Michael’s book Childhood, Culture and Society in a global context has just been published by Sage.

This new text focuses on the most pressing topics in the field, providing a multifaceted and extensive analysis of the study of children and childhood.

As one reviewer has commented ‘A major contribution to childhood studies!’ William A. Corsaro, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University

for more detail: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/childhood-culture-and-society/book243262#description

Centre of Education Studies, University of Warwick, announces the ‘Bright Future Scholarship’ to support exceptional students from Hong Kong on the Global Education and International Development one year taught Master’s programme https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/prospective/postgraduate/taught/geid

Five valuable scholarships will be awarded for the 2018/19 intake up to the value of GBP£10,000 each (to contribute towards fees)

Eligibility: To be eligible for an award, applicants should be outstanding students and permanent residents of the Hong Kong. The scholarship is open to new entrants to the University of Warwick starting in October 2018. Continuing students and those already holding an MA/MSc are not eligible to apply. Candidates are required to have applied to the Global Education and International Development MA programme and received an offer of a place from the University of Warwick.

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/prospective/postgraduate/taught/geid/geids

Deadline for applications: 1st July 2018

CES Postgraduate Conference 2018

Centre for Education Studies/GRP International Development co-hosted research seminar

Wednesday 23^rd May, 2018, 1:00-2:00pm

Venue: Room C1.11, Centre for Education Studies, Social Sciences Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL

“Measuring education for the Sustainable Development Goals: Negative capabilities and struggles over accountability”

Professor Elaine Unterhalter, UCL Institute of Education

Leslie Francis, David Lankshear and Ursula McKenna have received £42,000 from the Warwick Impact Fund for the project, ‘Assessing the impact on policy and performance of the Student Voice Project: A three-year research programme among year-five and year-six students in Anglican primary schools in Wales’, which started 1 April 2018.

Leslie Francis, Tania ap Sion and Ursula McKenna have received £7,000 from the Warwick Ventures Fund for the project, ‘Embedding attitudes to religious diversity research findings in the school curriculum’ which started 1 May 2018. See https://warwick.ac.uk/services/ventures/news/ideas_fund_supporting for an article announcing the award.