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• University KTP to help in the fight against global poverty

  Wed Jul 31 10:34:00 BST 2013

  The University of Bath has been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Triple Line Consulting, a company which works with public and private sector agencies to reduce global poverty and promote environmentally sustainable development. read more »

• Visiting Fellowship opportunity at the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research

  Tue Jul 09 15:22:00 BST 2013

  During the academic year 2013/14, we are seeking a high profile academic, from a leading US university, to spend up to three months at our newly established Institute for Policy Research. read more »

• Institute for Policy Research (IPR) first network

  Tue Jul 09 09:17:00 BST 2013

  The Middle East and North Africa Social Policy Network (MENA)is dedicated to open discussion about social justice and social welfare issues related to this part of the world. read more »

• Professor Paul Gregg speaks at two influential workshops on unemployment

  Mon Jul 08 14:46:00 BST 2013

  Professor Paul Gregg from the Department of Social & Policy Sciences has made presentations on the subject of youth unemployment at two important workshops attended by those in a position to influence policy. read more »

• Academics feature in Academy of Social Science briefing

  Mon Jul 08 10:38:00 BST 2013

  Professor James Copestake and Dr Susan Johnson from our Department of Social & Policy Sciences and Dr Andrew Weyman from the Department of Psychology feature in this month’s Academy of Social Science Professional Briefing: The Impact of Social Science Research. read more »

• Dr Phil Tomlinson to co-edit a new book on Industrial Policy for the UK economy

  Fri Jun 14 12:40:00 BST 2013

  Dr Phil Tomlinson of the School of Management and the Institute for Policy Research has been invited - along with collaborators Professors Keith Cowling (Warwick) and David Bailey (Coventry) – by the leading academic publisher, Oxford University Press - to edit a new book on Industrial Policy for the UK economy. read more »

• Shadow Minister for Sport visits University to gather views on sport policy document

  Wed May 29 13:59:00 BST 2013

  Clive Efford MP, the Shadow Minister for Sport, visited the University yesterday to discuss his policy proposals to enhance school and community sport. read more »

• University's US Alumni to fund new IPR Visiting Fellowships

  Fri May 24 09:06:00 BST 2013

  The recently launched Institute for Policy Research (IPR) will benefit from two Visiting Fellowships, thanks to funds provided by University of Bath alumni based in America. read more »

• Would you ‘Like’ a drink? Youth drinking cultures, social networking and alcohol marketing

  Wed May 22 09:18:00 BST 2013

  Reducing heavy drinking, especially among young people, has long been a focus of public-health campaigns. Now there is a new force to contend with: alcohol marketing on social-networking sites (SNS). read more »

• Launch of IPR shares research that has power to change

  Wed May 15 14:27:00 BST 2013

  Political economist Will Hutton has called for the University’s new Institute for Policy Research to “reclaim the Enlightenment tradition that drove the Industrial Revolution.” read more »

• The Institute for Policy Research scheme for bringing international scholars and policy makers to the University

  Thu May 09 10:48:00 BST 2013

  The Institute for Policy Research has a scheme for bringing international scholars and policy makers to the University for short visits. read more »

• Our new Institute for Policy Research launches on Tuesday - watch live and join the debate

  Wed May 08 09:58:00 BST 2013

  The University’s new Institute for Policy research (IPR) launches on Tuesday 14 May with a conference attended by political economist Will Hutton and geologist and TV presenter Professor Iain Stewart as guest speakers. The conference will be available to watch live from the IPR website from 1.15pm where a full schedule of times can also be viewed. read more »

• David Galbreath appointed Professor of International Security

  Tue May 07 15:25:00 BST 2013

  David Galbreath has been promoted to Professor of International Security in the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies. read more »

• University’s Institute for Policy Research issues latest policy briefing

  Thu May 02 11:25:00 BST 2013

  The University’s new Institute for Policy Research (IPR) has today issued the latest in a series of policy briefings which promote public understanding of the policy dilemmas that our societies face. read more »

• Countdown to Institute for Policy Research continues with release of powerful policy briefings

  Thu Apr 25 11:28:00 BST 2013

  The launch of the University’s new Institute for Policy Research is now less than three weeks away. read more »

• Tobacco companies keep people smoking despite tax increases

  Wed Apr 17 10:16:00 BST 2013

  The tobacco industry keeps the price of its cheapest cigarettes virtually static despite annual increases in tobacco taxes, circumventing the UK’s public health policy to reduce smoking through higher prices, researchers from the University’s Tobacco Control Research Group have found. read more »

• Emergency asthma admissions drop following smokefree law

  Sun Apr 14 10:18:00 BST 2013

  Numbers of adults admitted to hospital for emergency treatment for asthma have dropped by over four per cent since smokefree legislation was introduced in England, Bath researchers have found. read more »

• Will Hutton and Iain Stewart at launch of IPR

  Fri Apr 12 13:49:00 BST 2013

  Political economist Will Hutton and Iain Stewart, geologist and TV presenter, will be on the platform at the 14 May launch conference of the University’s new Institute for Policy Research, themed Policy and Power: Re-thinking the Role of Policy Research. read more »

• John Troyer to present paper at Southwest Interactive Media Conference

  Thu Mar 07 14:20:00 GMT 2013

  Dr John Troyer is to present a paper at the Platforms for Haunting: The Talking Dead event on Saturday 9 March 2013 in Austin, Texas. read more »

• Professor David Miller awarded grant from RCUK Global Uncertainties Impact Support Fund

  Mon Feb 25 14:17:00 GMT 2013

  Professor David Miller has been awarded £5,000 from the RCUK Global Uncertainties Impact Support Fund for a project titled ‘Developing a communications pathway to international collaborators and research users’. read more »

• Fieldwork begins for ESRC/DFID Assessing Rural Transformations project

  Wed Feb 06 18:31:00 GMT 2013

  The first round of fieldwork has begun in Ethiopia and Malawi on the latest Centre for Development Studies (CDS) project to win ESRC/DFID funding. read more »

• Research on education mobility by Matt Dickson and Paul Gregg reported by the BBC

  Wed Jan 23 13:12:00 GMT 2013

  Dr Matt Dickson was interviewed live in the studio at BBC Radio Bristol for their breakfast programme and the research was also reported on the BBC news website. read more »

• Researchers urge government to cap cigarette profits

  Tue Jan 15 12:20:00 GMT 2013

  An independent regulatory agency to cap excessive profits made by cigarette manufacturers should be set up to raise an extra £500 million per year of tobacco tax revenue for the Treasury, say Bath researchers. read more »

• New Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Triple Line Consulting

  Fri Jan 11 13:59:00 GMT 2013

  Professor James Copestake and Dr Joe Devine, in collaboration with Triple Line Consulting, have been awarded funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the UK Technology Board for a two-year partnership. read more »

• Paul Gregg appointed to Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

  Fri Dec 21 09:30:00 GMT 2012

  Paul Gregg, Professor of Economic and Social Policy, has been appointed to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. read more »

• Professor Anna Gilmore speaks & publishes on illicit tobacco trade

  Thu Dec 20 12:28:00 GMT 2012

  Professor Anna Gilmore, Director of the Tobacco Control Research Group, has spoken on the issue of the illicit tobacco trade at two important events this month, presenting research undertaken by her and Andy Rowell, research fellow in the Tobacco Control Research Group. read more »

• Graham Room honoured as an outstanding researcher

  Tue Dec 04 15:10:00 GMT 2012

  Graham Room, Professor of European Social Policy, will receive the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Medal at the University’s winter Award Ceremonies. read more »

• David Miller discusses terrorism and counter-terrorism in documentary

  Mon Dec 03 16:29:00 GMT 2012

  A documentary about the Decade of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism conference convened by Professor David Miller on 8-11 September 2011 has been broadcast on Press TV, the Iranian government. read more »

• David Miller delivers lecture series on think tanks

  Fri Nov 30 15:48:00 GMT 2012

  Professor David Miller delivered a seminar on 29 November at the Division of Sociology, Social Policy & Applied Social Sciences at Southampton University on ‘Think tanks, Islam and disembedded expertise’. read more »

• Centre for Death & Society present to Parliamentary roundtable on funeral cost assistance for the vulnerable

  Wed Nov 28 11:38:00 GMT 2012

  End of life experts from across the UK will come together today for a parliamentary roundtable chaired by Joan Walley, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North. read more »

• Research supports importance of father figures in children’s education

  Tue Nov 06 12:45:00 GMT 2012

  Researchers from the University of Bath have worked with local schools and families to assess how important father figures are in their children’s education and upbringing. read more »

• John Troyer discusses the future of cemeteries at TEDx event

  Mon Oct 29 16:21:00 GMT 2012

  Dr John Troyer delivered a talk about the future of death, dead bodies and cemeteries at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TEDx) event in Bristol on September 15, 2012. read more »

• Employers play an important role in changing retirement behaviour

  Fri Oct 05 12:56:00 BST 2012

  Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) funded research at the University has highlighted the key role played by employers in influencing people’s decisions over retirement and extending working life. read more »

• Report on wellbeing and poverty in Zambia published

  Fri Sep 28 17:51:00 BST 2012

  This latest report from Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways sets out the 'pre-story' of the project's approach to wellbeing assessment and presents preliminary findings on objective and subjective wellbeing in rural Zambia. read more »

• Professor Paul Gregg discusses employment support on BBC Panorama

  Tue Jul 31 13:38:00 BST 2012

  Professor Paul Gregg, from the Department of Social & Policy Sciences, features on BBC Panorama in a programme titled 'Disabled or Faking It?' read more »

• Plans for new Policy Research Institute take shape

  Mon Jul 16 14:23:00 BST 2012

  One of our many research strengths at Bath is the field of Policy Science. This was recognised externally by the award of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further & Higher Education read more »

• Nick Clegg highlights 'excellent report' containing research overseen by Prof Gregg

  Thu Jun 28 17:36:00 BST 2012

  The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Nick Clegg yesterday made a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) at which he detailed the report by the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) led by David Miliband as a key inspiration. read more »

• Wellbeing and poverty report published

  Thu Jun 21 15:41:00 BST 2012

  The Wellbeing & Poverty Pathways research project has published a report of key messages emerging from recent research on wellbeing and poverty in India. read more »

• Prof Cooke selected as finalist for Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research

  Fri Jun 15 10:47:00 BST 2012

  Professor Lynn Prince Cooke has had her 2010 article selected as a finalist in the annual competition for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. read more »

• Prof Paul Gregg interviewed on BBC Radio 4 show investigating youth unemployment

  Thu Jun 14 09:53:00 BST 2012

  Professor Paul Gregg was interviewed as part of the Analysis – Wasted Youth programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday 11 June. read more »

• New ESRC grant awarded for terrorism expertise study

  Fri May 25 17:41:00 BST 2012

  Prof David Miller has been awarded a Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellowship by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with a grant of around £400,000. read more »

• David Miller appointed to editorial board of new journal

  Wed May 23 09:52:00 BST 2012

  Prof David Miller has been appointed to the editorial board of a new Journal Interest Groups & Advocacy. The first edition has just been published by Palgrave. read more »

• Knowledge Exchange Grant awarded for new community engagement project

  Mon May 21 14:15:00 BST 2012

  We are pleased to announce a successful ESRC Small Knowledge Exchange Grant (£7,000) has been awarded to Prof David Miller, and doctoral candidate Rani Dhanda, for ‘Govanhill: A Community Engagement Project’. read more »

• Queen's Anniversary Prize Conference

  Tue Apr 17 14:29:00 BST 2012

  Following on from the award of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, the Department held a half day conference on the 30 March to present some of the research that led to the prize, and set out how it intends to take forward its work on child poverty and support for vulnerable families. read more »

• New research project investigating the assessment of rural transformation in Africa

  Mon Apr 16 17:12:00 BST 2012

  Professor James Copestake has been awarded £423,351 for a three year project, titled ‘Impact assessment based on self-reported attribution in complex contexts of rural livelihood transformations in Africa’. read more »

• Dr Roy Maconachie awarded British Academy grant for new research project

  Mon Mar 26 15:23:00 BST 2012

  Dr Roy Maconachie, a Lecturer in International Development, has won a grant from the British Academy to run a project entitled 'Youth livelihoods, activism and extractive industry in Sierra Leone'. read more »

• Sustainability challenged in West Africa

  Tue Mar 20 17:00:00 GMT 2012

  Dr Roy Maconachie has made a video examining the affects of the rapidly changing global economy on sustainable resource management practices in Nigeria. read more »

• Prof Paul Gregg attends Commission on Youth Unemployment

  Wed Mar 14 11:45:00 GMT 2012

  Professor Paul Gregg sat on the recent Commission on Youth Unemployment, sponsored by the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), and chaired by David Miliband MP. read more »

• New ESRC funding for research into bereavement through substance misuse

  Tue Mar 06 16:28:00 GMT 2012

  Professor Tony Walter and Dr Christine Valentine have secured £451,000 ESRC funding for research into bereavement through substance misuse. read more »

• Reception held to celebrate the Queen’s Anniversary Prize

  Mon Dec 12 16:38:00 GMT 2011

  The Department of Social & Policy Sciences last week celebrated the Queen’s Anniversary Prize award, at a reception hosted by the Vice-Chancellor. read more »

• Queen's Anniversary Prize recognises SPS 'path-breaking studies'

  Thu Nov 24 14:25:00 GMT 2011

  The University has been recognised for its influential research into child poverty and support for vulnerable people. read more »