1st February 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 12.30 - 13.30
Talking Mats
After graduating as a Speech and Language Therapist Joan worked for the NHS for a number of years and in 1989 began working part time as a researcher in the Psychology Department at the University of Stirling. She has worked on over 30 research projects focusing on communication disability and has always been determined to use her research in a practical way and, together with colleagues, has developed training and resources for practitioners looking at various aspects of communication. In 2010 she received her PhD in Medical Sciences at Radboud University, Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In 2011 she was appointed as Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Stirling.
More: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/news/show_news.php?id=144
10th, 11th & 12th February 2012 - Room 3S27, Colin Bell Building
Writers' Retreat
Rowdy Yates has worked at the School of Applied Social Science for almost two decades. Prior to that he was founder-director of an innovative treatment service. As a manager and academic, he has been responsible for writing a varied range of publications from client pamphlets to journal articles. He has extensive experience of writing to order and to tight timescales. This is a two-and-a-half day writing event for staff and research postgraduate students using peer-support and focussing techniques to encourage a positive writing environment.
More: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/news/show_news.php?id=145
15th February 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 16.00 - 17.00
Multi-level Models
Multilevel models, missing data, latent classes and geographically weighted regression – what have we learned? A light-hearted review of 2011.
More: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/news/show_news.php?id=148
22nd February 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 12.30 - 14.00
Costing & Pricing Masterclass
SPEAKERS: Daniela is the RDM aligned to SASS and supports you with reviewing your research applications, costing and pricing and the preparation of tenders. Prior to joining the University, Debbie Miller was a senior management and economics consultant for over 10 years, four of these in Scotland, firstly for ekosgen and then as Managing Consultant for Fraser Associates. Her areas of expertise extend to feasibility studies, business development, strategy and action plan development, evaluation studies, project management and facilitation. In these roles, she has written a number of successful funding applications and won tenders.
ABSTRACT: There has been some debate in the School recently about whether we are simply too expensive to win tenders. Over the last year, we have lost some tenders but we have also been successful in winning some.
This masterclass will explain the difference between costs and price and what income the School requires to generate from research projects. It will provide an overview of what price certain funders expect to pay for our work and then focus on tenders in particular.
With Debbie’s past experience, she will be able to provide an insight into how consultancy firms would price for tenders and how tenderers will assess applications and make their value for money calculation. We will end by looking at an example of a successful tender and how the work was priced.
More: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/news/show_news.php?id=147
29th February 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 16.00 - 17.00
Multi-level Models
Modelling network dependencies at both the individual level and the organisational level: an example based on data for French oncology researchers
More: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/mark.tranmer/
7th March 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 16.00 - 17.00
Detraditionalisation
Detraditionalisation in Family Contexts: Parents, Grandparents, Siblings and Families using the British Household Panel Survey
14th March 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 16.00 - 17.00
HE Students in Colleges
New data on HE students in Colleges: The effects of the recession.
25th April 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 12.30 - 13.30
Bourdieu
Speaker: Bill Munro - Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Stirling
Abstract: The seminar will examine the work of Pierre Bourdieu. In particular it will look at problems of interpretation/misinterpretation relating to the incorporation of his work from the French theoretical field to an Anglo-American one. The paper will situate these problems within a more general account of what Bourdieu calls ‘allodoxic’ distortions caused by the international travel of theory (see Bourdieu, 1997). In order to counter misinterpretation, the paper offers a brief contextualization of Bourdieu’s theory and asks the question: What specific conditions existed within the French intellectual/academic field that allowed Bourdieu’s economy of social being to be possible?
More: www.dass.stir.ac.uk/staff/Dr-Bill-Munro/146
www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/jan/28/guardianobituaries.books
www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/bourdieu.htm
2nd May 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 12.30 - 13.30
Care: A Critical Review of Theory, Policy and Practice
Speaker: Kirstein Rummery is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Stirling, and has written critically about social care policy in the UK and comparatively, focussing particularly on its impact on disabled people, older people and women. This seminar draws together feminist and disability rights perspectives on 'care', and examines how to balance 'ethics' and 'justice' in a policy area fraught with conflict.'
Abstract: A critical review of theory, policy and practice “Care” is a source of critical tension in current social theory, and the policy and practice implications of that tension are evidenced in its current prominence on the political agenda of developed welfare states. This seminar will critically appraise current developments in the theory, policy and practice of care, drawing on interdisciplinary developments in political theory, sociology and social policy. Developing feminist and disability-rights theories, it will explore a critical synthesis of conflicting normative and theoretical positions regarding the giving and receiving of care, and of the ethics and justice of care. It will examine case studies of current comparative policy developments across a range of different welfare regimes, including the marketisation/commodification and de/re-familiaisation of care, exploring ideological and normative trends in the design of contemporary policies. It will discuss the impact of theory and policy on the practice of care, looking particularly at the issue of long-term care for disabled and older adults. It will conclude with an argument for the development of a citizenship-based approach to care that decouples it from individualistic and paternalistic paradigms that disempower those who give and receive care.
More: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/staff/Prof-Kirstein-Rummery/54
31st May 2012 - SASS Common Room, Colin Bell Building: 12.30 - 14.00
Music Therapy in Therapeutic Environments
Speaker: Eoin Coughlan began his professional career as a full-time musician, composer, and community-outreach music teacher. He features as a session musician on various albums and film scores along with releasing his own critically acclaimed albums. Following on from his role as the first Musician-in-Residence in Limerick (2006) and his first-class MA in Traditional Irish Music Performance (2006), Eoin developed his academic and practical interest in working with marginalised groups and, in particular, with clients in addiction treatment. The MSc in Drug and Alcohol Policy (2010) offered Eoin the opportunity to marry his previous experience and skills with academic, research and professional training in the area of addiction treatment. Eoin is currently studying for a PhD at Trinity College Dublin.
Abstract:This research project explores the possibility of using music as an intervention within therapeutic environments. The study is situated in the context of current literature in the fields of music therapy, addiction studies, psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry and ethnomusicology. The tool used were, song writing and lyric analysis. The participating clients in this research clearly saw the value of music relative to their own situations and indeed findings from this research indicate that such clients are unreservedly positive about the therapeutic value of music as therapy. The findings suggest that while music is welcomed and valued in a therapeutic environment by both professionals and clients, music therapy, in its clinical form, is not a discipline that has entered the sphere of addiction treatment in Ireland in any significant way. The findings also suggest that music offers motivation and proves to be a tool for retaining clients in treatment.
More:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6lhjLelS0Y
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/blas/blasceoil/series1/eoin_coughlan.shtml
Earlier Seminars
Joe Crawford - 7th December 2011 - What's so critical about critical thinking?
Chris Johnson - 16th November 2011 - Counselling the Elderly - A Focus on the Elderly Addict
Rowena Murray - 5th October 2011 - Workshop/Masterclass: Academic Writing
22nd February 2010 - Interrogating harm and abuse. Symposium 4 - for full details see Symposium website: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/old-site/lifespan/
19th May 2010 - Citizenship and Gender. SASS Keyword Seminar - for full details see Symposium website: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/old-site/gender/
Nancy Lombard - 25th May 2010 - How younger people construct & understand male violence against women
Piotr Michon - 17th August 2010 - The happiness of marathon runners
6-7th September 2010 - The Impact of New Public Management Policies: A Comparison of British and Japanese Experiences. 2 day conference - for full details see Conference website: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/old-site/esrc-jsps/
Paul Henman - 13th October 2010 - Social policy down under: a seriously irreverant survey of recent debates and reforms in Australia
25th November 2010 - Kinship in Practice: A SASS Keyword Seminar (Childhoods, Families & Relationships Research Group) - for full details see Seminar website: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/old-site/kinship/
Iain Atherton - 24th January 2011 - AQMeN Seminar (Social Surveys & Social Statistics Research Group): Researching cancer with the Scottish Health Survey
Lucinda Platt - 11th February 2011 - AQMeN Seminar (Social Surveys & Social Statistics Research Group): Longitudinal research and ethnic group comparisons, challenges, findings and future possibilities
David Bell - 23rd February 2011 - AQMeN Seminar (Social Surveys & Social Statistics Research Group): Exploring Data Fusion
17th March 2011 - Retention and Recovery Capital: A SASS Keyword Seminar (Scottish Addiction Studies Research Group) - for full details see Seminar website: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/old-site/recovery/
Susan Murray - 21st March 2011 - AQMeN Seminar (Social Surveys & Social Statistics Research Group): Contemporary Youth Transitions in Scotland: A longitudinal analysis using the 'Living in Scotland' survey
David Griffiths - 6th April 2011 - AQMeN Seminar (Social Surveys & Social Statistics Research Group): Social Networks and Occupational Structures
Justine Schneider - 13th April 2011 - Making a Drama: Exploring the potential of partnership between health services research and theatre
Christopher Playford - 4th May 2011 - AQMeN Seminar (Social Surveys & Social Statistics Research Group): Examining GCSE Attainment with Latent Class Approaches
PLEASE NOTE: MANY OF THESE PRESENTATIONS ARE AVAILABLE VIA "LISTEN-AGAIN" ON OUR SASS SEMINAR RADIO:
No radio recording is available for this seminar due to commercial sensitivity. But you can download the slides here