Having graduated from University of Brighton with a BSc in Social Work, Social Worker Barney Saoke talks to us about ‘life after graduation’ and his role at Brighton & Hove City Council. Continue reading “Social Worker Barney Saoke talks about ‘life after graduation’”
Most of us can’t imagine what it would be like to sleep rough. Continue reading “Students campaign for the homeless”
In the past, to a much older generation, it could be said that technology was perceived as ‘something to keep up with’ and that is more ‘inconvenient’ than convenient. Continue reading “Can technology provide ‘care’ for older people?”
A University of Brighton student drove more than 3,000 miles to inject some “fun” into politics. Continue reading “Heather’s long drive for politics”
The South Coast Regional Centre for Education (SCRC), is a new formed partnership consisting of the University of Brighton, the University of Sussex, East Sussex County Council and Brighton & Hove City Council. Continue reading “Social Work Students are set to benefit from a new partnership that will help transform the lives of our local community”
With over 8000 Metropolitan Police stating in a recent survey that they should be allowed to carry a taser, this has become a hot topic for debate.
Professor Peter Squires, of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton, speaks to The Conversation about the lessons learnt from countries where police carry weapons, and what the research and evidence show so far.
What do you think? Read the full article here and let us have your feedback on whether police carrying tasers is a good idea.
By Gabrielle Reid, Estelle Kessi and Helen Johnson
After weeks of planning, third year Psychology students immersed themselves into their role as Community Psychologists on 23rd November, with the aim of creating social change through action in a Day of Social Justice. The idea was first implemented by Liz Cunningham, when she taught at the University, and it has now become an annual event on the Critical Community Psychology module. Continue reading “A Day Of Social Justice”
Alumna Chantelle Wyatt (Social Science BA(Hons) 2006) explains how her experiences at university motivated her to take the plunge and realise her dreams.
Source: 10 years on … | University of Brighton Alumni Association
On behalf of the widening participation team I am writing to thank everyone who was involved with the planning and attending of the SASS summer school. Continue reading “Summer school”
Many congratulations to Hannah Frith, Principal Lecturer, on being successfully awarded a Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT) award of £1000 to investigate “Inclusive practice in psychology undergraduate dissertation supervision”.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of The School of Applied Social Science
Our collective thanks should go to Julie Green, Senior Administrator, for her excellent organisation skills in project managing the 2016 Festival of Social Science and a very stimulating and thought provoking Public Lecture by Professor Danny Dorling. Thanks too to everyone who presented or chaired on the day. We are aiming for a more amenable date in 2017 so that more people can attend.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of The School of Applied Social Science
Yesterday afternoon saw the award tea party for the first Julian Crampton “Remarkable Colleagues” award. I know that all our staff are remarkable in some way but some are even more remarkable than others. I am sure that you will all join me in congratulating our very remarkable Becky Farmer (Deputy School Admin Manager) who was successfully nominated by 6 people for an award. It really was a pleasure to attend the event to support Becky – who I know was dying quietly inside. A very well deserved recognition of the work and extra efforts from one of our colleagues who makes a daily contribution to making the job so much easier.
Well done Becky and many congratulations from everyone in SASS.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of The School of Applied Social Science
Our school undergraduate prize winners for this year have now been announced and the prizes will be presented at the summer graduation ceremony later this month. Continue reading “SASS undergraduate prize winners – summer graduation 2016”
I am delighted to be able to let you know that, from September, Emily Cubitt, who has been an Admin Assistant for the last two years, will become our new Departmental Administrator – a full time permanent role. Helen Basterra, Admin Manager, has created this new role to provide greater administrative capacity to support a wide range of school activities. More details will be circulated in September about Emily’s change of role.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of the School of Applied Social Science
We said goodbye to a number of colleagues in June. Bob Withers in the Psychotherapy team and Geoff Davies in the Psychology team were both with us on one year contracts and we’ve been grateful for their contributions. Emma Conduct in Criminology and Andrew Bassett in Sociology have been longer serving members of staff who also reached the end of their contracts. I know their colleagues will miss them and we wish them well for the future. Most significantly we marked the retirement of Michael Cahill who has been with the University, in its various forms, since 1984. Those of you who were able to attend his lunch last week will have been impressed, as I was, by Michael’s achievements in the field of Social Policy and his dedication to the School – indeed we owe our name to Michael who advocated for it at the time.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of the School of Applied Social Science
One of our ECRs Hannah Thurston, Senior Lecturer, has had a successful June with the publication of her first book, Prisons and Punishment in Texas. Many congratulations go to Hannah on this excellent achievement.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of the School of Applied Social Science
Dr Mary Darking and Dr Carl Walker will be receiving a university award for their community facing work in July, and they have also submitted an application to the THE Awards 2016 in the Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community category. Many congratulations to both Mary and Carl for what they have achieved – and the very best of luck for the THE awards.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of the School of Applied Social Science
Apart from the usual University work, April and May have been busy with external activities in a number of areas. These have included the British Psychological Society Annual Conference in Nottingham, attending a range of BPS committee meetings, and a PhD viva in Roehampton. I was re-selected as the chair of the BPS Ethics Committee and will be attending Board of Trustees meetings in an ex-officio capacity to provide support for ethics and social justice/equality matters. I also had some annual leave!
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of The School of Applied Social Science
In the last two months we welcomed Katie Batchelor and Ciara McDermott to our team of programme administrators and both are off to a flying start! It’s good news for everyone to have a fully staffed School Office again. We are entering a very busy recruitment phase and have recently held interviews for new Criminology, Psychology and Social Work staff. In the coming weeks we will also advertise for new Psychotherapy colleagues, a Research Fellow tied to Aidan’s AHRC project, maternity cover for Laura Banks’ role on Julia Stroud’s NIHR grant and a few other bits and pieces of cover as well.
You will all be aware that we will be saying goodbye to two highly valued friends and colleagues over the summer – Michael Cahill and Jayne Raisborough. Celebrations of their achievements during their time with the School are planned (30th June at midday for Michael and 15th July from 3pm for Jayne).
Finally, we extend congratulations to Dr Geoff Davies who recently passed his PhD viva. A significant achievement and a happy note to end on.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of The School of Applied Social Science
The NSS 2016 closed at the end of April and our final response rate was 83.33%. This was a fantastic joint effort from staff and students, I am so grateful to you for really getting behind the NSS this year. The results start to appear from August 1st – my hope is that we start to see some improvements on aspects of the survey. When I have results I will be sharing these with staff and with students.
Professor Kate Bullen
Professor of Psychology and Head of The School of Applied Social Science
Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor at the University of Oxford will be delivering the University of Brighton Annual Social Science Forum Lecture.
Thursday 19th May 2016
5.30-7.00pm
Of the richest 25 countries in the world the UK has become one of the most unequal and is on course to win the ‘global race’ to become the most economically unequal of all by 2030. In all of Western Europe, apart from in post-crisis Ireland, no other country taxes and spends as little on its society as the UK does. Once all taxes are considered it is clear that the most well off 1% of society pay tax at a lower rate than the poorest tenth, whilst simultaneously complaining about how much they contribute and how little they think they get back. Danny Dorling is a leading thinker on the geography of inequality and a member of the London Fairness Commission. His recent lecture addressed these glaring disparities; considering how we arrived at this situation and what we could do about changing it.
www.dannydorling.org
@dannydorling
Huxley Lecture Theatre, Room 300, Huxley Building, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton. BN2 4AT
For more information contact Julie Green: J.Green2@brighton.ac.uk
SOCIAL SCIENCE FORUM
Wednesday 13th January 2016 by China Mills
Room E424, Checkland Building, Falmer Campus
The World Health Organisation tells us that mental disorders constitute a global epidemic, a huge worldwide burden of disease, and an obstacle to individual, national and economic development. Here the logic of epidemiology is applied to mental disorders, which although not infectious are said to spread. This enmeshes us within a discourse of crisis, where acting with urgency (fast and cheaply) becomes framed as the only ethical response, especially in countries of the global South. This paper will explore how crisis discourse creates a space where the global disease (anxiety, insecurity, stress) endemic to the reality of global capitalism (insecure or dangerous work, unemployment, retrenched or non-existent welfare, poverty and inequality etc) is (re)configured as individual disease – mental disorder – projected globally through epidemiological tools. Rather than seeing mental disorder as an obstacle to economic development, this paper will explore how the production of distress is an integral component to economic development (in its neoliberal forms). The framing of this disease as mental disorder (situated in the brain and not in the economic body) not only obscures socio-economic sources of distress but, furthermore, creates global markets out of epidemics, from the very disorders it constructs as burdens.