School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Partnerships
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences have a range of partnerships with other institutions and organisations, locally, nationally and internationally. These include:
- We have our very own charity, Global Development Links, operating out of UEL providing vocational training, work experience and volunteering opportunities to UEL students.
- Staff from the media and advertising area participate in the common staff and student research exchange project with universities from four different countries: Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Pecs, Hungary; Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Sociology, School of Social Studies, Masaryk University Brno; The Institute of Ethnology, the Slovak Academy of Sciences , Bratislava, Slovakia; Business Language College, University of Silesia.
- Anthropology has an undergraduate student exchange programme with the University of New Mexico, with students from each institution spending a year with their host. The Department of Anthropology at UNM is in the top ten in the US.
- The School is one of over a hundred European-wide University partners in ATHENA/AOIFE, a Socrates funded thematic network, developing the interdisciplinary field of gender, feminism and women's studies. The network produces reports, books ,seminars, conferences, postgraduate and IT programmes, a data-base and web site.
- We have a SOCRATES ERASMUS Undergraduate Exchange Programme with departments in a range of European universities.
- The Social Work area has a long-term partnership with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, where a range of post-qualifying courses are offered. at doctoral and other levels.
- Research 'partnerships' with other British universities include the British Modernism Research Seminar in partnership with Anglia Polytechnic University, Birkbeck, and King's College, University of London run at the Institute of English Studies, School for Advanced Study, University of London.
- Our MA Refugee Studies has a student exchange agreement with the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty of The American University In Cairo. This has been in operation since 1995, in which time we have exchanged some 100 students.
- The London East Research Institute has a range of partners.
- Important partnerships for the Centre for Institutional Studies (CIS) include the Institute for Volunteering Research, created by Volunteering England in association with CIS, and Bromley by Bow Centre and their ‘Communiversity’ project.
- Cultural Studies has a relationship with Columbia College, Chicago, which involves an ongoing faculty exchange and the current developments of models for student exchange, and online student debate and presentation.
- We currently validate 2 courses run by the Henderson Hospital PGCert (with the Cassel Hospital): Working With Personality Disorder and MA: The Dynamic Management of the Therapeutic Environment.The Henderson Hospital (part of South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust) is a therapeutic community run along democratic principles. It is a highly innovative form of treatment for people with complex emotional and behavioural needs (who have often been diagosed as suffering from 'personality disorder'). It has an international reputation as a pioneer in Democratic Therapeutic Community Treatment. Recognition of the effectiveness of the treatment offered to individuals with highly complex psychological needs has led to recognition by the Department of Health of the potential value of this innovative treatment. This has lead to the expansion of the service offered and in particular the training offered.
- We have a partnership with Villiers Park Educational Trust.
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