Author: harriet

The Q-Step team is pleased to announce its autumn series of pubTALK nights. ‘pubTALK’ is a series of informal talks about real-world issues, held on the first … Read more

The ESRC has announced five new members have been appointed to join their advisory committees for two years from 1 September 2016.  Joining the Research Committee is Sarah … Read more

In the second edition of the celebrated Specialist Communication Skills for Social Workers, Senior Lecturer in Social Work Johanna Woodcock Ross revisits the complex toolkit of … Read more

On 8 September, Dr Trude Sundberg will deliver training to British Embassy staff as part of the Embassy’s learning and development programme. Numbers and statistics have become … Read more

Dr Trude Sundberg recently presented the findings of her British Academy funded research to UNICEF China and the UN’s poverty reduction group. China is currently … Read more

Policy Press has announced a new series on Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy co-edited by Dr Heejung Chung, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and … Read more

Auctioning babies makes sense; the babies go to new parents who’ve proved by paying more than anyone else that they will give them the best … Read more

Chris Havergal from Times Higher has published an article about some of the research findings from the University of Kent’s Student Success (EDI) Project. The … Read more

Under the critical recognition that we become who we are by telling stories about our pasts, and living the stories we tell, this two-day interdisciplinary … Read more

As a result of ongoing global economic, social and cultural changes, new parenting norms, ideologies and practices are emerging around the world. In Western countries, … Read more