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CALL FOR PAPERS:

Public Perceptions of the Social Sciences in a Contemporary Era of Unrest

Postgraduate Conference 16th April 2012

 To all Masters and PhD students

 Abstracts are invited from Masters and PhD students working across the social sciences for a one day event, hosted by the Sociology department at the University of York.

The theme of the conference is perceptions of social science disciplines in the light of current social and political upheaval and uncertainty.

The event will provide an informal and collaborative arena in which to debate and discuss the future of social sciences in relation to your own research interests.

For Full details  please Click Here

 

 

Past Events

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Thursday 6th October 2011 

Circular Economy  -  Innovative Thinking for a Sustainable Future

University of York

How can we respond to the twin challenges of increasingly limited global resources and rising demand for fossil fuel based products? The traditional linear approach to product and system design – make, use and dump – is no longer sustainable. Full cycle whole-system thinking provides an alternative option, and for early movers, embraces sustainability for competitive advantage. During this event, you will hear real life solutions from international corporations, academic researchers, and Government departments responsible for delivering and implementing policy.

For full details Click Here

 

White Rose NC3Rs Roadshow - Taking a Collaborative Approach to Improve the Ttranslation of In Vitro and In Vivo Models

Monday 20th June - University of Sheffield

The NC3Rs will soon be launching CRACK-IT®, an exciting initiative to connect scientists across sectors and disciplines in the development of innovative research with the potential to address global scientific/industry challenges and reduce reliance on animal models.

To kick-start this initiative we are investing in CRACK-IT® Challenges, a competition to facilitate research in areas identified with industry. Further details about CRACK-IT® can be found at www.nc3rs.org.uk/crackit.

To ensure as many academics and scientists from SMEs as possible are aware of CRACK-IT® we will be hosting a series of regional roadshows. These roadshows have been developed to highlight our diverse range of funding schemes and collaborative activities and to launch CRACK-IT® . We have also engaged a range of industry speakers who will discuss the current challenges in pharmaceutical and chemical development and the move towards open innovation and new mechanisms for collaboration.

For more information and to register for the Roadshow please follow the link below or Click Here

http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/roadshows.

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Public Lecture: Myles Jackson (Director of Science and Technology
Studies, NYU-Poly),

 "Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene Patent", Monday 13 June. York

Public Lecture: Myles Jackson (Director of Science and Technology Studies, Polytechnic Institute of New York University), "Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene Patent", Monday 13 June, 17:30. Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York.

The closing event of the White Rose Consortium IPBio Project will be a lecture from the historian of physics and molecular biology Myles Jackson, who testified for the ACLU in the case that led to the overturning of the BRCA1 gene patent. The lecture will be hosted at the University of York. A video of the event will be added to the IPBio Network’s homepage, http://www.ipbio.org/ shortly afterwards.

The event is free but if you would like to attend please contact Berris Charnley, Project Administrator, at Berris@ipbio.org.

The IPBio Network now hosts a blog, with an inaugural post by Project member Graham Dutfield (University of Leeds) on 'Are life forms (still) inherently unpatentable?” http://www.ipbio.org/IPBioBlog/?p=38

Click here for more information

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White Rose Drug Discovery Forum

Wednesday 25th May 2011 - University of Leeds

Registration for this event is now closed

Researchers of all levels at the Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield are invited to attend the first White Rose Drug Discovery Forum, to be held in Leeds on Wednesday 25th May, 2011. The aims of the Forum are twofold: firstly, to provide a platform for early-stage researchers to speak about their work in an informal environment, and secondly to promote collaboration between research groups at the three universities. As such, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and principal investigators are all encouraged to attend. The Forum will end with plenary talks by Professor Peter Johnson of the University of Leeds, and a representative from AstraZeneca (TBC). 

Registration is free, but we ask that all PhD students and post-docs submit a talk title when they register. The deadline for registration is Friday 29th April. 

We encourage participants to interpret the ‘drug discovery’ theme in its broadest sense, with key words including, but not limited to: Rational drug design; structural biology/bioinformatics; organic/computational chemistry; fragment-based screening; target identification/validation; protein-ligand interactions; natural products.

For more information please contact Paul Acklam

bspa@leeds.ac.uk

This event is sponsored by AstraZeneca

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Envisioning the Future of Social Science

11th April 2011 at University of York

This one day postgraduate event will foster a collaborative postgraduate culture across the three White Rose institutions ahead of the implementation of the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre in 2011. By drawing together postgraduate researchers from a range of disciplines from across the White Rose Consortium and beyond to reflect on, and envision, the future of the Social Sciences and Social Science research, the will event create a culture of support and inclusivity for all postgraduates currently studying at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York.

The focus of the proposed event will centre on visual methodologies and tools for ‘doing’ social science research in an increasingly visualised world. To fit with this focus on the visual in the future of Social Science, the event will use an innovative 10x10x10 presentation format whereby ten postgraduate panel speakers will deliver a ten minute reflection on the conference theme using ten visual images as their illustrative backdrop. The event will take place on 11th April 2011 at the University of York and is being collaboratively organised by postgraduate researchers from the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds and the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield. A programme for the day is provided, although this is subject to confirmation.

 For more information about this event please see the Conference Website

Or contact the Conference Organiser, Kimberly Jamie 01904 432 632 or email

kimberly.jamie@york.ac.uk

Free DCC Research Data Management Workshops - University of Sheffield 1-3 March 2011

Find out more about the workshops at
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/data-management-roadshows/dcc-roadshow-sheffield

Crime and the City Seminar

4t hFebruary 2011 - Sheffield

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/law/research/clusters/ccr

Promoting Collaboration in the Social Sciences

26th November 2010 - York