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Promoting Collaboration in the Social Sciences

26th November 2010 - York

General Observations

There was an appetite for more focussed events around the strategic themes of the ESRC strategic plan. White Rose will work with the academic leads for the DTC and if/when this is awarded we will look to structure activity in the new year to maximise opportunities for WR University research groups. Our view is that more focussed events will generate a greater level of participation and would strengthen the activity of the DTC.

Health and Wellbeing

Two themes emerged from this session. The first focussed on aging which could potentially encompass a range of topics including injustice, social mobility, resilience, residential space and ethical issues. Aiming to address a theme along the lines of 'Staying alive: ageing, wellbeing and social technologies'. A multidisciplinary approach to this theme would bring together a number of different tools and expertise which could examine a number of the issues surrounding aging. (Parallels to the Leeds IKC theme of ’50 years after 50’ were alluded to). The second theme addressed the concept of wellbeing, how it can be measured and how the results can be interpreted. In particular discussing the different methods used which included (1) questionnaire development - its wording, presentation, administration, (2) populations that is applied to and their interrelationships and (3) purpose - how the results are interpreted and used.

Security, Conflict and Justice

Two major themes emerged from this workshop, although colleagues acknowledged that more time would allow these to become more focussed and other ideas to emerge. The first, ‘Relationships between global transformations and local insecurities’ would look at how changes across the world have an impact at the local level. The second, ‘Tensions between expectation of security and demand for justice’ would consider issues that effect the trade off between security and justice.

Energy, Environment & Resilience

The group had a general wish to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, to work closer with projects in the 'science' departments. It was recommended to get  around this a network of 'go to' social scientists could possibly be created, a few of the group wanted to take this further and asked if they  could approach White Rose with a proposal for stimulating activity.

Three possible areas for further work were identified: (i) ‘Public understanding of
environmental science and the low carbon agenda’, (ii) ‘Natural resources and bio-diversity development together with public participation and management’ and (iii) ‘Modelling around economic/ policy and social networks within the energy, environment and resilience theme’.

Presentations from the day are at the bottom of this page

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 Registered Participants

Name	University	Department	Email Address
Professor John Local	York	PVC Research	john.local@york.ac.uk
Professor Richard Jones	Sheffield	PVC Research & Innovation	r.j.ross@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Adam Crawford	Leeds	School of Law	a.crawford@leeds.ac.uk
Professor Martin Smith	Sheffield	Department of Politics	m.j.smith@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Martina  McGuinness	Sheffield	Management School	M.McGuinness@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Lenny Koh	Sheffield	Management School	S.C.L.Koh@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Webster	York	Academic  Coordinator Social Sciences	andrew.webster@york.ac.uk
Professor Anne Kerr	Leeds	Sociology	E.A.Kerr@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Aki Tsuchiya,	Sheffield	Department of Economics	A.Tsuchiya@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Andy Gouldson	Leeds	ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics & Policy	a.gouldson@see.leeds.ac.uk
Professor Matthew Festenstein	York	Politics	matthew.festenstein@york.ac.uk
Sam Hellmuth	York	Department of Language and Linguistic Science	sam.hellmuth@york.ac.uk
Jenny Owen	Sheffield	School of Health and Related Research	j.m.owen@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Dominic Watt	York	Language & Linguistic Science	dominic.watt@york.ac.uk
Richard Thorpe	Leeds	Business School	r.thorpe@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Miss Man Ki Theodora LEE	York	Language and Linguistic Science	kittylee_0829@hotmail.com
Professor Mary Maynard	York	Social Policy and Social Work	mm45@york.ac.uk
Mrs Narges Sajadieh	York	Education	n.sajadieh@gmail.com
Paul Knepper	Sheffield	Sociological Studies	p.knepper@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Maria Tsouroufli	York	Education	maria.tsouroufli@york.ac.uk
Tamlyn Ryan	York	Sociology	tr519@york.ac.uk
Dr Laura Machin	York	Science and Technology Studies Unit	laura.machin@york.ac.uk
Professor Frank Hardman	Sheffield	Institute of Effective Education	frank.hardman@york.ac.uk
Mr Mark Hardy	York	Social policy and social work	mh557@york.ac.uk
James Allen-Robertson	York	Sociology	jar501@york.ac.uk
Zeyi HE	York	University of Sociology	zh509@york.ac.uk
Tom Parkman	York	Health Sciences	tjp507@york.ac.uk
lei zhang	York	social policy and soical work	lz533@york.ac.uk
Dr Darren Reed	York	Sociology	darren.reed@york.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth McDermott	York	Social Policy and Social Work	elizabeth.mcdermott@york.ac.uk
Prof Ian Shaw	York	Social Policy and Social Work	ian.shaw@york.ac.uk
Adam White	York	Politics	adam.white@york.ac.uk
Emily Forster	York	Social Policy and Social Work	ecf103@york.ac.uk
Mrs Baltica Cabieses	York	Health Sciences	bbcv500@york.ac.uk
Laura Vanderbloemen	York	Health Sciences	lv506@york.ac.uk
Miss Rachael Sharpe	York	Department of Educational Studies	rms510@york.ac.uk
Mutlu Cukurova	York	Department of Educational Studies	mc810@york.ac.uk
Mr Davis Kiima	York	Social Policy and Social Work	kiimad@dksocialcareadvice.co.uk
Kimberly Jamie	York	Department of Sociology	kj518@york.ac.uk
Mr Graham Geddes	York	Sociology	geg503@york.ac.uk
Ms Catherine Crow	York	Sociology	cmc518@york.ac.uk
Garrett Brown	Sheffield	Politics	g.w.brown@sheffield.ac.uk
Josine Opmeer	York	Politics and Sociology	josine.opmeer@york.ac.uk
Professor Jo Green	York	Health Sciences	jo.green@york.ac.uk
Jo Nicholson	York	Social Policy and Social Work	jn123@york.ac.uk
Prof Matt Matravers	York	School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy	mdm3@york.ac.uk
Sarah Czarnecki	York	Social Policy and Social Work	sjc520@york.ac.uk
Yu-Hsuan Lin	York	Economics	yl581@york.ac.uk
yuanyuan xie	York	econmics and related studies	yx518@york.ac.uk
Andy Marshall	York	Environment	andy.marshall@hotmail.com
Dr John Forrester	York	York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis/ Stockholm Environment Institute	jf11@york.ac.uk
Dr Steven Ariss	Sheffield	ScHaRR	s.ariss@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Nicholas Worsfold	York	Politics	nicholas.worsfold@york.ac.uk
Miss Anouska Kettle	Sheffield	Sociological Studies	a.kettle@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Mahesh Poudyal	York	Environment Department	mahesh.poudyal@york.ac.uk
Ms Eve Coles	Leeds	Business School	e.l.coles@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Dr Paul Ellwood	Leeds	Leeds University Business School	p.ellwood@leeds.ac.uk
Professor Robert West	Leeds	Division of Biostatistics	r.m.west@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Charlotte Burns	Leeds	POLIS	c.j.burns@leeds.ac.uk
Professor Jenny Steele	York	Law	jenny.steele@york.ac.uk
Dr Dominic Watt	York	Language & Linguistic Science	dominic.watt@york.ac.uk
Miss Jittinan Apinyanon	York	Economics and Related Studies	ja679@york.ac.uk
Charlotte Kelly	Leeds	Institute for Transport Studies and Academic Unit for Health Economics	c.e.kelly@leeds.ac.uk
Nick Ellison	Leeds	Sociology and Social Policy	n.ellison@leeds.ac.uk
Annemarieke de Bruin	York	Stockholm Environment Institute - York	Annemarieke.deBruin@sei.se
Kevin H.R. Villanueva	Leeds	East Asian Studies	mlkhrv@leeds.ac.uk
Maria Bertani Tress	Leeds	Education	edmbt@leeds.ac.uk
Julie Simon	York	Environment - SEI	julie.simon@york.ac.uk
Felix Kayode Olakulehin	Leeds	School of Education	edfko@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Kate Arnold	York	Environment Dept	kathryn.Arnold@york.ac.uk
Blanca Viridiana Guizar Moran	York	Economics and Related Studies	bvgm500@york.ac.uk

 Presentations

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Breakout Area Presentation

Julian White

Martin Smith

Adam Crawford

Tina McGuinness

Lenny Koh