Tuesday 29th September
Imaginative and creative space for young people: does participating in community performing arts make a difference
Speakers include:
CIS has completed a piece of research exploring with 160 young people aged 16 – 25 years old, their experiences of participating in community-based performing arts projects based in four localities.
The intention of this seminar is to bring together academics and practitioners in order to draw on research and practice to explore what we know about:
Social Work Research Centre and Centre for Institutional Studies seminar series 2009/10
All seminars are on Wednesdays starting at 4pm until 5.30pm. Tea, coffee & biscuits will be served. All of the eight case studies presented in this seminar series have a common theme which explores the inter-relationship between social policies and practice.
Room numbers will follow.
Wednesday 14th October 2009
Stephen Briggs 'Seeking sanctuary and meaning': the contribution of a respite
centre, Maytree, to suicide prevention policy.
This seminar will discuss the implications of research of an innovative
respite centre for suicidal people, Maytree, which provides sanctuary and in
depth exploratory psychotherapy for people in a suicidal crisis. The findings
will be discussed in the context of current UK practices in mainstream health
care which show high levels of repeated suicidal behaviour.
Stephen Briggs is Consultant Social Worker and Vice Dean in the Tavistock and
Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and Professor of Social Work and Director of
the Centre for Social Work Research in UEL.
Wednesday 4th November 2009
Gladius Kulothungan 'Popper's situational logic as a lens for looking at
social entrepreneurship'
Deploying a situational analysis framework of Karl Popper and using key
concepts of Bourdieu - field, habitus and capitals - the research attempts a
sociological analysis of social entrepreneurship (as a form of social
action), this presentation develops a theoretical model that explains social
enterprise formation.
Gladius Kulothungan currently researches, teaches and facilitates social
entrepreneurship in the U.K. and abroad, and is an active member of the
Centre for Institutional Studies at UEL. His research interests include
organisational studies, applied ethics and social theory.
Wednesday 25th November 2009
Rachel Aldred and Daniela Tepe 'Cutting CO2 from cars in Europe: barriers to
change'
Road transport emissions formed approximately 20% of all the EU-15's
greenhouse gas emissions in 2004. Emissions from the sector are expected to
rise, which many other emissions sources are falling. Given this, transport
seems to be an area where it is particularly difficult to develop and
implement effective policy to tackle climate change. Our research seeks to
understand and analyse the policy processes around the EU-level regulation of
road transport CO2 emissions, focusing particularly on the UK and Germany.
Rachel Aldred is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology who joined UEL in September
2007. Daniela Tepe is working on the project as a postdoctoral research
fellow, funded by the UEL Promising Researcher Scheme.
Wednesday 9th December 2009
James Ramsay 'Establishing a Chaplaincy within UEL'
In this seminar problems relating to how UEL's Chaplaincy service can be
consolidated and extended to incorporate representation of faiths other than
Christianity, which do not have the organisational infrastructure and
resources of traditional Christian denominations, will be explored. It will
conclude with reflections on the motivation and assumptions that shape the
organisations involved, and the ways in which new synergies can re-shape
assumptions and practice.
The Revd James Ramsay was an Anglican Chaplain in Bucharest and is now
part-time at UEL, and priest-in-charge at St. Barnabas, Manor Park.
Wednesday 27th January 2010
Robin Mutter ‘Reconceptualising Family Group Conferencing’
Family Group Conferencing (FGC) reconfigures decision making processes for children subject to social services intervention so as to more fully involve and empower family members. Now that FGC has been utilised in some form in a growing number of social service agencies this research investigates whether there are varying perspectives on what FGC is or how it fits into current service contexts. The research maps the social worlds associated with these perspectives in relation to the organisational context.
Robin Mutter, PhD, lectures in Social Work and is currently BA Social Work Programme Leader at the University of East London. He has a background in children and families social work.
Wednesday 24th February 2010
Sally Sales ‘Knowing or transforming the self: a Foucauldian analysis of the contested emergence of open adoption practices between 1989 and 2000’
This presentation will present findings from an analysis of files from an adoption archive of one urban local authority 1989 to 2000 and traces the emergence and deployment of the open practices of letterbox and direct contact. Using Foucault’s notion of technologies of the self, the analysis will show how open adoption as a set of practices potentially reworks the paralysing place that original kinship occupies by extending the traditional parameters of family belonging.
Sally Sales has worked in the field of adoption for many years and recently completed her doctorate on the contested status of open adoption practices. She is also a psychoanalyst in private practice.
Wednesday 24th March 2010
Marta Rabikowska ‘Creativity and regeneration in an inner city setting’
This presentation will discuss the politics of creativity as a vehicle for regeneration in a multi ethnic and multi cultural community project in south east London. The project invites local groups to participate in creative activities to learn more about the area and to get to know each other. Using discourse analysis and Foucault's theory of power to understand the progress of this project, the findings will be discussed in the context of urban regeneration more generally.
Marta Rabikowska, PhD, is a senior lecturer in Media and Advertising at the University of East London and a community activist. Her research on community involves documentary making and voluntary work in Plumstead, London Borough of Greenwich.
Wednesday 5th May 2010
Alice Sampson ‘Implementation practice: towards an understanding of how practitioners deliver social programmes’
This presentation draws on research findings from a crime prevention project that took place on an inner city housing estate, The project did not meet its aims and objectives, and the study explores the decision making processes of the workers delivering the intervention to understand more about what went wrong and how we can learn from these experiences.
Alice Sampson is a criminologist and her research is focused on social policy issues in disadvantaged areas. She is director of the Centre for Institutional Studies.
Wednesday 26th May 2010
Roundtable discussion
This session will include all the presenters and using information from the presentations we will explore research, policy and practice issues and discuss how they may be developed into future research.
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