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Publications Sustainable Communities
Drawing on interdisciplinary research conducted across UK universities and with community-based groups, Researchers jointly funded by the ESRC and the Academy for Sustainable Communities offer insights into how local initiatives can enhance sustainable development and suggest imaginative, practical and accessible ways in which communities and built-environment professionals are working and learning together towards a more sustainable future. n Sustainable Communities: Skills and learning for place-making by Robert Rogerson, Sue Sadler, Anne Green and Cecilia Wong. ISBN: 978-1- 907396-13-7, (Paperback), 224pp, £18.99. For more
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The Labour Market in Winter
This collection of essays by Professor Paul Gregg and Professor Jonathan Wadsworth, senior research fellows in LSE’s ESRC Centre for Economic Performance’s labour markets programme, provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market, and the policy issues surrounding it, with a focus on the recent recession and its aftermath. The result is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic downturn and the Labour government’s record in the fields of employment, education and welfare. n The Labour Market in Winter by Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth. ISBN 978-0-19-958737- 7, (Hardback), 336pp, £30.00. For more information visit ukcatalogue.
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Regimes of Social Cohesion
Building on previous work on education, equality and social cohesion, Professor Andy Green Director of the ESRC Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies analyses the various mechanisms that hold different societies together and how these are withstanding the strains of the current economic crisis. In a highly interdisciplinary approach, drawing on evidence from historical sociology, political science and political economy, the authors identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed western and East Asian societies, each with specific institutional and cultural foundations. n Regimes of Social Cohesion by Andy Green and Jan Germen Janmaat. ISBN 978-0- 230290-13-6, (Hardback), 264pp, £55.00. For more information visit,
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Understanding Social
Research Social researching brings together a wide variety of research methods – both qualitative and quantitative – to help students and researchers to consider the relative benefits of adopting different approaches for their own research work. The authors from the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods identify the most appropriate methods to answer different research questions and also highlight areas where it might be fruitful to complement different methods with each other or exploit creative tensions between them. n Understanding Social Research by Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale. ISBN: 9781848601444 (Hardback), 264pp, £75. For more information visit,
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EVENTS 13-19 AUGUST
Writers and thinkers rubbing shoulders
The Genomics Forum is sponsoring a series of events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The audience is invited to participate in a panel discussion, ‘The kindness of strangers’, on altruism and a further debate will explore our ability to alter human biology in ‘Natural v Unnatural’. A special event for young adult researchers will explore the use of drugs including Ritalin to modify teenage behaviour. For information, visit www.
genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum/events/ edinburghinternationalbookfestival
23-26 AUGUST
Britain and China – their pasts, presents and futures
Convened by the British Inter-university China Centre, this conference will assess China’s relationship with Britain and its empire, and its legacy today. It will explore the diplomatic and politic relationship between the British and Chinese states, and the difference between their cultures. Many thousands of Chinese and British nationals now live in each others’ countries, fashioning a new set of relationships between the two cultures and societies. This conference will bring together this new and developing scholarship and map out new agendas for understanding the often brittle relationship between the two countries. Visit
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ac.uk/ConferencesandEvents/tabid/516/ Default.aspx
16 NOVEMBER
Who should run the countryside
The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (RELU) is planning an X-Factor style final for the RELU Awards at its end-of-programme conference. Delegates will view films of the project teams and their research and then vote to decide the overall winners in both categories.
Finalists include: Best example of Interdisciplinary Methodology and Scientific Innovation – Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies and Catchment Management for Protection of Water Resources. Best example of impact – Comparative assessment of environmental, community and nutritional impacts of consuming fruit and vegetables produced locally and overseas and Sustainable Uplands: learning to manage future change. For more information, visit
www.relu.ac.uk
SUMMER 2011 SOCIETY NOW 31 SPRING 2011
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