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School of Social Sciences

Professor Howard Davis - Other activities

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Recent Conferences/Workshops

‘Managing creativity in different creative sectors’ Creativity and the Creative Value Chain seminar series, Business School and CURS, University of Birmingham, 30 November 2007.
http://www.curs.bham.ac.uk/whatsnew/
Creative_seminar_series/creative.htm

Invited participant, Workshop on INTAS Young Scientists’ Programme: Results, Lessons and Prospects, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia 27-29 June 2007.

‘Media Images of Power in Contemporary Russia’ Centre for Russian Studies Seminar series on Representations of Power in Russia, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, 19 March 2007.

‘Thinking (through) interactivity’ AHRC Creativity Network Workshop, Bournemouth University, 2 March 2007.

‘Visual representations of the Russian presidency: power and identity in
the post Soviet press’ (joint paper with A Sosnovskaya) The Mass Media in Post-Soviet Russia, International Conference, University of Surrey 6-8 April 2006.

Invited panel chair: ‘Tatarstan’s Transformation as a ‘Cultural Turn’’ VII World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Berlin 25-30 July 2005

‘The changing shape of the social sciences: can there be harmonization without standardization?’ Proceedings of the international conference on Russia and European Higher Education: General Bologna Strategies and Regional Practices’ Kazan State University, 15-17 November 2004.

 

International links

Erasmus Exchange Co-ordinator for the School of Social Sciences

Supervised EU INTAS Young Scientist fellow from St Petersburg State University, 2005-2007

Visiting professor and co-supervisor of students on the international PhD programme in Sociology at the Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan.

Awarded honorary doctorate by Kazan State University, 2004. http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/Kazan.php.en