Keep up to date with the latest news and events from around the college and the wide-ranging projects our staff and students get involved with.
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- Dr Nicola Rollock is the Deputy Director of the newly launched Centre for Research in Race and Education (CRRE) in the School of Education and teaches the BA Hons in Education on issues around ethnic diversity, race and racism and Whiteness. Nicola has worked closely with policymakers for example hosting with David Lammy a private conversation at Portcullis House to discuss Black educational achievement and being called last year to provide evidence to the Liberal Democrats Race Equality Taskforce.
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- Tuesday 26th March 2013
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- This year is the 10th annual Teaching and Learning Conference. In a change to the established format, this year's conference will be held over two days, the 24 and 25 June, and will feature four key speakers (including Simon Bates from UBC Vancouver - http://www.phas.ubc.ca/users/simon-bates) followed by a number of individual presentations/workshops, all based around the central theme of Technology Enhanced Learning.
- Date:
- Tuesday 26th March 2013
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- The Department of Education and Social Justice (ESJ) is an interdisciplinary group focusing on social justice and critical enquiry in education and whose members share a common interest in researching the inequalities that persist in society. We are research-led, practice engaged academics and include amongst ourselves leading authorities in history, politics, sociology and education.
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- Tuesday 26th March 2013
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- The college's new Professional Development module will be piloted in 2013-14. This innovative initiative comprises an optional 20-credit final-year module to be offered where there is currently no opportunity to undertake work-based learning.
- Date:
- Tuesday 26th March 2013
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- Learn about the latest staff updates within the College
- Date:
- Tuesday 26th March 2013
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- Over £200K has been directed by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via the Science and Security strand into a project on "The Political Effects of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Conflict and Cooperation within and between States", which is led by a POLSIS (Political Science and International Studies) team of Professor Nicholas Wheeler, Professor Stefan Wolff and Dr David Dunn.
- Date:
- Tuesday 26th March 2013
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- Lisa Goodson recently delivered a seminar with Jenny Phillimore, Ann Bolstridge and Ricky Joseph, about the new Practitioner Research Programme (PRP). The PRP is one of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity's (IRiS) flagship projects which builds on learning from an established Community Research model developed in the School of Social Policy.
- Date:
- Tuesday 26th March 2013
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- After seven years, Professor Martin Powell, Health Services Management Centre, has recently stepped down as the longstanding editor of Social Policy and Administration, a well known international Social Policy journal.
- Date:
- Tuesday 26th March 2013
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- The Development and Alumni and Business Engagement Office (DABE) are currently gathering content suggestions for the 2013 issue of the Birmingham Magazine, our flagship publication, which is sent to more than 170,000 alumni and friends of the University each year.
- Date:
- Monday 25th March 2013
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- Do you know a member of staff or small team who deserve to win a prize for their teaching or work in supporting students' learning? If you would like to nominate a member of academic or support staff, or a small team, please prepare a short statement (maximum 300 words) explaining why you believe the nominee(s) to be deserving of the award. You should ask your nominee(s) to indicate in an email or similar that he/she/they agree to being nominated.
- Date:
- Monday 18th March 2013