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.