Issue 1 October 2012
Playing FAIR The Faculty Advanced Institute of Research hit the ground running in August 2012, working on 27 different projects worth a total value of £3.5m, eight of which are EU funded. In August and September FAIR staff submitted
six new grant proposals for a total of just over £1m, and supported the faculty’s new ORACLE evalu ation project launch at the GLA (September 24), and jointly organ ised a major conference on the 2011 riots with South Bank University.
Ayo Mansaray (IPSE-FAIR) chairs a plenary conference session on last year’s riots on September 28. Speakers shown are Les Back, Ojeqaku Nwabuzo, Lisa McKenzie, Gillian Slovo and Clifford Stott
Come to the FAIR – we’ll soon move on THE FAIR office is temporarily located in Room TM1-53, and people enquiring about the support we can offer should ask there first. It cannot be permanently open until the WLRI move from Jewry St to the Tower, but once that happens it will be. In the meantime, if we are not there when you have a question,
please email us at fair@londonmet. ac.uk or at the emails below. FAIR’s own staff are: qqDirector, Professor Steve Jefferys (s.jefferys@londonmet.ac.uk) qqAdministrative manager, Aruna Dudhia (a.dudhia@londonmet.ac.uk) qqFinance manager, Linda Butcher (l.butcher@londonmet.ac.uk).
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
38 STAFF – ONE OF THE LARGEST GROUPS IN U K H E PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH APPLIED SOCIAL RESEARCH Bringing together the FSSH externallyfunded research centres and institutes, FAIR’s 38 staff are one of the largest concentrations of researchers focused on promoting social justice through applied social research in the whole higher education sector. FAIR’s mission is to maintain and strengthen the national and international reputations of its component parts, to share research resources both between the units and with all of the FSSH faculty and students, and to strengthen the links between teaching and research.
Remembering ten years of research FAIR-WLRI IS holding its tenth anniversary event on the afternoon and evening of Thursday 22 November in TM1-20 (above the Henry Thomas room and the main Tower Building entrance) and TG-02 and TG-03 opposite the Costa coffee outlet. The open afternoon will begin at 12.30pm with a keynote address by Professor Carole Thornley, joint author of Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism: New Labour, Economic Policy and the Abject State, and will continue with ‘the best of
Working Lives Research Institute research’, covering such themes as racism, migration, representation and identity. Films and photographic exhibitions from the WLRI will also be on display, and the afternoon will end with a Reception from 5.30 pm in the Tower Boardroom. qqFull details of the day will be distributed soon, but please email Aruna Dudhia if you are coming to the reception (a.dudhia@ londonmet.ac.uk).
WE WANT TO KNOW YOUR RESEARCH INTERESTS FAIR will be shortly asking all faculty staff to list their research interests so that when new projects and bids are being considered, the FAIR team can instantly identify who might be interested in helping work on the bid and if
successful, working on externally-funded projects. Such a list will also enable FAIR to share the information immediately we know of calls for research in particular specialist areas in which faculty staff have indicated their interest and experience.
UPCOMING FAIR EVENTS
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FAIR-IPSE runs a seminar series specifically for doctoral research students on Mondays, 5-6.30pm (to include time for chat over wine/refreshments/ nibbles). The next seminar is on 8 October, followed by seminars on 19 November and 14 January. If you would like to be put on the mailing list for these seminars, please email Angela Kamara (a.kamara@londonmet.ac.uk)
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The next seminar in the FAIR-IPSE ESRC seminar series on ‘New Perspectives on Education and Culture’, organised in collaboration with Plymouth University, will take place on Wednesday 24 October at the NUT on Teaching Cultures. See: http://educationandculture.wordpress.com/
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FAIR-IPSE’s Carole Leathwood is convening the next seminar for the SRHE Higher Education Policy Network here at Londonmet on Friday 26 October, 1-4pm. The title of this event is ‘Pedagogy, Performance and E/quality: Challenges for Higher Education Policy’. See www.srhe.ac.uk/events/details.asp?eid=55bn It is free to Londonmet staff and students, but places must be booked.
Research surgeries Lead researchers from each of FAIR units are holding nine ‘research surgery’ half-days when FSSH faculty
are invited to come and discuss their research ideas and interests with FAIR leading researchers.
DAY
DATE
TIME
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WHO
ROOM
Tuesday
30 Oct
1.30-4.30pm
WLRl
Sonia McKay
TM1-53
Wednesday
21 Nov
10am-1pm
IPSE
Carole Leathwood
TM1-57
Tuesday
22 Jan
10am-1pm
ISET
Nick Mai
TM1-50
Wednesday
13 Feb
1.30-4.30pm
ISET
Nick Mai
TM1-50
Tuesday
05 Mar
10am-1pm
IPSE
Carole Leathwood
TM1-58
Thursday
04 Apr
1.30-4.30pm
FAIR
Steve Jefferys
TM1-53
Monday
29 Apr
10am-1pm
CWASU
Liz Kelly
TM1-82
Thursday
16 May
1.30-4.30pm
FAIR
Steve Jefferys
TM1-53
Monday
24 Jun
10am-1pm
CWASU
LIZ Kelly
TM1-82
New research projects qqFSSH’s Georgie Parry-Crooke launched the new Project Oracle with the GLA’s Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture, the acting CEO of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, the Director of Policy, ESRC and LondonMet’s VC at the GLA on 24 September. This year-long FAIR project is funded by the GLA and ESRC and involves Georgie and HRSJ cooperating with several voluntary sector organisations and UCL to ‘understand and share what really works’ in youth programmes in London. For more information contact info@project-oracle.com or look at the website www.project-oracle.com qqFAIR-WLRI’s Leroi Henry, Steve Jefferys and Leena Kumarappan kicked off a year-long EU-funded study of how trade unions Challenge Racism at Work (CRAW) on October 1. Partnered in the UK by the TUC, Unite, UNISON and PCS, this five-country study revisits the sectors and countries first
researched by the WLRI in an EU FP5 project between 2003 and 2005. qqFAIR-CWASU’s Liz Kelly and Maddy Coy started work on a new project funded by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner in August. This aims to see how young people understand consent to sexual activity and how this shapes their expectations, choices and experiences. qqFAIR-HRSJ’s Karen Bennett has just started work on a European Parliament funded study to assess to what extent, and by what means, European Union (EU) delegations and EU member states are effectively implementing the 2008 revised European Union Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders (EUGHRD) as an integrated part of their diplomatic mission work in three countries of different geographic regions.
FAIR-ISET’s Professor Emeritus Lyn Thomas spoke to a lunchtime seminar organised by the WLRI at Jewry St on September 21 about the challenges of being a white working class ‘migrant’ from Wolverhampton
WHO’S WHO IN FAIR? FAIR comprises all staff attached to these research institutes and units: q qChild and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) Director: Professor Liz Kelly (l.kelly@londonmet.ac.uk)
qInstitute q for the Study of European Transformations (ISET) Lead researcher: Dr Nick Mai (n.mai@londonmet.ac.uk)
qHuman q Rights and Social Justice Research Institute (HRSJ) Professor Phil Leach (p.leach@londonmet.ac.uk) Karen Bennett (k.bennett@londonmet.ac.uk)
qLearning q Technology Research Institute (LTRI) Lead researcher: Carl Smith (carl.smith@londonmet.ac.uk)
qInstitute q for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) Director: Professor Carole Leathwood (c.leathwood@londonmet.ac.uk)
qWorking q Lives Research Institute (WLRI) Director: Professor Steve Jefferys (s.jefferys@londonmet.ac.uk) Lead researcher: Professor Sonia McKay (s.mckay@londonmet.ac.uk)
FAIR STAFF KAREN BENNETT Senior Research Fellow HRSJ k.bennett@londonmet.ac.uk NICK CLARK Senior Research Fellow WLRI
JAWAD BOTMEH Administration and Communications Research Manager WLRI j.botmeh@londonmet.ac.uk GEMMA COLLINS Administrator CWASU
LINDA BUTCHER Finance Manager FAIR
l.butcher@londonmet.ac.uk SYLVIE CONTREPOIS Reader WLRI
TERESA CARBAJO GARCIA Project Administrator IPSE t.carbajogarcia@londonmet.ac.uk MADELEINE COY Deputy Director CWASU
s.contrepois@londonmet.ac.uk n.clark@londonmet.ac.uk ALESSANDRA DAL SECCO Research Fellow CWASU a.dalsecco@londonmet.ac.uk KARA JARROLD Research Fellow CWASU k.jarrold@londonmet.ac.uk LIZ KELLY Director CWASU
l.kelly@londonmet.ac.uk KERRY LEE Research Fellow CWASU
kerry.lee@londonmet.ac.uk EUGENIA MARKOVA Senior Research Fellow WLRI e.markova@londonmet.ac.uk
g.collins@londonmet.ac.uk ARUNA DUDHIA Administrative Manager FAIR/HRSJ a.dudhia@londonmet.ac.uk STEVE JEFFERYS Director FAIR
m.coy@londonmet.ac.uk LEROI HENRY Senior Research Fellow WLRI l.henry@londonmet.ac.uk ANGELA KAMARA Project Administrator IPSE
s.jefferys@londonmet.ac.uk
a.kamara@londonmet.ac.uk
RENATE KLEIN Professor CWASU
LEENA KUMARAPPAN Research Fellow WLRI
renate.klein@londonmet.ac.uk JO LOVETT Research Fellow CWASU
j.lovett@londonmet.ac.uk SONIA McKAY Professor WLRI
s.mckay@londonmet.ac.uk
L.Kumarappan@londonmet.ac.uk NICK MAI Reader in Migration Studies ISET n.mai@londonmet.ac.uk DR. TONY MURRAY ISET Director Irish Studies Centre t.murray@londonmet.ac.uk
ANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU Research Fellow WLRI
COLIN RAINEY Administration Manager IPSE/LTRI
CILLA ROSS Reader WLRI
a.paraskevopoulou@londonmet.ac.uk
c.rainey@londonmet.ac.uk
c.ross@londonmet.ac.uk
DAMHNAIT RUMNEY Administrator ISET
d.rumney@londonmet.ac.uk MAX WATSON Administration and Communications Research Manager WLRI m.watson@londonmet.ac.uk
ROUSHANTHI SIVANESAN Finance Officer WLRI r.sivanesan@londonmet.ac.uk
CARL SMITH Lead Researcher LTRI
carl.smith@londonmet.ac.uk
SUMI HOLLINGWORTH Senior Research Fellow IPSE s.hollingworth@londonmet.ac.uk JANROJ KELES Research Fellow WLRI j.keles@londonmet.ac.uk CAROLE LEATHWOOD Director IPSE c.leathwood@londonmet.ac.uk AYO A. MANSARAY Senior Research Fellow IPSE A.Mansaray@londonmet.ac.uk JAYNE OSGOOD Reader IPSE
j.osgood@londonmet.ac.uk ALISTAIR ROSS Professor of Education IPSE a.ross@londonmet.ac.uk Dr. MONICA THRELFALL Reader ISET M.Threlfall@londonmet.ac.uk