Regeneration Institute

fragmentpolis

2009-02-09T06:53:00.000-08:00

www.fragmentpolis.blogspot.com

The 'Right to Stay Put': Contesting Displacement in Urban Regeneration / Development Schemes

2009-02-09T02:52:00.000-08:00

Call for Contributions / Participation: Contesting Displacement in Urban Regeneration

Please forward widely - apologies for cross-posting

2009 Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British
Geographers (RGS-IBG), 26-28 August 2009, Manchester

First Call for Contributions to following session:

The 'Right to Stay Put': Contesting Displacement in Urban Regeneration /
Development Schemes

Sponsored by the Participatory Geographies Research Group

Session Organisers:

Chris Allen (Manchester Metropolitan University); Lee Crookes
(University of Sheffield); Stuart Hodkinson (University of Leeds); Tom
Slater (University of Edinburgh)

It is now 25 years since Chester Hartman first advanced the notion of
the 'right to stay put' for lower income group struggles against
gentrification. Since then, gentrification and related processes of
privatisation and marketisation have become integral to neoliberal urban
strategies across the world. In Britain, 'state-led gentrification'
(Davidson 2007) now impels urban regeneration schemes such as Housing
Market Renewal (Allen 2008) and even the government's council housing
modernisation programme 'Decent Homes'. Despite this proliferation,
academics have generally responded poorly to Hartman's call to arms.
Rather, as Slater observes (2006, 2008), gentrification research has
generally lost its critical edge, and from some quarters gentrification
has even been celebrated as beneficial to incumbent low-income groups
(Freeman, 2006; Vigdor, 2002). This is not our experience and with this
session we seek to restore Hartman's principle to the heart of
gentrification research by inviting contributions from activist
geographers in the widest sense of the term (academics, teachers,
housing professionals, campaigners, trade unionists and ordinary
residents) to share and exchange their experiences, insights and methods
to better defend people's 'right to stay put'. In the spirit of making
geography 'relevant' beyond the policy-academy complex, the session will
have a practical orientation and welcomes submissions in a wide range of
formats that offer reflections, stories, tactics, lessons and strategies
for developing successful urban resistances. The aims are to: (1)
share experiences and develop practical knowledges about what works in
urban resistance; (2) create an educational space for encounter and
dialogue between those involved in similar critical work and activism;
and (3) start to develop an action research network and a
knowledge/resource base for wider dissemination.

We seek ideas for participation which address some or more of the
following themes:

Grassroots knowledges about gentrification and resistance

Examples of (un)successful individual or collective resistance

Developing strategies and tactics of urban resistance

Power, counter-power, resources, methodological innovations

The planning system, public inquiries, community planning

Legal challenges to evictions and Compulsory Purchase Orders

Human rights issues with respect to land and home

Using the Freedom of Information Act and other research methods

Alternatives to gentrification / displacement / privatisation

Implications of the new Homes and Communities Agency

Roles, responsibilities and experiences of academics and other educators
in resistance

Alliance building and creating a UK Right to the City movement

We want to hear from people who are interested in participating in the
session in whatever way they can. Please send a proposal with title and
short summary (250 words) for participation which should outline the
following:

1. Who you are and why you are interested in participating in the
session

2. What kind of involvement/experience you have with opposing
gentrification

3. Details of the contribution you would like to make to the session
(example might include: show a film, give a short talk, tell a story,
bring some visitors to participate or anything else you think would make
a useful contribution to the debate)

4. Details of the kinds of equipment (audio-visual, for example) or
support you might need for your contribution

Please send your proposals by the 15 February 2009 at the latest to
L.Crookes@sheffield.ac.uk

New book

2009-02-09T02:46:00.000-08:00

http://www.nyupress.org/product_info.php?products_id=7931&reviews=1

Between policy and the POLIS - and other seminars

2009-02-04T08:48:00.001-08:00

Dear All

Sorry for cross-pointing.

Here is a list of Health and Society Research Groups until June. All will take place at 53 Park
Place with drink and nibbles to follow. The first one in 2009 is next Wednesday on the 11th Feb and
looks to be extremely interesting.

Everyone is welcome.

Eva Elliott

11th February 2009 – 4pm
‘Between policy and the POLIS: How electronic participation exercises can facilitate democratic
decisions for public health problems’

Simon Williams
CISHE, School of Social Sciences

11th March 2009 – 4pm
‘Accident and Incident Data: The Perceptions of the Risk of Certain Incidents Versus the Reality
of Reported Data’

Neil Ellis
Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC)

22nd April 2009 – 4pm (note not the 2nd Wednesday this month)
'Understanding and responding to place-based disadvantage: insights from a Neighbourhood Renewal
strategy in Victoria, Australia'.

Dr. Deborah Warr
Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Population Health,
University of Melbourne,

6th May 2006 – 4pm
‘Developing “just” and healthy public policy: the role of health impact assessment’

Debbie Fox
Liverpool University

10th June 2009 – 4pm
‘Dynamics of friendship networks and smoking behaviour during adolescence: A longitudinal social
network approach’
Liesbeth Mercken

Eva Elliott

RCUK Academic Fellow
Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics
School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff University
53 Park Place
Cardiff
UK
CF10 3AT

Tel: 029 2087 9138

E-mail: elliotte@cf.ac.uk

CISHE website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
WHIASU website: www.whiasu.wales.nhs.uk

BNIM narrative interviewing

2009-02-04T08:47:00.000-08:00

There are currently still two places vacant on the March London Intensive in BNIM narrative interviewing. See below for details. Do contact me if you have any questions, or would like a copy of the free BNIM SHORT GUIDE AND DETAILED MANUAL. If you do, DO NOT PRESS ‘REPLY’ BUT WRITE TO p.m.chamberlayne@dsl.pipex.com. OFF-LIST.
Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First
2009
5-Day Intensive BNIM Research Interview Trainings
Biographic-Narrative-Interpretive Method (BNIM)
5 days for 6 people:
2009 – March 12th and 13th, 16th – 18th.
2009 – June 18th and 19th; 22nd to 24th
2009 - October 8th and 9th; 12th to 14th

The value of open-narrative interviewing and insightful interpretation is widely recognised, but rather than having to invent the wheel for themselves, many people welcome a systematic immersion into principles and procedures that have been shown over two decades and many countries to generate high-quality work. An excerpt from an email we received from one university may be suggestive:

“… a number of the trainees who graduated this year got top awards in their doctorate projects... BNIM and narrative projects were considered to be of a particularly high standard by both internal and external examiners, and were very well received. The course director was very impressed and has told me that the standard of the research of those undertaking these projects (using BNIM) has improved the standard of the whole cohort.”

For over nine years in the UK, and more recently in New York (USA), in Auckland (NZ), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Sydney (Australia), we have been running BNIM intensive trainings designed for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in various pure and applied fields. Comments include:

Elvin – A richness beyond what I could imagine.

Sasha - thank you, for a wonderful training course. I learnt so much - and it was a great experience for us all as a team, and in terms of all of our intellectual and skills development.

Mark – I could go away and practice now. I liked the balance of how and why. I really got my head round that and could explain it to someone else.

Completed PhDs, clinical doctorates, and MAs by researchers using BNIM now number about 22. They range over topics such as: reintegration of returning Guatemalan refugees; identity in informal care; men coping with sexual abuse; psychosomatic study of breast cancer; love and intimacy; motivation in occupational therapy; South African migrants to NZ; nurses’ and health visitors’ learning and their professional practices; relationship experiences in psychosis (such as those of, and with, hearing voices people) and hospitalisation; head teachers; We know of 18 more PhDs, clinical doctorates and post-doctoral research projects in process. Anglophone universities involved include Birkbeck College, Birmingham, Central Lancashire, Dublin, de Montfort, East Anglia, East London, Essex, Exeter, NUI-Galway, Idaho, Kings College London, Leeds, Leicester, Massey, Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Plymouth, Queens University (Belfast).

BNIM assumes that “narrative” expresses both conscious concerns and unconscious cultural, societal and individual presuppositions and processes. Integrally psycho-societal, it supports research into the lived experience and reflexivity of individuals and collectives, facilitating understanding both the ‘inner’ and the ‘outer’ worlds of ‘historically-evolving persons-in-historically-evolving situations’, and particularly the expectedly surprising interactivity of inner and outer world dynamics. It especially serves researchers who need a tool that supports understanding spanning sociological and psychological dynamics and structures, and these treated not statically but as situated, affected and active historically and biographically.

For an example of BNIM case studies we recommend the European Union seven-country SOSTRIS project (edited) Biography and social exclusion in Europe: experiences and life-journeys (2002: Bristol, Policy Press). Other books, articles and reports are listed in the full bibliographies of the free Short Guide to BNIM.

BNIM research provides an innovative base for policy review and for better policy, and for professional or activist practice.

When you do the course, you automatically become a member of the email list where news, questions and discussion circulate. Methodology can be lonely without a secure base and like-minded people working in the same way as you. The course, the textbook, the free Short Guide and Detailed Manual and the email list offer you support in using part or all of the BNIM tool-kit in your own work and for liaising with others.
Summary
Designed for PhD students and professional researchers, the course provides a thorough training in doing BNIM biographic narrative interviews, together with ‘hands-on experience’ of following BNIM interpretation procedures. Students develop a sense of how their own research projects might use such aspects and components.

Taught by Tom Wengraf and Caroline Barratt in Muswell Hill, North London, the course’s small number of students ensures close coaching and support for the intensive work that is needed for you to fully acquire both the understanding of principles and also the practical capacity for proceeding with the systematic procedures involved in BNIM – usable both for BNIM but also for other types of narrative interviewing and interpretation.

You will be expected to have looked at (not read!) chapters 6 and 12 of Tom’s textbook, Qualitative research interviewing: biographic narrative and semi-structured method (2001: Sage Publications). Before the course starts, you are expected to have studied some bits and scanned others of the most recent version of the Short Guide to BNIM which will be sent to your email address. This preparing-by-reading means that most of your time during the 5 days can be spent on clarification and practical exercises, learning-by-doing.

Programme (subject to revision) for 5-day intensives
Thursday and Friday
We start with a short introduction to the Biographic-narrative-interpretive method, the history of its development, and to the principles behind its practice. The point and timing of using open-ended biographic narrative interviews rather than (only) the more conventional semi-structured and attitude-and-argument focused ones is clarified. You get to see the value of the 3 quite different subsessions. The bulk of the first two days is then almost entirely devoted to learning the craft of BNIM interviewing practice. This involves learning to ask narrative-pointed questions (both open and also focused) and not inadvertently interrupting or deflecting the interviewee. Apparently simple, it rapidly becomes clear that such a craft requires repeated and carefully-monitored practice to be successfully achieved. Pencil-and-paper and repeated interview practice exercises ensure such success is achieved by the end of the 2nd day.

Monday to Wednesday
We outline the principles and you engage in the key practices of BNIM interpretive work . We explain the importance of the twin interpretive tracks of ‘living of the lived life’ and ‘telling of the told story’ analysis, and micro-analysis, and how you convert the raw transcript into two series of processed data for each track. You learn the significance of the future-blind chunk-by-chunk approach peculiar to BNIM by practice – by doing parts of a narrative text analysis, a micro-analysis and biographical data analysis. You see the value of bringing the separated tracks together in an integrated ‘case account’. Finally, on the basis of case-presentations, you practice systematic case-comparison and the generalising and particularising modelling towards which BNIM work is typically oriented. The course ends with our looking again at how you might best use all or part of the BNIM approach within your individual research projects, and, given the existence of sceptical research and applied policy audiences, how to defend your choice to use such an in-depth biographical research method with a necessarily low-N sample.

After you start your work, to help you avoid un-necessary errors, we advise on your eventual design of a SQUIN for your first pilot BNIM pilot interview, and then – if you wish -- comment on your transcript and then on your data-processing of that transcript for subsequent interpretation. The cost for such consultancy is included in the course fee.

To reserve a place on one of the courses. To reserve a place, you need to send us a deposit of £225 (or the full amount).
Places are reserved in strict order of deposits (or full payment) received. Half-Deposits . are returnable if you cancel before the first day of the previous month, ie. 1st February and 1st May 2009 respectively.

2009. In 2009 the first course will run on March 12th-13th and 16th-18th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st February 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825.

The second course will run on June 18-19 and 22nd to 24th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st May 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825

The third course will run on October 8-9 and 12th to 14th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st Sptember 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825

You secure your place by paying a deposit (£225) or the full payment.

All inquiries and bookings, and requests for the most recently updated version of the Guide to BNIM , please contact p.m.chamberlayne@dsl.pipex.com.

CFP: The Foreclosure Crisis and the Financial Crisis: Local Configurations and Global Consequences

2009-02-04T08:10:00.000-08:00

Call for papers
2009 ISA-RC21 Sao Paulo Conference
Session 2.
The Foreclosure Crisis and the Financial Crisis:
Local Configurations and Global Consequences - Manuel B. Aalbers, University of Amsterdam, The Nederlands.

The housing foreclosure crisis that is spreading throughout the US is not just affecting local real estate, but also financial markets around the globe. Increasingly, we are seeing the social and economic consequences of both crises, not just in communities with high default rates, but almost anywhere in the world. We welcome papers on a variety of topics, including but not limited to: foreclosure studies, homeownership, social and financial exclusion, political economy of the crisis, financial centres/global cities, and how the crisis affects places around the globe. We especially encourage papers that make the connection between the global crisis and a particular city or number of cities.

For more details on the conference, please see http://www.centrodametropole.org.br/ISA2009/.

For specific questions about this particular session, please contact me directly at m.b.aalbers@gmail.com.

Wales unveils strategy on suicide

2008-11-04T03:25:00.000-08:00

Wales unveils strategy on suicide, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7707437.stm

'The health debate', by David J. Hunter

2008-10-21T08:36:00.000-07:00

The Policy Press is about to publish a new book, 'The health debate', by
David J. Hunter. I am sure that this title will be of interest to members
of this list.

Focusing on the British NHS, this book reviews some of the key contemporary
debates concerning health systems and how they have shaped the way that
health care has, and is, evolving.

For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10054&products_id=1282

It is is currently available on our website with a 20% discount.

Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/) or from our distributor:

Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
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Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk

P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.

Artists Making Places Conference

2008-10-21T08:24:00.000-07:00

Artists Making Places Conference

(Please contact Vivienne Reiss vivienne.reiss@googlemail.com if you would
like more info)

The setting for the conference is the Greenwich Peninsula, one of London's
most important regeneration projects. The Art on Greenwich Peninsula
programme explores the opportunities around commissioning art and working
with artists in relation to this twenty year regeneration scheme.

The conference takes 'place making' and the role of the artist as its theme.
It will address the social issues around place making, moving beyond the
notion of physical or geographic place; looking at building communities and
developing community cohesion. It will explore the ways in which artists can
be agents in this process and the related practical, ethical and aesthetic
considerations and responsibilities.

The event is intended to be thought-proving and inspirational, creating new
insights informed by high profile national and international contributors. A
commissioned text by Declan McGonagle, who will chair the event, will be
circulated in advance providing provocation for both the speakers and the
audience.

The conference will include presentations, panel discussions, artist-led
tours, film screenings and performances and is aimed at artists, public art
commissioners and producers, local authority arts/community and regeneration
officers, lecturers and researchers in HE/FE and students on related courses.

Confirmed speakers and contributors include: Alfredo Jaar (artist), Declan
McGonagle (National College of Art and Design Dublin), Laurie Peake
(Liverpool Biennial), Bob and Roberta Smith (artist), Anna Hart (Archway
Investigations and Responses, Byam Shaw), Faisal Abdu'Allah (artist), Nick
Ewbank (The Creative Foundation), Vivienne Reiss and Bridget Sawyers (Art on
Greenwich Peninsula). There will also be contributions from a number of
artists involved in the Art on Greenwich Peninsula programme including
Howard Matthew, Julian Walker, Aoife Mannix, and Sarah Butler.
Conference bookings are being managed by the Barbican Box Office see
www.barbican.org.uk (go to book tickets at top right hand corner then select
10. Nov. 08 in event calender and select veune: Greenwich Yacht Club)

See www.artongreenwichpeninsula.com for further information on the
programme, speakers, venue and location.

Centre for Urban Theory (CUT) Seminars, February-March 2009

2008-10-21T08:21:00.002-07:00

Centre for Urban Theory (CUT) Seminars, February-March 2009

Organizer: Dr Richard G. Smith

Tuesdays 4pm, Location: MUSEUM (Ground floor, Wallace Building), Swansea University

* * *
February 3rd

Christina Volkmann (Swansea University) [with Christian De Cock and James Fitchett] "Myths of the Near Past: Envisioning 'Financial Times' anno 2007/08"

* * *
February 10th

Christian De Cock (Swansea University) “Cities in Fiction: Perambulations with John Berger”

* * *
February 17th

Alan Finlayson (Swansea University) “'The Subject of Financialisation”

* * *
March 3rd

David B. Clarke (Swansea University) “Utopologies”

* * *
March 10th

Richard G. Smith (Swansea University) “Cities from Space”

* * *
March 17th

Nikki Cooper (Swansea University) “Colonial Zoning and French Urban Planning”

ALL WELCOME.

Young people and territoriality in British cities: JRF Findings

2008-10-21T08:21:00.001-07:00

http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/2298.asp

GEOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATION

2008-10-21T08:13:00.000-07:00

GEOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATION

Loughborough University

8-9th September 2009

Responding to the growing interest in spaces of education within geography and cognate disciplines, this conference will provide a unique opportunity for debating key themes and concepts concerning the production, consumption and governance of education at different scales and in different cultural contexts. Recognising the diversity of sites of education and learning which are accessed at different stages of the life-course, it is intended that the conference will address issues relating to primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as the wider production and circulation of knowledge within these spaces. Papers are hence welcomed which address any of the following themes:

· School catchments, parental choices and access to education

· Inclusions and exclusions in spaces of education

· Extended schools, families and communities

· The university in its social and cultural context

· Studentification and student cities

· Academic mobilities and migrations

· The globalization of education

C The conference is supported by the Centre for Research in Identity, Community, Society (CRICS), based in the Department of Geography, Loughborough University, the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) and the Children, Youth and Family Working Group (CYFWG) of the Royal Geographical Society. There will be a number of bursaries to support the attendance of new career, postgraduate and unwaged delegates.

Please send abstracts (no more then 250 words please) to Prof. Phil Hubbard (P.J.Hubbard@lboro.ac.uk) or Dr Sarah Holloway ( S.L.Holloway@lboro.ac.uk) by 1st December 2008.

Consultation Event on "Planning for A Better London"

2008-10-21T08:07:00.000-07:00

Consultation Event on "Planning for A Better London"

Monday 3rd November
The Resource Centre
356 Holloway Road
N7 6PA

2pm - 5pm

Views on the Mayor's proposals for revisions to London's spatial strategy,
which sets planning policies across London, must be submitted by 10th
November. This event is an opportunity to hear presentations on the
proposals and their importance for Londoners and to discuss related
issues.

Speakers include: Andrew Barry-Purssell, Head of London Plan, Greater
London Authority Barbra Wallace, Women's Design Service Peter Eversden,
London Forum of Civic and Amenity Societies.

Workshops on: Equalities, Housing policies, Environment and Climate and
Case studies.

To book a place, please send booking form (attached) to
chloe@londoncivicforum.org.uk Inquiries: 020 8709 9787

Just Space Network is grateful to the London Plan team at the Greater London
Authority for its support.

Rescue Geography: research exhibition

2008-10-21T08:05:00.002-07:00

Event in Birmingham exploring how to make regeneration more sensitive
to the nuances of place - all welcome...

Rescue Geography: research exhibition

Featuring photographic
installation by Dan Burwood

Private preview:
5 pm - 7.30pm
Friday, 24 October 2008

Public opening:
Daily 12 noon - 2 pm
27 to 31 October 2008

The art space at MADE*
122 Fazeley Street, Digbeth,
Birmingham B5 5RS
(5 minute walk from the Bullring)

Rescue Geography is a collaboration with the University of
Birmingham and the University of Manchester.
MADE* (Midlands Architecture and the Designed Environment)
is a Registered Charity

Visual Methods

2008-10-21T08:05:00.001-07:00

On Thurs 23rd Oct SOCSI and JOMEC, jointly, are hosting a session by one of the world's leading digital storytellers - Dr Daniel Meadow. For a sample of his work see:-

www.photobus.co.uk
and also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pages/lawson_jones_01.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pages/stephanie_roberts_01.shtml

This is the beginning of a year long programme of collaboration to train SOCSI and JOMEC ugs, pgs, researchers and staff who might be interested in using visual methods of various kinds in their work.

The meeting is in the Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building 4-5pm.

Do join us

Ian Jones
Innovation & Engagement Officer SOCSI

New atlas of mortality published today

2008-10-21T08:04:00.001-07:00

As you may have seen in today's news, the Policy Press has just published
'The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain' by Mary
Shaw, Bethan Thomas, Danny Dorling and George Davey Smith. This new study
is the first in over two decades to explore causes of death across the UK
and provides a fascinating account of how and why we die.

It analyses almost 15 million death records for the period 1981 to 2004. It
looks at deaths by cause, gender and geographical area and is displayed in
a series of area maps with accompanying commentary. The atlas maps
Standardised Mortality Ratios (SMRs) for all deaths, for nine groupings of
categories and for 99 single categories of death. 14,833,696 death records
were used to draw up the maps.

For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1195

To celebrate its publication, it is currently available on our website for
just GBP25.59, saving you almost GBP15.00.

Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
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thereafter.

The absence of society

2008-10-21T08:02:00.000-07:00

http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/2284.asp

Marselles EU Meeting / Fwd: [reclaiming-spaces] French EU presidency / solidarity , sustainabilty and housing rights..

2008-10-21T08:01:00.000-07:00

Knut Unger, Mv Witten schrieb:
> Crisis & EU & housing
>
> As part of the French EU presidency European ministers responsible for
> urban development and housing will meet in Marseille, 24th – 25th
> November 2008. According to the programme of the French presidency they
> will speak about two complexes:
>
> (1) an operational continuation of the approaches of the so called
> "Leipzig Charter for sustainable European cities", which was one of the
> results of the EU urban ministers meeting during the German presidency
> 2007 (accomaponied by demostartion in Leipzig). The French programme
> promises to discuss links between a "social city" and a "sustainable
> city" which could be combined on an approach towards "sustainable and
> solidarian cities" AND to focus on the contexts with climate change.
> (2) the problems of access to shelter by disfavoured persons, the report
> of the EU commission about Services of General Social Interest and
> social housing policies within the internal market.
>
> At the first view this sounds great. Is the French presindency going to
> put the EU on a path to cities of solidarity , sustainabilty and housing
> rights?
>
> SOME BACKGROUND
>
> During the German presidency we (German AG Habitat) cared about some
> interventions on the proposed charter. Besides other things we called
> for an inclusion of housing which was totally absent in the first drafts
> (similar interventions can from CECODHAS and tenants unions and HIC).
> But we even strongly criticized the subordination of urban development
> under the Lisbon strategy (which orientates on an Europe as the
> worldwide most competitive knowledge based economy) and the obvious
> deficits in addressing major challenges like climate change,
> unsustainable transport and democracy. The final text of the Leipzig
> Charter with some minor changes reacted to the critics. I.e. housing was
> mentioned as part of a possible strategy in disfavoured neighbourhoods.
>
> The "Leipzig Charter" by some observers today is seen as a strengthening
> of social and sustainable view on cities and a correction of radical
> neo-liberalism territorial approaches which dominated the EU policies
> since the 90ies. However, according to our view the "Leipzig Charter"
> isn't much more than a pamphlet calling for some improvement of
> "integrated urban management" in order to "strengthen strengths" of
> already strong cities in the global competition AND to combine that with
> a specific attention towards disfavoured neighbourhoods, which should be
> upgraded in order to reduce social costs and support competitiveness.
> Only within the problems of disfavoured neighbourhoods the charter
> promotes concrete measures towards sustainability and social
> developments and in this context even mentions housing as a possible tool

New book: Transitions Through Homelessness

2008-07-31T08:29:00.001-07:00

Transitions Through Homelessness
Lives on the Edge

Carol McNaughton

‘Transitions Through Homelessness successfully weaves longitudinal data on the experiences of
homeless people, with a robust theoretical interpretation applying concepts of edgework in
late modernity and the risk society. Both stimulating and highly readable, this book will surely
become a core reference for scholars for some time.' - Dr Isobel Anderson, University of
Stirling
Who are 'the homeless'? How is homelessness really experienced in contemporary society? And
how do these people then attempt to make a transition back- to find a 'home' once more?

These are some of the questions considered in this study, which follows a group of people making
a transition out of homelessness for a year in their lives. The experiences of each individual are set
within autobiographical accounts of their lives before, during, and in some cases, after being a
'homeless person'. This opens the door to what may be to many readers a hidden world of trauma,
poverty, and marginality in the UK.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
In the Absence of Home: Understanding Homelessness
Emotional and Material Landscapes of Life
Becoming a Homeless Person
Homelessness, Social Welfare and 'Targeted Populations'
Homelessness, Identity and Social Networks
Conclusion: Lives on the Edge?

CAROL MCNAUGHTON is currently an ESRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy,
University of York, UK. She has extensive experience of researching transgression, transitions and
the institutional role of social policy.

New Crime Stats

2008-07-31T03:40:00.001-07:00

Members of the list may well be interested to view the annual crime statistics for England and Wales that were published last Thursday. These cover latest results from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime. The spreadsheets and separate sections of the report can be downloaded at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0708.html

including a summary of the main findings at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0708summ.pdf

We have also made available 'beta' test versions of new mapping and tabulation software to analyse data by offence type and financial year for individual local authority areas (excel spreadsheet continue to be downloadable). We intend to further widen the offence coverage of these systems once full application of disclosure control has been applied. These new facilties can be found at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/soti.html

We would welcome feedback on the operation of these systems to crimestats.rds@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk and also any more general comments on this material.

NESTA

2008-07-31T03:39:00.001-07:00

We are looking for an evaluator for Universities United - a project to develop
an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional approach to innovations for social
good.

The selected evaluator should have experience in project evaluation, using
filming as an analysis tool; work closely with a film crew to provide a final
evaluation analysis in a written and video format.

An ethnographic or psychological analysis may suit the nature of the project,
but we are open to other suggestions for suitable methodologies.

If you are interested in submitting a tender, please email it to Rachel Brazil
rachel.brazil@nesta.org.uk no later than 10am on Friday, 8 August 2008.

Click here for further details:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/working-with-us-connect/

The story starts today...

2008-07-31T03:38:00.001-07:00

Follow it here:

http://urbanadventure.wordpress.com/

Research Fellow/Associate Posts at CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University

2008-07-31T03:29:00.000-07:00

The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) is recognised
as one of the leading academic research centres in the United Kingdom in the
fields of regeneration, housing, labour market analysis and third sector
studies. It currently employs 26 research staff. Members of CRESR were
central to the Sheffield Hallam University's 2001 RAE submission in the Town
Planning area, which received a '4' rating. Considerable resources have been
devoted to supporting staff in recent years to build up a strong record of
academic publication to strengthen the submission for the RAE in 2008

The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) is looking to
appoint up to three Research Fellows/Research Associates:

1. Research Fellow/Research Associate in CRESR's Data and Policy Team
(Salary: £23,002 to £32,795). A Research Fellow/Research Associate to help
develop CRESR quantitative data analysis work in the areas of regeneration
policy, economic geography and/or voluntary and community sector studies
(job ref: DS 357/07). Further details are available at:
http://ntmizar.adc.shu.ac.uk/HR/Vacancies/Research/Research%
20Adverts/DS%20357%2007.asp

2. Research Associate in CRESR's Labour Markets and Social and Economic
Regeneration Teams (£23,002 to £28,290). A Research Associate to
contribute to CRESR's growing portfolio of multi-disciplinary work generated
through research projects crossing the labour markets and regeneration policy
agendas (job ref: DS 359/07). Further details are available at:
http://ntmizar.adc.shu.ac.uk/HR/Vacancies/Research/Research%
20Adverts/DS%20359%2007.asp

3. Research Fellow/Research Associate in CRESR's Data and Policy Team (18
months fixed term, Salary: £23,002 to £32,795). A Research Associate to
provide quantitative data support to the national evaluation of Futurebuilders.
Futurebuilders is the government's major programme to build the capacity of
the voluntary and community sector to deliver public services (job ref: DS
358/07). Further details are available at:
http://ntmizar.adc.shu.ac.uk/HR/Vacancies/Research/Research%
20Adverts/DS%20358%2007.asp

Candidates at Research Associate level are expected to have experience and
knowledge of relevant policy and research and demonstrate an ability to work
effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. In addition, candidates at Research
Fellow level will have experience of income generation, project management,
and policy and academic publication. They need to demonstrate practical
research skills including strong analytical and organisational skills and be able
to manage research teams. For all candidates, it is essential to be able to
communicate complex findings to a variety of audiences in a straight forward
manner.

Immigration and inclusion in South Wales

2008-07-15T03:42:00.000-07:00

Just published by the JRF:

Immigration and inclusion in South Wales
This research explores the impact of new migration on established communities in south-east Wales, in particular on the issues of community, integration and cohesion.

http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/2250.asp

RTPI Cymru Annual Conference

2008-06-13T06:10:00.001-07:00

Dear colleagues,

Many of you will already be aware that RTPI Cymru is initiating an annual planning conference for
Wales.

A brochure can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.rtpi.org.uk/download/3854/Planning-Conference-English.pdf

RTPI Cymru is inviting academic staff within the University to register for and attend the
conference.

Neil.
_______________

Neil Harris
Lecturer in Statutory Planning
Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning

(T) 029 2087 6222
(F) 029 2087 4845
(E) HarrisNR@cardiff.ac.uk
Further details and personal page via www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/

Newton International Fellowships

2008-06-13T06:08:00.001-07:00

Advance Announcement

Newton International Fellowships

The Newton International Fellowships will be the pre-eminent award for
postdoctoral researchers wishing to undertake research in the UK. The
Fellowships will be launched on 4 June 2008 and will be run by the British
Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society to cover the
broad range of natural and social sciences, engineering and the humanities.

Newton International Fellowships aim to attract the world*s best post-doctoral
researchers to Britain for a period of one to two years. Funding for follow-on
activities will continue for up to ten years after the Newton International
Fellows have returned overseas, with the aim of maintaining links with the UK.
In addition, Newton Fellows will have the opportunity to join a national alumni
scheme for international fellows run by RCUK.

More details will be available from the Newton International Fellowships
website, which will go live on 4th June: www.newtonfellowships.org

Newton International Fellowships
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG
tel: +44 (0)20 7451 2598
fax: +44 (0)20 7451 2543
info@newtonfellowships.org

The British Academy
10 Carlton House
London SW1Y 5AH
Tel: 020 7969 5200
Fax: 020 7969 5300
Web: www.britac.ac.uk

Population Projections: Launch Events

2008-06-13T06:03:00.000-07:00

Population Projections: Launch Events

On 30 June the Statistical Directorate of the Welsh Assembly Government will publish population projections for the 22 unitary authorities in Wales. This is the first time that population projections have been available for these areas.

Population projections provide a picture of future populations based on assumptions about births, deaths and migration. These assumptions are based on recent trends.
When / where?

Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on Tuesday 8 July 2008 (10:00 until 3:00)

Conwy Business Centre on Wednesday 9 July 2008 (10:00 until 3:00)

Who should attend?

Those who plan for the future, to deliver services and to help frame sustainable policies, need to consider the population by age and gender. If you need to know about how many people of what ages are likely to be in a local authority area over the next 25 years or if you just need a general overview of projections and how they are used, then these workshops are suitable for you.
Outline of day

The day will provide some broad overview of the methodology used for the bottom-up projections for Welsh local authorities:

Explain what population projections are,
Explain the collaborative approach taken to produce the projections,
Discuss the main findings,
Explore the potential uses for the projections,
Question and answers with the production team, and
Discussion groups to develop your knowledge and understanding of the use of projections for your work.
(There will be more technical seminars, on the methodology and for those wishing to produce their own projections, later in the year.)

To reserve your place:

Please complete a registration form at:

www.wales.gov.uk/statistics

Amcanestyniadau Poblogaeth: Lawnsio

Ar 30 Mehefin, bydd Cyfarwyddiaeth Ystadegol Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru yn cyhoeddi amcanestyniadau poblogaeth ar gyfer 22 awdurdod unedol Cymru. Dyma'r tro cyntaf y bydd amcanestyniadau poblogaeth ar gael ar gyfer yr ardaloedd yma.

Mae amcanestyniadau poblogaeth yn rhoi darlun o boblogaeth y dyfodol ac maent wedi'u seilio ar dybiaethau yngl*n â genedigaethau, marwolaethau ac ymfudiad. Mae'r tybiaethau yma yn seiliedig ar dueddiadau diweddar.

Ble / pryd?

Canolfan Dylan Thomas yn Abertawe - Dydd Mawrth 8 Gorffennaf 2008 (10:00 hyd 3:00)
Canolfan Fusnes Conwy - Dydd Mercher 9 Gorffennaf 2008 (10:00 hyd 3:00)

Pwy ddylai fynychu?

Dylai unrhyw un sy'n cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol, darparu gwasanaethau a llunio pholisïau cynaliadwy ystyried y boblogaeth fesul oed a rhyw. Os ydych yn dymuno gwybod faint o bobl o ba oedran sy'n debygol o fod ymhob awdurdod dros y 25 mlynedd nesaf, neu os ydych yn dymuno cael braslun o'r amcanestyniadau a sut gellid eu defnyddio, yna mae'r gweithdy hwn yn addas ar eich cyfer chi.
Amlinelliad o'r diwrnod

Byddwn yn darparu trosolwg o'r dulliau a ddefnyddiwyd ar gyfer yr amcanestyniadau awdurdodau lleol:

Esbonio bydd yw amcanestyniadau poblogaeth,
Esbonio'r dull cydweithredol ar gyfer cynhyrchu'r amcanestyniadau
Trafod y prif ddarganfyddiadau,
Ystyried defnyddiau posib yr amcanestyniadau
Sesiwn cwestiwn ac ateb gyda'r tîm cynhyrchu, a
Grwpiau trafod i ddatblygu gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth o'r defnydd o amcanestyniadau yn eich gwaith.
(Bydd seminarau mwy technegol ar y fethodoleg, ac i'r rhai sy'n dymuno cynhyrchu amcanestyniadau eu hunain, yn cael eu cynnal yn hwyrach yn ystod y flwyddyn)
I drefnu'ch lle:

Cwblhewch y ffurflen gofrestru:

www.cymru.gov.uk/ystadegau

'The Ideal City' Conference

2008-06-13T06:02:00.000-07:00

The Ideal City - new perspectives for the 21st century
October 11-14 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.urbanicity.org/IdealCityAlert.htm

What is the Ideal City?
Amsterdam is known as the ideal city for the 21st Century when measured by
the standard of social justice, environmentalism, planning and design. We
are sponsoring a conference in beautiful Amsterdam (October 11 to 14) and a
scholarly book that will explore what is the ideal approach to housing, drug
laws, transportation, prostitution, environmentalism,crime, brown fields,
and urban design. Indeed, Amsterdam is a laboratory of innovation that
provides a model for the rest of the world. But we also believe that other
cities can also give us innovative, smart, bold and brash ideas as well. We
welcome a range of policy ideas from around the world to help improve the
human condition.

Conference themes

Social justice
Green planning and architecture

Biking and walking
Accessibility for the disabled and elderly

Crime
Health care

Ideal city in history
Socialist city

Is Amsterdam the ideal city?
Non-petroleum forms of transportation

Housing
Sustainability

Faith, race, and gender
Utopian visions

Sexual, political and personal freedom
Tolerance

Creative City
Integrating income, races, and faiths

Which world city is the ideal?

Call for Proposals

Research Papers - Completed research papers in any of the topic areas listed
above.

Abstracts - Abstracts of completed or proposed research in any of the topic
areas listed above, or related areas. The abstract for proposed research
should include the research objectives, proposed methodology, and a
discussion of expected outcomes.

Professionals in the field - Research done by professionals in any of the
topic areas listed above, or related areas.

Case Studies - Case studies in any of the topic areas listed above, or
related areas.

Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for Future Research - Incomplete
research or ideas for future research in order to generate discussion and
feedback in any of the topic areas listed above, or related areas.

Reports on Issues Related to Teaching - Reports related to innovative
instruction techniques or research related to teaching in any of the topic
areas listed above, or related areas.

Email your abstract and/or paper, along with a title page, to
jgilde02@sprynet.com. Decision of submissions will be acknowledged via email
within 48 hours.

Audience

Planners, architects, elected officials, policy makers, environmentalists,
along with college students and Professors concerned with what the "ideal
city" should look like.

Why Amsterdam for a conference on the ideal City?

Amsterdam is known as the "Venice of the North." Progressives have called
Amsterdam an ideal city when measured by the standard of social justice.
Holland has what many call a "radical," "progressive," "unique" and for some
a "sinful" approach to housing, drug laws, transportation, prostitution,
crime, brown fields, and urban design. The Netherlands has turned our
American urban policy and planning programs upside down and found innovative
ways to solve social problems. Many American visitors who come to Holland
come away shocked, amazed, impressed and changed forever. Holland is
controversial. Indeed, Amsterdam is a laboratory of innovation that provides
a national model for the rest of the world. It's a place where we can honor
their successes and learn from their errors in urban policy and planning.
Without a doubt, Holland is also the home of world class architecture that
is envied around the world.

The conference website and further information can be found at:
http://www.hollandnow.org/

Conference on Climate Change and Urban Design

2008-06-13T05:59:00.000-07:00

Final Reminder. Apologies for cross postings.

http://www.cityclimate.no/index.html

Following successful Congresses in Berlin 2005 and Leeds 2006,
the Council for European Urbanism – C.E.U. - will hold its third international congress in Oslo, Norway from the
14th to 16th September 2008.

The congress will discuss the rapidly-evolving topic of "Climate Change and Urban Design", and the latest implications in science, policy, education and best practice.

While our focus is on European place-making we will explore urban design examples from around the globe that offer opportunities to address critical climate change issues.

The four C.E.U. congress themes:

Climate Change and Science:
What we know

What is the scientific evidence for or against particular links between urban form and contributions of greenhouse gases? What are the interrelationships? What are the pitfalls in research, and in its application? Papers will survey previous literature and/or present new research. We will explore the implications for further inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional research.

Climate Change and Public Policy:
What we must do

What are the steps being taken to address the contribution of urban design on climate change through public policy, and how well are they succeeding? What steps are being taken to mitigate initial diseconomies, create new incentives, ease regulatory restrictions, and shift market behaviour? What new tools are available - codes, certifications, trading systems, incentives?

Climate Change and Education:
How we will disseminate the skills to do it

How should academic and other institutions respond to the climate change agenda? How should design schools respond to the challenge? What alternative curricula are implied or required? How can curriculum reforms tie this agenda to wider social and environmental challenges?

Climate Change and Best Practice
in Urban Design:
How we will implement it

What are the implications of climate change research for new standards of best practice? What does the evolving evidence suggest about the relative importance of such parameters as density, transit modes, mixed use, building height, social diversity, the relationship to agricultural lands and wilderness, and others? What about the relative benefits of retrofit versus new construction? How can best practice address issues of market acceptance and consumer choice? We will examine promising pilot projects from around the world, and evaluate their successes, weaknesses, and next steps in research and development.

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

2008-06-09T08:29:00.000-07:00

Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy

Editor-in-Chief: John C.H. Stillwell & Mark Birkin

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importance of geographical research in real world settings

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- The substantive foundation is spatial analysis: the use
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in the naming of the journal, establishes a unique position
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Paul M. Torrens

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Richard Harris and Ron Johnston

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Religion, politics and the postsecular city: conference annoucement

2008-06-04T05:59:00.001-07:00

Conference announcement

Religion, politics and the postsecular city

Groningen, The Netherlands, 12-15 November 2008

With support from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

Chairs:

Justin Beaumont, Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Arie L. Molendijk, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Confirmed speakers include:

James A. Beckford, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

Paul Cloke, Geography, University of Exeter, UK

Harvey G. Cox, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US

Kim Knott, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK

David Martin, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UK

Birgit Meyer, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Edward W. Soja, Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles, US

Theme:

Claims are increasingly made these days about the possibilities of religions in general and faith-based organizations (FBOs) in particular, for tackling social and political issues such as poverty, injustice, discrimination, and racism. The Economist recently devoted a special report to religion and public life across the globe. Combined with recent governments in the US and the UK revalorizing FBOs and “faith communities” in matters of social policy, urban regeneration and social cohesion in state-regulated urban policies, the European public sphere is dense with unresolved questions about the ways religions are imbricated in the social and political concerns of the day. Despite these developments contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies remain poorly understood. The conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to theorize the changing and mutually constitutive relations between religion, politics and urban societies in ways that transcend the urban as merely built environment and physical form. The primary focus is relations between the ascendancy of public religions, deprivatization of religions and theorizations of modernity and modernities to gain sense of the postsecular city, with the closely related and more empirically relevant role of FBOs in tackling social and political issues in across various cities today. International publications are envisaged from the event.

A number of seats are available for non-speaking participants and the closing date for registration is: 27 October 2008.

Registration fee which includes coffee/tea and conference materials: regular rate (€100), (PhD) student rate (€25)

For further information please contact Ms. M. Wubbolts (m.r.b.wubbolts@rug.nl)

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Room 3.10, Landleven 1

Faculty of Spatial Sciences

University of Groningen

The Netherlands

Tel: 00 31 50 363 6910/ 3895

Skype: justin9712

Web: www.rug.nl/staff/j.r.beaumont/index

International Conference: Religion, Politics and the Postsecular City, Groningen, 12-15 November 2008

EU-7FP FACIT project: Faith-based organizations and exclusion in European cities

Book Reviews Editor: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG)

Postdoctoral Scholarship: Space, the city and organization

2008-06-04T04:51:00.000-07:00

Posted on behalf of Dr. Timon Beyes, who is currently a visiting
Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Geography at Swansea University.

Postdoctoral Scholarship: Space, the city and organization

The Haniel Foundation (Germany), the University of St. Gallen
(Switzerland) and the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany) invite
applications to a 12 months-Postdoctoral program dedicated to “Space, the
city and organization”. The scholarship is scheduled for the academic year
of 2008/09, to start on October 1, 2008.

The last years brought a renaissance of “space” as conceptual and
analytical category as well as renewed attention to the spatiality of
human life. Viewing space as an ongoing area of activity, the city as
organizing platform is now (again) at the forefront of debate in the
social and human sciences.

Applicants for the Postdoctoral Scholarship must hold a PhD in the Social
Sciences or the Humanities and should have a number of publications in
either of these fields. The ideal candidate should have a strong
interdisciplinary interest in the issues outlined above. Furthermore, the
candidate would be a productive and independent person preparing for an
international academic career. The successful applicant will be based at
the University of St. Gallen’s Center for Social Enterprise. The duration
of the PostDoc-Scholarship is for a minimum of one year with the
posssibility for extension. The salary is 2500 EUR per month and also
covers travel expenses.

Furthermore, the prospective scholar will be involved in setting up a
seminar series at the universities in St. Gallen and Lueneburg, bringing
together an international group of leading researchers in the field of
spatial and urban theory to share their insights and ideas.
Interested candidates should electronically submit application documents
along with a brief outline of research interests – and the corresponding
research intentions as regards the scholarship – to Dr. Timon Beyes
(timon.beyes@unisg.ch). Please send pdf-files only. Applications must be
received no later than June 20, 2007.

Both Universities are committed to increase the number of women in science
and therefore encourage women to apply for this PostDoc position.

Dr Richard G. Smith,
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography,
Centre for Urban Theory,
Department of Geography,
School of Environment & Society
Swansea University,
Singleton Park,
Swansea,
SA28PP,
UK
Email: r.g.smith@swan.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)1792 602558
Fax: +44(0)1792 295955
Web Page:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrich
ardg/

Forthcoming Book, Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories:
http://www.routledgesociology.com/books/Jean-Baudrillard-isbn9780415464420

Forthcoming Event (welcoming Paper & Poster Submissions), UGRG Annual
Conference "Urban MultipliCITIES":
http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/

Urban Geography Research Group Annual Conference

2008-06-04T04:50:00.000-07:00

Urban Geography Research Group Annual Conference

6-7 November 2008
Queen Mary, University of London

Call for Contributions

Building on two earlier conferences - Paradigmatic Cities? and Approaching
the City - this year's UGRG conference aims to examine the multiplicities
of 'the urban'. Rather than the unitary object implied by the terms 'the
urban' or 'the city', multiple urbanisms are currently being called forth
by research that, for instance: challenges conventional representations
and hierarchies of cities; 'parochialises' cities of 'the North'; develops
research into 'ordinary cities'; uncovers/explores diverse ways of
inhabiting urban space; re-examines urban histories; or employs inventive
methods of investigating urban experiences.

Urban MultipliCITIES aims to bring some of these proliferating fields into
creative contact, and we are seeking contributions from a wide range of
urban research that reflect the rich variety of work being undertaken in
the field. Topics and methodologies might include (but are in no way
restricted to):

* gender and sexuality
* methods: e.g. visual, aural, tactile, oral, performative, participatory
* non-'Western' urban experiences
* poetics and politics of urban imaginaries
* post-coloniality
* regeneration projects and everyday life
* socio-technical materialities
* suburban studies
* practice, activism and politics

Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations,
shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We
hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that
engage with Urban Multiplicities - in research, methods or practice.
Papers are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of
their careers, but the Poster Session is specifically designed for
postgraduates.

If you would like to contribute a PAPER or a POSTER, contact Margo Huxley
at M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk or Richard Smith at R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk

Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is Friday 19 September 2008

Dr Richard G. Smith,

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography,

Centre for Urban Theory,

Department of Geography,

School of Environment & Society

Swansea University,

Singleton Park,

Swansea,

SA28PP,

UK

Email: r.g.smith@swan.ac.uk

Tel: +44(0)1792 602558

Fax: +44(0)1792 295955

Web Page:

http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrich
ardg/

Forthcoming Book, Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories:

http://www.routledgesociology.com/books/Jean-Baudrillard-isbn9780415464420

Forthcoming Event (welcoming Paper & Poster Submissions), UGRG Annual
Conference "Urban MultipliCITIES":

http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/

Regen Seminar Glasgow

2008-06-04T04:46:00.001-07:00

Seminar on regeneration that may be of interest to you....

DEPARTMENT of URBAN STUDIES

Seminar Series: May-June 2008

New Approaches to Regeneration in Scotland and England: Single Outcome
Agreements and Local Area Agreements in Comparative Perspective

Alisdair McIntosh (Housing and Regeneration Directorate, Scottish
Government)
Helen Sullivan (Cities Research Centre, University West of England)

Friday, 13 June 2008 2.00-4.30 p.m.
Room T316, Adam Smith Building

Abstract

The last five years have seen enormous changes to the way regeneration is
done at the neighbourhood level across the UK. The end of intensive
area-based initiatives and the development of local-authority wide and
Single Outcome Agreements/ Local Area Agreements within the context of
strategic partnerships raise important questions as to how regeneration is
carried out. This seminar seeks to reflect on experience thus far:
particularly the lessons from the Regeneration Outcome Agreements developed
for community regeneration activity in Scotland as well as the first round
of Single Outcome Agreements submitted to the Scottish Government in spring
2008. The seminar will also consider experience from England, especially of
LSPs and Local Area Agreements. Key questions for debate and discussion
include:-
. The nature and development of governance relationships between
national government, local authorities, and localities.
. The role of partnerships and local authorities within governance as
the role and existence of QUANGOs and executive agencies is changing
. The emphasis placed on the fortunes of deprived communities within
new government performance frameworks.

For further details of this Seminar (including final confirmation) please
contact Betty Johnstone (b.johnstone@lbss.gla.ac.uk) on 330 4121. After the
Seminar, refreshments will be served in Coffee Area of 25 Bute Gardens.

POLICY & POLITICS: CALL FOR "THEMED SECTION" PROPOSALS

2008-06-04T04:43:00.001-07:00

+++ Apologies for cross-posting +++

POLICY & POLITICS

CALL FOR "THEMED SECTION" PROPOSALS

Deadline: 30 June 2008

Policy & Politics is a leading international and multi-disciplinary journal
analysing the theory, origins and impact of public policy. The journal
focuses on topical issues that cut across a wide range of policy areas
including governance and democracy, state and civil society, globalisation
and internationalisation, policy making and implementation.

We are currently inviting proposals to form a 'themed section' within the
journal. We are planning to publish 4 to 5 related papers with a short
editorial by a guest editor. Likely publication date will be either October
2009 or January 2010. Proposals should contain a name and affiliation of
the guest editor; a title for the themed section; a brief description of
the theme including its topicality and originality; and titles and
(confirmed) author names of the papers.

The deadline of the proposals is 30 June 2008. For further details, please
contact the editor, Misa Izuhara (M.Izuhara@bristol.ac.uk), Policy &
Politics

Regeneration and Wellbeing

2008-05-19T04:20:00.000-07:00

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/bcid/research/Regeneration/

Jobs needed for 'sick' Britain

2008-05-19T04:19:00.001-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7402810.stm

THE SOCIAL SITUATEDNESS OF ENTERPRISE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AN ERA OF PEAK OIL AND CLIMATE CHANGE

2008-05-19T04:06:00.000-07:00

THE SOCIAL SITUATEDNESS OF ENTERPRISE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN AN ERA OF PEAK OIL AND CLIMATE CHANGE

June 5th 2008 Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool

Part of the ESRC funded seminar series

There are still places available for this seminar

The seminar looks at the social situatedness of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the context of local economic development in an era of peak oil and climate change. In the first part of the day we consider how the role of enterprise is understood and invited speakers include Rob Blackburn (Kingston), Denise Fletcher (Sheffield), Sue Baines (Manchester Metropolitan) and Andre Spicer (Warwick), who will provoke thought and discussion in this field. The previous work of speakers has been to critically consider the economic, social, cultural and political contexts of enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Seminar Schedule

9.30 – 10.00 Arrival and Registration. Tea and Coffee will be available

10.00 – 10.10 Introduction and Welcome from Peter North

Part I: The concepts of enterprise and entrepreneurialism in today’s environment (Chaired by Alan Southern)

10.10 – 10.55 Robert Blackburn on how enterprise is understood in the context of the local

10.55 – 11.40 Andre Spicer on understanding entrepreneurialism through rigorous critique

11.40 – 11.55 Coffee

11.55 – 12.45 Sue Baines on how enterprise is understood through the lens of the family

12.45 – 1.30 Denise Fletcher on social constructivism and entrepreneurialism

1.30 – 2.00 Lunch

The second part of the seminar turns specifically to consider the behaviour of entrepreneurs and the context for small enterprise in the context of major environmental worries. Speakers during this part of the day include Sarah Longlands (Centre for Local Economic Strategies) on local economic strategies and the green agenda, Will Williams (Natural Northwest) on the economic benefits for enterprises from a green agenda, Erik Bichard (University of Salford) on incorporating sustainability into planning by enterprises and Simon Snowden (University of Liverpool) who looks at private enterprise oil vulnerability and auditing.

Part II: Enterprise and making things happen in an are of peak oil and climate change (Chaired by Irene Hardill)

2.00 – 3.00 The four panel members will present their ideas about the practicalities facing small enterprise in an era of peak oil and climate change and what role enterprise and entrepreneurialism has in this period.

3.00 – 4.00 Seminar debate with questions from the floor and answers from the panel

This part of the day is designed to be interactive and to engage the audience in taking forward the debate on enterprise, entrepreneurship and local economic development in an era of peak oil and climate change.

4.00 – 4.15 Afternoon Tea

4.15 – 4.30 Summary and Next Steps by Peter North

Further details on the seminar series can be found at:

www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/ESRC-funded_seminar_series.htm

To book a place contact Alan Southern at: Alan.Southern@liverpool.ac.uk or telephone +44(0)151 795 3820

A limited number of bursaries are available for research students and contract researchers.

For more information see the website at the address above or contact Alan Southern.

Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice

2008-05-19T03:46:00.001-07:00

Visuality/Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice

An international conference to be held in London 15th-17th July, 2009

Organizers: Professor Gillian Rose and Dr. Divya P. Tolia-Kelly

This conference takes as its starting point the apparent exhaustion in much critical theory of the term 'representation' as a means of grasping the effect of the visual in contemporary times (although, in contrast, ‘representation’ remains a key driver in advertising, geopolitical policy and military practice). Conventionally, critical interpretation has concerned itself with the meaning of images by situating their connections to broader discursive formations, but for many this is now a reductive analytical schema. There are suggestions that these approaches have become formulaic; that they ignore the physical materiality and political and cultural power of visual imagery and visualities; and that this approach can reinstate the power structures it intends to critique. The aim of the conference is to consider where representation and the need for a new interpretive paradigm may coalesce/intersect.

Visuality/Materiality attends to the relationship between the visual and the material as a way of approaching both the meaning of visual and its other aspects. The image as sign, metaphor, aesthetics and text has long dominated the realm of visual theory. But the material role of visual praxis in everyday landscapes of seeing has been an emergent area of visual research; visual design, urban visual practice, visual grammars and vocabularies of domestic spaces, including the formation and structuring of social practices of living and political being, are critical to 21st century networks of living. The relationship between Visuality/ Materiality here is about social meaning and practice; where identity, power, space, and geometries of seeing are approached here through a grounded approach to material technologies, design and visual research, everyday embodied seeing, labour, ethics and utility.

This conference is aimed at providing a dialogic space where the nature and role of a visual theory can be evaluated, in light of materiality, practice, affect, performativity; and where the methodological encounter informs our intellectual critique. One strand will invite sustained engagements with the theoretical trajectories of the ‘material turn’, the 'emotional/affective turn' and the 'practical turn' away from the 'cultural turn'. Where are these turns taking us, exactly? What are we leaving behind when we turn, and does that matter? The organisers are also keen to encourage contributions based on research experience and practice into specific aspects of visuality and visual critique including:

· What is the relationship between the material and the visual?

· How do we develop new theoretical approaches to new visual practices?

· What can we learn from everyday visualities?

· How can we approach the ethical through visual practices?

· How valuable are theories of materiality, performance, embodiment in research on the visual?

We welcome participation from all disciplines and from varying research approaches. To participate in the conference please send a 200 word abstract before December 1st 2008, to: Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk

The two-day conference fee will be approximately £180 (waged) /£85 (students).

All details will be updated on the conference web site: http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality

Conference organisers: Professor Gillian Rose (Geography, Open University)

Dr Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (Geography, Durham University)

Organising committee: Dr Paul Basu (Anthropology, University of Sussex)

Professor David Campbell (Geography, Durham University)

Professor Nick Couldry (Media and Communications, Goldsmith’s)

Dr Stefano Cracolici (Modern Languages, Durham University)

Dr Mike Crang (Geography, Durham University)

Professor Elizabeth Edwards (University of the Arts)

Dr Ruth Fazakerley (Visual artist, Adelaide)

Dr Paul Frosh (Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University)

Professor Marie Gillespie (Sociology, Open University)

Dr Agnieszka Golda (Visual Arts, Wollongong)

Professor Christopher Pinney (Anthropology, UCL)

Dr Michael Pryke (Geography, Open University)

Dr Nirmal Puwar (Sociology, Goldsmith’s)

Dr Mimi Sheller (Sociology, Swarthmore College)

Dr Marquard Smith (Art and Design, Kingston University)

Niki Sperou (Visual Artist, Adelaide)

Professor Teal Triggs (University of the Arts)

Dr. D.P. Tolia-Kelly

Rm 412, West Building

South Road, Durham,

Co. Durham

DH1 3LE

Telephone: +44(0) 191 334 1819

Fax: +44 (0) 191 334 1801

Email: divya.tolia-kelly@durham

Lived and Material Cultures Research Cluster (Convenor):

http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/clusters/lmc

Arts and Humanities Research Council Award:

http://www.durham.ac.uk/roman.centre/hadrianswall

Visuality/Materiality, London, 2009:

http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/visualitymateriality

S P U R: Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute: Annual Lecture

2008-05-19T03:44:00.000-07:00

London South Bank University
S P U R: Social Policy and Urban Regeneration Research Institute

A N N U A L L E C T U R E

You are cordially invited to SPUR's Second Annual Lecture

"(Dis)allowing intimacy: Negotiating multiplicity in transnational families"
by
Professor Ann Phoenix (Co-Director of Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education)

Date: Wednesday 25th June 2008
Time: 6.30pm (Reception at 5.30pm)
Venue: Keyworth Centre, London South Bank University
(Keyworth Street, off Borough Road)

RSVP: Beverley Goring, goringbl@lsbu.ac.uk

Dr Beverley Goring
Senior Research Administrator
SPUR Research Institute
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
London South Bank University,
103 Borough Road
London SE1 0AA
Telephone 020 7815 5796
www.lsbu.ac.uk/ahs/spur

BISA working group on historical sociology and Manchester Centre for International Politics

2008-05-19T03:41:00.000-07:00

BISA working group on historical sociology and Manchester Centre for
International Politics

One day workshop: 'The historical sociology of domination and resistance'
Centre for International Politics, Manchester University Wednesday September
11th 2008

This workshop builds on long-standing work in historical sociology which
focuses on processes of domination and resistance - and it asks what an
international perspective can add to that work. Since the publication of
Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy some forty
years ago, much research in historical sociology has centred on diverse
forms of rulership and how these are challenged, successfully or otherwise,
by forms of collective action. Yet Barrington Moore was famously criticized
for failing to theorise the international side of the struggles which he
analysed. As such, this workshop aims to interrogate both past and
contemporary processes of continuity and change, with special reference to:

- ways of conceptualising and interrogating modes of domination and
hierarchy in world politics;
- the role played in challenging forms of domination by diverse forms of
resistance such as social movements, revolutionary groups and other such actors;
- how relations of domination and resistance have intersected in ways that
challenge us to develop the international side of the historical
sociological imagination.

Workshop attendance is free, but places are limited. Thanks to a recent
award from BISA, travel expenses will be provided for research students and
paper givers. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided on the day itself.

Those interested in presenting papers should send abstracts to George Lawson
(g.lawson@lse.ac.uk ) Stuart Shields (Stuart.Shields@manchester.ac.uk) and
Justin Rosenberg (j.p.rosenberg@sussex.ac.uk) by August 11th 2008.

Those who want to register for the workshop should email the three
organisers as soon as possible

Planum Newsletter - Special News - May 2008

2008-05-08T04:09:00.001-07:00

Planum Newsletter - Special News - May 2008

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Update from Planners Network UK

2008-05-08T03:37:00.001-07:00

Dear PNUK members,

I thought you might like a report back on the event in London recently concerning the Olympics and its planning. The event was really successful on a number of levels – we had about 40 people come on Thursday evening, and about 20 for the longer meeting on Friday. Many were local residents. Iain Sinclair gave a really wonderful and insightful talk about life in the East End, and he was followed by Bill Parry-Davies from OPEN Dalston about large development pressures and disastrous planning messes currently underway in Dalston and Shoreditch. If anyone is keen to be further educated on the potentially harmful effects for local people and environments of holding an Olympics event, then watch the film The Five Ring Circus – an excellent documentary on a series of disasters currently unfolding in Vancouver and its region. Highly recommended.

On Friday we explored a whole range of planning-related issues concerning Olympics developments, the process that has been undertaken to date, the extent to which local people have been able to find a way to have a voice in those processes, and the various challenges they have faced. PNUK members were able to give some feedback on more general aspects of the planning system, its various guises and the changes afoot. Games Monitor representatives felt this was helpful. At the end of Friday, we constructed a list of ideas that might be useful in continuing work in this area. This was simply a brainstorming, rather than a definitive strategy, but there is much that PNUK could do not just on this particular issue of the Olympics but more widely. Here’s a summary of things I thought had particular resonance for a network like PNUK (they aren’t my ideas, they came from a variety of participants):
remind planners (ourselves?) that they’re citizens too. Get planners walking in the neighbourhoods they plan for.
can anybody do something with maps/graphics to show what is coming for the East End if all development plans for towers go ahead, eg show (graphically) the 2012 skyline with its fringe of towers? See skyscrapercity.com
make available some guidance (brief) on how to go about fighting against bad development plans, ways to object and have a say, language to use within the ‘industry’ of development planning. Also, keep a website (pnuk?) up to date on the changing planning system, new threats and opportunities and information that would help local groups
Run a series of seminars on how to fight against bad development, activist-led seminars on how to get through the planning process – hold them on different sites, estates etc to inform people.
more clearly articulate what we are trying to do. PNUK to create a research project and develop an alternative for planning. Provide analysis/data/depth of argument that can give weight to local groups who are trying to develop alternatives for development.

Two additional things emerged:
1. Bill Parry-Davies and the OPEN Dalston/Shoreditch groups are looking for some help to develop alternative plans for their centres and additional specific sites. One of the central concerns we discussed at both events was the importance of having an alternative to present rather than just relying on objections/submissions. The latter is seen as a particularly futile and counter-productive activity and there is considerable interest in developing alternative ‘community’ plans (for want of a better word). If anyone can provide any help at all specifically to OPEN Dalston/OPEN Shoreditch, please be in contact with Bill – his email is: bpd@dowse.co.uk. The OPEN groups have websites, see: http://opendalston.blogspot.com/ and http://open-shoreditch.blogspot.com/
2. Games Monitor are interested in pursing some project work but of course can’t do it themselves because they lack institutional support, funding, access to networks etc. Here’s a way that PNUK members, particularly those based in Universities, might be productively involved. Julian Cheyne (of Games Monitor) and I are currently putting together some thoughts on what the project might look like but will be based around attempting to assess the impact of the Olympics developments, as well as developing alternative models of urban change for the East End.

Anyone interested in any of these, or with helpful comments, ideas, contacts, resources etc. do please get in touch with either me, or Bill Parry-Davies, or just write to the list and share ideas.

By the way, a full report of the London event is now on the website, which you can read at your leisure. You will also find there some other new bits – in particular some papers from the roundtable PNUK hosted at the Planning Research Conference held in Belfast earlier this year. We hope to continue hosting roundtables at conference events in the future as it proved a useful forum for discussion. Be in contact if you’re keen to participate or can organise one.

Libby

Dr Libby Porter
Lecturer in Spatial Planning
Department of Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS
Phone: 0141 330 3664
Email: l.porter@lbss.gla.ac.uk

Interested in progressive planning? Check out Planners Network UK www.pnuk.org.uk

The University of Glasgow is a registered charity, reference SC004401

Ideal City: Conference and Workshop in Amsterdam October 10-14 Register Now

2008-05-08T03:32:00.001-07:00

Ideal City: Conference and Workshop in Amsterdam October 10-14 Register Now

We are doing a conference and workshop: The Ideal City: Amsterdam Conference October 11-14. We are looking for conference papers to be given for a edited book / journal (Sustain). In addition, we have arranged for numerous workshops throughout Amsterdamand Rotterdam on social policy, transportation, housing, green urbanism and tolerance in the Netherlands. We hope our colleagues from Urban Geography will join us and present papers on the "ideal city." Please visit our link for early discount registration:

http://www.hollandnow.org

Dr. John I. Gilderbloom
Conference Coordinator--Ideal City
Louisville, Kentucky
502-582-0024 / jgilde02@sprynet.com

New: MSc Geography, Policy, and Practice, Cardiff University.

2008-05-08T03:27:00.000-07:00

MSc Geography, Policy, and Practice, Cardiff University.

The School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University is pleased to
announce that a new MSc is available in Geography, Policy, and Practice
for 2008/9 entry. There are also up to five £1000 bursaries available for
students enrolling on this degree before 30th May.

The MSc in Geography, Policy, and Practice offers a unique opportunity to
study human geography at postgraduate level in a context intimately
connected to current policy developments and informed by contemporary
critical theory.

It capitalises on the distinctive capacities of the School of City and
Regional Planning as a leading centre of expertise in research and
teaching in both human geography and spatial policy. The school’s staff
and students are actively engaged in geographically-related policy
development for a range of governmental, corporate, and voluntary bodies,
as well as critically investigating broader forms of political and civil
society activity.

The degree will develop an integrated and critically aware understanding
of geography, policy and practice. It offers:

• the advanced study of geography as an academic discipline and the
changing external context with which it engages;
• preparation for and/or development of a career in business, local
government, academia, or broader civil society with a critical
understanding of geography and its relationship with policy
• development of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of
geography to complex issues to improve the functioning of policy and
practices within society.
• enhancement of lifelong learning skills and personal development
so students can strengthen their ability to work with self-direction and
originality and to contribute to geography, policy, and society at large.

Further details of the degree scheme can be found at School’s homepage
http://www.cf.ac.uk/cplan/ or by contacting the Course Director, Dr Jon
Anderson, Email: andersonj@cardiff.ac.uk Tel: (44) 02920 875308.

Deadline for bursary applications is 30th May, 2008.

Dr Jon Anderson

Course Director MSc Geography, Policy, and Practice
Email: AndersonJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Tel: 02920 875308
School of City and Regional Planning,
Cardiff University,
2.71 Glamorgan Building,
King Edward VII Avenue,
Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
CF10 3WA.

ESF-LiU Conference on THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW ISSUES

2008-05-01T06:00:00.000-07:00

Conference Announcement:

ESF-LiU Conference on THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: NEW CHALLENGES, NEW ISSUES

Dates: 11-15 October 2008

Location: Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden

Programme and applications: accessible online at www.esf.org/conferences/08264

Chair: Professor Bernard Jouve, Universite de Lyon, FR
Co-chair: Dr. Mark Purcell, University of Washington, US

Deadline for applications: 6 June 2008

Grants: some grants are available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and travel
costs.

Further information: www.esf.org/conferences/08264 or Ms. Anne Blondeel-Oman (ablondeel@esf.org)

Health and society events - Cardiff University

2008-04-30T03:11:00.000-07:00

The usual H&S meeting will be replaced this month by the Third Julian Tudor-Hart Lecture.

See details below

Lecture which will be given by Professor George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology,
University of Bristol. The lecture is entitled 'Chance, choice and collective risk: why we need more
impersonal medicine'

Date: Wednesday 14th May 2008
Time: 5:30pm for wine reception, 6:00pm for lecture
Venue: Committee Rooms, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University

Lecture Summary:
Epidemiologists (among others) have successfully identified some modifiable risk factors for
disease, but
there has been dissatisfaction regarding the ability to accurately characterise the prognosis or
risk status of
individuals. The apparent promise of personalised medicine, particularly when based on
pharmacogenomics,
offers to transform practice in this regard. This lecture will suggest that this is fundamentally
misguided, given
that we can only truly understand group- level, rather than individual- level, risk. Evidence from
behavioural
genetics, epidemiology, developmental science and detective novels will be mobilised to support
this position.
The lecture will conclude that, far from needing more personalised medicine, ensuring that those
who could
benefit (impersonally) from effective treatments receive them is the major task for any effective
and equitable
health service today.

For more information and a booking form (if you 've not booked already) please contact Lorelei
Simon at CISHE on the details below.
Tel: 029 2087 9609
Email: CISHE@cardiff.ac.uk
or through the website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe

The following research group meeting will be on June 11th at 4pm in Room -1.72 in the Glamorgan
Building. We are happy to welcome two speakers:

Professor Marcus A. Doel (Head of the School of the Environment and
Society, Swansea University)
Professor Frances Rapport (Head of the Qualitative Research Unit,
School of Medicine, Swansea University)

The title of their presentation is:

"Bio-photographic study of community pharmacy workspace and practice"

Drinks and nibbles to follow.

Many thanks

Eva Elliott
(Convenor of the Health and Society Research Group)

Eva Elliott

RCUK Academic Fellow
Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics
School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff University
53 Park Place
Cardiff
UK
CF10 3AT

Tel: 029 2087 9138

E-mail: elliotte@cf.ac.uk

CISHE website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
WHIASU website: www.whiasu.wales.nhs.uk

MANCHESTER, MAY 15TH 'ECONOMY, NATURE, SPACE'

2008-04-29T07:45:00.000-07:00

MANCHESTER, MAY 15TH 'ECONOMY, NATURE, SPACE'

The full programme is now available for the RGS-IBG Economic
Geography Research Group Annual Symposium on Thursday May 15th. See
http://www.egrg.org.uk/symposium2008.html

Highlights include:

Professor Richard Walker, University of California-Berkeley
--The Chinese Road to Capitalism--

Dr Marcus Power, University of Durham
--New African Choices? The economics and geopolitics of Chinese
engagement with African development--

Dr Daniel Buck, University of Oxford
--The Ecology Question--

Professor Diana Liverman, University of Oxford
--Offsets in the carbon economy--

Professor David Gibbs, University of Hull
--Prospects for an Environmental Economic Geography--

Professor Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester
--Impossible/Undesirable Sustainability and the post-political condition--

The event is open to all. Please circulate widely. To help us plan
numbers, pls register by sending a simple e-mail to Jason Beery
(jason.beery@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk). We should note that the
EGRG has introduced a registration fee of £25 for the Annual
Symposium, payable by those who draw a salary. This can be paid in
advance (by mailing a cheque, payable to EGRG, to the organisers at
the address below) or in person on the 15th.

ON WEDNESDAY 14TH, the EGRG will be holding its annual
Post-Graduate Symposium. We now have an excellent line up of
post-graduate papers (details to be posted on the EGRG website
shortly). This is also an open event - for which there is no charge
- and we look forward to welcoming you. If you intend to come for both
the 14th and 15th, let us know if you would like to receive
information on nearby accommodation.

Gavin Bridge and Jason Beery

School of Environment and Development

University of Manchester

Manchester

M13 9PL

ESRC SEMINAR SERIES: GENTRIFICATION AND SOCIAL MIX

2008-04-29T07:35:00.001-07:00

ESRC SEMINAR SERIES
GENTRIFICATION AND SOCIAL MIX
2008-2009

Organisers: Tim Butler and Loretta Lees (King's College London); Gary
Bridge and Tom Slater (University of Bristol)

Brief Description:

'Social mix' has long been a planning/policy objective, and a sign of a
healthy, liveable urban area, but the concept has recently come under fire
from academics researching gentrification, especially for being too
one-sided - it is mostly in low-income and/or working-class neighbourhoods
where social mix is to be achieved through an influx of wealthier and/or
middle-class residents. Very rarely is social mix planned for wealthier
neighbourhoods, which raises questions about the motivations and the
politics behind the concept. Furthermore, what kind of social mixing
actually takes place in gentrifying neighbourhoods? Despite a significant
amount of research taking place that addresses these issues, there has been
no organised debate/interaction between researchers and practitioners, and
this seminar series proposes to bring people together to discuss these
issues in depth.

THE 2008 SEMINARS:

SEMINAR 1 (King's College London) MAY 22ND AND 23RD 2008

CHAIR:
Loretta Lees (King's College London)

PAPERS:
Jonny Aspen (Oslo University)
Paul Cheshire (London School of Economics)
Eric Clark (Lund University)
Mark Davidson (University of Western Sydney)
Chris Hamnett (King's College London)
Mike Savage (University of Manchester)

DISCUSSANTS:
Clare Colomb (Bartlett, University College London)
Kirsteen Paton (University of Glasgow)

SEMINAR 2 (University of Bristol) SEPTEMBER 25TH AND 26TH 2008

CHAIR:
Gary Bridge (University of Bristol)

PAPERS:
Marie-Helene Bacque (Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne)
Edmond Preteceille (Sciences Po, Paris)
Damaris Rose (INRS, University of Quebec)
Kate Shaw (University of Melbourne)
Justus Uitermark (University of Amsterdam)
Matthieu van Criekingen (Free University, Brussels)

DISCUSSANTS:
David Webb (University of Newcastle)
TBA

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Dr. Tom Slater
Centre for Urban Studies,
University of Bristol,
8 Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TZ
U.K.

Tel: +44 (0)117 331 0808
Fax: +44 (0)117 954 6756

http://www.bris.ac.uk/sps/research/cus/staff/slater.shtml
http://members.lycos.co.uk/gentrification

SOCSI SOCIAL THEORY SYMPOSIUM - Cardiff University

2008-04-29T07:26:00.000-07:00

SOCSI SOCIAL THEORY SYMPOSIUM

Thursday, May 15th , 2008

Schedule

10.15 a.m. Welcome

Session One : 10.30 a.m. – 11.15 a.m.

Actors' and Analysts' Categories and the Politics of Sociological Research
Professor Harry Collins

11.15 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Q/A

Session Two : 11.30 a.m. – 12.15 p.m.

The Future of Morality
Professor Ralph Fevre

12.15 p.m. – 12.30 p.m. Q/A

12.30 p.m. – 1.30 p.m. Break

Session Three: 1.30 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.

Subjectivity
Professor Valerie Walkerdine

2.15 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Q/A

Session Four: 2.30 p.m. – 3.15 p.m.

Time for Social Theory
Professor Barbara Adam

3.15 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Q/A

3.35 p.m. CLOSE

Council Chamber, Glamorgan Building, CarDIFF SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Queries: HousleyW@Cardiff.ac.uk

Fears for 290 tinplate plant jobs

2008-04-18T05:50:00.000-07:00

See report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7354189.stm

Planum Newsletter - Special News - April 2008

2008-04-16T10:56:00.001-07:00

Planum Newsletter - Special News - April 2008

Planum is the online magazine and international network dedicated to
territorial planning, urban development and architecture.

1. Journals, Conferences, Workshops and Exhibitions
2. Deadline reminder
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1. JOURNALS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOP and EXHIBITIONS

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World Architecture Community
A Free Database And Forum Of World Architecture

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1051

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Urban_women - International listserve
International listserve

In English and French

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1029

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The challenge of landscape in metropolitan areas
Papers journal
Revista Papers num 47

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1050

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Passenger Terminal Expo 2008
“…best in the business!”

April 15 - 17, 2008
Amsterdam RAI The Netherlands
Netherlands

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=984

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Cultural Development:An Opportunity for territorial planning?
International conference

April 17-18, 2008
University of Nîmes, France

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1030

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Il nuovo piano
XXVI Congresso INU

Aprile 17-19, 2008
Ancona, Italy

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1012

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Città Territorio Festival
Vivere la città, abitare il territorio

Aprile 17- 20, 2008
Ferrara, Italy

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1060

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Post-it cities - Barcelona
Exhibition

March 13, to May 25 ,2008
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1028

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Planning for the Carbon Neutral World: Challenges for Cities and Regions
Transportation Workshop

May 15 -18, 2008
Salzburg at Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1016

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From Research to Industry and Markets
16th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition

June 02-06, 2008
Feria Valencia, Spain

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=952

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ZukunftsWerkStadt Leinefelde
International Study Visit

June 8- 13, 2008

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1022

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Culture meets economy
International Conference on Culture and Economy

June 11-12, 2008
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1037

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Lasa 2009
XXVIII International Congress

June 11 – 14, 2009
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1049

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Liveable and Vibrant Cities
World Cities Summit

June 23-25, 2008
Singapore, Asia

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1054

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Regenerating Urban Core
Urban Planning and Design Summer School 2008

August 11-23, 2008
in Helsinky, Turku and Jyvaskyla

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1004

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Public Participation and Corporate Social Responsibility: from why to how
International Conference - IAP2

August 27-29, 2008
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1036

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Building - Designing - Thinking - International Alvar Aalto Meeting in
Finland

3rd International Alvar Aalto Meeting on Modern Architecture

August 30-31, 2008
Jyväskylä, Finland

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=987

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Urban Water Conference 2008
International Conference on
Water and Urban Development Paradigms

September 15-19, 2008
Leuven, Belgium

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=973

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The Sustainable City 2008 - Greece
Fifth International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability

September 24-26, 2008
Skiathos, Greece

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1011

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2. DEADLINE REMINDER

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Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008
Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens

Call for media-creatives

April 15, 2008: Deadline for submission

October / November 2008
Berlin, Germany

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1048

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White House Redux - International Competition

Call for Ideas

April 20, 2008: Registration and submissions deadline

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1056

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Expressive and Instrumental Values in Economic and Sociological Perspectives
Arts, Culture and Public Sphere

November 4-8 ,2008
Venice, Italy

April 28, 2008: Deadline for receipt of abstracts

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1023

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Design Cinema 2008
3rd International Design and Cinema Conference ‘Design-en-scène’

November 19-22, 2008
Istanbul, Turkey

April 30, 2008: Notification of accepted abstracts

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1057

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Planning Regeneration and the Environment Track
Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference

7-10 July 2008
Dundee University, UK

Submission of proposals deadline: May 1, 2008

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1063

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The postsecular city
Call for papers

December 17-20, 2008
Tokyo, Japan

May 15, 2008: Abstract deadline

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1046

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Nordic Urban and Housing Research Seminar
Towards sustainability in urban transformation, governance cultures
and housing policies

September 21-23, 2008
Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland

Submit the abstract of your seminar paper by May 20, 2008

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1058

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World Habitat Awards 2008
Competition

June 1, 2008: Deadline for submission

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1044

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The Town Planning Review centenary
Call for papers

September 30, 2008: Deadline for submission

For more information:
http://www.planum.net/Nnews/detailNews.php?ID=1045

Methods Workshop: Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments

2008-04-16T10:51:00.002-07:00

Methods Workshop: Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments

Date: 8 May 2008, 3-5pm
Location: University of Manchester
Organised by: Real Life Methods, part of the National Centre for Research
Methods

Registration is now open for this seminar looking at how different
methodological approaches to the study of social relations in urban
environments affect research design, practice and findings.

Three speakers each give a brief introduction to the methodological
approaches they have used to research this topic and the issues and
challenges raised as a result. Followed by discussion from all
participants.

Speakers:

* Mags Adams (University of Salford)
'Sensory Urbanism: sensewalking as a methodological device'

* Roger Burrows (University of York)
'Life in Coded Spaces?'

* Andrew Clark (Real Life Methods, University of Leeds)
'Understanding community through mobile interviews and participatory
mapping'

Places are going quickly, so early booking is advised.

More details and registration:
http://www.reallifemethods.ac.uk/events/workshops/urban/

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Real Life Methods
Sociology, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13
9PL

Web: www.reallifemethods.ac.uk
Phone: 0161 275 0265
Email: reallifemethods@manchester.ac.uk

Sustainable ‘sites of association’? Conflict and consensus in a learning space

2008-04-16T10:51:00.001-07:00

Sustainable ‘sites of association’? Conflict and consensus in a learning space

As part of the research seminar series in Planning and Sustainability,
Lorraine Allibone and Dr Andy King from the School of Social Science of
Kingston University London will present “Sustainable ‘sites of
association’? Conflict and consensus in a learning space”.

The seminar will take place on the 21 April at 5 pm in the C-SCAIPE
Debating Chamber.

Coffee will be available on arrival from 5pm.

Venue
C-SCAIPE
Kingston University School of Surveying
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

For further details:
e-mail: Dr Silvia Gullino s.gullino@kingston.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)208 547 7047

Conference in Liverpool - July 2008

2008-04-11T04:30:00.001-07:00

details (see link below) of a conference giving a critical look at the
impacts of regeneration etc in the 'Capital of Culture' 2-4 July 08
(The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to the beginning of May)
http://www.liv.ac.uk/ssp/conference/Liverpool_Con_Flyer_2.pdf

New titles from the Policy Press

2008-04-10T01:38:00.000-07:00

'Promoting children's wellbeing' is the second title in our exciting new
series, Working Together for Children. Edited by Janet Collins and Pam
Foley, this attractive and accessible textbook analyses and examines the
policies, services and practice skills needed for collaborative, effective
and equitable work with children. For more information please see:
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Don't forget that the first title in the series, 'Connecting with children'
is also available. The final title in the series 'Changing children's
services' is due out in July.

'Rethinking professional governance', edited by Ellen Kuhlmann and
Mike Saks, opens up new perspectives in health policy debate, examining the
emerging international trends in the governance of health professions and
the significance of national contexts for the changing health workforce.
Please see:
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For more information on all of our titles, along with news and special
offers, please visit: https://www.policypress.org.uk

Policy Press titles can also be ordered from:

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P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.

“Can > Planning Deliver? Planning for health and social infrastructure” - Free Seminar

2008-04-09T08:17:00.000-07:00

> NHS London Healthy Urban Development Unit (HUDU) is holding a free
> all day event for health and planning professionals entitled “Can
> Planning Deliver? Planning for health and social infrastructure”
> on Wednesday 14 May 2008 in Central London.
>
>
>
> There are less than 100 places available, so you are advised to
> book your place as soon as possible.

See:

http://www.healthyurbandevelopment.nhs.uk/

Urban MultipliCITIES: Conference, London, 6-7 November 2008, RGS-IBG UGRG

2008-04-08T03:46:00.000-07:00

Urban MultipliCITIES

A two-day conference and open discussion
organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group
Preliminary Call for Contributions

Dates: 6-7 November 2008
Location: Queen Mary University of London

Building on two earlier conferences, Paradigmatic Cities and Approaching the
City, this year's UGRG conference aims to examine the multiplicities of 'the
urban'. Rather than the unitary object implied by the terms 'the urban' or
'the city', multiple urbanisms are currently being called forth by research
that, for instance: challenges conventional representations and hierarchies
of cities; 'parochialises' cities of 'the North'; develops research into
'ordinary cities'; uncovers/explores diverse ways of inhabiting urban space;
re-examines urban histories; or employs inventive methods of investigating
urban experiences.

Urban MultipliCITIES aims to bring some of these proliferating fields into
creative contact, and we are seeking contributions from a wide range of
urban research that reflect the rich variety of work being undertaken in the
field. Topics and methodologies might include (but are in no way restricted
to):
§ gender and sexuality
§ methods: e.g. visual, aural, tactile, oral, performative,
participatory.
§ non-'Western' urban experiences
§ poetics and politics of urban imaginaries
§ post-coloniality
§ regeneration projects and everyday life
§ socio-technical materialities
§ suburban studies
§ practice, activism and politics

Over two days, the conference will take the form of keynote presentations,
shorter papers, and include a poster session by postgraduate students. We
hope to leave plenty of time for discussion, stimulated by papers that
engage with Urban Multiplicities - in research, methods or practice. Papers
are welcomed from researchers (including PhDs) at any stage of their
careers, but the Poster Session is specifically designed for postgraduates.

If you would like to contribute a PAPER or a POSTER, contact
Margo Huxley: M.Huxley@sheffield.ac.uk
or
Richard Smith: R.G.Smith@swansea.ac.uk

Deadline for 250 word Abstracts is Friday 19 September 2008

For more information about the Urban Geography Research Group, visit:
www.urban-geography.org.uk

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Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments

2008-04-08T03:41:00.001-07:00

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Methods workshop: Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments
Date: 8 May 2008, 3-5pm
Location: University of Manchester

This is the last in our programme of methods workshops, which explore how different methodologies
affect research design, process and outputs. This time, our three speakers will each give a brief
introduction to the approach they have taken to researching social relations in urban environments.
This will be followed by discussion from all participants. Speakers are:

Mags Adams (University of Salford) 'Sensory Urbanism: sensewalking as a methodological device'
Roger Burrows (University of York) 'Life in Coded Spaces?'
Andrew Clark (Real Life Methods, University of Leeds) 'Understanding community through mobile
interviews and participatory mapping'

There is no charge for the workshop. Participants must register in advance. See our website for
full details:
http://www.reallifemethods.ac.uk/events/workshops/urban/

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Email: victoria.higham@manchester.ac.uk

New Issue of Policy and Politics

2008-04-08T03:36:00.000-07:00

The current issue of Policy & Politics (Volume 36, Number 2) is now
available. The contents are listed below.

Don't forget that we are currently offering a free online trial during
which time you can access all online content, as available to subscribers.
To sign up, go to:
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In the current issue (Volume 36, Number 2):

Instituting the 'third sector' as a governable terrain: partnership,
procurement and performance in the UK
Emma Carmel, Jenny Harlock

Professional self-regulation in a changing architecture of governance:
comparing health policy in the UK and Germany
Ellen Kuhlmann, Judith Allsop

The role of the private sector in publicly funded schooling in England:
finance, delivery and decision making
Anne West, Peter Currie

Intersectoral partnerships, the knowledge economy and intangible assets
Leslie Boydell, Paul Hoggett, Jorun Rugkåsa, Anne-Marie Cummins

Support for active citizenship and public service performance: an empirical
analysis of English local authorities
Rhys Andrews, Richard Cowell, James Downe

The role of civil society in immigration policy making in Italy: changing
patterns of conflictual cooperation
Emanuela Bozzini, Stefano Fella

Necessary conditions for the effective transposition of EU legislation
Michael Kaeding

Offenders in the post-industrial labour market: from the underclass to the
undercaste?
Del Roy Fletcher

New Deal for Carers or unfair deal: what is in it for informal carers of
stroke survivors?
Nan Greenwood, Ann Mackenzie, Ruth Harris

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Conference - Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance, Liverpool, 2-4 July 2008

2008-04-08T03:35:00.000-07:00

British-Irish Section of the European Group

for the Study of Deviance and Social Control

Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance

2-4 July, 2008, Liverpool

Hosted by the University of Liverpool & Liverpool John Moores University
Call for Papers

2008 marks Liverpool's celebration of its status as European Capital of Culture. In preparation, Liverpool has been undergoing a physical and cultural regeneration that has in many ways transformed the city as private capital and expertise has poured in. The transformation of the local state into a growth machine has been accompanied by shifts in crime control and community safety, spatial regulation, forms of policing and discourses of urban belonging.

Like in other cities, there are significant undersides to urban regeneration and the culture it seeks to impose - undersides which rarely figure in official and academic discourse. Much of Liverpool and its surrounding areas remain scarred by poverty, under-employment, and racism. At the same time, whilst the marginalised are subjected to criminalisation, the social and criminal justice supports for the victims of the crimes and harms of the powerful either remain virtually non-existent or under threat. We wish to critically explore the extent and direction of change in our cities and how these are re-framing practices of power, justice and the right to the city.
Please submit abstracts of 100-200 words by Thursday May 1st 2008 to any of the following, These people can also be contacted for further details:

Roy Coleman roy.coleman@ liverpool.ac.uk

Lynn Hancock l.hancock@liverpool.ac.uk

Joe Sim j.sim@ljmu.ac.uk

Steve Tombs s.p.tombs@ljmu.ac.uk

Joe Yates j.yates1@ljmu.ac.uk

Dave Whyte david.whyte@liverpool.ac.uk
Booking & information: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ssp/news_and_events.htm

New research published by the JRF - Regeneration in European cities: making connections

2008-04-07T07:49:00.000-07:00

DIME International Workshop: Reconsidering the Regional Knowledge Economy

2008-04-02T05:14:00.001-07:00

DIME International Workshop

Reconsidering the Regional Knowledge Economy:
Theoretical, Empirical and Policy Insights from Diverse Research Approaches

Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (KITE), Newcastle University, City Wall, City Gate, St James Boulevard, Newcastle, UK 4th - 5th September 2008

It is generally acknowledged that regional economic success in Europe is dependent on an orientation towards a knowledge-based economy, typified either by high value added, creative and science-based industry, or a focus on advanced business services. For those regions lacking such advantages the emphasis of policy has been placed on developing new clusters of knowledge-based industries through a variety of measures including networking activities, university-based initiatives and support for new start-ups. A key problem though has been the absence of a clear understanding of what would constitute progress towards a knowledge-based economy, never mind what should be the most appropriate policies.

One particular problem is the lack of consensus between quantitative and qualitative researchers on how to assess the state of the knowledge base and on the nature of the policy objectives. Quantitative researchers have measures for particular investments in knowledge creating activity, principally in the form of R&D, as well as labour market indicators and some crude measures of outputs. Qualitative researchers however point out that such data is usually constrained by classificatory problems and fails to capture new kinds of activities and is also difficult to assess by cluster. Qualitative research examines the processes behind innovation and learning, but finds it difficult to quantify knowledge. In addition to this quantitative/qualitative dichotomy there is a tendency for research to focus on either macro or micro economic issues.

Through the inclusion of varieties of approaches to exploring the regional knowledge economy this seminar will offer opportunities to draw comparisons between the findings of various research strategies. In so doing, the seminar will stimulate a dialogue within which new developments may be initiated to bridge the various research communities and thereby offer new insights into the role of knowledge in regional economic development and subsequent policy implications.

Confirmed speakers include: Allen Scott, UCLA, USA, Bjorn Asheim, Lund University, Sweden, Jeremy Howells, University of Manchester, UK, Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Patrick Cohendet, University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France, and HEC Montréal, Canada.

Call For Papers:

Papers adopting qualitative, quantitative and macro or micro economic approaches to understanding aspects of the regional knowledge economy are welcome. As are those providing conceptual developments and critical appraisals of various dimensions of the regional knowledge economy. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Ø Comparing and contrasting views on the nature of the regional knowledge economy.
Ø Identifying and examining the mechanisms and processes through which knowledge contributes to regional economic development.
Ø The knowledge dynamics of local, national and international organisations and institutions and their contribution to the regional knowledge base.
Ø Assessing efforts to link local and global knowledge communities.
Ø Quantitative and qualitative methods to map and track the knowledge economy.
Ø Identifying and enacting effective policies to sustain and expand the regional knowledge economy.
Ø Evaluating existing policy efforts to promote the regional knowledge economy, including: cluster and networking activities, innovation systems development; university-based initiatives; the generation and retention of knowledge workers; support for new start-ups and so on.

Submissions:
Please send extended abstracts (max. 1,000 words) and contact details to Joanne.Roberts@ncl.ac.uk and specify whether you are eligible for funding by DIME.

Deadlines:
Abstract submission: March 31st 2008
Paper acceptance: April 30th 2008
Submission of full paper: August 18th 2008

Travel, accommodation and conference cost:
Travel and accommodation costs of the participants will be covered according to standard DIME arrangements for one author per paper from DIME-partners and for invited speakers.

Other participants, in addition to arrange their own travel and accommodation, will be subject to conference fees as follows:

Standard rate: £ 140
Student rate: £ 40
The conference fee provides access to all conference presentations at the venue and all refreshments served at the venue as well as the conference dinner on 4th September 2008

There will also be between 5-10 fully funded (including travel and accommodation) places available for PhD students.

Organisers:
Dr Joanne Roberts
Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University, Armstrong Building, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 7RU. UK. Tel: +44 (0) 191 222 6232
Email: Joanne.Roberts@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/kite/staff/profile/joanne.roberts

Prof David Charles
Director of KITE
City Wall, City Gate, St James Boulevard, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE1 4JH, UK. Tel +44 (0) 191 222 8019 Email d.r.charles@ncl.ac.uk http://www.ncl.ac.uk/kite/staff/profile/d.r.charles

The Olympics site is eating into east London's green spaces

2008-04-02T05:10:00.000-07:00

See the Guardian on-line...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/25/olympics2012.regeneration

BBC News Story: Blaenavon heritage centre opening

2008-03-25T05:19:00.001-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7311516.stm

News story from BBC: Ban on hospital junk food vending

2008-03-25T05:16:00.000-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7311326.stm

Mumbles Regeneration

2008-03-19T03:03:00.001-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7302831.stm

Worries over 'Valleywood' studios

2008-03-18T07:40:00.001-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7301880.stm

consultation on SEA of nuclear policy

2008-03-18T05:51:00.001-07:00

http://www.berr.gov.uk/consultations/page45265.html

Consultation: Strategic environmental assessment scoping report for
proposed national policy statement for new nuclear power

Starting Date: 13-03-08

Closing Date: 21-04-08

This statutory consultation is on the scope of the Strategic
Environmental Assessment (SEA) for a proposed National Policy Statement
(NPS) on planning for new nuclear power stations. It proposes how the
SEA will be undertaken, the level and type of information to be covered
in the Environmental Report, and how the SEA will be integrated into the
development of the proposed Nuclear NPS.

The consultation is intended to seek views from statutory consultees
which are the Environment Agency, English Heritage, Natural England, the
Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland), Scottish Ministers,
Historic Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Environment
Protection Agency, the Welsh Assembly Government, Cadw, Countryside
Council for Wales and the Environment Agency Wales.

We are also consulting the Department of Health, the Health Protection
Agency, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Defra and the Industrial
and Radiochemical Inspectorate (Northern Ireland) because of their roles
in relation to the regulation of nuclear facilities. This is not a
public consultation but we will consider any comments from other persons
or organisations submitted before the consultation closes on 21 April 2008.

Analysing Socio-Economic Data at the Neighbourhood Level

2008-03-18T05:50:00.001-07:00

New One Day Course at CCSR for researchers and practitioners

Analysing Socio-Economic Data at the Neighbourhood Level

Dates: 9/5/2008

Duration: 1 day

This new one-day course will provide participants with the practical skills
necessary to analyse data at small spatial scales below local authority
level. The first part of the day will identify the national and local data
sources which can be used to understand the dynamics of neighbourhoods. It
will also consider solutions for analysing change within ‘non-standard’
boundaries such as regeneration or service delivery areas. The second part
of the day will consist of themed sessions delivered by practitioners and
academics with first-hand experience of developing practical solutions for
tackling three common research puzzles at the neighbourhood level:
monitoring population change with an ethnic dimension (Ludi Simpson, CCSR);
understanding the dynamics of housing markets (Joy Thompson, New East
Manchester); and measuring spatial inequalities in health (Anne Cunningham,
Yorkshire and Humber Public Health Observatory). The emphasis is on
providing participants with the analytical tools to pursue their own
research projects at the neighbourhood level. There will also be an
opportunity to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to
understand how it can enhance the analytical capabilities of organisations
working in neighbourhoods.

For more information and to book go to CCSR website at
www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/external/2007-2008

Liminalities TOC (Special Issue: the city)

2008-03-18T05:49:00.000-07:00

We are pleased to announce the release of +Liminalities+ 4.1, a special expanded-length issue on the theme of "The City," guest-edited by Daniel Makagon of DePaul University. This issue includes critical essays, ethnographies, videos, and performance texts.

http://liminalities.net/4-1/

Table of Contents:

I Love Livin' in the City
by Daniel Makagon

Places and Stages: Narrating and Performing the City in Milan, Italy
by Cristina Moretti

"Finders Keepers": Performing the Street, the Gallery and the Spaces In-between
by Luke Dickens

Making Sense of the City: Place, Space, and Rhetoric in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square
by erin daina mcclellan

Unsafe Houses: The Narrative Inversion of Suburban Morality in Popular Film
by Joan Faber McAlister

Space Wars & Walking through a Liquid Forest of Symbols
by Anders Lund Hansen

Staging and Enforcing Consumerism in the City: The Performance of Othering on the 16th Street Mall
by Richard G. Jones, Jr. & Christina R. Foust

"Full of Proud Memories of the Past, on which Irishmen Love to Dwell": Irish Nationalist Performance and the Orange Riots of 1871
by Stephen Rohs

A Taste of Buffalo: Staging the Lives of U.S. Cities
by David J. Eshelman

Flowing Through the City: An Urban Ethnography
by Renee Human

+Liminalities+ is a peer-reviewed journal for performance studies, theory and praxis. Our goal is to embrace the possibilities for presenting performance studies work by exploring and exploiting the "staging" potential of digital media. We publish essays, aesthetic works, digital media projects, documentaries, book reviews, interviews, and works about pedagogy & performance. For more information, visit http://liminalities.net

Take care,
Daniel
________________________
Daniel Makagon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
College of Communication
DePaul University
2320 North Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 325-7376
http://condor.depaul.edu/~dmakagon/

Rural and Urban Solo Living in Scotland: Interim Seminar

2008-03-18T05:46:00.000-07:00

**Apologies for cross-posting**

Please do circulate amongst those who may be interested.

Rural and Urban Solo Living in Scotland

Interim Seminar: Findings of the first stage of research

Friday 30th May 2008, 10.00am - 3pm

Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House, Edinburgh

You are invited to an interim seminar to present the findings from the
first
stage of the Rural and Urban Solo Living in Scotland study.

This is a two year study investigating the socio-economic circumstances,
experiences and expectations of working age adults living alone in
relation
to issues such as employment, housing, location, partnership and
parenting.
This seminar presents the findings of the first stage of the research,
based
on telephone interviews with 140 men and women across Scotland.

The increasing incidence of solo living in recent years has implications
for
many social policies and for the provision of services in rural and
urban
areas. The aim of the seminar is to engage academics, policy makers and
practitioners with the implications of the interim findings for their
sphere
of work, and to identify topics that they would wish to be pursued in
greater depth in subsequent follow-up interviews.

Who should attend?
Researchers; local authority representatives - particularly those
responsible for housing, planning, strategy and community care, civil
servants, policy analysts, voluntary organisations and practitioners
with
an interest in changing families and households.

The themes of the conference include:
Demographic change
Housing and neighbourhoods
Social Inclusion
Community care
Work/life balance
Family and friendship relationships across households

Discussants include:

Cecilia MacIntyre, General Registrar of Scotland Moira Maconachie,
University of Plymouth

This event is free however places are limited.

To book a place, please visit the CRFR web site:
http://www.crfr.ac.uk/events/solo_living.htm.

This study is supported by The Economic and Social Research Council.

Slumburbs?

2008-03-18T05:44:00.000-07:00

An interesting article in SF Gate about edge city decline:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/15/BU7NVIT2O.DTL

Free toothbrushes for Welsh School Chilrdren

2008-03-14T06:34:00.001-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7295895.stm

Attractions & Events as Catalysts for Regeneration and Social Change - CFP

2008-03-14T06:23:00.000-07:00

Christel DeHaan Tourism & Travel Research Institute, University of Nottingham
and
The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

‘Attractions and events as catalysts for regeneration and social change’

The University of Nottingham 24th and 25th September 2008

The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers who share interests in the role of tourist attractions and events in place making and shaping destinations. This research area is clearly relevant to professionals in the field including consultants, developers and local authorities.

The visitor economy is becoming increasingly competitive as destinations chase tourist spend. This is increasingly so in the context of ‘regional capitals’ which play a pivotal role in the regional economy, and ‘third cities’ whose visitor economy is often over-shadowed by the larger regional neighbours. Although tourism is seen as an integral part of regional development in these cities, they often compete for visitor expenditure in an environment of shrinking marketing investment and a volatile economic marketplace. Destinations have sought to differentiate their appeal on the basis of culture and heritage and/or events and festivals and seek to deliver 'a total visitor experience'.

We welcome papers for this conference which explore:

The role of regional capitals in driving the regional visitor economy
Delivering the total visitor experience
The potential for sustainable urban tourism through culture and heritage tourism
Creative uses of visitor attractions as focal points for regeneration programmes
Attractions and events and discourses of place shaping/making and the visitor economy
Major events and community cultural festivals as animators of place and tourist attractions
Planning dimensions of attractions and events development in urban and rural contexts
Community participation in attractions and events
Building sustainable partnerships and stakeholder relationships between tourism, culture and heritage in destinations
Managing attractions and events in sensitive sites
New and emerging technologies in attractions and events marketing and management
The role of festivals and cultural events in policies and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and anti-racism
Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural city
Issues in conceiving museums and artistic venues as visitor attractions
Issues surrounding the 2012 London Olympics

The conference will form the academic stream of the European Union of Tourist Officers (EUTO) meeting and will provide the unique opportunity for researchers to network and share cutting edge ideas, innovation and critical thinking with the EUTO participants. The conference will include study visits as well as academic paper sessions. The study visits will focus on the role of culture in shaping destination image as Nottingham transforms into a cultural capital with ambitious projects such as Wollaton Hall, Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham & The New Art Exchange as well as a visit to Nottingham Castle and Sherwood Forest to see how ‘Living Legends’ can be used to stimulate the visitor economy.

Paper Submission

Abstracts should be up to 1,000 words, 12 point, 1½-line spaced and be formatted for printing on A4 paper. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday June 13th 2008 and successful authors will be notified by the end of June, 2008. A final paper of between 4 – 8,000 words is required by the end of August 2008 if authors wish to be included in the Conference Proceedings. All abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically to TTRI@nottingham.ac.uk

EUTO Annual Conference

Whilst TTRI and CTCC will organise this academic part of the conference, delegates are welcome to join the EUTO conference sessions and we will be jointly organising social functions to allow both groups to network.

The EUTO conference runs from 21-28 September 2008 and will be held in both Nottingham and London. It will comprise study visits, presentations and workshops. Themes to be explored include the role of attractions & events in destination development & the Olympics 2012. There will be an opportunity to visit the O2 Arena by boat and learn about riverside regeneration en route to Europe’s largest family entertainment centre and Olympic 2012 venue. Explore Bankside, the Pool of London and the South Bank by foot to see how iconic attractions such as London Eye, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tate Modern and Vinopolis have helped create this vibrant destination.

A detailed programme will be published on EUTO.org. For further information or to register interest, please email: president@EUTO.org

JRF Findings: 'Neighbourhood identity: effects of time, location and social class'

2008-03-12T08:27:00.000-07:00

http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/2188.asp

Faith groups 'contribute £100m'

2008-03-12T04:36:00.000-07:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7289508.stm

Just published by JRF - Community empowerment in practice: lessons from Communities First

2008-03-11T04:35:00.000-07:00

Just published on the JRF website:

Community empowerment in practice: lessons from Communities First
An examination of a community-based programme in Wales that aims to increase opportunities for community empowerment and potential influence over service providers.

'Life outside the blue fence': Next PNUK event

2008-03-11T04:34:00.000-07:00

Dear PNUK members, as promised, we bring you our next PNUK event, in association with Games Monitor : ‘Life outside the blue fence’. This time, we’re visiting London and taking in an in-depth look at the effects of major projects like the Olympics on the lives of local people. In particular, the Friday meetings and workshops will focus very specifically on the planning processes that have underpinned the London Olympics thus far and we will be asked to give some feedback and guidance to local people attending on planning issues.

This is the first time we have tried such a collaborative and innovative event based on action for an especially important cause. The Steering Group hopes you will support the event by making time to participate.

The flier and registration form is attached for all the information you need. Please circulate this as widely as you can to your own networks, and advertise in your own organisations.

Best wishes

Dr Libby Porter
Lecturer in Spatial Planning
Department of Urban Studies
University of Glasgow
25 Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RS
Phone: 0141 330 3664
Email: l.porter@lbss.gla.ac.uk

Interested in progressive planning? Check out Planners Network UK www.pnuk.org.uk

Person or place-based policies to tackle disadvantage? Not knowing what works

2008-03-11T02:28:00.000-07:00

Just published on the JRF website:

Person or place-based policies to tackle disadvantage? Not knowing what works
This study reviews the effectiveness of policies introduced in Great Britain since 1997 to tackle employment, education and income disadvantage, focusing on policies that explicitly take account of people and places.

New titles from Policy Press

2008-03-07T07:26:00.001-08:00

Please see details of all new Policy Press titles below.

2008 Policy Press catalogue now available
*****************************************
The 2008 Policy Press catalogue is now available. If you haven't received
yours by post, please email jessica.hughes@bristol.ac.uk to request a copy.

New titles for March
********************
'DIY Community Action', by Liz Richardson, presents a lively challenge to
the existing thinking on community development, and proposes ways forward
for community building. It offers thought-provoking answers to these
questions, based on detailed real-life evidence from over 100 community
groups, each trying to combat neighbourhood problems. For more information
please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1478

'Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia', edited by Kari
Melby, Anna-Birte Ravn and Christina Carlsson Wetterberg, examines the
meanings of gender that underpin policies in the Scandinavian welfare
states, historically and today, and raises the question whether the
hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model is a special combination of
gender equality and gender differentiation. For more information please go
to:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10086&products_id=1457

'Exploring concepts of child well-being' by Nick Axford, provides an
understanding of what child welfare is, explores how it can be measured and
sets out the implications for children's services in incorporating child
well-being into their work. Please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10090&products_id=881

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offers, please visit: https://www.policypress.org.uk

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Vacancies in NCVO Research Team - Third Sector Foresight

2008-03-07T01:47:00.001-08:00

Dear all

We are currently looking for two people to join the NCVO Research team as Third Sector Foresight Officers. The advert went into the Society Guardian yesterday:

"Explore the trends shaping the future of civil society, managing projects which focus on a range of specific subsectors. You'll communicate your findings through reports, short guides, events, and the Internet. You'll also develop tools, including training sessions and capacity building workshops, to increase understanding of social change.

With superb research skills, and a keen interest in social change, you're an excellent writer and communicator, and able to express complex information in an accessible way. You should also have excellent people skills, and have the confidence to manage others and speak in public."

The salary is £32,616-£34,276, closing date is Wednesday 26 March 2008 and interviews will be held on Thursday 10 April 2008.

You can download further information and an application pack from http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/about/vacancies/?id=8274, email mailto:recruitment@ncvo-vol.org.uk or call 020 7520 2537 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the ref: TSF24. To find out more about NCVO Third Sector Foresight, visit http://www.3s4.org.uk .

Karl Wilding , Head of Research
NCVO, Regent's Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London, N1 9RL.
Tel (020) 7520 2478. Mobile: 0795 137 3511. Fax (020) 7713 6300
karl.wilding@ncvo-vol.org.uk

NCVO's research aims to support the development of effective policy and practice in the voluntary and community sector (VCS). Further information on our work can be found at: www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/research

NCVO - the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. Members of NCVO enjoy access to a range of benefits including information, networks, influence and a range of discounted products and services. To find out more please contact NCVO's membership team on 020 7520 2414, email membership@ncvo-vol.org.uk or visit our web site at www.ncvo-vol.org.uk Charity Registration

NEW BOOK: So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool

2008-03-04T01:48:00.001-08:00

Liverpool University Press is proud to announce the eagerly awaited publication of

So Spirited a Town

Visions and Versions of Liverpool

Nicholas Murray

“Murray's extremely entertaining book doesn't forget the humour of the place. He skilfully weaves memories of his own Irish family and Catholic childhood into a witty and sensitive history.” William Palmer, The Independent

In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own memories of a 1960s Liverpool childhood to create an original and nuanced portrait of the character of a remarkable city. The end result is a fascinating book about how Liverpool has been seen by others but it is also a personal and sometimes moving record of growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, exploring in an often light-hearted way what it means to be ‘Scouse’, never forgetting that De Quincey’s “many-languaged town” is a cosmopolitan, multi-racial seaport with an often tough history of poverty, industrial strife, migration, but, above all, humour.

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool in 1952 he is the author of several literary biographies (Bruce Chatwin [Seren Books], World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell [St Martin’s Press], Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual [Abacus], and Kafka [Little Brown]), two collections of poems, and two novels. He is a regular contributor of poems, essays and reviews to newspapers and literary magazines such as The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman, London Magazine, TLS, Thumbscrew, Metre, Poetry, Areté and many others. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

For further information or to order this book please click link below

http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3797

LUP books are distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. For further information or to order this book please click link below

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/278139.ctl

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British Society of Criminology Conference 2008

2008-03-03T09:54:00.000-08:00

***2ND CALL FOR PAPERS***

British Society of Criminology Conference 2008

9-11 July 2008
Hosted by the Applied Criminology Centre
University of Huddersfield

Criminological Futures; Controversies, Developments and Debates
***CALL CLOSES SUNDAY 13TH APRIL***

The title of the 2008 Conference reflects the breadth of contemporary
criminology and the diversity of theoretical and applied approaches to
analysing, explaining and reducing crime.

Whilst it is intended that the theme of the conference should reflect
the broad range of current debates and controversies within the field of
criminology, there will be a specific emphasis upon:

1. Building bridges between theory, research and practice
2. Technologies for crime detection and prevention
3. The role of Practitioners

There will be three major plenary sessions. In the first, Professor
Julian Roberts, University of Oxford and Dr Shadd Maruna, Queens
University Belfast, will be talking about issues surrounding Sentencing,
Rehabilitation and Reintegration.

In the second, Professor Barry Goldson, University of Liverpool and
Martin Narey, Chief Executive, Barnados will discuss the question of the
use of evidence in relation to youth justice policy and the link between
poverty and youth crime.

In the third, Professor Martin Gill, Director of PRCI and Professor
Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool, will address the culture of
fear and surveillance: does it work?

Other highlights of the conference include a conference dinner speech by
Professor Jock Young, University of Kent, entitled "The Criminological
Imagination". There will also be a number of book launches, a series of
author/editor meets critics sessions and a conference dinner on the
evening of Thursday 10th July, held at the Cedar Court Hotel, Ainsley
Top, Huddersfield.
http://bscconference2008.hud.ac.uk/

All other enquiries can be made by email to:
criminologyconference2008@hud.ac.uk. Or by post to:
Conference Administrator
Applied Criminology Centre
Central Services Building Floor 14
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate, Huddersfield
HD1 3DH

Poverty 'blights 1m rural homes'

2008-03-03T09:53:00.000-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7273516.stm

"At Homes with the Security State" a public lecture by Cindi Zatz, 13th March, London

2008-02-29T03:30:00.000-08:00

you are warmly invited to come to a public lecture entitled 'At Home
with the Security State'
given by Cindi Katz, Professor of Geography, City University of New York

Thursday 13 March 5.30pm

Lecture Room 126
Department of Geography
Queen May, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

A wine reception will follow the lecture

please confirm your attendence with Jason Go, Research and Teaching
Officer, Department of Geography, QMUL
Tel. +44 (0)20 7882 8129
Email. j.go@qmul.ac.uk

ABSTRACT for the talk:
A mobius strip of fear threads between home and ‘homeland,’ weaving
anxiety to military technology, it twists around security. In security’s
name, people have acquiesced to a public environment that is monitored,
bunkered, and conspicuously patrolled while they remake their
homes as fortresses. The stepped up militarisation of everyday life—to
say nothing of the sprawling and seemingly endless ‘war on terror’ – is
routinised in the apparatus of fear. Children, as vulnerable subjects
and as emblems of a fraught future, both embody the insecurity and
provide an alibi for its technologies. In this presentation, I will
argue that the regime of parental hypervigilance has much in common with
that of the homeland security state. The parallels in tactics,
strategies, and effects between the two scales of ‘domestic’ security
are as chilling as they are revealing. Looking at their effects on the
body and the spaces of the home, the city, and the public environment
more broadly, I will argue first that the material social practices of
security at these two scales feed off of and help justify one another to
reconfigure daily life and legitimate practices unthinkable even a
decade ago, and second that as these strategies are increasingly
domesticated they soften us as subjects of surveillance

It's adults, not young people, who are a public menace... Article on children in public space

2008-02-29T02:08:00.000-08:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/26/children

Wales' tallest building approved

2008-02-28T05:13:00.001-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7268025.stm

'DIY Community Action': New book by Liz Richardson

2008-02-28T04:00:00.000-08:00

The Policy Press are about to publish a new book, 'DIY Community Action',
by Liz Richardson, and part of our CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and
Policy series. I am sure that this title will be of interest to members of
this list.

The book presents a lively challenge to the existing thinking on community
development, and proposes ways forward for community building. It offers
thought-provoking answers to these questions, based on detailed real-life
evidence from over 100 community groups, each trying to combat
neighbourhood problems. For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1478

With thanks and best regards,

Jessica

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Music, Sound, and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space

2008-02-26T04:13:00.000-08:00

Music, Sound, and the Reconfiguration of Public and Private Space

Conference to be held at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University, April 18-19th 2008

Organisers

Georgina Born

Tom Rice

This conference pursues themes raised by the recent burgeoning of the interdisciplinary field of auditory culture studies, which has evolved at the interface of historical and contemporary musicology, philosophy of music and critical theory, ethnomusicology and anthropology of sound and senses, sociology and social psychology of music, cultural studies, and the new practices of sound art and site-specific music and sound.

The conference sits at the intersection of two related developments. First, it addresses the ways in which sound and music, particularly as they are technologically mediated, have come to play a pivotal role in re-drawing the boundaries between the ‘public’ and the ‘private’ by individuals, groups and institutions. There is growing awareness that acoustic strategies may be used by groups and individuals in demarcating space, and in projecting themselves within it, establishing new and often contested boundaries between the public and the private. This tendency is striking in relation to physical and virtual spaces, on the one hand, and to social spaces, on the other; music and sound are increasingly used to mark territory, place, and social identities. Music is employed both to humanise space and attract sociality, and to discourage human contact and block off sociality. Although some of these developments were apparent with analogue audio technologies, they have been greatly exacerbated by digitisation and by music’s privileged relations with the internet, in which it leads other expressive artforms in the degree and scale of its remediation. The conference will therefore examine the manner in which musical and acoustical dynamics have become integral to the construction and imagination of social and physical space, and the ways in which they may be both constructed and negotiated.

Relatedly, the conference explores how the proliferation of sound technologies has resulted in a situation in which acoustic environments are increasingly malleable. To an unprecedented degree, music and sound are being employed to create a ‘nesting’ of the private and public, while audio technologies are used to effect a series of radical transformations of musical experience: children using sound technologies to create individual ‘private’ environments within the collective, ‘private’ domestic space of the home; soldiers using individual sound technologies inside tanks in battle to construct a sense of intimate, affective space and identity which fends off and occludes the ‘public’, ambient sounds of violent warfare; the mobile phone used to create a new genre of private-in-public communication; and real-time, embodied intersubjective musical practices being replaced by virtual, disembodied music-making and virtually-distributed musical cognition.

Understanding these developments requires that we make use of the conceptual tools of musicology, the social sciences and critical theory, while also necessitating that they be re-worked for the more complex, pervasive and ramifying mediations of contemporary life. The conference therefore brings together leading theorists of music, sound, mediation and modernity, as well as those engaged in rich empirical research – historical, contemporary and cross-cultural – to debate these developments and outline new perspectives to advance the given coordinates bequeathed by Adorno, Benjamin, Murray Schafer, as well as contemporary scholars such as Michael Bull, Tia DeNora, Steve Feld and Jonathan Sterne.

A feature of the conference will be to integrate perspectives from those working creatively with the new soundscapes: composers and sound artists, some of them also engaged in empirical research, who are concerned to reflect the new sonic environments in their creative work. We hope to have a couple of performances or sound installations running alongside the event, and we will ask a composer to produce a piece to illustrate the new soundscapes in relation to changing private and public boundaries. The conference will include speakers from several of the fields mentioned above; it will be international in scope, involving speakers from the US and from a number of universities within the UK. It will innovate in bringing theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives together with composers of sound art and site-specific music. One aim of the conference is to produce papers towards an edited book. We are in dialogue with Duke University Press to publish the collection, and intend to develop a volume on the acoustic politics of space.

Speakers -

Philip Bohlman, Chicago

Michael Bull, Sussex

Eric Clarke, Oxford

Nicholas Cook, RHUL

Suzanne Cusick, NYU

Tia DeNora, Exeter

Nicola Dibben, Sheffield

John Drever, Goldsmiths

Further information and registration are available at the CRASSH
website:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2007-8/musicsoundspace.html

5th EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY (EARCAG)

2008-02-26T04:02:00.000-08:00

First Call for Papers

5th EAST ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHY (EARCAG)

Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008

Following four successful conferences between 1999 and 2006, the fifth East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) will be held in Seoul, Korea, 13-16 December 2008. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for scholar from all parts of the world to discuss and debate critically urban and regional issues in East Asia.

Themes

There are two main themes in this conference. The first main theme is “Searching for a ‘Globalpolis’, as a progressive urban utopia, in the era of globalization.” Cities in East Asia have become increasingly globalized for the last decade. Along with the spread of neoliberal variant of globalization, the global(izing) cities in East Asia have faced increasing numbers of problems associated with growing spatial and social inequalities, dissolution of existing urban communities, increasing inter-ethnic or inter-cultural tensions, etc. As a way of finding resolutions to these problems, we suggest to imagine a progressive and alternative urban utopia, which we call a “Globalpolis”. Under this theme, we can tackle the following issues.

- Flows, networks and transnational urbanism

- Critical evaluations of the discourses of global city, creative city, innovative cities etc.

- Humanistic visions for “Globalpolis”

- Urban historicity and cultural heritage

- Power, identity and the city

- Critique of neo-liberal urbanization

- Alternative urban governance

- Social activism and civic space

- Gentrification, urban (re)development and mega urban project

- Urban environment and sustainable cities

To be added…

The second main theme is “Re-imagining the national territories in East Asia.” Existing territoriality of the national politico-economic communities in East Asia have been increasingly challenged by growing movement of capital, people, knowledge and goods across national boundaries. At the same time, however, nationalistic sentiments and national identities have been strengthened due to recent geopolitical changes in this region. What has happened in the East Asian nations and states in terms of their territorialities in relation to the increasing transnationalization of social, political, cultural and economic activities? Under this theme, we can address the following issues.

- Historical and geographical construction of national territoriality

- State, power and national territories

- Transnationalism and reorganization of national territories

- Spatial and scalar restructuring of the state

- Decentralization and the changing nature of center-local relations

- Nationalism/transnationalism and landscape

To be added…

In addition to these main themes, this conference aims to question and contextualize every issue in the development of critical and alternative geography in East Asia. Examples of other relevant issues are:
- Political economies of development
- Global economic changes and uneven regional development
- Globalization, agriculture and rural development
- Critical geopolitics in East Asia
- Globalization and regionalization in East Asia
- Innovation, cluster and agglomeration economy
- Nature and environment
- Gender and spaces of difference
- Geographies of social movement
- History of geographical practice and thoughts
- entrepreneurial city and place-marketing

……

The above list is just for illustration, not limitation. We strongly encourage the participants to mobilize your geographical imagination beyond them.

Papers and organized sessions are welcome from everyone, geographers and non-geographers alike, from any disciplinary areas.

Date

13 ~ 15 December, 2008: Parallel Sessions

16 December, 2008: Field trip

Venues

This conference is hosted by Seoul National University (13-14 December, 2008) and the University of Seoul (15 December, 2008).

Keynote Speakers

To be selected soon.

Steering Committee

Byung-Doo Choi (Deagu University, South Korea)

Chu-joe Hsia (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotshbashi University, Japan)

Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan)

Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)

Local Organizing Committee

Bae-Gyoon Park (Department of Geography Education, Seoul National University)

Byung-Doo Choi (Department of Geography Education, Daegu University)

Kyoung Park (Department of Digital Economics, Mokwon University)

Seong-Paik Lee (Department of Philosophy, University of Seoul)

Hyun-Jae Lee (Institute for Humanities, University of Seoul)

To be added…

Registration

Those wishing to attend this conference must register by 30 August 2008. The registration form will be attached in the 2nd call, which will be issued by the end of March 2008.

Abstracts

Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit by E-mail the TITLE and ABSRACTS (ca. 500 words) by 30 August 2008. The recipient of the email will be announced in the 2nd call.

Organized Sessions

Those planning to organize a SESSION or SESSIONS must contact Dr. Bae-Gyoon Park (geopbg@snu.ac.kr) by 31 July 2008, with title and description of the session(s) and the names of prospective presenters.

Official Language

The official language of the EARCAG is English. All the papers are to be presented and discussed in English, except for the closing session on the last day of the conference, in which the translation services for English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese will be provided.

Registration Fee

Participants from South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore

US$100 (faculty) US$50 (student)

Participants from Rest of Asia, East Europe, Latin America and Africa

US$60 (faculty) US$30 (student)

Participants from North America, West Europe and Japan (G7 Group)

US$120 (faculty) US$60 (student)

The fee includes two receptions, lunches during the conference, coffee breaks and a conference packet with conference proceedings. Field trips must be paid separately.

All the fees listed here are provisional and subject to change. The payment details will be announced in the 2nd call.

Accommodation

To be announced in the 2nd call.

Field trip

To be announced in the 2nd call.

Important Deadlines

Organizing paper session 31 July 2008

Registration 30 August 2008

Submission of abstracts 30 August 2008

Green light to £50m Euro projects

2008-02-26T03:52:00.001-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7263102.stm

£225m Bridgend 'village' planned

2008-02-26T03:50:00.001-08:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7264261.stm

The latest issue of 'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice' is now avaliable...

2008-02-26T03:44:00.000-08:00

The latest issue of 'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice'
(Volume 16, number 1) is now available. Please see the table of contents
below.

We are currently offering a free online trial to 'Benefits: The Journal of
Poverty and Social Justice', during which time you can access all online
content, as available to current subscribers. Personal subscribers will be
able to access the free content for 30 days and institutions will be able
to activate the trial for 3 months. To sign up, go to
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/ben

In this issue:

Prisoners' families: civic virtue and policies of impoverishment
Rose Smith, Roger Grimshaw, Renee Romeo, Martin Knapp

The experiences of 'new' East European immigrants in the UK labour market
Eugenia Markova, Richard Black

Ill health in the family: the intersection of employment and caring across
households from four ethnic groups
Lucinda Platt, Sarah Salway, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss

Managing money in later life: help from relatives and friends
Hilary Arksey, Anne Corden, Caroline Glendinning, Michael Hirst

The Street Wardens Programme as a neighbourhood renewal intervention: the
challenge of translating national policy into creative local responses in a
performance management context
Chih Hoong Sin

A living wage for London?
Chris Grover

Citizen-centred welfare: a single income-replacement benefit and
personalised conditions and support
Kate Stanley

Who's really on the fiddle?
Neil Bateman

Unhappy fund?
Terry Patterson

Upstairs, downstairs: behind the scenes in London's luxury hotels
Hartley Dean

Department for Work and Pensions
Contracting out welfare to work in the US: delivery lessons

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
A review of research on the links between education and poverty

Government Round-up
Ruth Lister, Stephen Morris

The idea of poverty
John Veit-Wilson

On the margins of inclusion: Changing labour markets and social exclusion
in Graham Bowpitt

'Benefits: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice' publishes
high-quality work that is essential reading for academics, practitioners,
policy makers and students. Focusing on poverty and social exclusion, the
journal explores links with social security (including pensions and tax
credits), employment, area regeneration, housing, health, education and
criminal justice, as well as issues of ethnicity, gender, disability and
other social inequalities. For more information and to subscribe, visit:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/benefits/

PLANNING PORTAL NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: ECO-TOWNS

2008-02-26T03:34:00.001-08:00

PLANNING PORTAL NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: ECO-TOWNS
25/2/2008

The Planning Portal has published a special report on eco-towns - a high-profile area affecting planning policy.

The report looks at:

* the housing and climate change context
* the planning elements of eco-towns
* the bidding process so far
* key features of an eco-town

Read the eco-towns special report:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/news?1115315508453

Recently published and up-dated guides:

Planning and Greener Homes - featuring planning and building regulations guidance on domestic energy generation and energy efficiency.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315124405.html

Planning and Mobile Phone Masts - featuring how mobile phone networks operate, the planning framework, consultation and appeals procedures.
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115315371796.html

The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space: Reflections upon the Vision for the Network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University

2008-02-26T03:31:00.001-08:00

The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space:

Reflections upon the Vision for the Network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University

The Seminar will take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 2-4pm. Further details can be obtained from Noreen Harburt (Noreen@essex.ac.uk).

In recent decades there has been an intense focus upon how we can, and should, understand the ‘space of democracy and the democracy of space’. Of course this question is not new, but what could be called the ‘spatial turn’ in academia, shows that globalisation brings spatial interconnections and flows to the fore, whilst throwing open the idea of fixed boundaries and borders. We have moved away from the assumption that space can be regarded as a pre-given background or even container of political life. Today, emphasis is placed upon the spatial circulation of people, passions, new social movements, technosciences, media and information; and how these contribute to situated political action in given, empirical contexts. But this spatial turn also throws up thorny tensions as to what will count and work as democratic practice today. Given that spatial flows and interconnections are now foregrounded in debate, how should we understand some of the central tensions which characterise democracy today; between ‘territorial and post-territorial politics’, ‘citizenship as everyday practice and the reassertion of statism’, ‘representation and participation’ and ‘being affected by an issue and the right to participate in it’?

The emerging "Space of Democracy and the Democracy of Space" network explores such questions. It involves around 400 academics globally, working across the disciplines of political philosophy, politics, planning, geography, anthropology, science and technology studies, sociology and development studies. We are presently concentrating upon establishing institutional sites, in different geographical locations, for the network to operate through. Once established, these will eventually take conversations through the different disciplines via academic workshops, academic journals, public debates, the general media and website interfaces, for example.

This will take place under the direction of Jonathan Pugh. We would also like to acknowledge the significant assistance of the special advisors, Noortje Marres, Chantal Mouffe, David Howarth, Liza Griffin, Doreen Massey, Mo O’Toole, Miles Irving, and Oliver Moss. Some of those who have actively signed up to take part in events and/or publications so far include Tony Benn, David Chandler, Tom Bentley, Swapna Banerjee-Guha, Sheila Jasanoff, Michael Watts, Bernard Crick, Andy Dobson, Catherine Fieschi, David Boyle, David Harvey, Clare Short, Paul Kingsnorth, David Featherstone, John Forester, Nick Cohen, Saskia Sassen, Frank Furedi, Ed Soja, Maarten Hajer, David Howarth, Patsy Healey, Will Hutton, Tim Ingold, Uma Kothari, Scott Lash, Nina Laurie, Oliver Marchart, Phil McNaghton, Chantal Mouffe, Susan Owens, Jonathan Pugh, Steve Rayner, Jenny Robinson, Richard Sennett, AbdouMaliq Simone, Joe Smith, Yannis Stavrakakis, Deborah Thien, Nigel Thrift, Francoise Verges, Hilary Wainwright, Sarah Whatmore, Steve Hinchliffe, Clive Barnett, Liza Griffin, Jim Martin, David Oswell, Oren Yiftachel, Daniela Korbas Magal, Andrew Barry, Jane Bennett, Matthew Fuller, David Oswell, Albena Yaneva, Terrell Carver, and Sandra Halperin. We also operate through a long-term public debating forum, The Great Debate; putting on debates involving college students and members of the general public in the North East of England in particular.

The Spaces of Democracy and Democracy of Space:

reflections upon our vision for the network, 12th March, 2008, Essex University

It is extremely important to the network that we develop an "early career" strand. This will be directed by Liza Griffin of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. It will seek to include early career academics in all aspects of the networks development in coming years.

And so, on the 12th March, 2008, at Essex University, a panel of those involved in the network will be discussing its vision and planned activities with early career academics. If you are an early career academic, we would very much like you to come along to this event.

There will also be discussions of some key works which will be shaping the network in years to come, and an evening event around a panel discussion of Aletta Norval’s new book: Aversive Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). This Seminar will also take place in Room 5S.4.11 at the University of Essex between 5-7pm. For further information in this regard, see http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/TheoStud/

If you are interested in the network, please contact Jonathan.Pugh@ncl.ac.uk.

The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation

2008-02-26T03:30:00.001-08:00

People, Places, Futures:

The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update Consultation

A joint event between the

Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru

The Wales Spatial Plan 2008 Update

set in context for planners

A consultation on the Wales Spatial Plan Update 2008: People Places Futures is running for 12 weeks from 31st January to 24th April 2008. The document sets a vision for how each part of Wales should develop economically, socially and environmentally over the next 20 years and will guide the way the Assembly Government spends its money over the coming years.

A huge amount of cross-sector and partnership working has seen real progress made against the goals identified in the first Spatial Plan in 2004. It has helped achieve a joined up approach to complex issues such as transport, housing and settlement patterns for the first time, leading to more effective use of public finance.

The Welsh Assembly Government and RTPI Cymru are jointly holding two special consultation workshops to explore the issues which are specific to planning. These are in addition to the more general regional workshops. The workshops will be held in Cardiff and Bangor. The workshops will start at 10 and finish at 1pm with lunch.

* Cardiff, Wednesday 9th April 2008, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
* Bangor, Thursday 10th April 2008, Technium CAST Parc Menai, Bangor

Registration

The event is free to attend but you must register by 31 March 2008. Please complete and return the registration form to:

E-mail: wales@rtpi.org.uk

By post: RTPI Cymru PO Box 2465, Cardiff CF23 0DS

http://new.wales.gov.uk/consultations/currentconsultation/improveps/wspconsult/?lang=en

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Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol: Ymgynghori ar Ddiweddaru Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008

Cyd-ddigwyddiad rhwng

Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a RTPI Cymru

Gosod Diweddariad Cynllun Gofodol Cymru 2008 Mewn Cyd-destun i Gynllunwyr

Mae ymgynghoriad ar Gynllun Gofodol Cymru: Pobl, Lleoedd, Dyfodol yn rhedeg o 31ain Ionawr tan 24ain Ebrill 2008 am gyfnod o 12 wythnos. Mae'r ddogfen hon yn amlinellu gweledigaeth ar gyfer datblygiad economaidd, cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol pob rhan o Gymru yn ystod yr 20 mlynedd nesaf, a bydd hefyd yn llywio'r ffordd y bydd Llywodraeth y Cynulliad yn gwario'i harian yn ystod y blynyddoedd nesaf.

Drwy gydweithio ar draws sectorau a thrwy weithio mewn partneriaeth, llwyddwyd i gymryd camau mawr ymlaen o ran y nodau a amlinellwyd yn y Cynllun Gofodol cyntaf yn 2004. Mae'r cynllun hwnnw wedi helpu i sicrhau ein bod, am y tro cyntaf, yn gweithredu mewn ffordd gydgysylltiedig ar faterion cymhleth megis trafnidiaeth, tai a phatrymau anheddu, ac mae wedi arwain hefyd at ddefnyddio arian cyhoeddus mewn ffordd fwy effeithiol.

Mae Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru a'r RTPI Cymru yn cynnal dau weithdy arbennig i archwilio materion sydd yn benodol i gynllunwyr. Mae'r rhain yn ychwanegol i'r gweithdai mwy cyffredinol yn y rhanbarthau. Bydd y ddau weithdy yng Nghaerdydd a Bangor yn dechrau am 10 ac yn gorffen am 1 gyda chinio.

· Caerdydd, Dydd Mercher 9fed Ebrill 2008, Stadiwm y Mileniwm

· Bangor, Dydd Iau 10fed Ebrill 2008, Tecniwm CAST Parc Menai, Bangor

Cofrestru

Mae'r digwyddiad am ddim ond mae rhaid cofrestru erbyn 31 Mawrth 2008. Cwblhewch y ffurflen cofrestru a'i dychwelyd at:

E-bost: Wales@rtpi.org.uk

Drwy'r post: RTPI Cymru, Blwch SP2465, Caerdydd, CF23 0DS

“Employability and Labour Market Policy in International Perspective”

2008-02-26T03:19:00.000-08:00

APOLOGIES FOR REPEAT/CROSS-POSTING – FINAL REMINDER for those wishing to register to attend for this Regional Studies Association-supported event… Please register by e-mailing: c.lindsay@napier.ac.uk

Colleagues are welcome to attend the second seminar of the Regional Studies Association Research Network on “Employability and Labour Market Policy in International Perspective”. The one-day seminar will be held at Universidad Complutense, Madrid on Friday 7th March. The programme is below. Attendance is free.

REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION WORKING GROUP
EMPLOYABILITY AND LABOUR MARKET POLICY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

SEMINAR AT FACULTY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES,
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, MADRID, SPAIN

Friday 7th March 2008

1000-1045

Melina Young

Independent Researcher, Toronto, Canada

Labour market integration of high-skilled immigrants: maximising knowledge

spill-over in Toronto, Canada

1045-1130

David Etherington

Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research, Middlesex University, UK

Martin Jones

Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, UK

World class skills? Governance geographies and the delivery of lifelong learning

1145-1230

Michael Anyadike-Danes

Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland, Belfast, UK

What is the problem, exactly? Investigating the distribution of Incapacity Benefit claimants’ conditions across British regions

1230-1315

Colin Lindsay

Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

Developing services to tackle health-related barriers to employability: reflections on the UK experience

Lunch 1315-1415

1415-1500

Almudena Moreno and Enrique Crespo
Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Employment and social exclusion of women and young people in Spain

1500-1545

Ron McQuaid, Vanesa Fuertes and Sue Bond

Employment Research Institute, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

Working for Families: Tackling barriers to employability among parents in Scotland

1600-1645

Maria Paz Martin Martin

Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

The social construction of employability at the local level

Colin Lindsay

Senior Research Fellow

Employment Research Institute

Napier University Business School

Craiglockhart Campus 03/50

Edinburgh EH14 1DJ

T: +44 (0) 131 455 4315

F: +44 (0) 131 455 4311

E: c.lindsay@napier.ac.uk

W: www.napier.ac.uk/depts/eri/HOME.HTM

Rail's role 230 Years beyond Penydarren CILT Thursday 21 Feb

2008-02-19T10:45:00.001-08:00

The Richard Trevithick Lecture
"230 Years beyond Penydarren-Rail's role for the next generation"
Speaker: Chris Austin OBE, Director of Public Policy, Association of
Train Operating Companies

Venue: Cardiff County Hall Atlantic Wharf
Time 18:00 for 18:30

This lecture will pick up the theme of the Government's White Paper,
Delivering a Sustainable Railway, to look ahead for 30 years to the sort
of railway that might be required then. This would embrace the need for
new lines and extension of electrification, as well as what is included
in the White paper, such as additional rolling stock. The Welsh
dimension of this will be considered in the context of the requirements
for Great Britain as a whole.

Seminar Series at Oxford Brookes on 'Imagining London's Futures'

2008-02-08T10:07:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

With apologies for any cross-posting.
Some seminar and lecture dates for the diary of anyone in the Oxford area:

Doreen Massey (Open University)
The responsibilities of world citydom
Thursday, 28th February, 4.00PM
Lloyd Lecture Theatre

Michael Edwards (UCL)
News from Somewhere: London after the rentiers' defeat
Wednesday, 12 March, 4.15PM
Room A108

Yvonne Rydin (UCL)
Sustainable Construction and the London Plan: An analysis of the 2007 EiP
Wednesday, 2 April, 4.15PM
Room A108

All three events are being organised by the planning department at
Oxford Brookes,
and are on the Gipsy Lane Campus. All are welcome and there is no need
to book.
Andy