Events
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. If you would like to receive updates of all our forthcoming events, please email socsi-events@cardiff.ac.uk
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Events 2013
May
01/05/13 Unequal Wales Seminar Series: The Elderly and Access to Services in Rural Wales
01/05/13 Education Policy Analysis Seminar Series: How market-orientated education policies have cost the NHS
16-18/05/13 Academic publishing in the Social Sciences
22/05/13 Cardiff Policy Cafe: 'The only way is ethics'
28/05/13 Mock PhD Viva (Humanities and Social Sciences)
June
04/06/13 Unequal Wales Seminar Series: Class, Lifestyles and Health Inequalities
05/06/13 Education Policy Analysis Seminar Series: Further Education: envisioning the future
05-06/06/13 What Things Can We Do with Words? Answers from Italian Fascism (1919–1922) and Georgia Lynchings (1875–1930) - 2 day workshop
12/06/13 Paths to Utopia: A Roundtable Session
12/06/13 Dealing with Disability: Ethnographic Observations in Clinical Settings
13/06/13 Women Adding Value to the Economy (WAVE) - Meet the team at 'brown bag' lunch
25/06/13 - 26/06/13 WISERD Conference 2013
28/06/13 ESRC RDI teaching quantitative methods - Pathways to a QM integrated curriculum
July
03/07/13 Unequal Wales Seminar Series: Migrant workers in Wales
03/07/13 Education Policy Analysis Series: ICT and the Foundation Phase: policy and practice
05/07/13 The invaded/invading body: putting culture and context centre stage
August
September
October
November
December
Past Events in 2013
January
09/01/13 Education Policy Analysis Seminar Series: Evaluating the Foundation Phase in Wales
09/01/13 Investigating community led energy demand reduction initiatives through the lens of “energy biographies”
17/01/13 Education, Skill and Empowering the Individual in the Labour Market
February
01/02/13 Undergraduate School Open Day
05/02/13 British Sociological Society: Meet the Editors Event
06/02/13 Education Policy Analysis Seminar Series: Understanding the Millennium Cohort Study: its relevance for education policy analysis
07/02/13 Unequal Wales Seminar Series: Homelessness, legislation and social justice in Wales
07/02/13 Why Culture Matters Lecture Series: 'The Future of Relationships - Why Culture Matters'
07/02/13 Education for Social Chance Lecture Series: 'A Democratic Public Education: The Vision of a Meeting Place Between Early Childhood and Compulsory Education'
20/02/13 Helminths and Human Centipedes: The Theory and Practice of Disgust
21/02/13 The Gendered Construction of Scientific 'Excellence'
22/02/13 Undergraduate School Open Day
26/02/13 Cardiff Policy Cafe - 'Co-production: Participation by a new name or something more radical'?
27/02/13 Ethnography Group Lectures: 'Trust, science and ethics', and 'Discovering dark matter: ways of not seeing'
28/02/13 Fighting Back: What Lessons Can Be Learned From the Union Struggles of the 1980s?
March
13/03/13 Unequal Wales Seminar Series: Inequalities in Access to Higher Education
13/03/13 Ethnography Group Lectures: 'Environmental Volunteering: Ephemeral communities and the generation of values' and 'Motivations, Diversity and the ‘Dual-sited migration’ of Workers from Turkey'
14/03/13 Is university life becoming more sexist?
15/03/13 Undergraduate School Open Day
19/03/13 Developing a Healthy Universities network in Wales: challenges and opportunities
23/03/13 Undergraduate School Open Day
25/03/12 - 26/03/12 ESRC RDI teaching quantitative methods - Embedding quantitative methods in political sociology, race, ethnicity and migration
25/03/13 Ethnography Group Lecture: Memory clinics and the sociology of dementia diagnosis
26/03/13 Cardiff Policy Cafe - 'A night to discuss the Welsh Baccalaureate'
April
11/04/13 Launch of the new Social and Public Policy Professional Doctorate
11/04/13 SIRC Book launch: International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century
16/04/13 Unequal Wales Seminar Series: Welsh Speakers and the Labour Market
16/04/13 Mindfulness in San Quentin prison, California
18/04/13 Why Culture Matters Lecture Series: 'Policy as Culture-making'
19/04/13 Crime Control and Devolution: policy-making and expert knowledge in a multi-tiered democracy: An ESRC Seminar Series
24/04/13 Work Skills, Training and Job Control in the Recession
24/04/13 Food: Good, Bad or Ugly
25/04/13 Making Culture Matter: Tangible and Intangible Properties of Culture, their Measurement and Meaning, in Environmental Management Contexts
25/04/13 BSA Medical Sociology Wales discussion about the Francis Report
27/04/13 Undergraduate School Open Day