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- Gabriel Weibl from the National Centre for Research on Europe at the University of Christchurch (New Zealand) is visiting ISET between August 30 and September 10. He is visiting Professor Allan Williams as part of a collaboration on research on international student migration to and from New Zealand
- The University Challenge for the new Parliament - House of Commons 29 June 2010
Two ISET Research Projects invited to represent Londonmet at a showcase of talent from Britain's universities
FEMCIT - Gendered Citizenship in a Multi Cultural Europe - Dr Monica Threlfall
SECOA - Solutions for environmental contrasts in coastal areas
Professor Graeme Evans and Professor Allan Williams - Irish Writers in London Summer School 2010
14 June - 16 July
First established by the Irish Studies Centre in 1996, the summer school runs for two nights a week for five weeks and provides an informal but informative setting for students wishing to study Irish literature over the summer. Each week a set text is discussed in class on a Tuesday and the following Thursday, the author reads and speaks about it to students. More information here - Irish in Britain Seminar Series 2010 concluded on Monday 7 June with a talk on
'Dwellers on the Threshold: Making a London-Irish 'Home' with The Pogues'
by Dr Sean Campbell, Anglia Ruskin University.
Irish In Britain 2010.pdf
- European Commission, Lifelong Learning Programme, Early Language Learning in Europe
Presentation of International Findings from the ELLiE Study
26-29 October 2010, University of Warsaw Library, Warsaw, Poland.
More information here - Publication Launch: Young Learner English Language Policy and Implementation: International Perspectives, edited by Janet Enever together with Jayne Moon and Uma Raman. The publication is a collection of 28 papers reflecting the insights of a group of academics, policy makers, senior educationalists and practitioners who have been important contributors internationally, regionally or in their own countries, to debates about Young Learner English language policy and implementation. A joint British Council-Garnet-IATEFL YLT SIG publication.
Launch to be held on Saturday 10 April, 18.45, at the Harrogate conference for the International Association of Teachers of English (IATEFL) - Janet Enever is undertaking a British Council consultancy to advise the Kosovo Ministry of Education on the introduction of English language teaching from grade 1 of primary schooling. For more information here
- María Villares Varela, from ESOMI (Equipo de Sociología de las Migraciones Internacionales), University of A Coruña, Spain, is a visiting researcher at ISET between April 8th and September 15th 2010. She is currently researching “Immigration and Self-Employment in Spain: Differential Mobilisation of Financial, Human and Social capital”. Her research interests are focused on the labour incorporation of the immigrant population in Spain, particularly on self-employment strategies from a gender perspective.
For more information about Maria Villares Varela's visit contact Allan Williams -
The Construction of ‘Suspect’ Communities in Britain 1974-2007:
comparing the impact on Irish and Muslim communities
Seminar on First Research Findings was held in March - final full report due in October 2010.
For further details on the project
ESRC RES-062-23-1066 -
ISET OTHER EUROPES COLLOQUIUM
European Futures? Migration, Cohesion, Recession
The second ISET Other Europes Colloquium focuses on current concerns about the impact of the global financial crisis on the policies and the politics of migration.
CANCELLATION OF OTHER EUROPES COLLOQUIUM 29 JANUARY 2010
On 1 September 2009 London Metropolitan University was greylisted by the University College Union and other unions because of an important dispute over significant job cuts. This put the Colloquium in doubt as many speakers would have felt unable to attend. We continued to hope that the dispute could be resolved in time for the event to take place. Unfortunately, even though there have been some very positive developments in the last few weeks, the lifting of greylisting will not happen in sufficient time to allow us to fully promote the event or ensure speaker attendance. We hope that the Colloquium will be able to be rescheduled but in the meantime we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. A notice will appear on the website in due course. We will refund any payments that have already been made. (More information here)
Mary Hickman, Helen Crowley, Nick Mai -
With funding from the European Commission London Office, Monica Threlfall has published the Report 'Europe's social situation: towards a more inclusive view' in which a series of UK stakeholder representatives present the situation of women, unpaid carers, ethnic minorities, Muslims, people with disabilities, and migrants, as well as the perspective from Eastern states of the EU. The report includes a model for creating an alternative portrait of Europe that gathers all people into the frame. Download
Europe's Social Situation
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Only a minority of migrant sex workers are trafficked!
ESRC-funded project: MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE UK SEX INDUSTRY
to read the October 2009 Final Policy-Relevant Report by Dr Nick Mai and for further information about the research project please click here - Allan Williams is co-author of a report issued by the ESRC AIM centre on 'At the Edge of Innovation: Why Shifts in the Boundaries of Innovation Matter'. This profiles the work of the ESRC Aim Innovation cohort across a range of current research projects.
- Helen Crowley is undertaking a fifteen month British Academy pilot project on the significance of social cohesion for strategies of settlement and family formation of skilled and unskilled migrant women workers in the care sector. More information here
- Council of Irish County Associations (London) Heritage Project
The Archive of the Irish in Britain (Irish Studies Centre) in partnership with the CICA have secured DION funding to continue the project into its third year. Under the project Nicole McLennan has been collecting, listing and preserving the records of the Council and County Associations who played a vital role in the reception and settlement of Irish migrants arriving in London from the 1950s. - Dr Rueyling Tzeng of the Institute of European and American Studies,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan ROC, was a visiting researcher at ISET during October and November 2009. During this period she researched immigrant entrepreneurs in London, and collaborating with ISET's Migration and Society research cluster. For more information about Dr Tzeng's visit contact Allan Williams - Professor Vladimir Balaz, who is Visiting Professor at ISET, obtained an academic interchange grant from the British Academy to allow him to visit the Institute during August 2009. He worked with ISET's Allan Williams in writing up their theoretical work on migration and risk.
- EU FP7 Success
ISET member Allan Williams has been successful in obtaining EU funding for a major four year study of the Impact of Urbanisation and Human Mobility on Environmental Systems in Coastal Areas, in collaboration with Graeme Evans (Cities Institute) and Graham Walters (Business School). Allan will act as overall co-ordinator for the project, on behalf of the Working Lives Research Institute. The eight country study will focus on modelling impacts under different scenarios, with the aim of informing policies for sustainable management of coastal zones. The UK case studies will be Thames Gateway and Portsmouth. - Immigration and Inclusion in the UK - the findings of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation research project were launched at the House of Commons in July 2008, followed by regional events in Belfast, Kilburn and Leicester in the Autumn. The report can be downloaded free from: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/immigration-and-social-cohesion-uk
- RESEARCH QUALITY EVALUATION
The 2008 RAE - an assessment of the quality of research in the UK - has ranked London Metropolitan amongst the top 10 centres for research on European Studies in Britain. 85% of our research was evaluated as being at least internationally recognized, with more that one third being internationally excellent or world class. - Two New Books on Migration
In February ISET celebrated the publication of two new books on European Migrations on: Russell King and Nick Mai's 'Out of Albania', and Allan Williams and Vladimir Balaz's 'International Migration and Knowledge'.
For further information contact iset@londonmet.ac.uk - Professor Vladimir Balaz, from the Slovak Academy of Science, is currently a Visiting Professor at ISET. He is working with Professor Allan Williams on questions relating to International Migration, particularly concerning skills, knowledge and risks. They are co-authors of International Migration and Knowledge (Routledge 2008).
- The EU Culture Programme has awarded funding to Allan Williams for a new project, PLACE. This will involve eight international partners in an 18 month study of Preserving Places: managing mass tourism, urban conservation and quality of life in historic centres.
- Allan Williams is undertaking a joint two-year ESRC funded project with the
University of Exeter on international migration and hotel innovation. In the latest phase of the project he will be working with Dr Anna Paraskevopoulou and Eugenia Markova (WRLI) examining innovation and the transfer of knowledge and capital by migrant and non migrant hotel owners and workers in the capital. Project Update, September 2008 - ESF WORKSHOP: Youth Radicalisation And The Role Of Secular And Religious Ideologies In Legitimising Politically Motivated Violence (Nick Mai, Sara
Silvestri, Martijn de Koning) - Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) project on return migration. Allan Williams has been awarded funding, in collaboration with the University of Canterbury (NZ) for a study of returned and circular migration from the UK to New Zealand
- The European Commission have awarded funding for a three year longitudinal comparative study of Early Language Learning in Europe (ELLiE) administered by ISET (December 2007- November 2010). The international research team is led by Janet Enever
