Social and Policy Research News
A celebration of research
Colleagues and friends of Professor Eileen Green met on 6 July to mark her retirement and to celebrate her achievements in research. Professors Flis Henwood and Frances Griffiths spoke at the event about Professor Green's contribution to her research field over the course of her career.
Talk for Eileen Green (word - 23kb)
Gender and technology talk (word - 29kb)
Gender and technology presentation (powerpoint - 1mb)
Collage (powerpoint - 2mb)
Exploring the urban-rural digital divide
Poor internet access is leaving residents of some rural East Cleveland villages feeling disadvantaged compared to their urban neighbours, according to new research.
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Citizenship
Stewart Martin has been awarded an EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Research in the Wild grant of £250,000 for his project What Citizenship do we Want?
BSA conference 2010
Eileen Green, Andrea Abbas, Carrie Singleton and Selma Kadi gave presentations at the 2010 BSA conference.
Arts practice and research methods group
Arts Practice and Sociological Research Methods: Exploring Boundaries, a one-day seminar funded by the Institute for Design, Culture and the Arts was held at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
Big lottery programme research grant
The Centre for Social and Policy Research and the Institute for Digital Innovation in partnership with the East Cleveland Community Development Group (ECCDG) is to run The Digital Villages Network (DVN) - a £378,000 Big Lottery Funded Action Research project which runs from November 2008 until April 2011.
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Quality and equality in university first degrees
Dr Andrea Abbas, jointly with colleagues at Nottingham and Lancaster Universities, has successfully obtained an ESRC grant for a project entitled The Pedagogic Quality and Equality in University First Degrees.
Women, identity and employability conference 2008
This event explored research and policy related to women, identity and employability. Presentations were clustered around recognition that although there is a wealth of literature on women within employment, less has focused upon women at the margins of the UK labour market and issues of employability.
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ESRC International Research Connections Workshop
Professor Eileen Green co-chaired an International Research Connections Workshop at Brighton University in June 2007. ‘Information and Communication Technologies in Health Care’ was jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to disseminate findings from the large scale research programme ‘Action for Health’ (2003-08) led by Professor Ellen Balka of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.
As co-applicant on this project and a member of the European team, Professor Green chaired three sessions at the workshop and co-authored the workshop report. Act4 Health project leaders from Canada and Australia presented papers to an invited audience of European researchers and practitioners. Key discussion topics included:
- how new developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) are affecting patients’ search for health information
- how patients communicate with doctors and others in their social networks about their health
- how health care and other professionals are supporting patients
- the implications for health policy makers, especially in the areas of health indicators and health monitoring.
