2017 events

CA Skills Training Courses: Sequence Organisation

Tuesday 12 December 2017

This course is one of two – on sequence organisation and on turn-taking - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA)

CA Skills Training Courses: Sequence Organisation

Tuesday 12 December 2017

This course is one of two – on sequence organisation and on turn-taking - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA)

Strategic interaction in pharmaceutical price regulation and innovation

Thursday 30 November 2017

Martin Forster (York)

Shakespeare Lives in Vietnam: revisiting paradigms of modern Asian theatre through a student production of Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Sarah's paper considers the existing literature on Shakespeare and Vietnam in English.

CA Skills Training Courses: Turn-Taking

Tuesday 28 November 2017

This course is one of two – on turn-taking and on sequence organisation - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA)

Fiscal Deficits as a Source of Boom and Bust under a Common Currency (joint with Giovanni Ganelli, IMF)

Thursday 23 November 2017

Neil Rankin (York)

Housekeeping Against Accumulation: Lifestyle Minimalism, De-Growth and the Present Post-Ecological Condition

Wednesday 22 November 2017

The post-2008 financial crisis era has seen an upsurge in cultural initiatives that implicitly reject key principles of capitalist productivity

Drawing power from the grassroots: The decriminalisation of cannabis in Jamaica

Wednesday 22 November 2017

Talk by Matthew Bishop

Undertaking Clinical Trials in Trauma and Orthopaedics (20 and 21 November)

Monday 20 November 2017

British Orthopaedic Association Orthopaedic Surgery Research Centre (BOSRC) is running its third meeting for trauma and orthopaedic surgeons interested in getting involved in randomised controlled trials or research grant applications.

Population ageing, social security and fiscal limits

Thursday 16 November 2017

Mike Wickens (York)

CURB Seminar: Thinking Sociologically About Kindness: Puncturing the Blasé in the Ordinary City

Wednesday 15 November 2017

We recently made the case for a sociological engagement with kindness (Brownlie and Anderson, 2016).

Job Market Talk: Beliefs Driven Secular Stagnation

Thursday 9 November 2017

Xiaoge Zhang (York)

Dilemmas of patient choice: findings from a conversation analytic study of neurology outpatient consultations

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Recent, widely-publicized Royal College of Surgeons’ (RCS, 2016) guidelines on consent specify that “the aim of the discussion about consent is to give the patient the information they need to make a decision about what treatment or procedure (if any) they want

SOCIAL MEDIA USE AND CHILDREN’S WELLBEING (Emily McDool, Philip Powell, Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Jennifer Roberts (Sheffield)

Recent developments in assessment

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Have you seen the No more marking website? It is one example of new approaches to assessment that have emerged over the last few years.

One year of the Trump Presidency

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Join us for this round table discussion

Job Market Talk: A life cycle model with housing tenure, constrained mortgage finance and a risky asset under uncertainty

Thursday 2 November 2017

Zhechun He (York)

(In)Equality of Opportunity, Mentoring, and Critical Educational Decisions

Wednesday 1 November 2017

Pia Pinger (Bonn)

Selection on moral hazard in Supplementary Health Insurance (joint with Brigitte Dormont)

Thursday 26 October 2017

Mathilde Peron (York)

Opening Universities for Refugees: Education of Displaced Youth in South East Asia

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Dr. Gül İnanç introduces Opening Universities for Refugees (OUR), an independent initiative building knowledge networks and consortia to offer higher education to communities in need.

An Experimental Comparison of Two Exchange Mechanisms (Lucas and Bewley)

Thursday 19 October 2017

John Hey (York)

Inference in Nonparametric Series Estimation with Data-Dependent Undersmoothing

Wednesday 18 October 2017

David Kang (Lancaster)

Staff research presentations

Wednesday 18 October 2017

Join us for three new staff member presentations

Labour Migration in Asia: Protracted Precarity and Truncated Rights

Tuesday 17 October 2017

Join us to hear Professor Nicola Piper

What can we learn from RCTs in education? A meta-analysis of the RCTs commissioned by the EEF and the IES

Wednesday 11 October 2017

In the last 10 years, there have been many more RCTs in education than there were previously. Considering the large cost (> £400,000) of running these trials, it is important to reflect on how successful this dramatic change of approach has been.

Breaking through despite the odds

Tuesday 3 October 2017

Professor Dame Anionwu has recently published her memoirs Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union.

Thresholds - A pop up symposium

Friday 22 September 2017

CFP: Thresholds is intended to bring together diverse disciplines including sociology, politics, history, anthropology, women’s studies, critical management, human geography, social policy. The format will be a short papers (10mins) followed discussion.

An Introduction to Rasch modelling using Winsteps

Monday 18 September 2017

A two day course for researchers and practitioners working with questionnaire, assessment and other psychometric data in the health, educational and social sciences.

An Introduction to Rasch modelling using Winsteps

Monday 18 September 2017

A two day course for researchers and practitioners working with questionnaire, assessment and other psychometric data in the health, educational and social sciences.

University open day

Sunday 17 September 2017

Interested in studying nursing or midwifery at the University of York?

University open day

Saturday 16 September 2017

Interested in studying nursing or midwifery at the University of York?

Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences

Wednesday 6 September 2017

We are pleased to announce the twelfth annual RCTs in the Social Sciences conference. The conference will be an opportunity for delegates to share expertise, interests and concerns about conducting trials in all fields of social sciences.

Quantile Connectedness: Modelling Tail Behaviour in the Topology of Financial Networks - Tomohiro Ando (Melbourne), Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo (Melbourne), Yongcheol Shin (York)

Wednesday 30 August 2017

Matt Greenwood-Nimmo (Uni of Melbourne)

University open day

Sunday 2 July 2017

Interested in studying nursing or midwifery at the University of York?

University open day

Friday 30 June 2017

Interested in studying nursing or midwifery at the University of York?

White Rose DTC 6th Annual Conference

Thursday 29 June 2017

The White Rose Doctoral Training Centre will hold its 6th Annual Conference at the University of Sheffield on the 29th June 2017. The conference will be a great opportunity to network with other doctoral researchers, share your research experience, find out more about the new DTP Pathways and meet the new Pathway Directors. The theme for this year’s conference is Interdisciplinarity in a changing world: methods, challenges and opportunities.

The role of rhetorical reading in writing

Wednesday 21 June 2017

Irena discusses how eading for the purpose of writing is different from reading for the purpose of comprehension and therefore requires a different set of reading strategies.

Waterbirth study afternoon for qualified midwives working in Yorkshire and Humber

Thursday 15 June 2017

A study afternoon exploring current evidence and how midwives can support women in waterbirth

FLOW: Fluency in Oral interaction Workshop

Thursday 15 June 2017

This workshop will be of interest to all researchers interested in second language oral fluency in the narrow sense (i.e. fluidity of oral production) and its development, including those interested in the acquisition of fluency in instructed and immersion contexts as well as those interested fluency assessment.

Border Zones: Documenting Life and Work Carried Out under Precarious Conditions

Wednesday 14 June 2017

Contemporary feminist methods reflect broader global trends in the production of knowledge through pictures.

Seminar: Can biofuels be sustainable?

Monday 12 June 2017

This IDN seminar aims to bring together people from different disciplines to look at the ways new technologies can impact on development agendas.

My food - My decision: a Conference

Friday 9 June 2017

The theme of this Conference is about empowering people with nutrition knowledge to support their food-related choices. Funded through the ReCSS Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Award Scheme 2017.

Postgraduate virtual open day

Thursday 8 June 2017

Our virtual open day is an ideal way to find out more about postgraduate study within Health Sciences.

The Greek economic crisis

Thursday 8 June 2017

Mike Wickens (York)

Global Midwifery - celebrating journeys

Wednesday 7 June 2017

An inspirational and engaging one day event for qualified midwifery staff.

Testing the Order of Fractional Integration in presence of instabilities

Thursday 1 June 2017

Fabrizio Iacone

Remembering the Future

Wednesday 31 May 2017

In 'Remembering the Future', Darran Anderson will re-assess utopian ideas in an age of pessimism

Beliefs about the psychological characteristics of effective teachers in five countries

Wednesday 31 May 2017

Does cultural context influence the importance we place on the attributes of effective teachers?

Education Investment and Optimal Redistribution

Thursday 25 May 2017

Michal Horvath

Call for Papers - Traversing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Social Research

Thursday 25 May 2017

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2017 We are pleased to announce our conference for postgraduate students and researchers interested in Interdisciplinary Social Research

Antinomies of data-driven public services: the case of regionalisation of adoption in England

Wednesday 24 May 2017

The adoption of children from care is a form of state-led family making – what Derek Kirton (2013) has called ‘Kinship by design.’

Vigilante Science: Examples, Trends and Causes

Wednesday 24 May 2017

I employ the term “Vigilante Science” – in analogy with the vigilante heroes in comic books

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 4: Word Selection

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Pre-requisites: Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 1 (Turn-Taking) and 2 (Sequence Organisation)

Healthy Spaces: Space, Place and Design for Well-Being

Wednesday 17 May 2017

The theme of the next Yorkshire Medical Sociology group is space, place and design in relation to health and well-being. This may include the built environment, landscapes, architectural design, and interiors.

Economics Seminar - TBC

Tuesday 2 May 2017

Zvi Safra (WBS)

Economics Seminar - TBC

Wednesday 26 April 2017

Ricardo Reis (LSE)

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 3: Repair

Tuesday 18 April 2017

Pre-requisites: Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 1 (Turn-taking) and 2 (Sequence Organisation)

Brexit: what welfare? What rights for European migrants in Britain?

Wednesday 29 March 2017

Roundtable event showcasing recent research concerning EU migrants in the UK

Webinar: School-based interventions for preventing HIV, STIs and pregnancy in adolescents: What's the evidence?

Tuesday 28 March 2017

Join Amanda Mason-Jones for an overview of the effectiveness of interventions for preventing HIV, STIs and pregnancy in adolescents.

No more Heroes? Using the History of Science in the Classroom

Friday 24 March 2017

​UYSEG network meeting.

European Populisms: Demand-Side, Supply-Side and Contextual Explanations

Wednesday 8 March 2017

Populist movements and parties have thrived in Southern Europe in recent years. Their success is often related to the influence of the financial crisis...

Demography and the Composition of Taxes

Thursday 23 February 2017

Weijie Luo (York)

Grasping the Everyday Rhythms and Atmospheres of a Fish Market

Wednesday 22 February 2017

This presentation takes two fish markets as sites to explore urban social life.

Border control, reasonable accommodation, and the social contract

Wednesday 22 February 2017

Talk by Professor Joseph Heath

TBC

Thursday 16 February 2017

Jan Yngve Sand (University of Tromso)

We Believe (Think, Plan), But Who Are 'We'

Wednesday 15 February 2017

TBA

Job Market Talk: Credit Market Imperfections, Price Stickiness and Monetary Non-Neutrality

Thursday 9 February 2017

Mashrur Khan (York)

Job Market Talk: Impact of providing informal care on carer's health

Thursday 2 February 2017

Irene Sanchez (York)

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

Wednesday 1 February 2017

What does it mean to be above or below in today’s rapidly urbanising world?

On Henri Lefebvre's "Revolutionary Citizenship": urban protest and the challenges of the post-political

Tuesday 31 January 2017

Free seminar

MACRO & FINANCE CLUSTER SEMINAR: tbc

Tuesday 31 January 2017

Andrea Ajello (Fed Board).

Demography and the Composition of Taxes

Thursday 26 January 2017

Weijie Luo (York)

CURB Seminar: Resisting Planetary Gentrification: the cases of Istanbul, London and Rome

Wednesday 25 January 2017

The process of gentrification has produced one of the largest literatures in urban studies, yet there have been few academic studies of resistance to gentrification...

TBC

Wednesday 25 January 2017

Konrad Mierendorff (UCL)

MACRO & FINANCE CLUSTER SEMINAR: 'Stabilisation Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Job Search, Skills Erosion and Growth Effects’ (with Campbell Leith)

Tuesday 24 January 2017

Ioana Moldovan (Glasgow)

The Broadening Political Scope of Anti-Politics in Britain

Wednesday 18 January 2017

This talk reports findings from the ESRC-funded project ‘Popular Understandings of Politics in Britain, 1937-2015’.

TBC

Wednesday 18 January 2017

Kunal Sen (Manchester)

Self harm and suicide - using routine data and collaboration to increase awareness and aid prevention

Thursday 12 January 2017

Join us to discuss how practitioners can use research findings and evidence to increase their awareness of the issues and identification of risks