Research Seminars 2010/11

The School Research Seminars run approximately every three weeks 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, 1.00 – 2.00 p.m. unless stated otherwise

date	Speaker	title	venue
06 Oct 2010	Jane Acton J & M Sustainable Developers	"Rural poverty and resilience"	LR5
Extra Session 20 Oct 2010	Michael Hembrecht University of Social Sciences in Nuremberg	TBC	LR5
27 Oct 2010	Dr Andrew Thompson Head of Social Sciences, University of Glamorgan	"Migratory Drift: Why Temporary Migrants Stay"	LR5
17 Nov 2010	Dr Neil Hockley School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography Bangor University	"How should society decide what to do about the environment and will economic growth save us?"	LR5
Extra session 24 Nov 2010	Dr Matthew David Brunel University	"The Criminalization of Sharing: File-sharing and the music industry"	Alun A1.01
08 Dec 2010	Professor John Thornton Bangor Business School Bangor University	"What makes a terrorist? Some UK evidence"	LR5
12 Jan 2011	Dr Walter Fuchs of the Vienna Institute for Sociology of Law and Crime	"Legal Guardianship in Continental Europe - A Comparative Approach"	Alun A1.01
02 Feb 2011	Cynnog Prys School of Social Sciences Bangor University	The use of Welsh in the third sector in Wales.	LR5
23 Feb 2010	Dr Rhian Hodges School of Social Sciences Bangor	Towards the Light*: Why do non-Welsh-speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education for their children? The Case of Cwm Rhymni, Caerffili	LR5
16 Mar 2011	Ian Gardner School of Social Sciences Bangor University	“The Question Concerning Renewable Technology: Windfarms, Heidegger and the New Romantics”	LR5
Extra Session 23 Mar 2011	Professor Shanti Chakravarty Bangor Business School, Bangor University	Distraction of Proportional Representation	LR5
Extra Session TUESDAY 05 Apr 2011 12.00 – 1.00	Assistant Professor Dr. Jacob Magnussen School of Social Work, Metropolitan University College, Copenhagen	The Danish Welfare model in a Comparative Perspective	Alun A0.01
13 Apr 2011	Dr Kean Birch, Dept of Geography and Sociology University of Strathclyde	‘Weakness’ as ‘Strength’? The Institutional Grounding of Knowledge-based Commodity Chains in a Less-favoured Region	LR5
04 May 2011	Dr Guido Becke, Bremen University Research Centre for Sustainability Studies [joint business school event; talk plus ‘master class ‘ with CBSSL MA students- TBA]	Knowledge Work in ICT-Services - Health effects as Threat to Innovation Capacities'.	LR5
Extra Session 18 May 2011 Join Event with British Society of Criminology, Wales branch	John Minkes Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swansea	"Environmental Health Officers and the Prevention of Food Crime"	Alun A1.01
25 May 2011	Dr Simon Cottee School of Social Sciences Bangor University With Keith Hayward School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research University of Kent Canterbury, Kent, UK	Terrorist (E)motives: The Existential Attractions of Terrorism	Alun A1.01
01 June 2011	Ian Gardner School of Social Sciences Bangor University	"The Question Concerning Renewable Technology: Windfarms, Heidegger and the New Romantics"	Alun A1.01
15 June 2011	Dr John Barry Director, Centre for Sustainability and Environmental Governance, Queens University, Belfast	Vulnerability and resilience in contemporary green thinking	G1

2009/10 Seminar Programme