Come along to the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) postgraduate-only event at the Canterbury campus on Thursday 3 April 2014, 12.00 – 16.00. At … Read more
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The Big Society – hear Professor Pete Alcock speak
Professor Pete Alcock, Director of Third Sector Research Centre and Professor of Social Policy & Administration at the University of Birmingham, is our guest speaker at … Read more
New PhD scholarships announced
SSPSSR has a world-wide reputation for excellence and is one of the leading and largest research centres for social science in the UK. In the … Read more
Mental Capacity Act 2005
The House of Lords Committee appointed to consider and report on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 has now published its report. Prof Glynis Murphy, Co-Director … Read more
Tizard postgraduate courses 2014 – early closing date
An overwhelming demand for our postgraduate courses in 2014 has led us to announce an early closing date for admissions on all of these courses. … Read more
Breaking through the European Precautionary Impasse?
Europe faces pressing, practical problems that demand action, not political posturing. From climate change and food supply, to the competitiveness of its research base and … Read more
NekNomination craze – participate in research
Risk Cluster researchers together with colleagues at Royal Holloway, University of London, are in the process of studying the motivations, responses and concerns of those … Read more
Queen’s Anniversary Prize 2014
Representatives of the University of Kent and the Tizard Centre were presented with a Queens Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education by the Queen during a ceremony … Read more
Ensuring Quality Services
Dr Nick Gore, Lecturer in learning disability at the Tizard Centre, is the lead author of this Local Government Association publication. http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/12137/L14-105+Ensuring+quality+services/085fff56-ef5c-4883-b1a1-d6810caa925f The aim of … Read more
Kent receives Queen’s Anniversary Prize at Buckingham Palace
Representatives of the University of Kent and its Tizard Centre were presented with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education by the Queen … Read more
