9 - 18th March 2007: ESRC Festival of Social Science 2007
The ESRC Festival of Social Science will give you a fascinating insight into some of the country's leading social science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future.
From old age and pensions, healthcare, education, economics, environmental change to law and order, if it affects your life today then it's a hot topic to Britain's social science community.
Social science plays a central role in the world of science and technology. So, why not come along to an event during the Festival and see how social science fits into the wider science picture?
More details about the Festival including the programme of events is available on the website: http://www.esrcfestival.ac.uk/
26 - 28th March 2007: CESAGen and CSG International conference genomics and society: retrospects and prospects
This conference will provide an opportunity for the genomics social science community to take stock and celebrate its successes. Through reviewing the findings of research undertaken to date it will question what has been discovered, the implications of these results, and the new questions they raise. It aims to engage many associated stakeholders and policymakers in a dialogue about the future directions of social science research.
There will be international plenary and keynote speakers, including Gil Omenn, Ruth Chadwick, Brian Wynne and Paul Atkinson, discussing:
- engaging stakeholders in social science research
- policies for sustainability
- media representations.
The conference is taking place at The Royal Society, London.
For further information contact Helen Greenslade by email: greensladeh@cardiff.ac.uk
More information is available on the website: http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/
29 - 31st March 2007: Risk & Rationalities
How people identify and manage risks and uncertainties are central concerns in policy and the social sciences. These issues are becoming more pressing as a result of social, economic and political changes and of developments in theory. Different approaches draw on different rationalities, stressing the importance of rational action, of culture, of emotions and affect, of everyday cognitive heuristics, of intuition and of the role of trust.
Conference streams include:
- the dynamics of risk: change and development in risk rationales
- approaches to risk in different disciplines: rational actors, psychometrics and cultural values
- government and responses to risk
- varying rationalities in the management and regulation of risk
- the advantages and limitations of heuristics
- affect and emotion in explaining risk responses
- trust and risk
- rationales of power, conduct and resistance.
The conference is being held at Queens' College, Cambridge.
For further information contact Mary Mustafa on +44 (0)1227 827102 or email: m.mustafa@kent.ac.uk
More information is available on the website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/
12 - 14th April 2007: Reforming the tax system for the 21st Century: The Mirrlees Review
The 2007 Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) residential conference will be a key milestone in the Mirrlees Review, launched by the IFS in autumn 2006. This has been inspired by the approaching 30th anniversary of the 1978 Meade Report, a landmark in the study of tax design and perhaps the most influential output of the IFS to date. The new review will take account of changes in the goals of the tax system, the way in which it affects behaviour, and the increasingly globalised economic and institutional environment in which it has to operate. This will be an opportunity for officials, policymakers, academics, business people, tax practitioners and others to hear about and discuss the preliminary thinking of the Review - and help shape its development.
The conference is being held at New Hall, Cambridge.
For further information contact Bonnie Brimstone by email: b.brimstone@ifs.org.uk
More information is available on the website: http://www.ifs.org.uk/events.php?event_id=212