INFORMATION & UPDATES UPDATES & INFORMATION EVENTS 20 OCTOBER World Statistics Day


This one-day event marks the first worldwide celebration of the role and achievements of official statistics at both national and international level. Applied Quantitative Methods Network is arranging this seminar to bring together leading figures involved in upholding the quality and integrity of statistical outputs. The ways in which official statistics are used by the outside world as well as the importance of consultation with users will be discussed. aqmen.ac.uk/events/ wsd2010


27 OCTOBER


Using knowledge for social good


This partnership event between the Third Sector Research Centre and the Association for University Research and Industry links will allow participants to discuss ethical issues raised by research and explore how knowledge exchange can be used to achieve positive outcomes. Research on the ‘third sector’ or ‘civil society’ explores a number of complex issues which may have ethical implications when translated into practice. www.tsrc .ac.uk/News/Events/tabid/350/Default.asp


ONGOING


Looking for an expert on Eastern Europe?


A collaboration of leading universities established a partnership to lead research on urgent questions for today, train experts and set the research agenda for tomorrow. An online ‘Database of Expertise’ with over 120 registered professionals has been created by the Centre for East European Language- Based Area Studies. This is a vital resource for anyone wishing to locate an expert on Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. www.ceelbas .ac.uk/databaseofexpert


People


PROFESSOR ROBERT MILLER Professor Robert Miller, Deputy Director of Access, Research, Knowledge, a Social and Political Archive for Northern Ireland, has been appointed to the


Advisory Board of the European Commission Framework 7 collaborative research project, ENRI- East. This is a cross-national study of social and ethnic groups whose goal is to develop an understanding of how European identities and regional cultures are formed.


DR YVETTE TAYLOR


Dr Yvette Taylor, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, has received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholars Award to


be held at Rutgers University from September 2010 to July 2011. Two awards are offered to UK academics to undertake lecturing and/or research at any accredited US institution. The award will fund her project ‘Just Cause, or Impediment? Costs of Civic Acceptance’, which will explore intersections of class, gender and race in the negotiation of same-sex rights.


PROFESSOR BRYAN WYNNE The prestigious J D Bernal Prize has been awarded to Brian Wynne, Professor of Science Studies at the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of


Genomics (Cesagen) and the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) at Lancaster University, for his contribution to the social studies of science. The Bernal Prize is the highest honour given by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Previous recipients include Donna Haraway, Karin Knorr Cetina, Sheila Jasanoff, Joseph Needham, Robert Merton, Thomas Kuhn, and Mary Douglas.


30 SOCIETY NOW AUTUMN 2010 NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS


The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has appointed two members to the ESRC Council. Martin Coleman is the Head of Antitrust, Competition and Regulatory Practice for Norton Rose LLP. He has been appointed from 1 April 2010 to 31 July 2013. David Martin is a Professor in the School of Geography, University of Southampton, Co-Director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods and the co-ordinator of the ESRC Census Programme. He has been appointed from 1 August 2010 to 21 July 2013.


PROFESSOR STEVE YEARLEY Professor Steve Yearley, Director of the ESRC Genomics Forum, has been invited to serve as an international adviser to the


American Sociological


Association’s Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change, which starts work later this year. The task force, established in February 2010, will produce a report on how society is organised, how we commute, consume and communicate, and the effect this has on climate change issues.


PROFESSOR GRAHAM LOOMES Professor Graham Loomes, Department of Economics, has been elected as a Fellow to the British Academy, acknowledging his research into the


theoretical and empirical analysis of people’s values, judgments and decisions. He will join the other elected fellows to take a lead in representing the humanities and social sciences and contribute to public policy and debate.


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