Date: Wednesday 30th March 2011
Time : 1 pm to 2.30 pm
Venue: Chesham C4.01
Summary: Professor Daunton is a professor of history and since 2004 also the Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. He is the author of several books on history of the UK especially on the emergence of fiscal and economic structures, the welfare state and the urban economy during the 18th and 19th centuries. The present lecture is from his current research on Bretton Woods Institutions.
Reception: From 2.30 pm in the Communal area of Pemberton Building.
For further info please contact:
Dr PB Anand (p.b.anand@bradford.ac.uk) or Dr Karen Jackson (k.jackson2@bradford.ac.uk) or Aysha (a.nasser@bradford.ac.uk)
For information on Bradford Development Lectures, see www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/des/seminar/development.php
This event is open to staff and students at the University of Bradford. Those working within the research areas of class, ethnicity, migration and health-related behaviour will find this lecture of particular interest.
Date: 31 March 2011
Time: from 4:00pm onwards
Location: The Escalate Centre, University of Bradford.
Born in Bradford is a longitudinal study of 13500 babies born in the city between May 2007 and March 2011. The study will link circumstances of birth with health and wellbeing outcomes throughout childhood. The background and scope of the study will be presented. The relative importance of class, ethnicity, migration and health-related behaviour will be considered as will possibilities for this study to impact on welfare provision in the city.
Neil Small is Professor of Health Research in the School of Health, University of Bradford, and is also Academic Lead for the birth cohort study Born in Bradford. He is a social scientist who has an ongoing interest in health policy and health inequalities. For some years his research centred on chronic and life-threatening illnesses with a particular focus on palliative care. More recent concerns have emphasized health inequalities in relation to babies and young children with a special emphasis on the impact of ethnicity as reflected in his work on the Born in Bradford study.
This study is supported by the Centre for Applied Social Research, School of Social and International Studies.
Please note this event is free to attend but delegates are required to register in advance. If you wish to attend this lecture, please contact Rachel Ward on 01274 233977 or via email on r.a.j.ward@bradford.ac.uk to reserve your place.
Fairtrade and locally sourced refreshments will be provided during this event.
The Escalate Centre is located on F Floor, Richmond Building., University of Bradford For further directions visit the following weblink: http://www.bradford.ac.uk/escalate/media/Escalate/Documents/Directions.pdf
5:30pm – 8:30pm
This is the launch of two challenging and insightful books: one takes a hard look at the impact of national policies on cohesion and counter-terrorism in Bradford and West Yorkshire; one shares the stories of different people across the region about their lives, their families, their experience of community and what matters to them. Both books are based on research funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Association of West Yorkshire Authorities.
The Invisible Village: Small World, Big Society
M Y Alam
On the back of the highly acclaimed book Made in Bradford, The Invisible Village compiles a selection of stories which paint a vivid picture of everyday life in a diverse British urban society. Here people talk openly and in moving terms about such issues as family, employment, education, migration, work, crime, as well as the notion of home and belonging. Acting as a counter-narrative to the prevailing divisive policies, political rhetoric and trial by media, The Invisible Village offers evidence that suggests our communities are not as segregated as we are often asked to believe.
Social cohesion and counter-terrorism: A policy contradiction?
Charles Husband and Yunis Alam
This book offers a unique research-based contribution to the debate around community cohesion and counter-terrorism policies in Britain. Through privileged access to the senior management and staff of five metropolitan authorities it reveals the contradictions between these policies as they are implemented in tandem at the local level.
For information, please email Susan.Szekely@jrf.org.uk
Speakers to include: Richard Bentall, Jo Moncrieff, Phil Thomas and Rachel Waddingham
There will be a collection for donations to the Soteria Network.
Please email Cath or Jojo at intermindsevents@googlemail.com if you require any information regarding the event.
Evolving Minds organises public meetings looking at different ways towards emotional wellbeing and how to live in what is often a mad world!
The talk will seek to explain the gap between the President's Prague speech on nuclear arms control and the extremely conservative Nuclear Posture Review which the administration subsequently issued.
Dr Joanna Spear is an Associate Professor and Director of the Security Policy Studies Program at the George Washington University. She is also an Associate Fellow in the Security Programme at Chatham House, London. She recently co-edited a book on the relationship between security and development, to be published by Georgetown University Press. She is currently working on a project on the role of the Department of Defense in Development, and on a book on the political economy of the defense trade. Before joining GWU she directed the PhD Program in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
