This year’s Health & Social Care Expo is due to take place on the 21st June 2012 0900-1630hrs at the Kent County Showground, Detling ME14 … Read more

Peter Taylor-Gooby is a main speaker in the Strategic Society debate on ‘Policy, Psychology and the Effects of ‘Economic War’’ The debate will examine the … Read more

At the British Sociological Annual conference in Leeds (April 11-13), both Miri Song and Dawn Lyon were interviewed by Laurie Taylor for BBC Radio 4’s Thinking … Read more

SSPSSR is seeking to appoint a post-doctoral research fellow in one of the School’s key areas of research to engage in and contribute to the … Read more

Julie Beadle-Brown, Reader in Intellectual Development Disabilities at the Tizard Centre, has recently returned from working at La Trobe University, Australia where she is an … Read more

Eric Emerson, Professor of Disability and Health Research at Lancaster University gave our final Research Seminar for this academic year.  “Improving the health and lives of people … Read more

Giving in the UK stands at around 1% of GDP, roughly half the US level (though the comparison is skewed by the fact that nearly … Read more

Three students taking the taught Masters course in ‘Fundraising and Philanthropy‘ have successfully passed a vocational qualification in fundraising. All students taking the academic module … Read more

The Riots, Communities and Victims Panel report on the August 2011 riots in England has ‘missed the point’, according to Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby at the … Read more

Peter Taylor-Gooby gave a paper on European Welfare Futures at the ‘Europe in the World, 2012 to 2013’ conference held at the Accademia dei Lincei … Read more