SECTION ONE: NEWS FROM THE ACADEMY
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New style Bulletin
Welcome to the new style Academy bulletin! We hope that the combination of html email and webpage will make the bulletin easier to read.
We made every effort to get the technology right, but realise there will be inevitable teething problems. Please send any comments on the new approach to the Communications Officer, Madeleine Barrows.
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AGM
Click here to read a report of the event.
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Review of the ESRC/JISC Economic and Social Dataset
The Academy has received the following invitation to all its members who are users of this dataset to contribute to a review of its future. Please note the short deadline for responses: 4 August 2010. For the full invitation and details of the review click here.
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Calling All Bloggers!
Sage UK are producing a new blogging website for social science to be launched in the autumn and are inviting contributions from the social science community. Click here and here to read about SocialScienceSpace.
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Work and Wellbeing Conference
20th October 2010
Unilever House, 100 Victoria Embankment,
London EC4Y 0DY (directions)
Sponsored by SAGE and Unilever PLC, a major day conference for employers, operations managers, HR professionals and the academic community on current issues in work and wellbeing, viewed over the course of the traditional working life, from both employer and employee perspectives.
Good health enables human flourishing and fulfilment. Given the amount of time spent at work, the workplace is central to physical and psychological health, as well as life satisfaction. As the costs of ill health continue to rise, workplace health has become an issue that employers can no longer afford to ignore.
This conference brings together all the latest thinking on current issues in work and wellbeing, from both academic and practioner perspectives.
Details are also available at:
www.sagepub.co.uk/press/acsswellbeing.sp
Programme
Chair for the day: Professor Philip Dewe, Birkbeck, University of London
10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.30 Welcome to the conference - Stephen Anderson, Executive Director, Academy of Social Sciences
10:40 The importance of the Health and Well Being Agenda – An Overview of the link between Work and Health - Professor Cary L Cooper CBE AcSS, Chair of Council, Academy of Social Sciences and Pro Vice Chancellor (External Relations) and Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University
11.10 Workplace Health and the Law – Current Issues: Simon Ost, Partner, Employment Practice, Hammonds LLP, Manchester
11.40 Refreshment Break
12.00 The Organisational Costs of Mental Ill-Health: Mike Parsonage, Senior Policy Advisor, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, London
12.30 The Issue of Bullying in the Workplace: Professor Charlotte Rayner, Professor of Human Resource Management Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth
13.00 Lunch
14.00 What people want from work – the changing needs and attitudes to work at different life stages: Professor Susan Cartwright, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Well Being, Director of Centre for Organizational Health and Well-Being, Lancaster University
14.30 The Value of Older Workers: Mr David Fairhurst, Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer, McDonald's UK & Northern Europe
15.00 Health Promotion in the Workplace: Dr John Cooper, Head of Corporate Occupational Health, Unilever PLC
15.30 Health and Worklessness: Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, FRCP, FMedSci. Director for Health and Work, DWP, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Chair of the Nuffield Trust
16.00 Discussion
16:30 Close & Tea
Click Here to download a booking form or visit the Events page to book online.
Rates:£195 (£125 for Academy members)
For further information contact Vicky McGuinness on: adminstrator@acss.org.uk or 020 7330 0897
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NEWS FROM LEARNED SOCIETIES
ESRC Placement Fellowship Scheme
New Placement Fellowship opportunity in partnership with the Trades Union Congress (TUC). Application is through the Joint Electronic Submission System and should be submitted accordingly by the closing date of 14 July 2010. Click Here to download the details.
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Regional Studies Association (RSA)
Winter Conference 2010: Call for Papers
"Regions and the Environment"
Friday 26 November 2010
London Voluntary Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London
Click here to download further details of the Call for Papers.
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Regional Studies Association (RSA)
Early Careers Conference
"Regions in a Shifting Global Landscape"
Tuesday 2 November 2010
University of Manchester UK
Click Here to download further details.
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Regional Studies Association (RSA)
Annual International Conference 2011
Regional Development and Policy: Challenges, Choices and Recipients
Monday 18 April - Wednesday 20 April 2011
University of Newcastle upon Tyne UK
Click Here to download further details.
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British Academy of Management (BAM)
Academician sparks debate:
Growing gulf between managers and research
Professor Abby Ghobadian AcSS, Deputy Chair of the British Academy of Management, had an article published in the Financial Times on 31st May entitled “Growing gulf between managers and research”. You can view the article by clicking here. Please write your comments at the bottom of the article if you would like to contribute to this debate.
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Social Research Association (SRA)
Training Schedule
Click Here to download the training schedule.
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