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Department of International Development site hosts Bath research

Thu Jul 25 09:28:00 BST 2013

Research by Geof Wood, Emeritus Professor of International Development, has been published on a Government website. read more »

Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein - 'The Age of Austerity or the age of Hope? Learning from Latin America Social Movements'

Tue Jul 16 09:22:00 BST 2013

Ana C. Dinerstein (Department of SPS) will speak at the World Affairs Series, Bath Royal Literacy & Scientific Institution (16 Queen Square) on July 23, at 19:30 Her talk is titled 'The Age of Austerity or the age of Hope? Learning from Latin America Social Movements' read more »

PhD student wins Highly Commended award

Thu Jul 11 09:52:00 BST 2013

Beatrice Godwin has been Highly Commended for her article published in the Journal of Assistive Technologies read more »

£160,000 grant for regional research in South Asia

Fri Jul 05 16:50:00 BST 2013

Joe Devine (Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Policy Sciences) is a member of an international team, which has been awarded a grant of £160,000 for a programme entitled "Exploring Effectiveness and Impact: Think Tanks and University Relationships in South Asia". read more »

Matt Dickson presents paper at the International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education

Wed Jul 03 16:32:00 BST 2013

Dr Matt Dickson attended the 4th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education – held in Catanzaro, Italy, between 23-25 June – presenting new work looking at the impact of education on earnings throughout the lifecycle. read more »

Academics feature in Academy of Social Science briefing

Mon Jul 01 15:50:00 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 »

Gillian Macdonald speaks at Children, child contact and domestic abuse seminar in Scotland

Fri Jun 21 15:56:00 BST 2013

Dr Gillian Macdonald spoke on her research at two seminars held in Glasgow and Edinburgh read more »

Dr John Troyer to speak at Yoko Ono's upcoming festival in London

Thu Jun 20 15:48:00 BST 2013

Dr John Troyer from the Center for Death & Society will be speaking at the Southbank Centre in London as part of Yoko Ono's Meltdown festival this Saturday 22 June. read more »

Peter Cressey invited as a national expert to comment upon industrial relations in Austerity

Wed Jun 12 15:18:00 BST 2013

Peter Cressey was invited by the European Foundation as a national expert to comment upon industrial relations in Austerity at an Expert workshop taking place in Dublin on 14th to 15th June read more »

SPS student wins Bath BP Centurion Award 2013

Thu Jun 06 11:31:00 BST 2013

Samantha Haines (BSc Social Work & Applied Social Studies) has been awarded the prize which recognises acedemic excellence and contributiuon to the life, academic reputation and general work of the University. read more »

Symposium held to discuss wellbeing and quality of life

Mon Jun 03 17:04:00 BST 2013

How wellbeing and quality of life are featuring in NGOs’ work in practice was the focus of a one-day symposium entitled Wellbeing, quality of life and NGOs: tools, tensions and taking the next steps. read more »

James Copestake Inaugural Lecture: Brand Aid? Development finance and African agriculture

Fri May 31 10:43:00 BST 2013

In this lecture, Professor James Copestake highlighted the growing business-orientation of aid and explored the scope for being more transparent about its impact. read more »

Mark Baldwin delivers keynote speech at the Annual conference of the Irish Association of Social Workers 2013.

Thu May 30 11:03:00 BST 2013

The talk explored the problems of upholding the identity and values of Social Work in times of austerity such as those being experienced in Ireland. read more »

University wins project approval for Global_ID

Wed May 29 15:45:00 BST 2013

The project is a 10-day training course for 30 Masters students from a network of EU universities (Spain, Italy, UK and Romania) which includes some teaching by staff and fieldwork in a marginalized community of Valencia. read more »

Matt Dickson talks to BBC Radio 5Live about "Raising the Participation Age"

Sun May 26 23:59:00 BST 2013

Dr. Matt Dickson speaks to presenter Adrian Goldberg on BBC Radio 5Live about the Government's policy of "Raising the Participation Age". read more »

Department hosts workshop for social workers and social work students

Fri May 24 16:59:00 BST 2013

On Monday 20th May Mark Baldwin and Marie Porter facilitated a workshop at the University of Bath entitled ‘Benefit changes and the attack on the working class poor – what can social workers do?’ read more »

Sometimes it's hard to be a man: A Paper by Dr Nicola Ingram discussed in Times Higher Education

Thu May 23 16:16:00 BST 2013

Dr Ingram co-authored the paper 'Not the Place for a Person Like Me: On Being Middle-Class at a Post-1992 University in England'. read more »

Research Fellow publishes new book: The Jews of Andhra Pradesh

Tue May 21 10:05:00 BST 2013

Research Fellow, Shahid Perwez, has recently co-authored a new book; The Jews of Andhra Pradesh: Contesting Caste and Religion in South India, with Yulia Egorova (Durham University) which has been published by the Oxford University Press. read more »

Industry experts gather for Moral Panics: Children & Youth seminar

Fri May 17 14:48:00 BST 2013

A panel of leading academics, policy makers, practitioners, journalists and service users came together to examine these anxieties in the seminar Moral Panic, Children & Youth which took place on Friday 17 May at the University of Bath. read more »

Launch of IPR shares research that has power to change

Wed May 15 14:45:00 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 »

Dr Theo Papadopoulos is keynote speaker at Social Policy in Greece conference

Mon May 13 10:01:00 BST 2013

Dr Theo Papadopoulos is to be the keynote Speaker at the one-day Conference ‘Wither Social Policy? Social Policy in Greece in times of Crisis' that will take place on 17 May 2013. read more »

Dr Mark Baldwin presents paper on participatory action research at King’s College London

Mon May 13 09:13:00 BST 2013

Dr Mark Baldwin recently presented a paper at King’s College London for the Social Work research organisation Making Research Count. read more »

SPS students' success at University of Bath Arts & Media Awards 2013

Thu May 02 12:33:00 BST 2013

Elias Nosrati and Rowan Emslie have been awarded prizes at the University of Bath Arts & Media Awards 2013 read more »

Nicola Ingram and colleague awarded the British Sociological Association's poster prize

Mon Apr 08 15:02:00 BST 2013

Dr Nicola Ingram (Department of Social & Policy Sciences), along with her colleague, Ms Jessica Abrahams (University of Bristol), has been awarded the British Sociological Association's poster prize at the 2013 annual conference held in London on the 3-5 April. read more »

Dr Jason Hart awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship

Fri Mar 22 12:06:00 GMT 2013

Dr Jason Hart, Senior Lecturer in International Development in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences, has been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship by the British Academy, the UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. read more »

Research to investigate class and gender inequality in young peoples’ educational decision-making

Wed Mar 20 09:28:00 GMT 2013

Dr Nicola Ingram, in collaboration with Ann-Marie Bathmaker (University of Birmingham) has been awarded £9,170 from the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme to conduct a study of the experiences of young people completing vocational training at University Technical Colleges. read more »

Social work students helping to set up forum for older people in community

Tue Mar 19 09:39:00 GMT 2013

Social work and Applied Social Studies students are working with the Bath & North East Somerset branch of charity Age UK to set up a new, independent forum for older people. read more »

John Troyer to present paper at Southwest Interactive Media Conference

Thu Mar 07 16:20:00 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 11:38:00 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 »

New Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Triple Line Consulting

Mon Feb 11 10:47:00 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 »

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 »

Illustrated talk in Goa

Thu Jan 24 09:29:00 GMT 2013

Dr Bryn Jones and Phil De Souza from the Department of Social & Policy Sciences presented an illustrated talk titled 'Out of the Ghettoes: Changing Britain's English' to the students of Carmel College, Nuvem, Goa on 21 January 2013. 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 »

Young researchers in social science win places at the South West Crucible 2013

Mon Jan 21 13:26:00 GMT 2013

Dr Matt Dickson, Dr Thanos Maroukis, Dr Sunčica Vujić and Dr Matthew Alford have been awarded places at the first ever Crucible programme to be held in the South West during the spring of 2013. read more »

Dr Dinerstein to present paper at UN Research Institute for Social Development

Tue Jan 15 09:32:00 GMT 2013

Dr Ana C. Dinerstein’s paper ‘The Dark Side of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America’ has been selected to be presented at the International Symposium Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy that will be hosted by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Geneva. 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 »

Ana Dinerstein to guest edit Sociology Special Issue: the Global Economic Crisis

Fri Dec 14 14:16:00 GMT 2012

Dr Ana C. Dinerstein will be one of the guest editors for the Special Issue of the Sociology Journal to be published in 2014. read more »

University collaboration to strengthen social work in China

Thu Dec 13 09:45:00 GMT 2012

Dr Louise Brown recently visited Sun Yat-sen University in southern China where she has been establishing a formal teaching and research collaboration with their Department of Social Work. 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 »

Frank Longstreth obituary

Wed Nov 28 11:23:00 GMT 2012

Frank 'Stretch' Longstreth, who died following an irreversible stroke, was a pioneer analyst in the comparative, historical sociology of national economies; a thoughtful and nurturing teacher to generations of students; and a long-serving governor on local schools around Bath. read more »

Student chosen for global social enterprise by former Apprentice star

Thu Nov 22 16:53:00 GMT 2012

A third year sociology student has been selected to become a Youth Ambassador in a global social enterprise set up by Melody Hossaini, a candidate in BBC1’s The Apprentice in 2011. read more »

University of Bath at the EALE 2012 Conference

Tue Oct 30 10:10:00 GMT 2012

Newly appointed members of the Department of Economics and Department of Social & Policy Sciences attended the 24th annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) held in Bonn, Germany, on 20-22 September 2012. 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 »

BBC Radio 4's The Digital Human

Wed Oct 24 16:19:00 BST 2012

Professor Tony Walter and Dr John Troyer comment on how people are using new kinds of technology to remember the dead and how technology has changed the definition of death. 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 »

Welcome to new students starting in 2012

Fri Sep 21 20:22:00 BST 2012

We are pleased to welcome our new students commencing their studies for 2012/13 in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences. 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 »

Centre for Death and Society website recognised as ‘excellent’

Wed Jul 25 08:29:00 BST 2012

The Centre for Death and Society (CDAS) has been recognised for its ‘excellent’ website in a review by Nursing Standard, the UK’s best-selling nursing journal. read more »

New book published on Social Work in the Community

Tue Jul 24 14:13:00 BST 2012

Dr Mark Baldwin and Dr Barbra Teater (formerly of the University of Bath) recently had ‘Social Work in the Community: Making a difference’ published by Policy Press. read more »

Mark Baldwin and Barbra Teater attend Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development

Fri Jul 20 14:06:00 BST 2012

Dr Mark Baldwin and Dr Barbra Teater presented a paper entitled ‘Singing for successful ageing: the perceived benefits of community singing amongst older adults’ at the 2nd Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development. 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 »

Research students host successful Postgraduate Symposium

Mon Jul 09 11:36:00 BST 2012

The first departmental Postgraduate Research Students’ Symposium, entitled ‘Social Science in a changing world: State, Society and Policy in perspective’, was held on the 29 June 2012. 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 »

Dr Theo Papadopoulos invited speaker at major events in South Korea

Mon Jun 25 11:25:00 BST 2012

Dr Theo Papadopoulos was key-note speaker in the Annual National Conference of the Korean Association of Social Policy. read more »

Death & Society student wins top award

Fri Jun 22 16:31:00 BST 2012

Susan Morris’s voluntary “trail-blazing” work with the Natural Death movement has earned her The Welch Allyn UK Pioneers of Care Award for Nursing 2012. 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 »

Social Work ranked best in the UK

Thu Jun 21 09:25:00 BST 2012

The BSc Social Work and Applied Social Studies programme has been ranked the best in the country again. read more »

Dr Tina Skinner meets with the District Attorney in charge of the Sex Crimes Unit in Manhattan

Wed Jun 20 11:09:00 BST 2012

Dr Tina Skinner has just returned from a research trip to New York where she met with DA Martha Bashford the head of the Sex Crimes Unit in Manhattan. read more »

Dying in the Digital Age - CDAS hosts successful annual conference

Tue Jun 19 13:57:00 BST 2012

Researchers from a wide range of disciplines and several countries gathered for the Centre for Death & Society (CDAS) annual conference on 9 June, this year titled ‘Dying in the Digital Age’. 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 »

Dr Jason Hart receives University Teaching Award

Wed Jun 13 10:00:00 BST 2012

Dr Jason Hart from the Department of Social & Policy Sciences has received the John Willis Award as part of the University Teaching Awards 2012. read more »

Joe Devine to lead study examining poverty reduction in Bangladesh

Mon Jun 11 09:25:00 BST 2012

Dr Joe Devine has been awarded a grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to examine the impact of Dutch aid in strengthening civil society in Bangladesh as a building block for structural poverty reduction. read more »

Tony Walter delivers lecture at Natural History Museum

Fri Jun 01 09:21:00 BST 2012

Tony Walter, Director of the Centre for Death & Society, took part in a public engagement event at London's Natural History Museum on Friday evening 25 March. 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 »

Department featured in Action Network magazine

Thu Apr 05 10:47:00 BST 2012

The Department of Social & Policy Sciences has been featured in the spring issue of Action Network magazine. read more »

New international journal Families, Relationships and Societies founded

Thu Mar 29 10:49:00 BST 2012

A new international journal, ‘Families, Relationships and Societies’ (FRS) has just been published. 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 Guy Standing presents new book at the Bath Literary Festival

Mon Mar 19 11:04:00 GMT 2012

Professor Guy Standing presented his new book, The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class, at the Bath Literary Festival on 3 March 2012. 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 »

Dr Ana Dinerstein's edited collection, The Labour Debate, is translated into Turkish

Fri Mar 09 12:44:00 GMT 2012

Dr Ana C. Dinerstein's edited collection, The Labour Debate (co-edited with Michael Neary, Ashgate, 2002), has been translated into Turkish by Otonom, Ankara. 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 »

Dr John Troyer contributes to Science & Society Collaboration project

Tue Mar 06 10:00:00 GMT 2012

In early November 2011, the Campaign for Social Science and the Academy of Social Sciences hosted an event at the University of Bath. read more »

Department hosts Complexity of Complexity seminar

Mon Dec 19 15:45:00 GMT 2011

The Department of Social & Policy Sciences hosted a one-day interdisciplinary seminar where speakers addressed issues surrounding complexity theory. 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 »

Dr Ana Dinerstein discusses protests in Europe on Spanish TV

Tue Nov 29 17:07:00 GMT 2011

Dr Ana Dinerstein talks about protests in Europe on Spanish TV programme Asuntos Publicos. 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 »

Graham Brown awarded Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Stanford University and the National University of Singapore

Wed Oct 19 14:51:00 BST 2011

Dr Graham Brown has been awarded the 2012 Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Stanford University and the National University of Singapore. read more »

Professor James Copestake addresses conference on the role of microfinance in global poverty reduction

Tue Jun 28 14:59:00 BST 2011

James Copestake, Professor of International Development addressed these questions as the opening speaker at a conference of the Dutch Microfinance Network (Micro-Ned) at the Head Office of Rabobank in Utrecht on 28 June. read more »

'The Precariat: the new dangerous class' - new book by Guy Standing is launched

Wed May 04 15:56:00 BST 2011

In Professor Standing's book, he looks at the growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, usually in a series of short-term jobs and without recourse to social or occupational stability. read more »

BSc Social Work & Applied Social Studies ranked top in the UK

Wed Apr 20 16:07:00 BST 2011

Results from the Complete University Guide have placed the BSc (Hons) Social Work & Applied Social Studies as the top programme in its field in the UK. read more »

Jade tributes reveal a renewed belief in angels

Fri Apr 15 16:25:00 BST 2011

A study by Professor Tony Walter, of the Centre for Death & Society, reveals that a belief in angels transcends any traditional theological belief in the soul. read more »

Dr Louise Brown appointed as a NICE Social Care Fellow

Wed Apr 06 16:20:00 BST 2011

Dr Louise Brown, from the Department of Social & Policy Sciences, has been appointed as a NICE Social Care Fellow. read more »