Research Seminars 2008/09

The School Research Seminars run fortnightly over two semesters and include presentations from staff and research students within the School of Social Sciences, other research centres within the University and visiting speakers.

Day/time: Wednesdays, 12.00-13.00

Date	Title of Presentation	Speaker	Venue
1 Oct 08	AWARD: current and future research opportunities within the School of Social Sciences	Dr Catherine Robinson AWARD	Lecture Room 3
15 Oct 08	Time bomb? News, symbols and the emergence of a European identity	Dr Michael Bruter London School of Economics	Lecture Room 3
29 Oct 08	The impact of a national identity card on identity theft and identity fraud	Mr Tim Holmes School of Social Sciences	Lecture Room 3
READING WEEK
26 Nov 08	The impact of advice on the lives of individuals: outcomes of a longitudinal study of Citizens Advice Bureau clients in Wales	Ms Karen Jones School of Social Sciences	Lecture Room 3
10 Dec 08	Further reflections on community studies	Professor Robert Moore Liverpool University	Lecture Room 3
CHRISTMAS VACATION
28 Jan 09	Applying Social Science - some key methodological issues	Professor David Byrne Durham University	Lecture Room 1
11 Feb 09	Law enforcement, politics and 'the public interest': some recent controversies	Professor Philip Stenning Keele University	Lecture Room 1
25 Feb 09	Unpicking leadership in health care: The clinical governance of the soul	Dr Brian Brown De Montfort University	Lecture Room 1
4 Mar 09	Is God dead? The secularisation debate in ministerial perspective.	Reverend Kenneth Padley Bangor University	Lecture Room 1
11 Mar 09	Seeing and Hearing As: On Instructed Actions	Dr Roger Slack Bangor University	Lecture Room 1
25 Mar 09	Ageing in a Post-global Era	Mr Martin Hyde Sheffield Hallam University	Lecture Room 1
EASTER VACATION
22 April 09	Social Suffering: From Protest to Reform	Dr Iain Wilkinson University of Kent	Lecture Room 1
6 May 09	Developing pragmatism as a research paradigm for mixed-methods research	Dr Martina Feilzer Bangor University	Arts Linguistics Seminar Room
20 May 09	Theorising Class in Later Life	Professor Paul Higgs UCL	Arts Linguistics Seminar Room
3 June 09	Covert research in the social sciences: the submerged tradition of faking it	Dr David Calvey Manchester Metropolitan University	Arts Linguistics Seminar Room

30 Sept 09	‘Challenging [DNA] codes’: public engagement with human genetics outside the policy process	Dr Alex Plows WISERD, Bangor School of Social Sciences	Neuadd Alun A101
Tues 5 Oct 09	Extra session: 2 pm Can the Social Sciences refute religious belief?	Professor Robert Segal Chair in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen	TBC
14 Oct 09	'Why can't we be English?' Nation, class and ethnic majoritarian resentment in Britain	Dr Robin Mann WISERD, Bangor School of Social Sciences	Neuadd Alun A101
28 Oct 09	Wales in a Global Neighbourhood: Reactions to and Perceptions of Local and Global Citizenship - a paper in progress	Dr Corinna Patterson School of Social Sciences	Neuadd Alun A101
READING WEEK
25 Nov 09	Rhizomic resistance and arborescent advocacy: a Deleuzian reading of rural politics	Professor Mike Woods Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University	Neuadd Alun A101
9 Dec 09	On Human-Nonhuman Relations	Dr Roger Yates	Neuadd Alun A101

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