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UCL Global Migration Symposia: Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
The first event in a new high-profile series at University College London, the UCL Global Migration Symposia, organised by the UCL Global Migration Network, is to take place on 10th March 2010.
The first event is entitled: Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrating Bodies, Practices and Ideas and will be given by Professor Peggy Levitt of Wellesley [...]
Advances in Spatial Analysis & e-Social Science
UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) is running a free one day conference on Tuesday 13th April which will feature the work of group on projects associated with research funded by various UK research councils. The conference is free but you have to register. It is also the day before the UK’s annual conference [...]
Migrant transnationalism, integration and place – call for papers (RGS-IBG 2010)
We would like to invite abstracts for papers to be presented at a panel we propose for inclusion in the 2010 conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The panel theme is migrant transnationalism, integration and place.
MIGRANT TRANSNATIONALISM, INTEGRATION AND PLACE
SESSION ABSTRACT:
This session aims to explore the intersections between migrants’ transnational engagements and integration [...]
Event: ONS Changes to Mid Year Estimates – Adding it all up.
The British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) are holding two workshops regarding the ONS Changes to Mid Year Estimates. One event is at the University of Leeds, and one is at the Local Government Association (LGA) in London. The workshops will take place in Leeds on the 7th of January and in London on the [...]
ESRC Seminar Series ‘Challenges in neighbourhood effects research: does it really matter where you live and what are the implications for policy?’
The forthcoming ESRC Seminar Series ‘Challenges in neighbourhood effects research: does it really matter where you live and what are the implications for policy?’ is organised jointly by the Centre of Housing Research, University of St Andrews, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and CCSR, University of Manchester.
The first seminar, ‘Neighbourhood Effects: Theory and [...]
Teaching quantitative methods: the challenge and how to meet it
The Royal Statistical Society are hosting a workshop on developing undergraduate quantitative methods teaching in sociology, social policy, politics and international relations, social anthropology and other social science subjects beyond economics and psychology.
It will take place on Friday 23rd October at the Royal Statistical Society, Errol St, London from 09.30 to 16.30.
Those speaking at [...]
Census: 2011 and beyond. Meeting 21 Oct 2009
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is hosting a meeting on the topic of the UK census. The meeting is taking place on Wednesday 21 October 2009 (1400-1700 hrs), at the RSS, 12 Errol St, London EC1Y 8LX.
For details see the flyer here.
ESRC Seminar Series: Time-Space and Life-Course, September 2009
The ESRC seminar series on ‘Time-Space and Life-Course’ has reached Seminar 5, which is entitled: ‘Tools for the future: exploring the temporal and spatial ordering of daily life‘ takes place on Monday the 14th of September 2009. The event is to be held at Newcastle University.
More details here
Any queries regarding this event should be sent [...]
ESRC Research Seminar Series: Understanding the Migrant Experience
The Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University has been awarded funding by the ESRC to host a series of one-day seminars which aim to increase understanding of the migrant experience.
The first seminar in the series was held in April and explored the links between micro-level understanding of ‘the migrant experience’ and macro-level [...]
Britain’s population time-bomb: The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), on Tuesday 16 June at 19.00, are hosting a discussion entitled:
“Britain’s population time-bomb: The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society”
Britain’s 17 million baby boomers are fast approaching retirement age, with over 65’s now outnumbering under 16’s for the first time. What are the challenges and opportunities that this presents [...]