BSA Postgraduate Forum Newsletter – July 2006
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - BSA Postgraduate Summer School
2006
Sociological Futures
Dates: 29th August to 1st September
Venue: School of Law and Social Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian
University
The Summer School is FREE and open to postgraduate student members
of the BSA. New members are eligible to apply. All applications are
considered on their merit and content before the 35 limited places
allocated. Places are not awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. If
you wish to be considered, please ensure that you complete and return
your application by Friday, 21st July 2006.
For further information and how to apply see
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/students/SummerSchool.htm
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POSTGRADUATE SOCIOLOGIST WANTED
The National Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics at
the University of Birmingham is keen to encourage more postgraduate
sociology students to engage with its work. In particular we would like
a student (or two) to join the Sociology reference group. A reference
group is established for each of the three disciplines 'in order to
create a strong sense of ownership of the Centre and to provide
constructive critiques of its work'. The Group is chaired by Rob Mears
and meets twice a year, once in Birmingham and usually in London.
Travel
expenses are paid and it is your chance to influence the work of the
Subject Centre in such a way that the interests of postgraduates are
properly represented. More information on the work of the Centre can be
found at http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/
If interested, please contact Professor Robert Mears:
r.mears@bathspa.ac.uk,
01225 875665
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY ONLINE (MSo)
Medical Sociology online is now seeking POSTGRADUATE
RESEARCH ABSTRACTS and MASTERS AND PhD AWARDS
CONGRATULATIONS for the Autumn 2006 issue.
This section of MSo provides the opportunity for postgraduate
researchers to
publicise their research and to create networking opportunities with other
researchers in the field.
Please access the links via the BSA web site Britsoc.co.uk, then click on
Specialisms, Medical Sociology Study Group, MSo for full submission
details, or click on the link below:
http://www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/90
All submissions should be sent to the editors by email as Microsoft Word
attachments to MSo@liv.ac.uk.
DEADLINE FOR THE AUTUMN EDITION - 29th SEPTEMBER 2006
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RESEARCHING CONTEMPORARY CITIES: POSTGRADUATE
E-CONFERENCE (November 2006)
www.wun.ac.uk/rcc
Processes of urban change have been widely analysed by researchers and
graduate students across the disciplines of sociology, geography,
planning, urban studies, labour studies, politics and beyond.
This ground-breaking free-to-access e-conference series, sponsored by
the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) and coordinated by
geography PhD students at the University of Manchester, will examine
the vitally important ways in which various actors and institutions in
cities across the world experience and (re)shape processes of economic
and political restructuring.
The e-conference will be available to view on big-screens at the
following WUN universities:
o University of Manchester
o University of Bergen
o University of Bristol
o University of California, San Diego
o University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
o University of Leeds
o University of Oslo
o Penn State University
o University of Sheffield
o University of Southampton
o Utrecht University
o University of Washington Seattle
o University of Wisconsin-Madison
o University of York
Non-WUN affiliated universities can also show the e-conference on
screens and non-WUN university students can attend the showing at the
above WUN universities. Furthermore, the conference can be accessed
using Access Grid via your personal computer free-of-charge.
A CALL FOR PAPERS
You are invited to present at and attend the free-to-access video
conference sessions through Access Grid technology. The sessions will
take place on the following dates:
REGULATING THE CITY
Thursday 2nd November: 4-6.30PM GMT (10AM-12.30 CT)
Key themes: Urban governance, New Public Management,
neoliberalisation, regeneration, social control, gentrification
WORKING IN THE CITY
Thursday 9th November: 4-6.30PM GMT (10AM-12.30 CT)
Key themes: Restructuring urban labour markets, the working poor,
informal economies, working cultures and identities
ORGANISING IN THE CITY
Thursday 16th November: 4-6.30PM GMT (10AM-12.30 CT)
Key themes: Urban social movements, organised labour, political protest,
housing issues, public services, identity politics
Postgraduate students from any academic institution and any discipline
are invited to present a paper at these sessions. Simply e-mail an abstract
of 400 words (together with six keywords and the relevant session name)
to mary.whowell@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk. The abstract deadline is
July 14th 2006.
For further information on RCC and the e-conference please contact
Mary Whowell (mary.whowell@postgrad.manchester).
Information on RCC and the e-conference is also available at
www.wun.ac.uk/rcc
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The University of Manchester
Centre for International Politics Postgraduate Conference
19th January 2007
World Orders and Global Governance: New Perspectives and Challenges
The study of international politics is constantly being reinvigorated by the
approaches and issues developed by postgraduate students. The
conference provides a forum to facilitate the discussion and further
development of a wide range of innovative research agendas currently
being pursued by postgraduates.
Themes may include:
 US hegemony
 Globalisation
 Resistance
 heory and practice
 The role of civil society
 The War on Terror
 The political economy of development
The conference welcomes paper and panel proposals from all
perspectives and approaches to international politics. There will be an
informal and flexible format for presentations, providing the opportunity
to gain experience in presenting work and receiving feedback. We
therefore invite papers at all stages of development - works in progress,
recently completed research, reflections on carrying out fieldwork, PhD
chapters, and potential publications as well as the more traditional
conference paper.
Selected papers will be considered for publication as part of the working
paper series produced by the Centre for International Politics and in
Political Perspectives (an online journal edited by postgraduate students
at Manchester).
Those not wishing to give papers are also welcome to attend. Further
details are available on the conference website
http://www.socialsciences.man.ac.uk/politics/events/ or you may email us
at cipconference@manchester.ac.uk
Please forward abstracts of 300 words to the email address by 29 th
September 2006
Alternatively you may contact us at: CIP Postgraduate Conference,
Politics, the University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13
9PL, United Kingdom.
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If you know of any sociological event that would be of interest to your
fellow BSA postgraduate members, please bring this to our attention so
we can let them know. More generally, we are here to represent the
interests and views of BSA postgraduate members. If you have any
issues you would like raised, complaints or praise to convey, or
suggestions as to how the BSA can best serve its postgraduate members,
please get in touch!
Becky Barnes becky.barnes2@ntlworld.com
David Mellor MellorD@cardiff.ac.uk
Kerrin Clapton Kerrin.Clapton@blueyonder.co.uk
Ruth Lewis r.lewis@ed.ac.uk