
13/11/12 Muslim Childhood
14/11/12 Social Work Research & Practice Lecture: Dignity in Care for frail older people: Reality or rhetoric? 
14/11/12 The Future of Public Service Delivery Seminar Series: Future of local service delivery 
22/11/12 An introduction to Impact Evaluation methods 
24/11/12 Stress Network Annual Conference - Hard Times, Great Expectations and Victorian Values  
28/11/12 Social Work Research & Practice Lecture: Engaging effectively with black and minority ethnic disabled communities
28/11/12 Unequal Wales Seminar Series: Regional market facing public sector pay and the Welsh economy 
30/11/12 Identification, education and separation

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December

04/12/12 Ill-treatment in the workplace - Lunchtime briefing to AMs 
05/12/12 Education Policy Analysis Seminar Series: The impact of the Welsh Baccalaureatte Qualification on participation and progress in Higher Education 
10/12/12 Cardiff SciScreen: The Master
12/12/12 ESRC Seminar Series Reframing Reason: 'Resolving workplace disputes-employee voice engagement and representation' 
12/12/12 Lecture: The ethics of human enhancement and technology in elite sport: the case of Oscar Pistorius 
18/12/12 NIESR Employment Seminar Series: 'Why ill-treatment at work is a public issue not a private problem' 
19/12/12 Theory and Methods in Criminological Research: A Postgraduate Conference

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