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Keynote Presentations from the Alcohol, Drugs and NTE conference now available online, 17 August 2012 CWRU and the Centre for Cyber Security, 12 June 2012 Social Work Lecturer Vacancy, 1 June 2012 Solution Search Event - Can Social Work/Social Care benefit from Action Learning Sets?, 31 May 2012 NSPCC Conference, 25 May 2012 New Department for Education Adoption Study, 26 April 2012 Postgraduate study will improve my business says entrepreneur, 5 March 2012 Prof Reddy visits CeDR, 2 February 2012 Distress or Disability Symposium proceedings published, 19 January 2012 Mephedrone could become UK number 1 drug of choice according to new study, 18 July 2011 Resilience resource sheet: new publication, 27 June 2011 Judith Masson Seminar: web-cast now available, 20 June 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Dr Iganski and Prof Smith produce international study of hate crime offender rehabilitation, 30 March 2011 NSPCC Guidance featured in leading practice magazines., 19 January 2011 Criminologists and Computing experts teaching new interdisiplinary MSc in Cyber Security, 29 November 2010 Lancashire Drug and Alcohol Action Team (LDAAT) fund two-year research programme, 18 October 2010 Interim Evaluation Report is published: National Peer Support Programme, 24 September 2010 Lancaster at the top for social work, 10 June 2010 Karenza to speak at the 'Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures' conference in Manchester, 3 June 2010 DCSF publishes reports on the Impact of Short Breaks on Families with Disabled Children, 25 March 2010 CeDR awarded contract to review the health and care needs of people with learning disabilities, 23 March 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 ESRC project graded 'outstanding', 27 November 2009 Criminologist profiled in press for work on antisemitism, 30 October 2009 Weekend Recreational Polydrug Use Increases accross the UK Night-time, 19 October 2009 Peer-reviewed journal on electronic dance music cultures to launch, 20 August 2009 New DH Report published: Estimating future numbers of adults with profound multiple learning disabil, 27 July 2009 1 Senior Research & 2 Research Associate posts in CeDR, 14 July 2009 Alcohol and older people project adopted by Help the Aged and Age Concern, 25 June 2009 Dr Karenza Moore to deliver keynote at Internet Studies Festival, Liverpool John Moores University,, 23 June 2009 Integral Suicidology seminar, 11 April 2009 New confidential inquiries into drug-related deaths launched for Lancashire County, 1 April 2009 CeDR News 2 March 2009 published, 18 March 2009 Norwegian Bioethics and Disability Scholar Patrick Kermit joins CeDR as a visiting Research Fellow, 16 February 2009 CeDR joins Cumbria and Lancashire Local Academic Network of the Health Research Design Service NW, 22 July 2008 CeDR research on People with Learning Difficulties in England reported in The Guardian, 12 June 2008 CeDR research on People with Learning Difficulties in England reported in The Guardian, 12 June 2008 Japanese Social Work and Disability Academics visit Department of Applied Social Science, 10 March 2008 Japanese translation of influential 'Social Work with Disabled People', 10 March 2008 Faculty funding opportunities for postgraduate research students, 4 April 2006 Educational Research
PhD Award - Dr Marguerite Koole, 22 November 2012 PhD Award - Dr Jan Maskell, 14 November 2012 PhD Award - Michele Luxon, 6 November 2012 Analysis of doctorates prompts concerns over adequacy of scholars' training, 1 November 2012 PhD Award - Dr Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin, 1 October 2012 'Stories of Self; tracking children's identity and wellbeing through the school years', 17 September 2012 PhD Award - Dr Carey Philpott, 14 September 2012 PhD Award - Dr Brian Holmes, 10 July 2012 PhD Studentship: Engaging 'non-traditional' students for retention and success, 7 June 2012 PhD Award - Claire Coulton, 29 May 2012 Special edition of the journal EAIT, 28 May 2012 Report on online safety and school policies now on the UKCCIS evidence website, 28 May 2012 ICO Research Conference, 28 May 2012 Paul Ashwin's Doctoral Studentship award, 28 May 2012 Creative Exchange, 16 May 2012 Fees only Overseas Student Bursary, 14 May 2012 PhD Award - Dr Peter Wood, 10 May 2012 Two New Proposed Taught Doctoral Programmes, 8 May 2012 Keynote on technologies in schools and impacts arising, 25 April 2012 Keynote on learning platforms in schools, 22 March 2012 Seminar at King's College London, 21 March 2012 Viva Sucess, 27 February 2012 Viva Success, 27 February 2012 Viva Success, 27 February 2012 Viva Success, 27 February 2012 Digital Resources in Primary Schools, 23 February 2012 Viva Success, 21 February 2012 Viva Success, 21 February 2012 Viva Success, 21 February 2012 Viva Success, 21 February 2012 LRC special issue of Language and Education out!, 17 February 2012 Professor Murray Saunders appointed Vice President of the IOCE, 10 February 2012 Report launched at the House of Commons, 8 February 2012 Presentation at the international conference and forum LWF2012, 26 January 2012 John Struthers - Doctoral Programme Student's article in THES, 23 January 2012 Presentation at BETT 2012, 12 January 2012 Uses of digital online resources in primary schools, 21 December 2011 Developing digital leaders in schools, 21 December 2011 Internet use and older people - end of project report to the funder., 21 December 2011 Just published - in a special edition of a journal, 21 December 2011 Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning - Data management in schools event, 21 December 2011 University World News, 21 November 2011 Higher Education Close Up Conference, 14 November 2011 Student engagement project outcomes, 28 October 2011 Digital online resources for primary schools, 22 October 2011 The Little Big Planet video game in schools, 22 October 2011 Computers in the home for a socio-economically disadvantaged community - end of project report, 22 October 2011 Internet safety of pupils and school personnel - end of project report, 22 October 2011 Journal news, 22 October 2011 Just published, 22 October 2011 Research in the media, 20 October 2011 NEW Doctoral Programme in Teacher Education, 10 October 2011 2011 National Student Survey (NSS), 19 August 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Viva Success, 2 June 2011 Viva Success, 2 June 2011 Department ranked 10th in UK, 19 May 2011 Turkish translation published of Tusting and Barton 'Models of Adult Learning', 27 April 2011 IOM's forthcoming publication: Crushed Hopes, 14 March 2011 North West Doctoral Training Centre - ESRC scholarships, 22 February 2011 Literacy Research Centre's response to the DfE's Year 1 Phonics Screening Check consultation, 2 February 2011 Viva Success, 24 January 2011 Viva Success, 12 January 2011 Viva Success, 12 January 2011 Viva Success, 12 January 2011 Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), 20 December 2010 Book Publication - Contemporary Issues in Lifelong Learning, 17 November 2010 Viva Success, 10 November 2010 Viva Success, 3 November 2010 Viva Success, 3 November 2010 Julia Gillen presenting at New Media Consortium, Anaheim, 11 June 2010 PINE students receive Lancaster Award, 3 June 2010 Carolyn Jackson's research is featured in the TES, 3 March 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 ESRC Quota Studentships (Closing Date 6th March, 2010), 13 January 2010 Gale Parchoma was interviewed by Angelika Eckert from Checkpoint eLearning, Munich, Germany, 17 December 2009 Taught Doctoral Programme, Recruiting Now - January 2010 Start, 3 November 2009 New articles published by LRC members, 12 October 2009 Julia Gillen contribution in eLearning Papers, 2 July 2009 Summer School for Literacy Professionals and Researchers, 13-17 July 2009 Book Publication: Analysing Teaching-Learning Interactions in Higher Education, 25 February 2009 Congratulations Jing!, 6 February 2009 Funding for a Phd in Literacy Studies, 5 February 2009 4 ESRC postgraduate Research Studentships - 2009 Entry, 21 January 2009 Postgraduate Open Day, 26 November 2008 2008 BERA /SAGE award for "'research into practice" for 16+ learners', 26 November 2008 A range of projects explore uses of ICT that provide e-learning support for young people, 26 November 2008 New Evaluative Research in CSET, 20 November 2008 PhD E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning - Director, 12 November 2008 Pedagogic quality and inequality in university first degrees, 26 November 2008 Book Publication, 10 October 2008 Mathematical Literacy: Developing Identities of Inclusion. Yvette Solomon, 03/09/2008 Book Publication - Gale Parchoma, 12 May 2008 New ESRC post-doctoral fellows in the Department of Educational Research, 5 February 2008 MA Adult Literacy Numeracy and ESOL induction, 18 - 19 January 2008 Departmental Scholarship, 6 December 2007 New web site and blog, 22 Nov 2007 Book launch, 21 November 2007 First prize book award, 8 November 2007 New project funding, 22 February 2007 'Skills for the boss', 6 February 2007 LU Friends, 1 February- December 2007 Research into Intercultural Professional Development for E-Learning, 1 December 2006 Former PhD Student awarded Annual BERA Dissertation Award, 1 November 2006 English and Creative Writing
Children's Author at Capturing Witches Conference, 27 July 2012 Dr Hilary Hinds: International Funding Success, 26 July 2012 Paul Farley presents 'The Paperback Poets' and 'Twenty Minutes', 23 July 2012 Film Actor Graduates from Department of English and Creattive Writing, 19 July 2012 Lauren Eaves Awarded the Princess Alexandra Medal, 18 July 2012 Undergraduate Student Prize Winners: 2011-12, 10 July 2012 Lancaster Award Achievers - Summer 2012, 5 July 2012 Visit by Prof Geoffrey Hartman, 21 June 2012 'Cake': Issue 3, 7 June 2012 Alumnus Success, 25 May 2012 Catherine Spooner hosts Tim Burton Film Collection at The Dukes, Lancaster, 25 May 2012 Best Book of Ideas Prize for 'Edgelands', 24 May 2012 Careers Success for Final Year Undergraduate, 23 May 2012 Eleanor Rycroft on BBC Radio Lancashire, 22 May 2012 Poetry Pamphlet Launch for Creative Writing MA Student, 22 May 2012 Paul Farley elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 21 May 2012 New Royal Literary Fund Fellow, 15 May 2012 Creative Writing Postgraduate Interviews John Irving, 9 May 2012 Creative Writing Postgraduate Interviews John Irving, 9 May 2012 Emily Robertson, Final Year English Student, on Katha Projects, 8 May 2012 'Edgelands' Shortlisted for Book Prize, 2 May 2012 Paul Farley on BBC Radio 4, 29 April 2012 'Start the Week' with Paul Farley, 27 March 2012 Sleep Symposium at Uppsala University, 2 March 2012 Knowledge Exchange Awards for Department of English and Creative Writing, 28 February 2012 Collaborative Agreement with the Wordsworth Trust, 22 February 2012 Dr Tony Sharpe's Durham Lecture, 21 February 2012 Dr Tony Sharpe's Durham Lecture, 21 February 2012 Dr Tony Sharpe's Durham Lecture, 21 February 2012 Posthumous BAFTA for English and Creative Writing Alumnus, 20 February 2012 Faculty Research Fund Award for Graham Mort, 6 February 2012 Postgradaute Student on the 'Get Your Name in Print' Programme, 2 February 2012 Former Student Wins the Costa Book of the Year Award, 2011, 1 February 2012 J. Hillis Miller: The First Sail, 1 February 2012 Publishing Success for Distance Learning MA Student, 31 January 2012 'Someone Called Derrida': A Staged Reading, 24 January 2012 Crime Films, 1940-2000: A Free Film Festival, 16 January 2012 The Tom Milne Popular Fiction Archive: 2012 Exhibition, 13 January 2012 Jenn Ashworth in The Guardian's 'Weekend' Magazine, 13 January 2012 Paul Farley and the River Dee, 8 January 2012 Funding Award for the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, 20 December 2011 MA Student Wins Princess Alexandra Medal, 20 December 2011 New Book by Graham Mort, 18 November 2011 English student achieves the Lancaster Award, 2011-12, 17 November 2011 Year 2 student selected for playwriting course, 14 November 2011 'Cake' - Issue 3 Launch, 8 November 2011 Dr Tony Sharpe visits Bergen University, 4 November 2011 Postgraduate student shortlisted for screenwriting award, 31 October 2011 Former Student Wins Young Entrepreneur Award, 31 October 2011 English student wins short story competition, 26 October 2011 J. Hillis Miller, 13 October 2011 New Appointments in the Department of English and Creative Writing, 1 October 2011 Professor Roger Bromley, 30 September 2011 Graham Mort's 'Touch' wins Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011, 8 July 2011 Bode Asiyanbi wins African Performance playwriting competition, 1 July 2011 The LRB Seminar at Lancaster, 30 June 2011 Launch of 'A Queen Too Many', 14 June 2011 ICA 'A Gothic Story', 11 June 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Spreading the Word: English Bibles and Early Modern Readers, 4 June 2011 'Night Waves': BBC Radio 3, 31 May 2011 Re-Reading William Shakespeare, 7 May 2011 'Edgelands' on BBC Radio 4, 25 April 2011 Prof John Schad on BBC Radio 3, 15 April 2011 Reaissance Prince to Infamous Tyrant, 31 March 2011 Women's Life Writing Network, 15 March 2011 The Ravenglass Poetry Press Prize 2010, 10 March 2011 Gary Younge Event, 8 March 2011 English Student to attend the Academy Awards Ceremony, 27 February 2011 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 RLF Scheme to Help Students With Their Academic Writing 2009/10, 30 September 2009 Prof Paul Farley involved with national writing initiative, 29 June 2009 Lancaster Poetry Professor wins Jerwood Prize, 22 March 2009 Postgraduate Finalist in Arts Contest, 20 March 2009 Grand Finale of "Moving Manchester" Project, 6 March 2009 Sara Maitland's A Book of Silence on Start the Week, 8 November 2008 Launch of Online Exhibition: Regarding War, 20 October 2008 Professor Terry Eagleton joins Department of English and Creative Writing, 17 October 2008 RLF Scheme to Help Students With Their Academic Writing, 6 October 2008 New Scheme To Help Students With Their Academic Writing, 28 January 2008 BBC Broadcast Radio Drama by Lancaster Writer, 25 January 2008 Graham Mort Wins Bridport Prize, 17th November 2007 Guardian Review of 'Visibility' by Graham Mort, 5 November 2007 European Languages and Cultures
London 2012 commissions reading of Sports Play, 12 August 2012 German radio reviews Sports Play, 4 August 2012 Jelinek's Sports Play, now on in London, 30 July 2012 DELC supports political lobbying for language skills, 23 July 2012 Lancaster premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Sports Play receives excellent reviews, 17 July 2012 Sports Play puts Lancaster 'on the map', 2 July 2012 Recording by Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, 20 June 2012 Studying German and Playing Football - DELC Students at the Sauerkraut Cup, 28 April 2012 AEIOU: Global Austria, 26 April 2012 Olga Gomez-Cash gives academic masterclasses on the Islands, 26 March 2012 - 29 March 2012 Promoting Languages at Furness Academy, 1 November 2011 2010 Max Kade Prize awarded to Rebecca Braun (DELC), 20 September 2011 Cornelia Graebner gives a talk in Rio de Janiero on Neo Zapatism & Imaginaries of Alterglobalisation, 3 August 2011 New DELC lecturer invited to present research to VC, 28 June 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Judith Menzel wins university staff prize, 19 May 2011 Mexico-based documentary maker Nicolas Défossé and photographer Adolfo López Magaña visit Lancaster, 3 May 2011 Lancaster students participate in Sauerkraut Cup, 15 April 2011 'Minorites en vue' colloquium, 31 March 2011 Department of European Languages & Cultures holds a highly successful multilingual Litfest, 30 March 2011 Cornelia Graebner (DELC) gains award for Latin American event, 25 March 2011 Visit from Pupils from Liceo (statale), Pescara, Italy, 4 February 2011 Visit from Pupils from St. José, Durnago in the Basque country and Stoneyhurst School, Lancashire, 18 January 2011 DELC students produce German film, 17 June 2010 DELC students receive Lancaster Award, 15 June 2010 DELC football teams take part in Sauerkraut Cup, 5 May 2010 DELC hosts multilingual departmental litfest, 12 March 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 DELC to hold its own departmental litfest, 20 January 2010 German Teaching Exchange, 26 November 2009 Screening of "My DDR T-Shirt", 10 November 2009 German Academic Exchange Service funding possibilities, 12 October 2009 Allianz Summer Academy, 29 July-1 August 2009 Galileo versus Harriot as telescopic observers of the moon, 20 January 2009 Charlotte Baker to interview Pap N'Diaye, 10 November 2008 Presentation of Festschrift to Prof. Malcolm Quainton, 7 November 2008 Robert Crawshaw participates in 'Literary and Cultural Studies: the Future' colloquium, 24 October 2008 MA Fees Scholarship -- Dynamics of Memories, 22 August 2008 Memory Conference in Kent, 22 August 2008 Lancaster students at international master class in Germany, 1 August 2008 German Film Club success, 10 June 2008 Aristotle Kallis wins staff prize for teaching, 5 June 2008 Ann Thomas awarded 2008 staff prize, 29 April 2008 Staff News 2007-8, 2 November 2007 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Contemporary Arts at Lancaster is ranked in the Top 5 in the UK, 25 May 2012 New Report from Independent Researchers Confirms Motivations of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, 4 May 2012 Lancaster's Arts and Humanities remain in the global Top 50, 3 May 2012 Lancaster University to lead one of four AHRC Knowledge Exchange Hubs, 16 August 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Lancaster enters the elite group of top 10 universities in the UK, 2 June 2010 Could Satnavs Cause Car Crashes?, 22 January 2010 The changing face of problem drinking in women, 18 December 2009 Lancaster University rises in world top 200, 19 October 2009 RLF Scheme to Help Students With Their Academic Writing 2009/10, 30 September 2009 Researchers and Writers at Lancaster debate the Shrinking Globe, 4 September 2009 Congratulations to Professor Linda Woodhead, 25 August 2009 £10m Arts Building Gets Go Ahead, 14 August 2009 Allianz Summer Academy, 29 July-1 August 2009 New Director for University Public Arts, 12 February 2009 New Director for the IAS, 8 December 2008 Legal Services in North West England: The New Landscape, 27 November 2008 Prof Sylvia Walby Awarded OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours List, 16 June 2008 FASS Virtual Research Training Pilot Programme, 21 April 2008 Prof Sugarman gives Lecture on Human Rights in Havana, Cuba., 25 January 2008 BBC Broadcast Radio Drama by Lancaster Writer, 25 January 2008 Nuffield Theatre "providing first-rate public theatre within a higher education setting", 18 December 2007 FASS Higher Degree Congregations - 12 December 2007, 12 December 2007 Postgraduates Attended Ceremonies For The Conferment Of Higher And Honorary Degrees, 12 December 2007 Congratulations to Emma Rose in LICA, 15 November 2007 FASS Open Day, 22 August 2007 Art graduates to exhibit at the Curwen and New Academy Gallery, 1 August 2007 ESRC Postgraduate Research Studentships for 2006-2007., 28 November 2006 Lancaster in the top 100 for social sciences research world-wide, 6 November 2006 History
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, 11 June 2012 Articles published on openDemocracy this week, 19 June 2012 AHRC awards for History student, 1 June 2012 Dr Deborah Sutton, 31 May 2012 Professor Naomi Tadmor elected to the Executive Committee of the Social History Society, 20 April 2012 New book on the history of corporate governance, 20 March 2012 History goes up in rankings in 2012 Complete University Guide, 17 February 2012 History MA success for former bank worker, 3 January 2012 PhD success for former teacher, 3 January 2012 Prof Naomi Tadmor shortlisted for Longman/History Book of the Year Award, 12 December 2011 Annual Masaryk Lecture, 24 November 2011 William Gilbert Website to go live, 18 November 2011 History of Science graduate creates historical games, 18 November 2011 History Student Helen Schofield among first cohort of Lancaster Award Achievers 2011/12, 14 November 2011 Dr Dariusz Gafijczuk and History 384 Students filmed for BBC Northwest Tonight Programme, 3 November 2011 Postgraduate History student, James Gibbs, successfully defends PhD, 2 November 2011 Two New Lecturers in History for 2011-12, 31 August 2011 Dr Ian Gregory awarded European Research Council Starting Grant, 26 July 2011 Successful Completion of PhD by History Student, 20 July 2011 MA student wins national award, 28 June 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Dr Alex Metcalfe awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 7th June 2011 Histfest 2011, 2 June 2011 Lancaster history student wins place at "Sciences-Po", 1 June 2011 New book by Honorary Research Associate, 11 May 2011 Leverhulme Fellowship for Lancaster Historian, 7 April 2011 Recent History PhD appointed to new post, 28 March 2011 AHRC funding for Dynamics of Memories group, 11 March 2011 AHRC Networking Grant, 11 March 2011 Distinguished Professor Appointment, 4 March 2011 Postgraduate History student, Vida Jane Platt, successfully defends PhD, 3 March 2011 Naomi Tadmor's latest book reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, 14 February 2011 First Class Honours student wins Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire's Dissertation Prize, 14 February 2011 Department on the move, 10 February 2011 Paul Hayward Awarded Membership of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 10 February 2011 The History Department to introduce over a dozen new courses in 2011-12, 22 December 2010 Publication by Lancaster PhD graduate, 16 December 2010 Ian Gregory's AHRC Project awarded 'outstanding' grade, 14 December 2010 The Organiser and the Victim: Power Relationships in the Colonial World, 1 December 2010 Jeffrey Richards quoted in 'The Independent' about English National Identity, 1 December 2010 Article by Dr John Welshman to be reprinted in the 25th Anniversary Issue of Children & Society, 12 November 2010 Liberty and its Histories: a symposium with Quentin Skinner, 11 November 2010 Findings of Major Research Project Published, 9 November 2010 John Strachan publishes essay on Albert Camus, 5 November 2010 Dr Patrick Hagopian gives keynote address at "Whose Vietnam?" International Conference, 19 October 2010 Dr Sarah Barber publishes article in the History Workshop Journal., 1 October 2010 Professor Stephen Constantine publishes book, Migration and Empire, 30 September 2010 Professor Keith Stringer awarded major grant from the AHRC, 12 August 2010 Undergraduate History student Elizabeth Heather awarded the Queens Scholarship in Part I, 4 August 2010 International Congress for History of Science comes to North West, 2 August 2010 Honorary Research Fellow Robert Dillon announces publication of book, 26 July 2010 History postgraduate student Kasper Evers awarded the M.F. Howson Prize, 15 July 2010 History postgraduate student Kasper Evers awarded the Joseph Hertford Sutton Prize, 15 July 2010 Undergraduate History student James Mawdesley awarded the Andrew Pearson Prize, 15 July 2010 Undergraduate History student Angela Loxham awarded the Queen's Scholarship in Part II, 15 July 2010 History postgraduate student Emily Mead awarded the Queen's Studentship, 15 July 2010 Three undergraduate History students awarded the A.H. Woolrych Prize, 15 July 2010 Postgraduate History student, Rev. Kenneth Mankin, successfully defends M.Phil, 5 July 2010 New book by recent History PhD, 18 June 2010 Postgraduate History student, Ben Edwards, successfully defends PhD, 16 June 2010 History Departmental Officer wins University Staff Prize, 4 June 2010 Piers Hale awarded the University of Oklahoma's General Education Teaching Award, 22 April 2010 Ralph Gibson Bursary announced by the Society for the Study of French History, 1 April 2010 Ian Gregory awarded grant from British Academy, 11 March 2010 John Welshman to produce book provisionally entitled Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town, 1 March 2010 John Welshman's book Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain to be published, 1 March 2010 Research Support Award - Dr John Strachan, 19 February 2010 Dariusz Gafijczuk chosen for poster presentation at the Royal Society, London, 11 February 2010 Dr Alex Metcalfe announces online publication of new articles on JAIS website, 11 February 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 Postgraduate History student, Sarah Rose, successfully defends thesis, 4 February 2010 Registered PhD students eligible to apply for Department Research costs, 29 January 2010 Stephen Constantine gives BBC interviews following official apology by Australian Prime Minister, 18 November 2009 Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies published online, 29 September 2009 Monograph by Dr Alex Metcalfe published by Edinburgh University Press, 25 September 2009 Magic conference makes headlines, 25 September 2009 Studentships awarded to History Students, 22 September 2009 Michele Moatt successfully defends thesis, 18 September 2009 Dr Ian Gregory interviewd by BBC Radio 4, 15 September 2009 David Starkey at Lancaster, 22 September 2009 Roy Parker awarded PhD by Department of History, 20 July 2009 Dr John Welshman comissioned by the Beatrice Webb Memorial Trust, 20 July 2009 Rowntree's Life-Cycle, 7 July 2009 Dr Stephen Constantine, Department of History, publishes book, 29 June 2009 Robert Stansfield, Honorary Research Associate in the Department of History publishes book, 17 June 2009 Former PhD student awarded Fullbright Distinguished Scholar award 2009-10, 11 June 2009 Travel grant awarded to Emma Vickers, 2 June 2009 Dr Stephen Constantine interviewed for BBC Radio 4, 26 May 2009 Inside the Walls of the Hostel, 28 May 2009 Dr Alison Kay, Honorary Research Associate in the Department of History publishes book, 19 May 2009 Dr Adrian Horn, Honorary Research Associate in the Department of History publishes book, 18 May 2009 Jonathan Gledhill successfully defends thesis, 12 May 2009 Evacuation, Memory, and the Second World War, 15 May 2009 One volume of Pevsner Project results published, 20 March 2009 Dianne Lawrence successfully defends thesis, 18 March 2009 Dr James Taylor consulted by The Observer newspaper, 10 March 2009 Successful Bid for Research Studentships in Department of History, 18 February 2009 First Catalan texts in the Antarctic?, 18 February 2009 Another Lancaster contributor to Melvyn Bragg's, 15 February 2009 Article by Dr Stephen Constantine published by Institute of Historical Research, 9 February 2009 BBC series production to film History Honorary Research Associate, 6 February 2009 John Todd, 22 January 2009 Churchill's children, 21 January 2009 Simon Vaukins successfully defends thesis, 21 January 2009 Galileo versus Harriot as telescopic observers of the moon, 20 January 2009 Professor Jeffrey Richards secures AHRC funding, 6 January 2009 Dr Thomas Rohkramer receives Promotion, 12 December 2008 The Crusades in Japanese, 12 December 2008 Forgotten Voices, 13 January 2009 Graduation at Lancaster, 10 December 2008 Dr James Taylor to be awarded prize for Best First Monograph, 5 December 2008 New collection: War and Sexuality, 4 December 2008 Article in Twentieth Century British History, 3 December 2008 Award of Newton International Fellowship, 20 November 2008 New Work by Thomas Digges Identified, 19 November 2007 Dariusz Gafijczuk awarded Newton International Fellowship, 7 November 2008 New Book on Common Land by History Research Associate, 10 October 2008 Book of the Week by Lancaster Professor, 26 September 2008 History Graduate featured in North West Evening Mail, 24 September 2008 MA Fees Scholarship -- Dynamics of Memories, 22 August 2008 Graduation at Lancaster, 4 August 2008 Another Successful Completion of PhD by History student, 9 July 2008 Dr Sarah Barber awarded funding by the British Academy, 30 June 2008 Funding for Postgraduate Studentships, 20 June 2008 Histfest 2008 Conference, 13 May 2008 Successful Completion of PhD by History Student, 9 May 2008 Lancaster's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences awarded £150,000, 21 April 2008 Former History student awarded International Society for the History of the Neurosciences' Award, 21 April 2008 Professor Jeffrey Richards interviewed by BBC Radio 3, 17 April 2008 Professor Jeffrey Richards interviewed for BBC World Service, 19 March 2008 Lancaster History Students visit Sicily, 17 March 2008 Successful Completion of PhD by History Student, 14 March 2008 Successful Completion of PhD by History Student, 3 March 2008 Professor Jeffrey Richards on BBC Radio 4, 25 February 2008 History Doctoral Student awarded double prize, 25 February 2008 Staff member featured in the Times Higher Education, 4 February 2008 Medievalists successful in AHRC funding bid, 15 January 2008 History Society hosts Quiz Night, 15 January 2008 Sam Edwards, 11 January 2008 History at Lancaster scores highly in National Student Survey, 21 December 2007 British Academy Small Grants Scheme awarded, 11 December 2007 Princess Alexandra Medal for academic excellence awarded to History student, 11 December 2007 Dr Tim Hickman interviewed by BBC Radio 4, 11 December 2007 Professor Jeffrey Richards interviewed by Unique Broadcasting, 31 August 2008 Bob Dillon, 2 November 2007 Chancellor's Medal awarded to History MA student, 13 December 2006 News from the Head of Department, 1 August 2007 Austin Woolrych Scholarships, 30 April 2007 Celebrating Marcus Merriman (1940-2006), 1 March 2007 Austin Woolrych Scholarships, 1 January 2007 Chancellor's Medal awarded to History MA student, 13 December 2006 Victoria County History Project: A Feasibility Study, December 2006-January 2007, 1 December 2006 Staff - Postgraduate Cricket Match, 21 June 2006 Staff - Postgraduate Cricket Match, 21th June 2006, 21 June 2006 Celebrating Marcus Merriman (1940-2006), 31 March 2006 Dr Marcus Merriman, 23 March 2006 Student Prizewinner, 1 January 2006 Ivan Slade Prize awarded to Gemma Theobald, History Graduate 2004., 1 January 2006 Innovation and Enterprise Unit
Institute for Advanced Studies
New Director for the IAS, 8 December 2008 Legal Services in North West England: The New Landscape, 27 November 2008 Regarding War Exhibition - website launched, 21 October 2008 IAS Incubation Project Nominated for Prestigious Award, 29 September 2008 China-UK Networks of Low-Carbon Innovation News Update, 2 September 2008 iPhones, coffee shops and peak earnings - update from CSMTC, 28 August 2008 ESRC-IAS Seminar Series event a success, 14 July 2008 LRC graduation celebration, 12 December 2007 New web site and blog, 22 Nov 2007 US Army Muslim Chaplain serving at Guantanamo Bay visits IAS, 16 November 2007 New Literacy Research Centre publication, 6 November 2007 Think tank leader appointed to IAS, 1 June 2006 Theme for 2007-08 Annual Research Programme announced, 31 May 2006 The Bhaskar Lectures, 1 January 2006 Official Launch of Institute for Advanced Studies, 29 November 2005 Frances Cairncross CBE opens the IAS Building, 29 November 2005, 29 November 2005 Inaugural Annual Programme 2005-06, 19 October 2005 IAS building now occupied, 15 August 2005 First external research grant for IAS, August 2004 Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Funded PhD Studentships: Liveable Cities, 21 December 2012 Lancaster Award Achievers - LICA, 20 August 2012 Felipe Otondo's Irama nominated for the 2012 Destellos prize, 14 August 2012 London 2012 commissions reading of Sports Play, 12 August 2012 Teaching research grant awarded to Felipe Otondo from LICA, 12 August 2012 German radio reviews Sports Play, 4 August 2012 Lancaster premiere of Elfriede Jelinek's Sports Play receives excellent reviews, 17 July 2012 Felipe Otondo finalist of the British section of the 2014 World Music Days, 13 June 2012 Felipe Otondo wins the Radio France International Quartz composition prize, 11 May 2012 Rare screening of Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' - Bruce Bennett, 9 May 2012 The Creative Exchange Launch and call for Arts and Humanities Researchers, 30 March 2012 Bruce Bennett speaking about TV and the war on terror at Northumbria University conference, 14 January 2012 LICA AHRC Funded Bursaries for 2012, 19 December 2011 Bruce Bennett: Film screening and introduction: 'The Red Shoes' (Powell, 1948), 11 December 2011 Professor Elaine Aston - Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize, 15 November 2011 LICA AHRC Funded Bursaries for 2012, 14 November 2011 New Book Forthcoming: The Spirit of Design by Stuart Walker, 23 June 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Design in Practice Project, 23 February 2011 Transmediale11, 10 February 2011 Drew Hemment in Tokyo, 9 February 2011 LICA AHRC Funded Bursaries for 2011, 13 December 2010 Smart Cities of the future - Drew Hemment, 19 November 2010 Design in Shanghai, 13 September 2010 Media Festival Arts, 8 September 2010 ImaginationLancaster's and FutureEverything's Drew Hemment on Honorary Residency in the U.S., 15 July 2010 Call for submissions: Artists Commission for new LICA building, 1 October 2010 Third year BA (Hons) Fine Art student wins North West Young Arts Bursary Award, 10 May 2010 FutureEverything nominated for Big Chip International Award for Innovation 2010, 4 May 2010 AHRC-funded PhD bursary for Dance, Drama, and the Performing Arts, 19 April 2010 CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi confirmed as Keynote Speaker for Design PhD Conference 2011, 24 February 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 ImaginationLancaster Nominated for Award, 8 February 2010 Drew Hemment opens Futurity Long Conversation, 5 February 2010 FutureEverything Awarded Lever Prize 2010, 25 January 2010 Designer Wayne Hemingway inaugurates new £10m arts building, 8 December 2009 Keynote Address: IADE Conference, Lisbon, Oct. 1st 2009, 13 October 2009 Presentation: Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education, Gothenburg, Oct. 8th 2009, 13 October 2009 Keynote Address: European Futurists Conference, Lucerne, Oct. 15th 2009, 12 October 2009 ImaginationLancaster co-presents Environment 2.0, 5 October 2009 ImaginationLancaster is recruiting..., 5 October 2009 ImaginationLancaster is Recruiting, 22 July 2009 University's Top Brass, 1 July 2009 Product-Service Systems Design Workshop, South Korea, 18 May 2009 New CD release, 15 May 2009 Dr Deborah Mawer can be heard on R3 Music Feature, 26 March 2009 Congratulations to the Big Band!, 19 March 2009 Sendai Creative Forum, Japan, 18 March 2009 LICA is delighted to invite applications for THREE Postgraduate studentships., 13 March 2009 HighWire Creates a Buzz, 11 March 2009 Lancaster International Concert Series: 'The Lighthouse' on BBC Radio 3's 'In Tune' progr, 6 March 2009 LICA Environmentally Friendly New Building, 6 March 2009 HighWire Doctoral Training Scheme Launch, 16 February 2009 New Director for University Public Arts, 12 February 2009 2009 Lever Prize Awards Ceremony, 10 February 2009 Environment 2.0 at Transmediale, 3 February 2009 ImaginationLancaster is Recruiting, 8 January 2009 LICA ranked among the top institutions for its research quality in the 2008 RAE, 18 December 2008 Lancaster to train scientists and engineers for Britain's future, 5 December 2008 John Urry to speak at the Storey Institute, 11 November 2008 Nuffield Theatre Shortlisted for Award, 4 November 2008 ImaginationLancaster in Korea, 27 October 2008 Conference Track Invitation 'Innovation through Design Thinking', 27 October 2008 Service Design Conference, Amsterdam, 23 October 2008 2009 Lever Prize, 3 October 2008 Dis-locate, Japan, 3 October 2008 PICNIC, 3 October 2008 Deborah Mawer selected for a National Teaching Fellowship, 11 June 2008 Ed Venn Awarded University Undergraduate Teaching Prize, 14 May 2008 Rebecca Fortnum Awarded Faculty Research Prize, 29 April 2008 Radical Theatre Students to work with young offenders, 8 February 2008 Congratulations to Emma Rose in LICA, 15 November 2007 Lancaster University invests £2.5m in Imagination@Lancaster, 12 October 2007 Art graduates to exhibit at the Curwen and New Academy Gallery, 1 August 2007 Law
Professor Steven Wheatley Joins Law School, 22 May 2012 Research Award: The European Court of Human Rights and EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2012, 6 May 2012 The Medical Law Review has a new facebook page, 18 April 2012 Student shortlisted in prestigious essay competition, 28 March 2012 Minimum Alcohol Pricing, 28 March 2012 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Lancaster University Law School 11th Best Law School in the UK, 17 May 2011 Lawyers Aware Competition, 31 March 2011 AHRC Networking Grant, 11 March 2011 Successful ESRC Doctoral Training Centre Bid: PhD studentships in Security, Conflict & Justice, 25 January 2011 Mark Butler invited to launch of non-discrimination handbook, 12 January 2011 Professor Sugarman is interviewed about the Pinochet case in Latin American News, 6 December 2010 Tom Webb, a research student in the Law School, has SLSA stream approved, 20 October 2010 Dr James Summers, 22 July 2010 Lancaster Lawyer Seeks Public Opinions on Australian Human Rights Law, 7 July 2010 David Sugarman Gives Keynote Lectures in Paris and Exeter, 21 June 2010 Lancaster Lawyer Comments on Proposed Changes to Dissolution of Parliament, 17 May 2010 Lancaster Constitutional Lawyer Interviewed about Hung Parliament, 10 May 2010 Link with Exchange Chambers, 1 May 2010 Agata fijalkowski, 19 April 2010 David Sugarman Lectures at Harvard Law School and Boston University Law School, March-April 2010, 12 April 2010 Mark Butler and David Sugarman get award to write Handbook on European Discrimination Law, 1 April 2010 Lancaster Lawyer Comments on Crown Powers in the Event of a Hung Parliament, 19 February 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 Lancaster Lawyer Enters Debate on the Future of the Human Rights Act, 24 January 2010 Lancaster Lawyer Highlights the Inadequacies of Proscribing Organisations in The Guardian, 12 January 2010 Dr Agata Fijalkowski, 17 November 2009 Birmingham Six Victim tells of fateful Heysham trip, 17 September 2009 International Conference at Lancaster, 9 September 2009 Lancaster Lawyer Questions Organised Crime Policy in The Guardian, 14 July 2009 Lancaster Lawyer Defends Non-Jury Trials in The Guardian, 1 July 2009 Innocence Project, 24 June 2009 Research Seminars Bid Gains ESRC Support, 3 November 2008 Conference Proceeding - forthcoming publication., 3 November 2008 Dynamics of Memories" Group wins Funding, 3 November 2008 Centre for Law and Society: Forthcoming Conferences, 20 October 2008 New PhD to Speak at LSE, 17 October 2008 Lancaster-Helsinki Interdisciplinary Co-Operation Established, 8 September 2008 New Head of Law School, 15 August 2008 Postgraduate Scholarships, 29 April 2008 Th Life and work of Patricia Verdugo, Chilean activist, 4 March 2008 Jessup Moot Competition 2008, 23 February 2008 The Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law was officially opened in March 2007, 22 November 2007 Farewell To Sefton Bloxham, 23 October 2007 CAB's Campaigner of the Year, 9 October 2007 Law, Religion & Culture Symposium, 17 September 2007 Law, Religion and Society - A One Day Symposium, 14 September 2007 University Prize for Teaching, 13 June 2006 Northern Commercial Lawyers Group, 12 May 2006 Linguistics and English Language
Ruth at 45. Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm, 31 August 2012 MA student's work highly praised, 31 July 2012 Rosie Knight awarded the inaugural Anna Siewierska Memorial Prize, 30 July 2012 Postgraduate Conference 2012: Ruth is keynote speaker, 13 July 2012 Postgraduate Conference 2012: Paul is keynote speaker, 13 July 2012 Charles Alderson presents to the European Commission, 28 June 2012 Ruth invited as keynote speaker at 'Discourse and Society' Conference, Kuala Lumpur, 27 June 2012 Judit Kormos awarded the Pilkington Award, 25 June 2012 EU Lifelong Learning project meeting in Lancaster, 25 June 2012 Uta Papen's paper on the linguistic landscape of Berlin now part of JoS free virtual issue, 21 June 2012 Articles published on openDemocracy this week, 19 June 2012 Paul Baker interviewed for Radio New Zealand, 16 June 2012 David Barton plenary speaker at vernacular literacies conference, 13 June 2012 Paul Baker awarded a Personal Chair, 12 June 2012 Ruth Wodak gives plenary lecture at The Discourse of Identity Conference, 12 June 2012 Professor Alison Mackey will join LAEL in September, 6 June 2012 Charles Alderson awarded an Emeritus Fellowship, 1 June 2012 Professor Geoffrey Leech awarded an honorary doctorate by Charles University, Prague, 29 May 2012 Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino give talks at the University of Sussex, 21 May 2012 Sarah Mercer awarded Habilitation!, 16 May 2012 Ruth Wodak holds PhD Masterclass and gives public lecture in Stockholm, 14 May 2012 Ruth Wodak is invited to give the John Sinclair Lecture, 9 May 2012 Linguistics ranked 3rd in The Complete University Guide 2013, 1 May 2012 Ruth Wodak gives Plenary lecture at Gender and Equality Conference, 26 April 2012 The Academy of Social Sciences has conferred the award of Academician on Professor Tony McEnery, 17 April 2012 Lancaster Teaching Award Nominations, 17 April 2012 Ruth Wodak invited as plenary speaker at Conference on Migration, Salzburg, 13 April 2012 PhD student wins Dissertation Grant Award, 29 March 2012 Elena Semino gives talks at the University of Uppsala, 15 March 2012 Judit Kormos and Mick Short nominated for Lancaster staff awards, 13 March 2012 Paul Baker gives talk at the University of Brighton, 7 March 2012 Ruth gives departmental lecture at Georgetown University, Linguistics Department, 2 March 2012 Paul Baker gives talk at Lancashire Archives, 25 February 2012 Ruth invited at Sociolinguistics Workshop, Georgetown, Washington DC, 24 February 2012 LRC special issue of Language and Education out!, 17 February 2012 Workshop in Brussels, 14 February 2012 Paul Baker gives talk at Aston University, 18 January 2012 Julia Gillen writes for the Daily Mirror about Waterstone's, 13 January 2012 Ruth Wodak gives keynote in Salzburg, 13 January 2012 Ruth Wodak awarded the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria in Silver, 19 December 2011 Ruth Wodak gives public lecture in Luxembourg, 7 December 2011 Starting October 2012: New MA in Digital Language and Literacies, 1 December 2011 TBLT 2011, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 November 2011 Research on representation of Islam in the UK press cited by ENGAGE, 17 November 2011 Academic opportunities in the Linguistics department, 17 November 2011 Keith Johnson at JALT National Conference, Tokyo, 10 November 2011 Paul Kerswill interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland's Culture Cafe, 8 November 2011 Elena Semino gives talk at University of East Anglia, 7 November 2011 Memorial for Anna Siewierska, 4 November 2011 Departmental Lecture in Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2 November 2011 Becky Clark's medal success at World Championship karate!, 31 October 2011 Paul Kerswill writes for The Sun on TOWIE, 21 October 2011 Mick Short gives invited plenary in Bangkok, 18 October 2011 J. Hillis Miller, 13 October 2011 Paul Baker gives plenary talk at American Association of Corpus Linguistics conference, 7 October 2011 Martin Bygate gives keynote talk at TESOL Conference, Qatar, 1 October 2011 Ruth Wodak gives public lecture in Linz, Austria, 27 September 2011 DYLAN Project - Final Conference in Brussels, 22 September 2011 Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short honorary guests at Style in Fiction Today Conference, 22 September 2011 Karin Tusting presented in Paris, "Literacy Studies: une approche ethnographique", 8 September 2011 Presidential Address at Societas Linguistica Europaea Conference 2011, 8 September 2011 Paul Kerswill gives lecture at the TEDx event 'Society Beyond Borders', 8 September 2011 Martin Bygate in Beijing to preside over the 16th AILA World Congress, 22 August 2011 Paul Kerswill gives paper on London Jamaican at SPCL, Accra, Ghana (with Mark Sebba), 3 August 2011 - 6 August 2011 Tineke Brunfaut presents at AILA in Beijing, 2 August 2011 Paul Kerswill teaches on African Linguistics School, Rep. of Benin, 23 July 2011 - 30 July 2011 Anna presented two papers at ALT, 22 July 2011 Paul Baker gives plenary talk at Corpus Linguistics 2011 conference, Birmingham, 21 July 2011 Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE) Krakow, 7-9 July 2011, 7 July 2011 Panel at IPRA Conference, Manchester 2011, 5 July 2011 Willem Hollmann receives Lancaster Teaching Award, 28 June 2011 Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), Ann Arbor, 23-25 June 2011, 23 June 2011 Cork University, Masterclass in CDA, 21 June 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Public Lecture: Theories, Principles, and Methods of CDA - Approaches to European Multilingualism, 7 June 2011 Paul Kerswill's ESRC projects reported in Daily Mail, 6 June 2011 International workshop on referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions, 6 June 2011 PHD Seminar, Discourse, Inclusion and Exclusion, 6 June 2011 Paul Kerswill inteviewed in the Sunday Times about Multicultural London English & dialect levelling, 5 June 2011 Paul Kerswill interviewed in the Economist about the future of dialects, 2 June 2011 European Association of Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA) conference, Siena, 6-8 May 2011, 31 May 2011 4th International Roundtable on Discourse Analysis, 19 May 2011 Linguistics ranked 1st in the UK in The Complete University Guide 2012, 8 May 2011 Charles Alderson on East Asian Tour, 4 May 2011 Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at the Poznan Linguistics Meeting, 2 May 2011 Elena Semino gives talks in Spain, 1 May 2011 Ruth Wodak gave Keynote address at the Poznan Linguistic Meeting, 1 May 2011 Turkish translation published of Tusting and Barton 'Models of Adult Learning', 27 April 2011 Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give paper at the 'Variation and Language Processing' Conference, 11 April 2011 Anna Siewierska gave Paper at Workshop on Role Complexes, 5 April 2011 Greg Myers is an Academician of the Academy for the Social Sciences, 1 April 2011 Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at Sheffield Hallam, 29 March 2011 Ruth Wodak gives plenary lecture in Madrid, 23 March 2011 Paul Kerswill speaks at British Library's 'Evolving English' exhibition, 22 March 2011 Lynde Tan's PhD, 21 March 2011 Elena Semino gives talk at Sheffield University, 16 March 2011 AHRC Networking Grant, 11 March 2011 Linguistics colleagues present at Georgetown University Roundtable, 11 March 2011 Paul Baker gives talk at Leeds University, 11 March 2011 Anna Siewierska gives Lectures at the Catalan Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 8 March 2011 Paul Baker gives talk at Oxford University, 3 March 2011 David Crystal visits Lancaster, 3 March 2011 Paper at DGFS in Goettingen, 23 February 2011 Invited Presentation of Project, New Dehli, 21 February 2011 Paul Baker gives talk at British Library, 15 February 2011 Invited Lecture: Newcastle University, Department of Media, 11 February 2011 Paul Baker gives talk at the Imperial War Musuem North, 6 February 2011 Paul Kerswill interviewed on BBC Radio Essex's Bernie Keith Show, 4 February 2011 Literacy Research Centre's response to the DfE's Year 1 Phonics Screening Check consultation, 2 February 2011 Ruby Chen's PhD!, 1 February 2011 Paul Kerswill gives lecture at Stockholm Centre for Research on Bilingualism, 11 January 2011 Invited Lecture: Heidelberger Kolloquium, 11 January 2011 Hady Lamarr Lecture, 29 November 2010 MA student receives 2010 IELTS Caroline Clapham MA Dissertation Award, 24 November 2010 Elena Semino gives plenary lecture at Lyon University, 23 November 2010 Conference on English and German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourse (1871-1945), 10 November 2010 Paul Kerswill is CI on new ESRC Follow-On Fund project, 6 November 2010 Paul Kerswill gives an invited lecture at the Philological Society, 5 November 2010 ACCEPT Project Meeting, 5 November 2010 Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark present a talk at NWAV39, 3 November 2010 Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark give invited talk at University of York, 1 November 2010 Paul Kerswill gives talk to the African Studies Group on African and European youth languages, 19 October 2010 Paul Kerswill speaks at the Lancashire Society's Dialect Day, and judges performances, 16 October 2010 Plenary at ECREA Conference, Hamburg, 15 October 2010 Paul Kerswill speaks to the Sale Medical & Dental Society, 15 October 2010 Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark run workshop for A Level students at Stockport College, 13 October 2010 Elena Semino gives lecture series at Fuzhou University, China, 11 October 2010 Paul Kerswill gives invited lecture in Reykavík., 7 October 2010 Surprise Event: Festschrift for Ruth Wodak, 28 September 2010 ESA-Midterm Conference: Innovating Qualitative Methods, 20 September 2010 Martin Bygate elected Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, 14 September 2010 Paper at 43nd Societas Linguitica Europea, 3 September 2010 Societas Linguistic Europea Meeting, 3 September 2010 Sociolinguistics Symposium, SS 18, 1 September 2010 Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster: 100% brilliant!, 23 August 2010 Paul Kerswill teaches course at the University of Cape Town, 16 August - 3 September 2010 The LRC has moved, 5 August 2010 Paul Kerswill gives lecture at the University of Ghana, 4 August 2010 David Barton is back from Hong Kong, 31 July 2010 Amy Burgess and Karin Tusting present at RaPAL 2010 using Skype, 16 July 2010 Paul Kerswill interviewed on ABC radio, Western Australia, 15 July 2010 paper at 3rd Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 6 July 2010 Paul Kerswill writes Sun column on Multicultural London English, 3 July 2010 Paul Kerswill interviewed on radio and television about the project 'Multicultural London English', 2 July 2010 Paul Kerswill involved with Kings Place Arts Centre's 'Celebrate Cockney' initiative, 1 July 2010 Workshop on PhD Supervision, 25 June 2010 Conference on Discourse and Society, Kuala Lumpur, 16 June 2010 Julia Gillen presenting at New Media Consortium, Anaheim, 11 June 2010 Panel Discussion, Conference on 'Risky Entanglements', 9 June 2010 Invited paper at workshop on Local pronouns, 7 June 2010 Paul Kerswill give paper at Zurich "English as a Contact Language" conference, 6-9 June 2010, 4 June 2010 Public Lecture at Orebro University, 1 June 2010 Presentation at Workshop on Argument Structure, 27 May 2010 Martin Bygate plenary speaker in Brisbane, 26 May 2010 Paul Kerswill member of ESF reviewers pool, 19 May 2010 FREE Dissemination Conference, 18 May 2010 FREE Dissemination Conference, 18 May 2010 Master class at Insttiute of Linguistics and Language Studies, 18 May 2010 Workshop : The (Un)Sayable in Public Discourses about the Past, 14 May 2010 Dr Michal Krzyzanowski: Plenary Speaker at 'Text Mining in the Digital Humanities', Lancaster, 11 May 2010 PhD Course in Lisbon, 6 May 2010 AERA presentations, 4 May 2010 MA in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, 28 April 2010 Dr Michal Krzyzanowski: plenary lecture at WAD III, Wroclaw, 18 April 2010 New publication - Anita Wilson's latest work, 19 March 2010 The new school in the media age, 17 March 2010 Paul Kerswill invited to comment on BBC's School Report News Day, 11 March 2010 Amy Burgess wins Area Chair's Award at NRC conference, 5 March 2010 Living with Diversity: For a Politics of Hope in Europe, 4 March 2010 Maryam Pakhnahad wins fellowship competition for GEXcel project, 3 March 2010 Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics just published, 3 March 2010 Workshop, Oxford, Politics, Language, and Ideology, 27 February 2010 Former PhD student receives 2010 Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award, 18 February 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 Honorary Doctorate, 6 February 2010 Jane Demmen has been been awarded the University's Chancellor's medal, 1 February 2010 New research briefing on Digital Literacies published, 1 February 2010 Paul Baker interviewed for The One Show, 15 January 2010 PhD ESRC/AHRC studentships and bursaries in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, 12 January 2010 Paul Kerswill interviewed by Benjamin Zephaniah for Radio 4, 6 December 2009 Paul Kerswill interviewed by Michael Rosen for Radio 4, 30 November 2009 Panel Discussion on European Union, 27 November 2009 Book Presentation, Kreisky Forum, 26 November 2009 Interview by Michael Rosen, Radio 4, 24 November 2009 Workshop on Exploring Strategy & Discourse, 24 November 2009 New Masters Scholarships, 23 November 2009 Postgraduate Forum, Glasgow, DYLAN Consortium Meeting, 18 November 2009 Dr. Michal Krzyzanowski speaks at the Public Session on 'Benefits of Linguistic Diversity', 19 November 2009 DYLAN - Postgraduate Forum Glasgow, 16 November 2009 Person Impersonality and Verb Inflection workshop, 12 November 2009 Dinner Speech at OECD Seminar on Second Language Teaching, Graz, 8 November 2009 Lecture in the Distinguished Vistors Lecture |Series, Oxford, 29 October 2009 New articles published by LRC members, 12 October 2009 Congratulations to Stella Kachiwanda, 6 October 2009 Paul Kerswill gives the annual Sommerfelt public lecture at the University of Tromsø, 28 September 2009 Graduate Conference, Cultural Studies, 24 September 2009 Interrupted Education - Interrupted Life, 22 September 2009 Invited paper at UCL workshop Celebrating Linguistic Variety, 22 September 2009 Political Linguistics Conference, Lodz (Poland), 17 September 2009 Glocal Imaginaries Conference, 10 September 2009 Paper at 42nd Societas Linguistica Europea, 10 September 2009 Typology for Schools at the LAGB, 7 September 2009 Undergraduates present at UKLVC conference, 4 September 2009 ESRC research grant success, 4 September 2009 Kerstin Hesselgren Professorship of the Swedish Parliament, 21 August 2009 Edwardian Postcard Twitters, 21 August 2009 Paul Kerswill teaches on the LSA Linguistic Institute, Berkeley, 27 July - 13 August 2009 New book published - English Language: Description, Variation and Context, 24 July 2009 8th Biennial Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology, 23 July 2009 Julia Gillen contribution in eLearning Papers, 2 July 2009 Key note address at International Meeting of the Association of Chinese Linguistics, 2 July 2009 If you think we're rude - you should have heard the Elizabethans, 29 June 2009 Dr. Michal Krzyzanowski at the European Commission, 20 June 2009 Workshop: Discourse, Methods, Strategy Making and Strategic Renewal, 17 June 2009 Application deadline extended for MA in TESOL distance program, 16 June 2009 PhD Seminar, SPIRIT, Aalborg University, 2 June 2009 Seminar on Discourse Analysis for British Academy of Management (BAM), 29 May 2009 Conference 'Cultural Footprints', 28 May 2009 Lancaster University prize for excellence in doctoral supervision for Prof. Charles Alderson, 27 May 2009 Dianne Wall Interviewed by EL Gazette, 26 May 2009 Panel on Doctor-Patient Communication, 13 May 2009 Lectures in China, May 2009 Charles Alderson - Invited speaker at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 6 May 2009 Charles Alderson to receive honorary doctorate from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 6 May 2009 NEW AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award for research on North West dialects, 28 April 2009 Teaching Masterclass in CDA in Orebro, Sweden, 27 April 2009 - 30 April 2009 Panel Discussion 'Applied Linguistics today', 31 March 2009 Multicultural London English, 18 March 2009 New book published - Politics of Language Education: Individuals and institutions, 15 March 2009 Panel at University Minnesota: Racism vs Xenophobia, 13 March 2009 New book published, 12 March 2009 Airline safety compromised by poor communication, 4 March 2009 Lecture at Oxford University, 16 February 2009 New MA TESOL distance programme, 9 February 2009 Comparing Grammars Workshop, 7 February 2009 Congratulations Jing!, 6 February 2009 Funding for a Phd in Literacy Studies, 5 February 2009 Lancaster PhD student wins the 2009 Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award, 2 February 2009 Dynamics of Memories: Remembering and Forgetting. Narratives coping with traumatic pasts, 21 January 2009 New Publication by Michal Krzyzanowski, 13 January 2009 International Seminar Creating Infrastructure for Canonical Typology, 9 January 2009 Workshop on The Humanities: Impact and Relevance, 15 December 2008 DYLAN Project meets LINNE Network, 6 December 2008 Kevin Watson in panel debate: Cities on the Edge, 5 December 2008 Funding opportunities for PhD study, 25 November 2008 Interview by Austrian Press Agency (APA), 28 October 2008 Public Lecture, Dublin, DCU, 20 October 2008 Roz Ivanic has now retired, 20 October 2008 Discourse Theory Network, Colchester 2008, 15 October 2008 New PhD studentships and Bursaries for 2009, 1 October 2008 Plenary lecture at 23 International Conference of Scandinavian Linguistics, 1 October 2008 Plenary lecture at Syntax of the World's Languages 3, 25 September 2008 EUROZINE Conference, Paris, 27 September 2008 Lecture at the Linguistic Circle of Florence, 22 September 2008 Professor Martin Bygate Elected President of AILA, 19 September 2008 GlobE 2008 Conference, 18 September 2008 Workshop at 41st Societas Linguistica Europea, 17 September 2008 Qualitative Research Network: Midterm Conference (ESA), 14 September 2008 Paper at 1st ISLE, 10 September 2008 Lecture at the MPI in Leipzig, 28 August 2008 Literacy Research Discussion Group Autumn Programme, 20 August 2008 Visiting Professor at the MPI in Leipzig, 7 August 2008 Interview on TW1 and SAT3, 31 July 2008 Publication of an edited volume on language learners with special needs, 18th July 2008 CADAAD Conference, Hertfordshire, 10 July 2008 Plenary lecture at Lancaster Postgraduate Conference, 3 July 2008 Irish Independent, 2 June 2008 Final-year student runner-up in national English Subject Centre writing competition, 22 May 2008 Lecture in Poznan, 19 May 2008 PhD Seminar in Copenhagen, 13-14 May 2008, 13 May 2008 Michal Krzyzanowski and Ruth Wodak at SS17, 3 April 2008 Professor Charles Alderson gets Lifetime Achievement Award, 4 March 2008 New postcard series for Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, 4 March 2008 New issue of Empirical Text and Culture Research, 18 February 2008 ESRC Studentships available for October 2008, 18 January 2008 New ESRC Post Doctoral Fellowship, 17 December 2007 Congratulations to Jean-Pierre Nkara, 14 December 2007 LRC graduation celebration, 12 December 2007 Ruth Wodak gives plenary lecture at Centre for Language, Communication and Discourse, 21 November 2007 Ruth Wodak promoted to Distinguished Professor, 8 December 2007 MA Adult Literacy Numeracy and ESOL induction, 18 - 19 January 2008 Ruth Wodak gives plenary lecture in Australia, 29 November-1 December 2007 New web site and blog, 22 Nov 2007 Book launch, 21 November 2007 Andrew Wilson's research published in the Lancashire Evening Post, 12 November 2007 New Literacy Research Centre publication, 6 November 2007 Ruth Wodak gives invited lecture at the University of Leeds 'Language in the public interest' series, 26 October 2007 New Literacy Research Centre Publication, 23 October 2007 New approaches to written code-switching and multilingual texts - panel at SS17, 1 October 2007 Andrew Wilson quoted on icWales.co.uk, 7 August 2007 Jane Sunderland awarded National Teaching Fellowship, 2 July 2007 New book! Spelling and Society by Mark Sebba, 2 June 2007 Publication of (Un)Doing Europe: Discourses and Practices of Negotiating the EU Constitution, 2 June 2007 Mick Short invited to join Advisory Board of the English Subject Centre, 31 May 2007 Undergraduate gives well received conference paper, 12 May 2007 Media, Film & Cultural Studies (formerly ICR)
Philosophy
Fees only scholarship for MA study in Philosophy, 10 June 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 UK Kant Society Annual Conference, 27 - 29 August 2009 Another Lancaster contributor to Melvyn Bragg's, 15 February 2009 Conference on Thinking about the Sex/Gender Distinction, 8 February 2008 The Centre for Bioethics and Medical Law was officially opened in March 2007, 22 November 2007 'I think, therefore I earn.', 20 November 2007 CETL Prize for Excellence in Learning, 30 October 2007 Dr Alison Stone awarded a Leverhulme Trust prize, 26 October 2007 Students gaining funding in Philosophy at Lancaster, 6 September 2007 British Undergraduate Philosophy Society, 1 May 2006 Krys Burchnall of IPPP granted ESRC Interdisciplinary Quota Award, 1 May 2006 Prizes, 1 April 2006 Invitation to Teach in China, 1 April 2006 Publication of Hannah Arendt: Critical Assessments, 1 April 2006 Alison Stone, IPPP, Wins Prize for Best Article, 1 April 2006 British Undergraduate Philosophy Society, 1 March 2006 Undergraduate Student Publication, 1 February 2006 Professor David Archard on George Best, 1 December 2005 Politics and International Relations
Lancaster Politics and International Relations Ranked No.1 in North-West, 9 June 2010 Postgraduate Funding in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 9 February 2010 Victoria Mason's work discussed by Naomi Wolf, 14 January 2010 The Latin American Research Cluster was successful in securing 2010 IAS Incubation Programme, December 2009 Professor David Denver has been given a special recognition award by the Political Studies Associati, November 2009 The Richardson Institute to host two UNESCO/CARA Scholars from Iraq, January - March 2010 Victoria Mason has been awarded the 2008/09 University Teaching Prize, 16 June 2009 Dr Nina Caspersen wins research prize, 16 June 2008 Dr Nina Caspersen awarded ESRC grant, 29 November 2007 Dr Ngai-Ling Sum delivers paper at UN, 13 November 2007 Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR
Neil Manson to give evidence at Leveson Inquiry, 10 July 2012 Professor Kim Knott awarded RCUK GULF Fellowship, 28 May 2012 The Department has been successful in bidding for Faculty Postgraduate Bursaries., 8 May 2012 Linda Woodhead in Guardian on the "de-reformation" of religion, 7 May 2012 Charles Clarke on *Today* talking about Faith Debates, 4 May 2012 Westminster Faith Debates - religion and welfare podcasts, 28 March 2012 PPR Scholarships 2012, 12 March 2012 What have we learned about radicalisation? Video and Podasts of Faith Debate, 12 March 2012 Prof Charles Clarke - interview in Telegraph discussing faith debates, 29 February 2012 Religion in schools - faith debate video, 29 February 2012 Linda Woodhead on Richard Dawkins in The Guardian, 15 February 2012 Dr Basil Germond interviewed by Italian newspaper, 13 February 2012 Religious Identity in Superdiverse Societies: podcasts and video, 12 February 2012 Linda Woodhead - Restoring Religion to the Public Square - article in The Tablet, 30 January 2012 Charles Clarke interview: religion and public life, 30 January 2012 Series of high profile public debates in Westminster, 10 January 2012 PPR are running a series of Westminster Debates on Religion and Public Life, 8 February - 2 May 2012 PPR Question Time - Video, 4 January 2012 Viva success, 8 December 2011 Northern Political Theory Association, 10 November 2011 Corti Fellowship, 1 March-April 2013 Warren Todd successfully defends his PhD thesis, 14 October 2011 Major Investment and New Hires in PPR., 17 August 2011 Philosophy Summer School in Chongqing, China, 25 July - 14 August 2011 Examining the Shared Life, 7-8 July 2011 Election to Honorary Treasureship of the Society of Applied Philosophy, 2 July 2011 Perinatal Medicine, 16 June 2011 PPR Lecturer wins Lancaster University award in the category of 'above and beyond', 13 June 2011 Encountering Children - University of Zurich, 8 June 2011 Lancaster University in the top 5 for UK graduate employability, 7 June 2011 Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1-2 June 2011 Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights, 23 May 2011 PPR Academics Contribute Lectures To Multi-Media Project, 18 May 2011 Alison Stone on radio show discussion of Matricide, 13 May 2011 Edinburgh International Science Festival, 20 April 2011 Piece published on guardian.co.uk, 15 April 2011 Talk: 'Pleasure as Self-Discovery', Institute of Education, London, 27 April 2011 Discussion of the Gita, In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, 31 March 2011 Lecture on equality to Christians in Clitheroe, 26 March 2011 Researcher awarded grant for study of Islamic Studies courses, 23 March 2011 BBC Newsnight political editor visits PPR, 17 March 2011 Phil Soc: talk on comradeship, individuality, and soldiers' autobiographies, 22 March 2011 J.L. Austin Centenary Conference - April 5-7, 2011, 3 March 2011 Charles Clarke, Inaugural Lecture March 23rd: Politics and Faith, 2 March 2011 Charles Clarke departmental visit and lectures, 2 March 2011 CRS conference to be held at the Richardson Institute, 21 February 2011 Prof. Ram-Prasad and the Archbishop of Canterbury reflect on Hindu-Christian Dialogue, 16 February 2011 AHRC Advisory Group, 15 February 2011 Philosophy and Public Policy: Making an Impact, 15 February 2011 PEALS 12th Annual Symposium, 15 February 2011 Seminar on parental consent and newborn bloodspot screening, 14 February 2011 PPR at, 2 February 2011 David Archard and Neil Manson - Policy Seminar on Gamete and Embryo Donation Jan 28th, 28 January 2011 New Lecturer Awarded the European Foreign Affairs Review 2010 Prize, 5 January 2011 Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke appointed visiting professor in PPR, 12 November 2010 Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad chairs meeting of religious leaders in Bangalore, 28 October 2010 Richardson Institute hosting leading international scholars on refugees and asylum seekers, 1 October 2010 RI to Host Two International Scholars in Michaelmas 2010, 23 September 2010 Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Seminar Series 2010-2011: 'Publics and Counter-Publics', 1 October 2010 - 30 June 2011 Talk at consent workshop - Essex, 26 November 2010 Diaspora Consultancy, 24 September 2010 European Union Consultancy, 24 September 2010 International Research Collaboration on Global Migration, 24 September 2010 RI appointment to International State Crime Initiative, 24 September 2010 Middle East and Islamic Studies Network, 24 September 2010 RI Research Rated as 'Outstanding' by the ESRC, 24 September 2010 RI collaboration with the Crisis Management Initiative, 24 September 2010 ESRC project graded 'outstanding', 17 August 2010 Religious Studies
Ruskin Research Centre
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