INFORMATION & UPDATES Publications
The Sage Handbook of Workplace Learning
This handbook provides an overview of the growing field of workplace learning which cuts across higher education, vocational education and training, post-compulsory secondary schooling, and lifelong education. It offers a broad yet insightful analysis of the range of theory, research and practical developments in workplace learning, including contributions from members of the ESRC-funded Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES). n The Sage Handbook of Workplace Learning by Margaret Malloch, Len Cairns, Karen Evans and Bridget N O’Connor. ISBN: 9781847875891 (Hardback), 504pp, £90. For more information visit, www.
uk.sagepub. com/books/ Book233097
Global Migration Governance
Until now, the emerging debate on global migration governance has lacked a clear analytical understanding of what this governance actually is. This book by Alexander Betts, a research associate of the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), brings together a group of the world’s leading experts to consider the different aspects of migration, offering an accessible introduction to the global governance of low-skilled labour migration, high-skilled labour migration, irregular migration and lifestyle migration. n Global Migration Governance by Alexander Betts. ISBN: 978- 0-19-960045-8 (Hardback), 368pp, £55. For more information visit, ukcatalogue.oup. com
EVENTS 14 APRIL
Inequalities in childhood and adolescent health
The ESRC Centre for Market and Public Organisation will be holding a workshop aimed at academics, population health practitioners and policymakers who are interested in understanding and reducing health inequalities in children and adolescents. The workshop will present methodological research that will enable particpants to better understand causal effects and possible biases in inequalities research. Applied research concerned with recent evidence on inequalities and the policy implications of these will also be presented. For more information, visit
www.bristol.
ac.uk/cmpo/events/2011/inequalities/ index.html
19-21 MAY Anticipating Risks and
Organising Risk Regulation Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early 21st century, with private and public sector organisations devoting resources to risk prevention and contingency planning to manage risk events. This book by Bridget Hutter, Professor of Risk Regulation at the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, shows how we can organise our social, organisational and regulatory policy systems to cope with the local and transnational risks we regularly encounter. n Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation by Bridget Hutter. ISBN: 9780521193092 (Hardback), 320pp, £55. For more information visit, www.
cambridge.org/gb/ knowledge/isbn/
Gods Behaving
Badly Western society is obsessed with the idols and gods of the red carpet. We worship their triumphs, judge their sins, and hold vigils at their deaths. Can our fixation on and devotion to celebrity culture itself be considered a religion? Gods Behaving Badly is written by ESRC/AHRC Religion and Society Programme Grant holder Pete Ward and examines the blurred boundary between popular culture and religion, and the creation of a confounding fusion of the sacred and the profane. n Gods Behaving Badly by Pete Ward. ISBN: 9780334043355 (Paperback), 168pp, £19.99. For more information visit,
www.scm- canterburypress.
co.uk/bookdetails. asp?
Urban conflicts This multidisciplinary conference aims to further our understanding of the nature and dynamics of ethno-national conflicts in divided cities. Equally, it questions how cities and everyday urban life are used and abused. It explores their potential for achieving the self-sustaining moderation, constructive channelling or resolution of conflict. A guided tour of Belfast’s ‘peace-walls’ and ‘shared spaces’ will be included. For more information, visit
www.arct.cam.ac.uk/ conflictincities/PDFs/Call for papers.pdf
26 JUNE – 1 JULY
UKERC summer school 2011
The UK Energy Research Centre is holding its seventh annual Energy Summer School. The school has been designed to give first- and second-year PhD students an understanding of energy systems as a whole and of pathways to low-carbon energy systems. This week-long course will help students understand and examine challenges involved in the transition to an affordable energy system. For more information, visit
www.ukerc.ac.uk/support/tiki-index. php?page=Summer+School+2011
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