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School of Social Sciences

Research Seminars

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.
Venue:      See Notice
Time:        Wednesday, 12-1pm unless stated otherwise


Date

Speaker

Title

Venue

Jan 20th

Dr Tom Yarrow
SENR
Bangor

Kinship and the Core House: contested understandings of family and place in a Ghanaian resettlement township

A1.01

Feb 3rd

Dr Guido Becke, Bremen University Research Centre for Sustainability Studies

Unintended effects of internal marketisation in respect to trust relations and psychological contracts at company level

Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)

Feb 17th

DR Paul chambers
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Glamorgan

The Changing Face of Christianity in Wales

Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)

March 1st

Professor Charlotte Williams
OBE
Professor of Social Justice
Head of School of Public Policy and Professional Practice
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Keele University

Revisiting the Rural/Race debates: civic participation and ethnic minorities in rural Wales.

Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)

extra session Thur March 11th
Joint event with
British Society of Criminology Wales branch

 

Dr Harriet Pierpoint, University of Glamorgan

 

Offenders with Speech and Language Disorders

http://criminology.research.glam.ac.uk/bscnewsletter/

LR3

march 17th

Dr Ros Burnett and Dr Gisella Hanley Santos
Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford

Chewing more than you bite off: evaluating a complex pilot project in
criminal justice

Hen Goleg 1.11 (old coffee lounge)

March 31st

 

 

 

14 April

 

 

Professor Huw Beynon
Cardiff University
Director WISERD
Chaired by: Professor Merfyn Jones, Vice-Chancellor Bangor University
Professor Emeritus Steve Fenton
Department of Sociology
University of Bristol

Trade Unionism in Wales

 

 

 

“I’m not an ethnic group – I’m English: Ethnic majority orientations to multiculturalism”

 

 

A0.01

 

 

 

Hen Goleg 1.11

 

Tue 27 April
Extra Seminar

Dr Michael Helmbrecht
University of Social Sciences in Nuremberg

`Civil Society Engagement Against Neo-Nazism in Germany – Opportunities & Restrictions`

Hen Goleg 1.12

28 April

Dr Paul Routledge
Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences
University of Glasgow

Translocal Climate Justice Solidarities

Hen Goleg
1.11

05 May
Extra Seminar
12.30-14.00

Rob Ryan
Director, Placement Services Unit, Department of Communities (Child Safety Services), Queensland, Australia.

"Pathways to resilience in child protection - staff care"

Hen Goleg 1.11

12 May

Dr Bella Dicks
Social Sciences
Cardiff University

Harnessing 'activity' in regenerating communities: Critical reflections

Alun
A0.01

19 May
Extra Seminar

Jane McKay
Centre for Public Health Research
University of Chester

`Young people’s voices – an echo or a whisper?  Some observations of young people’s decision making in Special Education Needs`

Alun
A0.01

26 May

David Matthews
School of Social Sciences
Bangor University

'Monopoly Capitalism and the Impact of Overproduction on the Economic Structure of Wales: A Political Economy Perspective'

Hen Goleg
1.11

09 June

Dr Catherine Robinson
Director, CARES
Management Team member, WISERD
School of Social Sciences
Bangor University

`Message in a bottle: deaths involving alcohol`

Alun
A1.01

 


2008/09 Seminar Programme