Friday, 5 April 2019 at 10:15 am – Friday, 5 April 2019 at 4:00 pm
The Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences Showcase
Date: Friday 5th April 2019
Time: 10.15am – 4.00pm
Location: 1st Floor Open Space, Righton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University
Tickets: Free – Available on Eventbrite: https://rcass-showcase.eventbrite.com
The Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences (RCASS) at Manchester Metropolitan University and is situated within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The centre encompasses a broad range of disciplines that includes researchers in the departments of Sociology, Geography and Languages, Information and Communications. RCASS provides interdisciplinary research which contributes to policy debates and decision making and has a variety of expertise including criminology, multi-media and human geography.
This event is to showcase a range of work done by academics and researchers here in RCASS, which will include three discussion panels and presentations of work published over the past 12 months. We have presentations from the Departments of Sociology, Geography and Information Communications, and the Policy Evaluation Research Unit. Publications showcased as this event cover a broad variety of topics and research interests including digital disengagement, international nuclear Geographies, the gendered motorcycle, implementing social investment, welfare reform, covert research, gender and migration, and slow cycling utopias.
We provide an interdisciplinary home for critical research that contributes to policy making debates and decision making, while genuinely impacting upon the work and strategies of local organisations and communities. It is this combination of social scientific disciplines, expertise and a determination to shed critical light on the most important ‘real world’ issues of the day that makes RCASS what it is: a Research Centre designed to have a real policy impact at a local, regional, national and global level and one that isn’t afraid to make a bit of a ruckus along the way.
- 10.15 - 10.30 - Tea and coffee
- 10.30-11.30 - Panel 1: Dave Calvey, Shoba Arun
- 11.30 - 12.00 - Break
- 12.00 -13.00 - Panel 2: Susan Baines, Chris O’Leary, Chris Fox
- 13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch
- 14.00 - 15.00 - Panel 3: Becky Alexis-Martin, Cosmin Popan
- 15.00 - 16.00 - Wine reception