-1.56 Glamorgan Building

Housing in Wales: current issues and discussion – Dr Mackie, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning

Dr Mackie will give a short talk focus on influencing policy through research, with some reflections on his recent studies with young people, homeless, migrant workers and disabled young people. This will form the basis of an open group discussion led by Dr Mackie exploring the mechanisms of working with and influencing policy makers

Room -1.60 Glamorgan Building 1:00 – 2:00pm (please note change of room for this meeting)

Abstract
Drawing on findings from research into women’s responsibility for their safety in the night-time economy, the study explores the particular safety techniques and avoidance strategies used by three status groups (professionals, students and locals).The focus on self-regulation has significance in terms of challenging a dominant discourse that ‘flattens’ the NTE into a single entity and limits understanding of its public health and safety problems, particularly alcohol-related violence against the person, to the behaviour of ‘irresponsible’ consumers and licensed venues. In this ‘age of austerity’ and particularly cuts to public policing, the concept of self-regulation and policing has significant implications for practitioners, policy makers and consumers, particularly when considered within the current political fetish for behavioural economics or ‘nudge’.

The website should prove to be a useful tool for exploring poverty and social exclusion in the UK as this important research project develops over this next year. It is something that you may find useful over the rest of your course and beyond.

So please take time to have a look at the website and check back on a regular basis for updates. You may also wish to complete the necessities survey on the website and help the research team as they test the list of necessities to include in their measure of poverty.

You can find the website here: http://www.poverty.ac.uk/

17th February

Glamorgan Building -1.56

1:00 – 2:00pm

Marie Navarro is a specialist in public law and the new legislative powers of the Welsh Assembly Government and of the National Assembly for Wales. She is a Research Associate at Cardiff Law School and the Editor and Chief Researcher to the Law School website Wales Legislation Online which sets out the powers of the National Assembly for Wales and of the Welsh Assembly Government since July 1999.

Post Graduate and early career researchers are invited to contribute and participate in a free One day Conference at Cardiff University.

The Conference will invite researchers in the broad fields of health and welfare, to consider their work in the light of current political and policy developments, addressing issues of continuity, change and contested understandings with the new policy rhetoric and practice.

Two key note speakers will address the conference:

• · Professor Gareth Williams, Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics (CISHE)
• · Professor Janet Newman, Open University.

Travel subsidies of up to a maximum of £40 are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Abstracts are invited from doctoral and post doctoral researchers that reflect on current research in the light of emerging public policy themes. Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words and be forwarded to contestedcontinuities@cf.ac.uk  by 12 noon 29^th November 2010

The Conference is being hosted by Cardiff University School of Social Science and has received funding from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (FSHI),  Social Policy Association, the Social Policy Research Group at Cardiff University, The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Methods and Data (WISERD) and is being supported by Vitae.

For further details please see:

http://tiny.cc/cu-pgconference