果冻传媒

Association of Research Centres in the Social Sciences (ARCISS)
Survive or Prosper? A workshop on Directing Research Centres
Led by Professor Robert Lindley, 果冻传媒 Institute for Employment Research

This workshop explores key issues relevant to creating, sustaining and, ultimately, making a research centre prosper.

The workshop is intended especially for those who direct such centres or who are experienced researchers who may well become directors in the future, or senior administrators of centres. It is also of potential interest to those with corresponding roles in other types of centre in the independent sector or those who manage large collaborative social science networks or projects. The Workshop should, moreover, have relevance for those leading centres in the arts and humanities or operating at the boundaries between the social sciences and science, engineering or medicine.

This event will be held on Tuesday 26th July 2011 at the Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD from 10.00 – 15.30 (with lunch).

Further details and an application form can be found on the NIESR website

Bernard Casey is an invited discussant at the Netspar International Pension Workshop, which is to be held at CeRP-Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (Turin) Italy on 16-17 June. This workshop has been jointly organised by the Netspar (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement) team and Elsa Fornero of CeRP.

IER's Professor Peter Elias has been awarded a CBE for his services to Social Sciences in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2011.

IER staff and PhD students contributed to a range of activities during the 2011 Festival week which ran from 16-20 May.

• Kate Purcell jointly presented an advanced class on “The Feminist PhD - Content, Pedagogy and Career” with Professor Mary Fonow, IAS Visiting Fellow, Arizona State University.
• Bernard Casey gave a seminar on “Working Beyond Retirement Age: what we know and what we don't know”.
• Kate Purcell’s ESRC Pathfinder project was featured as a Research project of the day.
• Charoula Tzanakou was profiled as .

IER PhD student Di Zhang won the PhD poster competition with her poster on “Working in Financial Services after Graduating”. Posters from all competition entrants have been uploaded onto the University's .

Bernard Casey will giving a seminar at the Institute of Economics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest on 26 May on 'The implications of the economic crisis for pensions and pension policy in Europe'.