News: December 2017
Winter Graduation success
Congratulations to all our students who graduated last week, especially our School of Social Sciences prize winners.
Publication date: 20 December 2017
Nikos Papadogiannis wins small grant
Nikos Papadogiannis has won a small grant (300 euros) for the authorship of a text on culture in post-dictatorship Greece between 1974 and the late 1980s.
Publication date: 12 December 2017
Lessons from the Beeching cuts in reviving Britain's railways
More than 50 years ago the Beeching Report was published , spelling the end of hundreds of miles of British railway lines and stations. Pretty much immediately, local campaigns sprang up to protest what became infamously known as the “ Beeching Axe ”. Now, the transport secretary Chris Grayling has announced that some of the lines could be re-opened. This article by Andrew Edwards , Dean of Arts and Humanities and Senior Lecturer in Modern History, at the School of History & Archaeology was originally published on The Conversation . Read the original article .
Publication date: 7 December 2017
Research partnership projects under the spotlight
Some exciting projects involving Bangor University academics working in partnership with communities, charities, government bodies, and businesses – both local and international – are being highlighted at Bangor University this Friday (8 December). In all, seventeen of 52 projects funded through an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Impact Acceleration Account at Bangor University are featured at the event.
Publication date: 7 December 2017
Talk by Lord Wood of Anfield
Lord Wood of Anfield, who is visiting the University on Friday, 8 December, is giving a short paper to the students of the School of History and Archaeology, entitled ‘New Labour, Corbyn and the future of the Left in Britain’.
Publication date: 4 December 2017