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Staff from SROAS, Graduate School and Admissions will cover:

• Decision-making: is a master’s right for me?
• What are the main sources of funding for Master’s study? Including scholarships available across the university (including Warwick Taught Master’s Scholarships), PG loans, charitable and part-funding, as well as other ways to make it add up
• How to budget for master’s study?

Timeline:

• 15:00 – 15:30 presentation
• 15:30 – 15:45 Q&A
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• Considering Master’s study in 2017 (or potentially further ahead)
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• Looking for key contacts and sources of guidance

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The Philosophy of Education of Great Britain Annual Conference will be held from 31st March-2nd April at New College, Oxford. CES Assistant Professor Dr Emma Williams is a keynote speaker at the conference along with with Professor James Tooley (Newcastle University, UK) and Professor Jan Masschelein, (University of Leuven, Belgium). Dr Emma Willaims will be exploring ideas from her book 'The Ways We Think' in relation to the kind of thinking that can and should be 'common' to schools today.

More details about the conference can be found here.

Read CES Undergraduate Student Jasmine Steen's latest blog on down time at University.

Read the blog here.

Exploring children’s encounters with ‘the political’ at home: early findings from a comparative ethnography on childhood and public life

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas (University of Sussex)

Date: Wednesday 8th March 2017

Time: 1pm - 2.30pm

Venue: C1.11/15

Email L.Anderson.1@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to attend the seminar.

The importance of political talk for democratic well-being, and its endurance over time, has long been established both theoretically and empirically. The role of political talk is also a recognised mediator of political socialisation, and children’s initial encounters with the political. In this presentation, I explore the dynamics of political talk in family life with a particular focus on the temporality of political talk. Drawing on a sub-sample of families from a comparative ethnography exploring the relationships between childhood and public life in three cities (Athens, Hyderabad, London), I explore what political talk looks like across generations and in particular how it emerges in the lives of younger children. The analysis contributes to an understanding of the emergence and dynamics of political talk across time and suggests that before political talk becomes categorised as such, it often emerges in gestures that eschew easy categorisation.

Biography

Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Sussex and the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Connectors Study, a study that looks at the relationship between childhood and public life. She has carried out research on systems for social support especially for children, young people and families experiencing difficulties in their lives (domestic violence, social exclusion, and mental health) and has written on the lived experience of participating in such support systems. Her recent research has turned towards understanding encounters, experiences, and engagements with ’the political’ in everyday childhoods and family life in different national-cultural contexts. You can read more about the Connectors Study here: https://connectorsstudy.wordpress.com