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Job opportunity: Research Associate/Senior Research Associate (Cambridge)
Behaviour Change By Design
University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
We are seeking two RA/SRA’s to join the Behaviour Change by Design team. See below for further details on the posts we’re recruiting to:
Research Associate/Senior Research Associate* in Social or Behavioural Sciences
We seek a talented researcher to join a new four year Wellcome funded work programme on behaviour change. The successful post-holder will join a new team to develop and lead a series of planned activities to help forge collaborative relationships between policy makers and researchers in order to maximise the implementation of evidence generated by our research programme on changing behaviour by re-designing environments. The closing date for this post is: 31st January 2018, with interviews to be held on the 9th February 2018. For further details and to apply, click here.
Research Associate/Senior Research Associate
We are also recruiting for a health researcher to join a new Wellcome funded work programme on behaviour change. The project is funded for four years starting in January 2018. The successful post-holder will carry out and develop an agreed programme of research across the collaborating institutions of the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol and the multitude of sites in which field studies will be conducted including Melbourne (Australia), as well as England, Scotland and Wales. The closing date for this post is: 30th January, with interviews to be held on the 9th February. For further details and to apply, click here.
For further information about our research programme please see our new website:
http://www.behaviourchangebydesign.iph.cam.ac.uk/we-are-currently-recruiting/
Toxic Expertise animated explainer video now live!
I am pleased to say our first video is now on the EC Research and Innovation Channel.
To help increase awareness and engagement with our project please share this video far and wide. The video gaining the most LIKEs (not just views) on this channel will win and likes need to be received by mid-April. Winning this will rapidly increase national and international visibility of the project.
Thank you so much your support. Between staff, students and Departmental and University level social media channels we can create fantastic exposure and public engagement as part of our project's impact pathway.
Best Wishes,
India
Toxic Expertise Project Administrator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PEiZYNtck8&index=11&list=PLvpwIjZTs-LjHDvRTqlyjfLeflXDak5er
Challenges in the Study of Hong Kong History: 2nd Early Career & Postgraduate Workshop
Dr Loretta Lou recently attended this event at the University of Bristol. Here's her account of the day:
On Friday I presented my recently published article ‘In the Absence of a Peasantry, What, Then, Is a Hong Kong Farmer?’ at the HKHP Workshop. I used this opportunity the publicize my new publication among a group of Hong Kong specialists. The talk was well received and I had fruitful exchanges with my fellow speakers about non-elites’ contributions to Hong Kong’s social and economic development; Hong Kong’s development during the post-war years; transnational Hong Kong; and the place of Hong Kong in British Empire. We’ve exchanged contacts for future collaborations. During the roundtable discussion, I also had a chance to learn from former BBC Hong Kong-based journalist Vaudine England about writing academic books for general audiences.
Image of Loretta presenting her paper
Morteza Hashemi receives Farabi International Award
Morteza Hashemi, a recent PhD graduate from Warwick’s Sociology department, has been awarded the Farabi International Award, the highest honour for research in the humanities and social sciences given by the Iranian government.
The award was for Morteza’s first book (Theism and Atheism in a Post-Secular Age, Palgrave 2017), based on the PhD thesis, which was supervised by Professor Steve Fuller and Dr Claire Blencowe.
The awards ceremony took place on 14 January 2018 in Tehran, and the president Hassan Rouhani was the keynote speaker.
Morteza is currently an Early Career Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Edinburgh.
New publication announcement: New Religious Movements and Counselling: Academic, Professional and Personal Perspectives
We are very pleased to announce that Emeritus Professor Jim Beckford's new book is now available (both in hardback and e-book format):
ISBN: 978-1-4724-7271-7
"Hidden Histories" Alternative Lecture Series
Hidden Histories is an alternative lecture series run by staff and students at Warwick. The series is hosted by the Students' Union, and is supported by Sociology, as well as English and Comparative Literary Studies, History, PAIS, and the School for Cross-Faculty studies.
The first lecture in the series will take place on 25 Jan at 19:00 in SO.21.
Sociology colleagues attend the Athena Swan awards ceremony
Following the award of the Athena SWAN bronze award, Maria, Nickie, and Ruth attended the awards ceremony in Glasgow to accept the award.
From L - R: Dr Maria do Mar Pereira, Professor Nickie Charles, and Dr Ruth Pearce.
- Find out more about the Athena SWAN award on the Equality Challenge Unit website.
- Find out more about the department's work towards the award (and following the award!) on our Athena SWAN webpage.
Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour - event roundup
Over the past few months, Professor Akwugo Emejulu has worked on a range of events focused on Black Feminism, intersectionality, and higher education.
Conference: Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour - Amsterdam
On 7th October 2017 in Amsterdam, Prof. Emejulu co-organised the 2nd Annual Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe conference. This event attracted 159 women of colour artists, activists, practitioners and scholars from across Europe and North America.
- Check out the live tweets from the day here: https://storify.com/Akwugo/black-feminism-womanism-politics-of-women-of-colou
- The conference programme here https://woceuropeconference.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/woceurope-programme-final-5oct17.pdf
- and some critical reflections on the day from conference participants here https://woceuropeconference.wordpress.com/blog/
Keynote: Intersectionality: A Challenge to the Academy - Equality Challenge Unit
Prof. Emejulu was invited to give a keynote talk, 'Intersectionality: A Challenge to the Academy', to the Equality Challenge Unit's annual conference on 7th November 2017 in Birmingham. Watch her talk on YouTube.
Panel: Black Feminism and Post-Cyber Feminism - Institute of Contemporary Arts
On 18th November 2017 at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London, Prof. Emejulu co-organised and chaired the event, Black Feminism and Post-Cyber Feminism as part of the Post-Cyber Feminist International season at the ICA. Listen to the panel discussion on the ICA website.
Keynote lecture: Towards a Fugitive Feminism - Gender Research Centre Annual Lecture
On 29th November at the University of Bristol, Prof. Emejulu gave the Gender Research Centre Annual Lecture, 'Towards a Fugitive Feminism?'.
Hila Zaban: "Diaspora Jews shouldn't be Israel's top priority"
This week Dr Hila Zaban published an article in Haaretz (an Israeli newspaper which is equivalent to The Guardian) following her current research on British Jews.
The article was published in Hebrew first and also in the English edition available below.
Hila has also been invited to discuss the topic on an Israeli TV show two weeks from now.
- Download the article (PDF)
Professor Akwugo Emejulu in the THE: Target UK’s black female professor deficit ‘with bespoke strategy’
Ahead of her keynote address at the ECU’s annual conference (Birmingham, 6 - 7 Novembemer 2017), Professor Emejulu spoke to the Times Higher about tackling inequalities in Higher Education.