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THE FAIR office is temporarily located in Room TM1-53, and people enquiring about the support we can offer should ask there first.
It cannot be permanently open until the WLRI move from Jewry St to the Tower, but once that happens it will be. In the meantime, if we are not there when you have a question,
please email us at [email protected] or at the emails below.
FAIR’s own staff are: qDirector, Professor Steve Jefferys
([email protected]) qAdministrative manager, Aruna
Dudhia ([email protected]) q Finance manager, Linda Butcher
Issue 1 October 2012
Faculty of Social Sciences
and Humanities
Playing FAIRThe Faculty Advanced Institute of
Research hit the ground running
in August 2012, work ing on 27
different projects worth a total
value of £3.5m, eight of which
are EU funded. In August and
September FAIR staff submitted
six new grant proposals for a total
of just over £1m, and supported
the faculty’s new ORACLE evalu
ation project launch at the GLA
(September 24), and jointly organ
ised a major conference on the 2011
riots with South Bank University.
Ayo Mansaray (IPSE-FAIR) chairs a plenary conference session on last year’s riots on September 28. Speakers shown are Les Back, Ojeqaku Nwabuzo, Lisa McKenzie, Gillian Slovo and Clifford Stott
38 STAFF – ONE OF THE LARGEST GROUPS IN U K H E PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH APPLIED SOCIAL RESEARCHBringing together the FSSH externally-funded research centres and institutes, FAIR’s 38 staff are one of the largest concentrations of researchers focused on promoting social justice through applied social research in the whole higher education sector.
FAIR’s mission is to maintain and strengthen the national and international reputations of its component parts, to share research resources both between the units and with all of the FSSH faculty and students, and to strengthen the links between teaching and research.
Come to the FAIR – we’ll soon move on
UPCOMING FAIR EVENTSqFAIR-IPSE runs a seminar series
specifically for doctoral research students on Mondays, 5-6.30pm (to include time for chat over wine/refreshments/nibbles). The next seminar is on 8 October, followed by seminars on 19 November and 14 January. If you would like to be put on the mailing list for these seminars, please email Angela Kamara ([email protected])
qThe next seminar in the FAIR-IPSE ESRC seminar series on ‘New
Perspectives on Education and Culture’, organised in collaboration with Plymouth University, will take place on Wednesday 24 October at the NUT on Teaching Cultures. See: http://educationandculture.wordpress.com/
qFAIR-IPSE’s Carole Leathwood is convening the next seminar for the
SRHE Higher Education Policy Network here at Londonmet on Friday 26 October, 1-4pm. The title of this event is ‘Pedagogy, Performance and E/quality: Challenges for Higher Education Policy’. See www.srhe.ac.uk/events/details.asp?eid=55bn It is free to Londonmet staff and students, but places must be booked.
WE WANT TO KNOW YOUR RESEARCH INTERESTSFAIR will be shortly asking all faculty staff to list their research interests so that when new projects and bids are being considered, the FAIR team can instantly identify who might be interested in helping work on the bid and if
successful, working on externally-funded projects.
Such a list will also enable FAIR to share the information immediately we know of calls for research in particular specialist areas in which faculty staff have indicated their interest and experience.
Remembering ten years of researchFAIR-WLRI IS holding its tenth anni-versary event on the afternoon and evening of Thursday 22 November in TM1-20 (above the Henry Thomas room and the main Tower Building entrance) and TG-02 and TG-03 opposite the Costa coffee outlet.
The open afternoon will begin at 12.30pm with a keynote address by Professor Carole Thornley, joint author of Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism: New Labour, Economic Policy and the Abject State, and will continue with ‘the best of
Working Lives Research Institute research’, covering such themes as racism, migration, representation and identity.
Films and photographic exhibi-tions from the WLRI will also be on display, and the afternoon will end with a Reception from 5.30 pm in the Tower Boardroom.
q Full details of the day will be distributed soon, but please email Aruna Dudhia if you are coming to the reception ([email protected]).
Research surgeriesLead researchers from each of FAIR units are holding nine ‘research surgery’ half-days when FSSH faculty
are invited to come and discuss their research ideas and interests with FAIR leading researchers.
DAY DATE TIME RI WHO ROOM
Tuesday 30 Oct 1.30-4.30pm WLRl Sonia McKay TM1-53
Wednesday 21 Nov 10am-1pm IPSE Carole Leathwood TM1-57
Tuesday 22 Jan 10am-1pm ISET Nick Mai TM1-50
Wednesday 13 Feb 1.30-4.30pm ISET Nick Mai TM1-50
Tuesday 05 Mar 10am-1pm IPSE Carole Leathwood TM1-58
Thursday 04 Apr 1.30-4.30pm FAIR Steve Jefferys TM1-53
Monday 29 Apr 10am-1pm CWASU Liz Kelly TM1-82
Thursday 16 May 1.30-4.30pm FAIR Steve Jefferys TM1-53
Monday 24 Jun 10am-1pm CWASU LIZ Kelly TM1-82
WHO’S WHO IN FAIR?FAIR comprises all staff attached to these research institutes and units:
q Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) Director: Professor Liz Kelly ([email protected])
qHuman Rights and Social Justice Research Institute (HRSJ) Professor Phil Leach ([email protected]) Karen Bennett ([email protected])
qInstitute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) Director: Professor Carole Leathwood ([email protected])
qInstitute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET) Lead researcher: Dr Nick Mai ([email protected])
qLearning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) Lead researcher: Carl Smith ([email protected])
qWorking Lives Research Institute (WLRI) Director: Professor Steve Jefferys ([email protected]) Lead researcher: Professor Sonia McKay ([email protected])
FAIR-ISET’s Professor Emeritus Lyn Thomas spoke to a lunchtime seminar organised by the WLRI at Jewry St on September 21 about the challenges of being a white working class ‘migrant’ from Wolverhampton
New research projects q FSSH’s Georgie Parry-Crooke launched the new Project
Oracle with the GLA’s Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture, the acting CEO of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, the Director of Policy, ESRC and LondonMet’s VC at the GLA on 24 September. This year-long FAIR project is funded by the GLA and ESRC and involves Georgie and HRSJ cooperating with several voluntary sector organisations and UCL to ‘understand and share what really works’ in youth programmes in London. For more information contact [email protected] or look at the website www.project-oracle.com
q FAIR-WLRI’s Leroi Henry, Steve Jefferys and Leena Kumarappan kicked off a year-long EU-funded study of how trade unions Challenge Racism at Work (CRAW) on October 1. Partnered in the UK by the TUC, Unite, UNISON and PCS, this five-country study revisits the sectors and countries first
researched by the WLRI in an EU FP5 project between 2003 and 2005.
q FAIR-CWASU’s Liz Kelly and Maddy Coy started work on a new project funded by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner in August. This aims to see how young people understand consent to sexual activity and how this shapes their expectations, choices and experiences.
q FAIR-HRSJ’s Karen Bennett has just started work on a European Parliament funded study to assess to what extent, and by what means, European Union (EU) delegations and EU member states are effectively implementing the 2008 revised European Union Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders (EUGHRD) as an integrated part of their diplomatic mission work in three countries of different geographic regions.
FAIR STAFFKAREN BENNETT Senior Research Fellow HRSJ
JAWAD BOTMEH Administration and Communications Research Manager WLRI
LINDA BUTCHER Finance Manager FAIR
TERESA CARBAJO GARCIA Project Administrator IPSE
NICK CLARK Senior Research Fellow WLRI
GEMMA COLLINS Administrator CWASU
SYLVIE CONTREPOIS Reader WLRI
MADELEINE COY Deputy Director CWASU
ALESSANDRA DAL SECCO Research Fellow CWASU
ARUNA DUDHIA Administrative Manager FAIR/HRSJ
LEROI HENRY Senior Research Fellow WLRI
SUMI HOLLINGWORTH Senior Research Fellow IPSE
KARA JARROLD Research Fellow CWASU
STEVE JEFFERYS Director FAIR
ANGELA KAMARA Project Administrator IPSE
JANROJ KELES Research Fellow WLRI
LIZ KELLY Director CWASU
RENATE KLEIN Professor CWASU
LEENA KUMARAPPAN Research Fellow WLRI
CAROLE LEATHWOOD Director IPSE
KERRY LEE Research Fellow CWASU
JO LOVETT Research Fellow CWASU
NICK MAI Reader in Migration Studies ISET
AYO A. MANSARAY Senior Research Fellow IPSE
EUGENIA MARKOVA Senior Research Fellow WLRI
SONIA McKAY Professor WLRI
DR. TONY MURRAY ISET Director Irish Studies Centre
JAYNE OSGOOD Reader IPSE
ANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU Research Fellow WLRI
COLIN RAINEY Administration Manager IPSE/LTRI
CILLA ROSS Reader WLRI
ALISTAIR ROSS Professor of Education IPSE
DAMHNAIT RUMNEY Administrator ISET
ROUSHANTHI SIVANESAN Finance Officer WLRI
CARL SMITH Lead Researcher LTRI
Dr. MONICA THRELFALL Reader ISET
MAX WATSON Administration and Communications Research Manager WLRI
