FLaG seminar series 2013

This seminar series brings together research across different domains and disciplines with a focus on aspects of the current recession, economic retrenchment and coalition policy framing. We hope to engender conversations with colleagues (including postgraduate students) undertaking research, or simply with an interest, in these and related areas. To that end we will allow plenty of time for discussion following the presentations.

School teachers’ experiences of curriculum reform

Date: 18 March 2013, 1 - 2pm
Location: Beech Grove House Board Room
Professor Jim Ryder (University of Leeds, School of Education)

Researching Multilingualism in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods

Date: 8 April 2013, 1 – 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Professor Mike Baynham, Dr. James Simpson and Dr. John Callaghan (University of Leeds, School of Education)

What's become of the Big Society? Citizenship, participation and localism in times of austerity

Date: 15 April, 3.30 – 4.30pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Professor Nick Ellison and Dr. Jo Orchard-Webb (University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy)

Subjective experiences of inequality: class, comparison and constraint in the context of recession

Date: 22 April 2013, 3.30 – 4.30 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Dr. Sarah Irwin (University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy)

Young fatherhood in austerity Britain

Date: 13 May 2013, 1 – 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Board Room
Dr. Carmen Lau, Professor Bren Neale, Laura Davies (University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy)

Educational marginalisation and imagined futures

Date: 20 May 2013, 1 – 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Professor Val Gillies (London South Bank University)

Experiences of work in the age of austerity: the problem with the use of job satisfaction data as a measure of job quality

Date: 3 June 2013, 1 – 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Dr. Andrew Brown  and Dr. David Spencer (Leeds University Business School)

Lived experiences of welfare austerity

Date: 10th June 2013, 1 – 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Board Room
Two complementary presentations:

• Lone parents, welfare and employment decision making: Laura Davies (University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy)
• Lived experiences of welfare reform: Ruth Patrick (University of Leeds, School of Sociology and Social Policy)

Families on the edge of care: researching multi-agency intervention programmes in South Yorkshire

Date: 17th June 2013, 1 – 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Dr. Harriet Churchill (Sheffield University)