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Annual festival of social science

This is an annual conference hosted by SSPARC that showcases and celebrates social science research within the University of Brighton. Presenters come from across the university and often attend with their external collaborators. This year’s conference was held on 11 June 2015 had 30 presentations in three parallel streams running throughout the day. 

Overview

Presentations covered a range of themes including: identities, mobilities and mobilisation; eco/sustainability; mental health; age and ageing; public health discourse. In addition three special event sessions were held this year:

  • ‘Transforming sexuality and gender’ celebrated the new university-funded research cluster, with presentations from two international speakers
  • ‘Interrogating rape culture’ addressed the growing problem of rape in our society, looking at both explanations and action needed to combat this, and
  • ‘Research with people with learning disabilities’ examined the experiences of University of Brighton staff in this form of ‘co-research’.

Presentations

This changes nothing: a psychosocial reading of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything
Dr Matt Adams and Dr Mark Erickson

Survivor's Network: Local and national activism for survivors
Fabia Bates

Dangerousness and vulnerability: Police use of Section 136 of the Mental Health Act in Sussex
Professor Gillian Bendelow and Claire Warrington

Technology, care and a sense of home
Gigliola Brintazzoli

Access and use of ICT among the Italian young elderly
Simone Carlo

Don't panic! Helping society overcome its fear of the crowd
Dr Chris Cocking

Bottle feeding amongst the breast bullies
Dr Kyla Ellis-Sloan and Orly Klein

The socio-politics of Down syndrome: out and about with my disabled child
Vanessa Stone de Guzman

The impact of a suicide patrol on suicides by jumping at Beachy Head, Sussex
Dr Saleema Durgahee

Developing the communit seaweed gardens: Resource access, social mobilisation and marine food sovereignty
Jeremy Evans

Resisting technical rationality in mental health nurse higher education: A duoethnography
Dr Alec Grant and Dr Mark Radcliffe

What does rape culture look like?
Dr Louise FitzGerald

Renegotiating identity: Unlocking a narrow discourse of diversity
Dr Yaa Asare and Sindi Gordon

Transforming sexuality and gender research symposium
Dr Katherine Johnson, Eduardo Sodré de Souza and Lucy Nicholas

In and off motion: Lines of culture, labour and moral exchange amongst Afghan migrant taxi drivers in the UK
Dr Nichola Khan

Human values and problem framing as influential heuristics in sustainable design decision processes
Richard Perry Kulczak, Dr Poorang Piroozfar and Professor Marie Harder

Grandparents and later-life working: How grandparent care affects decisions around working and retirement
Dr David Lain, Professor Wendy Loretto and Wendy Bishop

Development work with adults with learning disabilities
Dee MacDonald

Pride and prejudice: Challenging Romaphobia through political mobilisation
Dr Aidan McGarry

Towards a critique of the concept of 'rape culture'
Dr Patricia MacManus

‘No man’s land’- fragmentations and the privatisation of the responsibility in the regulation of first in-human clinical trials in the UK
Dr Shadreck Mwale

Weightism
Dr Jayne Raisborough

Transforming inequality through agroecological systems
Dr Glory Rigueros Saavedra

Ageism: A barrier to social inclusion in the twenty-first century
Dr Maria Sourbati

Power-based personal violence: Stalking, sexual abuse and rape culture
Sam Taylor and Claudia Miles

Meanings of punishments in narratives, images and symbols
Dr Hannah Thurston

Going it alone: Older people and self-funded care
Dr Lizzie Ward and Dr Beatrice Gahagan

Sugar, spice and settlement: Urban form as a metamorphosis of food ecosystems
Dr Judith Watson and Dr Poorang Piroozfar

Event programme

Annual festival of social science programme

 

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