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Friday 7 March
Click on an event below to view the venue and time as well as a brief description of the proceedings. Use the Key to find out who each event is aimed at: KEY: 1 - For schools and/or college students KEY: 2 - Suitable for a general audience KEY: 3 - For people with a specific interest and some knowledge of the topic KEY: 4 - For professionals as part of their work
Globalisation of innovation
Venue: London (check website for details)
Friday 7th 9:30am - 12:30pm Key: 3 We will present new facts about where the UK stands in terms of technology performance and consider what some of the key policy challenges are for the future. Representatives from DIUS will present their latest thinking about the direction policy is taking in this area. This will be followed by a panel discussion and open discussion with participants. Booking essential. Further information:
Telephone: 020 7291 4818
Email: bonnie_b@ifs.org.uk
Website: www.ifs.org.uk
Organised by: Institute for Fiscal Studies, HM Treasury and Department for Innovation Universities and Skills
Being a better partner: Public Services and Social Enterprise
Venue: Elizabeth Gaskell Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
Friday 7th 10:00am - 4:00pm Key: 3 This event, which will include facilitated discussion and ideas sharing, aims to explore how social enterprises contribute to delivering public services. It will focus on partnerships and working relationships between statutory commissioning agencies and social enterprises. Speakers include: REEL, Age Concern England and The Northern Way. Further information:
Telephone: 0161 247 2511
Email: s.baines@mmu.ac.uk
Website: www.socialwelfareservicedelivery.org.uk
Organised by: Research Institute for Health & Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University
Measuring Poverty: Seven Key Issues
Venue: St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ
Friday 7th 10:30am - 2:00pm Key: 4 The government is working to combat poverty. But what is poverty and how will we know when it has been eliminated? Experts will raise seven potentially controversial issues related to poverty measurement, and discuss research and policy implications. Each presentation will be followed by debate among policymakers, commentators, journalists and academics. Further information:
Telephone: 01206 873788
Email: fzanto@essex.ac.uk
Website: www.iser.essex.ac.uk/conferences/efss08/
Organised by: Institute for Social & Economic Research
Strategic capacity building through research training and supervision
Venue: Woburn House Conference Centre, 20 Tavistock Square, London
Friday 7th 11:00am - 4:30pm Key: 3,4 This Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) conference will draw attention to the expanding range of development opportunities that may enhance the provision of postgraduate research training and supervision in business schools. The day will offer a rare opportunity for senior academics responsible for building organisational research capacity to exchange views. Further information:
Telephone: 0870 734 3000
Email: aimevents@wbs.ac.uk
Website: www.aimresearch.org
Organised by: Advanced Institute of Management Research.
The impact of capital adequacy ratios in emerging markets
Venue: The National Institute of Social & Economic Research, 2 Dean Trench Street, London
Friday 7th 12:00pm - 2:00pm Key: 3 This seminar is based on an empirical investigation of the macroecnomic impacts of financial regulation in emerging markets. In particular, it will summarise the main aspects of the Basel Capital Accord, and will give an overview of its implementation in the member countries of the Basel Committee and in emerging markets. Further information:
Telephone: 020 7654 1931
Email: j.juselius@niesr.ac.uk
Website: www.niesr.ac.uk
Organised by: The National Institute of Social and economic Research
Partnership breakdown and financial consequences
Venue: Queen's College, Silver Street, Cambridge
Friday 7th 1:00pm - 4:00pm Key: 4 This seminar brings together leading experts from social science, law and policy to consider the controversial issues of how best to protect the rights of women, men and children following partnership breakdown. This event is aimed at academics and policymakers as well as interested members of the public. Further information:
Telephone: 01223 335610
Email: J1s1004@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.genet.ac.uk
Organised by: Priority Research Network on Gender Inequalities
Food for the future - is organic enough?
Venue: Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Sussex
Friday 7th 2:00pm - 4:00pm Key: 1 Organic food is shown to have environmental and health benefits. But what exactly are these benefits? When trying to support sustainable development, consumers often need to make difficult choices. Secondary school children in Brighton, Cambridge and Leeds will explore these issues together with natural and social scientists, policymakers and artists. Further information:
Telephone: 01273 872784
Email: s.stagl@sussex.ac.uk
Website: www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/scale
Organised by: SPRU, University of Sussex
You and the future of Communications
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
Friday 7th 3:00pm - 7:00pm Key: 1,3 This event is aimed at Silicon Fen professionals interested in how to manage innovation effectively and how innovative communications solutions may support them. The event will consist of a key speech, lecture and hands-on workshops.
Further information:
Telephone: 0790 400 7625
Email: r.klingebiel@anglia.ac.uk
Website: www.anglia.ac.uk/aibs/css
Organised by: Centre for Strategic Studies, Anglia Ruskin University and Vodaphone PLC
Street Fictions and Realities: Childhood experiences on film
Venue: The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London
Friday 7th 6:30pm - 9:30pm Key: 2 An evening of short documentary film screenings by visual anthropologists exploring the experiences of children in India, Ethiopia and Malawi, separated from their parents and finding imaginative ways to create childhoods and homes for themselves. Also a chance to explore the Foundling Museum's current exhibitions. Free but booking necessary. Further information:
Telephone: 020 7387 0455
Email: education@therai.org.uk
Website: www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk and www.therai.org.uk/education
Organised by: Royal Anthropological Institute
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