Thursday, June 13th 2019
UPEN event in London, UCL (Upen events)
London
Thursday, June 13th 2019
12:00-16:00
Monday, June 10th 2019
N8 Agrifood: Policy Engagement in Practice (Upen members events)
Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds, LS1 2HA
Monday, June 10th 2019
09:30-16:15
This is on the first day of the N8 AgriFood Policy Focus Week, bringing together academics and government representatives to share their knowledge and experiences about how to influence policy. There will be a mix of advice and training in the morning and N8 AgriFood Chairs and academics showcasing their policy engagement in practice in the afternoon.
For further information, please contact:
Anthonia James, N8 AgriFood Operations Director
anthonia.james@n8agrifood.ac.uk
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Friday, May 24th 2019
Wales Centre for Public Policy: Welsh Policy and Politics in Unprecedented Times (Upen members events)
Taliesin Mall, Swansea
Friday, May 24th 2019
https://www.wcpp.org.uk/event/welsh-policy-and-politics-in-unprecedented-times/
PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this event is not currently open. Please sign up to our newsletter to be updated when registration opens in March.
Austerity, further devolution of powers, issues such as an ageing population and climate change, and of course Brexit are all important conditions and events leading to uncertainty, instability and an unprecedented situation in Welsh policy and politics. These issues affect how and why policy is made and services are delivered. This is also an opportune time requiring reflection and analysis, where multiple stakeholders - ministers, civil servants, politicians, professionals, academics and citizens - are reviewing and redefining the purpose and outcomes of policy and politics in Wales.
Held in partnership with the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD), this one-day event will bring together academics at all stages of their career as well as representatives from Welsh Government and civil society to discuss these questions, current and future practices, and opportunities for Welsh policy and politics.
Abstract submissions from academics and other Welsh policy stakeholders conducting research on these topics are invited by 28 February 2019. Please send to: UnprecedentedWales2019@cardiff.ac.uk. Decisions on abstracts will be communicated at the beginning of March. PhD students and ECR submissions are encouraged and their attendance will be sponsored. Should you prefer to present a poster during the lunchtime session, please also contact us.
The day will be organised into three panel sessions with paper presentations (10-15 minutes for each presentation) followed by 10-15 minutes of discussion by a discussant, with questions and answers from the room. The panels will be focused around the following themes:
1.Knowledge and evidence in Wales and its role in policy-making
2.Theories and methods in policy change: A Welsh and devolved perspective
3.The future of policy and politics in Wales
There will also be a lunchtime 'in conversation' session with Professor Jo Hunt and Dr Hugh Rawlings discussing Brexit, the devolution of new powers to Wales, and the role that various Welsh policy stakeholders - government, the legislative powers, civil society and universities - can play.
Thursday, May 23rd 2019
Wednesday, April 3rd 2019
University of Bristol: Challenges, innovations and solutions for delivering social care service provision in England (Upen members events)
Wills Memorial Building Room 1.11 The Old Council Chamber
Wednesday, April 3rd 2019
18:00-20:00
As part of the School for Policy Studies Seminar Series, the Centre for Research in Health and Social Care invites you to Challenges, innovations and solutions for delivering social care service provision in England by speaker Margaret Willcox OBE.
Margaret Willcox has worked in the public sector since 1976 - NHS, Voluntary Sector and Local Authorities. Initially qualified as a nurse, both general and mental health, Margaret held a number of clinical posts before specialising in dementia care. Margaret moved into management in the late 1980's. Over half her career has been spent in joint posts, either managing or commissioning integrated services. Latterly these included being Director of Mental Health and Director of Community Services. Margaret has been working in Gloucestershire since June 2010 and was appointed as the DASS in 2011. Margaret's special interest is in partnership working and creative solutions. She was awarded an OBE by the Queen in her New Year's Honours list of 2015. She served as President of the Association of Directors of Adult Services in 2017/18 and continues to be a trustee of the Charity. She is currently the Commissioning Director for Adult Social Care & DASS with Gloucestershire County Council.
Tickets for this event are free of charge but must be booked via the Eventbrite page. Members of the public, staff and students are all very welcome to attend.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challenges-innovations-and-solutions-for-deliveringsocial-care-service-provision-in-england-tickets-53639864278
Registration will take place from 18:00 with the Seminar beginning at 18:15. Drinks and nibbles will be served following the Seminar and Q&A session from 19:30.
Tuesday, April 2nd 2019
From poverty to prosperity for all: taking action on poverty in Greater Manchester (Upen members events)
Mechanics Institute (entrance off Major Street),103 Princess Street Manchester, M16DD
Tuesday, April 2nd 2019
10:00-16:00
From poverty to prosperity for all: taking action on poverty in Greater Manchester
organised by the Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit and Greater Manchester Poverty Action
Greater Manchester can tell an impressive 'growth story', but poverty continues to exist across the city-region and on a large-scale. More than 600,000 people are living on low incomes, with child poverty rates of over 40% in parts of the city-region. Meanwhile a growing share of people are in in-work poverty and welfare reforms and a freeze on working-age benefits have taken £100s if not £1,000s out of the pockets of the poorest families.
How can local areas respond to these challenges? This conference will examine whether it is possible to do more to tackle poverty at local- and city-region level, with a particular focus on Greater Manchester.
Nationally, the Government has scrapped targets to reduce child poverty and the requirement for local authorities to develop child poverty strategies. In the context of city-region devolution, and a growing emphasis on cities as the engines of economic growth, is a commitment to a more inclusive approach to economic development, part of the answer? What new examples and ideas can we draw on to shape action at a local level: to design and promote better jobs; tackle living costs; and help people to gain additional skills and build routes out of poverty?
Confirmed speakers and panel guests include:
KEYNOTES AND PANEL GUESTS
Katie Schmuecker, Head of Policy and Partnerships, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Uzma Kahn, Deputy Director, Economic Strategy, Scottish Government
Rita Evans, Leading GM Programme Director
Mike Wild, Chief Executive, Manchester Community Central
THEMED SESSIONS
Supporting parental employment, an "infrastructure" approach with Eve Holt, Co-founder, Happen Together CIC (chair), Imandeep Kaur, Birmingham Impact HUB
Tackling living costs for low income residents: Emma Stone, The Good Things Foundation (chair), Andy Davis, Salary Finance, and Paul Colligan, End Furniture Poverty
An anti-poverty approach to adult skills: speakers to be announced
Equitable business models as a means of tackling poverty: speakers to be announced
This timely conference will bring together people with expertise in economic development, skills, public service reform, procurement, social housing, welfare and debt advice services, crisis and family support services as well as those with experience of poverty to share ideas and learn from practical initiatives that have been trialled elsewhere. The day will end with a panel discussion to identify the next steps we can take to tackle poverty in Greater Manchester.
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Friday, March 29th 2019
University of Bristol: (Re)Thinking Trans Healthcare: Bridging the Gap between Policy, Practitioner and Patient (Upen members events)
Lady Hale Moot Court, 8-10 Berkeley Square, University of Bristol
Friday, March 29th 2019
10:30-17:00
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2019/rethinking-trans-healthcare-conference.html
On 29 March 2019, the University of Bristol - in partnership with the Trans Equality Legal Initiative (TELI) and Mermaids UK - will organise a one-day inter-disciplinary conference entitled, '(Re)Thinking Trans Healthcare: Bridging the Gap between Policy, Practitioner and Patient.' The conference is generously supported by PolicyBristol, the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute and the Centre for Health, Law and Society.
The conference seeks to create space for individuals with a particular speciality and interest in trans healthcare to share 'best practice' knowledge (and to think about what that knowledge is) for the provision of treatment, both general and specialised, to trans populations.
Topics addressed during the conference include gender affirmative care for young people, trans healthcare inequalities, non-binary treatment protocols, male pregnancy, trans ageing, and medico-legal reforms.
The conference is aimed at a wide audience and has two core aims: (a) to 'bridge the gap' between service providers, policy-makers, service users and academics; and (b) to identify key gaps in existing knowledge surrounding trans healthcare, thinking about ways in which relevant stakeholders can work together to fill those gaps.
A detailed summary of the conference speakers, aims and proceeding can be found here: (Re)thinking Trans Healthcare - Conference Overview.pdf (PDF, 149kB)
There is no cost to attend the conference and lunch will be provided. To attend the conference, please send your expression of interest to Dr Peter Dunne (pd17563@bristol.ac.uk). We look forward to welcoming you on 29 March!
Programme
09:30 - 10:00 Registration/Tea and Coffee
10:00 - 10:15 Introduction
10:15 - 10:30 Keynote
10:30 - 11:35 Session 1: Children's Access to Medical Transition Pathways through a Model of Informed Consent?
11:45 - 13:00 Session 2: Secondary Care: The Difficulties which Trans Individuals Experience Accessing Health Care
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (with invited student break-out sessions)
14:00 - 15:10 Session 3: Trans Healthcare Inequalities: Presentation Fair
15:30 - 16:45 Session 4: Intersections of Law, Medicine and Trans Identities
16:45 - 17:00 Concluding Remarks
Monday, March 25th 2019
Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - Wednesday, February 20th 2019
NGO-Academia Collaboration Forum on Poverty and Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Upen members events)
The Bristol Hotel, Prince Street, Bristol, BS1 4QF
Wednesday, March 20th 2019
Wednesday, March 20th 2019
NGO-Academia Collaboration Forum
Poverty and Malnutrition in Low and Middle Income Countries
Wednesday 20 March 2019
The Bristol Hotel, Prince Street, Bristol, BS1 4QF
The Bristol Poverty Institute and Development Initiatives are pleased to announce their upcoming NGO-Academia Collaboration Forum: Poverty and Malnutrition in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). The forum will take place from 09:30-17:00 in The Bristol Hotel, followed by a drinks reception with more opportunities for networking.
The objective of the forum is to explore how NGOs and academic institutions can work together to strengthen the knowledge, concepts and measurements guiding researchers and research users in their work to tackle poverty and malnutrition challenges in LMICs. The key questions framing the forum include:
• What can be gained from greater collaborative working between the NGO and academic community?
• What knowledge and data gaps could potentially be filled through these collaborations?
• What challenges are there to this collaborative working and how can these be overcome?
• What are the future priority areas for tackling poverty, malnutrition and food security, and how can NGOs and academics work effectively together to tackle these?
This forum represents a unique opportunity to bring together representatives from the fields of NGOs, academia, policy experts and research users to reflect on the benefits, challenges and opportunities for collaboration. You are therefore invited to join us and participate in this exciting event.
For more information and to register for this free event via Eventbrite please click here.
For any queries please contact bristol-nutrition-conference19@bristol.ac.uk.
Friday, March 15th 2019
Taking Back Control? Brexit and the Future of Europe, Hosted by the LSE Law Department, the European Institute, and the School of Public Policy (Upen members events)
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Friday, March 15th 2019
18:30-20:00
At this critical political moment, Professor Wolfgang Streeck will ask if European states can regain control of markets, and whether Brexit offers any lessons in how this can be done.
Professor Streeck will examine the legal and political questions surrounding Brexit and consider what this means for the future of Europe.
Professor Streeck is an Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He is the author of two books including Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism and How Will Capitalism End?
Peter Ramsay is a Professor of Law in the LSE Law Department.
The LSE Law Department (@LSELaw) is one of the world's best law schools. The department ranked first for research outputs in the UK's most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) and was in the top 5 law departments overall in the 2018 Complete University Guide. Our staff play a major role in helping to shape policy debates, and in the education of current and future lawyers and legal scholars from around the world.
The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) is a centre for research and graduate teaching on the processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. In the most recent national Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) the Institute was ranked first for research in its sector.
The School of Public Policy (@LSEPublicPolicy) equips you with the skills and ideas to transform people and societies. We are an international community where ideas and practice meet. Our approach creates professionals with the ability to analyse, understand and resolve the challenges of contemporary governance.
The Twitter Hashtag for this event is: #LSEBrexit.
From time to time there are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that if you plan to attend this event you check back on this listing on the day of the event.
Whilst we are hosting this listing, LSE Events does not take responsibility for the running and administration of this event. While we take responsible measures to ensure that accurate information is given here (for instance by checking that the room has been booked) this event is ultimately the responsibility of the organisation presenting the event.
Monday, February 11th 2019
Monday, February 11th 2019
Monday, February 11th 2019
Monday, February 4th 2019 - Tuesday, February 5th 2019
Big data for better science: technologies for measuring behaviour (Upen members events)
The Royal Society, London, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG
Monday, February 4th 2019
Monday, February 4th 2019
9:00- 17:00
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/02/big-data/
This meeting will give behavioural scientists the chance to learn about the latest research technologies for collecting 'big' high-quality data. Data scientists and technology experts will explain the latest developments, challenges and benefits of research technology in a series of cutting-edge talks. Attendees will also have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with various research technology tools during interactive showcase sessions.
Monday, January 28th 2019
University of Birmingham: Birmingham Leading Thinkers Lecture: Professor Jim Skea (Upen members events)
Professor Jim Skea
Arts Building Main Lecture Theatre (Room 120)
Monday, January 28th 2019
17:00-18:30
The United Nations IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C achieved an enormous global impact when it was released in October 2018. It generated controversy at the Climate Convention in Poland at the end of 2018 when countries debated whether to welcome or acknowledge its findings.
Professor Skea's talk will explain the origins of the report and summarise the key findings, focusing on global emission pathways, implied system changes and the need to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The talk will then address the follow-up to the report both in the policy sphere (consideration of net zero targets for the UK and the EU) and in terms of United Nations IPCC's ongoing work.
About Professor Jim Skea
Jim Skea is Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London with research interests in energy, climate change and technological innovation. He is currently Co-Chair of Working Group III (mitigation) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was the Research Councils UK Energy Strategy Fellow 2012-2017, Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre 2004-2012 and Director of the Policy Studies Institute 1998-2004. He has operated at the interface between research, policy-making and business throughout his career. He was a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change from 2008 to 2018 and, from 2015-2017, was President of the Energy Institute. He was awarded a CBE for services to sustainable energy in 2013 and an OBE for services to sustainable transport in 2004.
Monday, January 28th 2019
University of Southampton: Brexit and Polish Nationals in Southampton: Sharing Experiences (Upen members events)
Hartley Suite (within Building 38), Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Monday, January 28th 2019
11:30-16:15
This event follows from a pilot project (Oct. 2017-Jul. 2018), which focused on Polish nationals in Southampton. This empirical project sought to gather qualitative and quantitative evidence on the extent to which the Brexit campaign and vote have impacted on the perceived discrimination experienced by Poles in the UK and their sense of integration (e.g. whether they 'feel welcome' in the UK).
The pilot project gathered data on how Polish nationals living in Southampton felt before (2014-15) and after (2016-17) the Brexit Referendum. The data are showing a higher degree of objective vulnerability (e.g. incidents of discrimination, harassment, derogatory comments) and a higher degree of subjective vulnerability (e.g. respondents feeling “less welcome” and more insecure about their legal/immigration status).
The event:
This event seeks to raise awareness about the project findings and gather feedback from key stakeholders on potential policy recommendations. It will therefore be a forum to exchange ideas, experiences and information between researchers/academics and organisations/end-users, which will be achieved through an innovative feedback-engagement approach.
Schedule for the day:
Following the presentation of the pilot project results and a keynote speech by Prof. Charlotte O'Brien (University of York), the audience will have the opportunity to discuss policy solutions/recommendations linked to project findings, which they will then present in a plenary to all the attendees. These discussions will be used to consider how the project findings could feed into the implementation of relevant socio-legal policies at local level and into how the project could be expanded (both geographically and demographically).
11.30-12.00: Arrival and Registration
12.00-13.00: Presentations by Project Coordinators and by Prof. Charlotte O'Brien
13.00-13.45: Lunch
14.00-14.45: Discussion
15.00-15.45 Plenary
16.00-16.15: Conclusion
For further information, contact the project coordinators:
Dr Ingi Iusmen (i.iusmen@soton.ac.uk), or
Dr Sara Benedi Lahuerta (s.benedi-lahuerta@soton.ac.uk)
Friday, January 25th 2019
Making a material difference to green energy - batteries included (Discourse) (Upen members events)
The Royal Institution of Great Britain 21 Albemarle Street London W1S4BS
Friday, January 25th 2019
19:20-20:45
The supply of clean sustainable energy is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Better batteries for electric cars and solar power for homes require advances in new materials and underpinning science. Using 3D glasses, Saiful Islam will show how atomic-scale modelling and structural chemistry are helping us explore new energy materials for a low carbon future.
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UCL: Building the future: infrastructure economics and the low carbon transition (Upen members events)
Room G.12 | 22 Gordon Street | London | WC1H 0QB | United Kingdom
Wednesday, January 23rd 2019
18:30-19:30
Professor D'Maris Coffman, UCL | The Bartlett School of Construction and Proj, Professor D'Maris Coffman holds a Chair in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment at UCL's Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and is Director of The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management. She joined UCL from the University of Cambridge in September 2014 as a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment.
Now and in the future, enormous infrastructure investment will be required to combat climate change and mitigate its effects on human populations. Our understanding of how infrastructure investment can facilitate structural economic change needs renewed methodological rigour and robust empirical studies.
A special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - Global Warming of 1.5°C - represents an urgent call to action, emphasising the need to decarbonise the transport and energy sectors.
This inaugural lecture with Professor D'Maris Coffman - Director of The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management - will explore new approaches to understanding unmet demand for infrastructure provision, placing infrastructure at the centre of debates about how to effect the low carbon transition.
The lecture will begin at 18:30 and will be followed by a networking reception from 19:30.
Wednesday, January 9th 2019
UCL: Critical thinking in African higher education: findings from a three country research study (Upen members events)
20 Bedford Way | London | WC1H 0AL | United Kingdom
Wednesday, January 9th 2019
17:30- 19:00
In this CEID Research in Focus dissemination event, findings from the Pedagogies for Critical Thinking: Innovation and Outcomes in African Higher Education research project, funded by DFID and the ESRC, will be presented by Professor Tristan McCowan (Principal Investigator), Dr Rebecca Schendel (Principal Investigator) and Dr Caine Rolleston (Co-Investigator), and the project's in country research leaders: Professor Richard Tabulawa (Botswana), Dr Christine Adu-Yeboah (Ghana) and Dr Mary Omingo (Kenya).
Tuesday, November 27th 2018
Upcoming Events
| Start Date | Time | Title | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13th June, 2019 | 12:00-16:00 | UPEN event in London, UCL | London | |
| 10th June, 2019 | 09:30-16:15 | N8 Agrifood: Policy Engagement in Practice | Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds, LS1 2HA | |
| 24th May, 2019 | Wales Centre for Public Policy: Welsh Policy and Politics in Unprecedented Times | Taliesin Mall, Swansea | ||
| 23rd May, 2019 | 09:30-16:00 | UPEN meeting in Cardiff | Cardiff | |
| 3rd April, 2019 | 18:00-20:00 | University of Bristol: Challenges, innovations and solutions for delivering social care service provision in England | Wills Memorial Building Room 1.11 The Old Council Chamber | |
| 2nd April, 2019 | 10:00-16:00 | From poverty to prosperity for all: taking action on poverty in Greater Manchester | Mechanics Institute (entrance off Major Street),103 Princess Street Manchester, M16DD | |
| 29th March, 2019 | 10:30-17:00 | University of Bristol: (Re)Thinking Trans Healthcare: Bridging the Gap between Policy, Practitioner and Patient | Lady Hale Moot Court, 8-10 Berkeley Square, University of Bristol | |
| 25th March, 2019 | 09:30-16:00 | UPEN training event | Southampton | |
| 20th March, 2019 | NGO-Academia Collaboration Forum on Poverty and Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | The Bristol Hotel, Prince Street, Bristol, BS1 4QF | ||
| 15th March, 2019 | 18:30-20:00 | Taking Back Control? Brexit and the Future of Europe, Hosted by the LSE Law Department, the European Institute, and the School of Public Policy | Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building | |
| 11th February, 2019 | 13:00-14:45 | UPEN/DWP meeting | London | |
| 11th February, 2019 | 15:00-17:00 | UPEN/DHSC meeting | London | |
| 11th February, 2019 | 11:00-12:30 | UPEN/GO-Science meeting | London | |
| 4th February, 2019 | 9:00- 17:00 | Big data for better science: technologies for measuring behaviour | The Royal Society, London, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG | |
| 28th January, 2019 | 17:00-18:30 | University of Birmingham: Birmingham Leading Thinkers Lecture: Professor Jim Skea | Arts Building Main Lecture Theatre (Room 120) | |
| 28th January, 2019 | 11:30-16:15 | University of Southampton: Brexit and Polish Nationals in Southampton: Sharing Experiences | Hartley Suite (within Building 38), Highfield Campus, University of Southampton | |
| 25th January, 2019 | 19:20-20:45 | Making a material difference to green energy - batteries included (Discourse) | The Royal Institution of Great Britain 21 Albemarle Street London W1S4BS | |
| 23rd January, 2019 | 18:30-19:30 | UCL: Building the future: infrastructure economics and the low carbon transition | Room G.12 | 22 Gordon Street | London | WC1H 0QB | United Kingdom | |
| 9th January, 2019 | 17:30- 19:00 | UCL: Critical thinking in African higher education: findings from a three country research study | 20 Bedford Way | London | WC1H 0AL | United Kingdom |
| Start Date | Time | Title | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27th November, 2018 | 12:00 - 16:00 | UPEN meetings in London | London |
