Grants awarded:
R Leach £214,000 (pre-FEC) ESRC/AHRC Cultures of Consumption programme for Boomers & Beyond: Intergenerational Consumption and the Mature Imagination (2005-2007)
L Martens £18,000 ESRC Seminar series on Mothers, Markets and Consumption (2008-10)
P Werbner £208,000 (pre-FEC) ESRC New African Migrants in the Gateway City (date?)
P Werbner £460,000 AHRC Diaspora Programme International Filipino migration, In the Footsteps of Jesus and the Prophet (date?) – see the project poster ahrc-poster
Editorial Activities:
Allan, Featherstone, Leach & Werbner are members of the editorial board for the Sociological Review
Allan is a member of the board for ;
Rosenfeld is a member of the board for Social Theory and Health, and the Journal of Ageing Studies; Werbner is a member of the board for ;
Seminars & conferences organized:
2008
P Werbner is convening the end of award conference: Beyond Plurality in the African Diaspora: Ethnicity, Congregation, Networking and Citizenship
L Martens has been awarded £18,000 for an ESRC Seminar series on Mothers, Markets and Culture
2007
E Head organized the Sociology seminar series, run jointly between the Research Institute for Lifecourse Studies and the Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice. The Programme is below:
Thursday 25 October
The spectacle and the practical in the construction of early parenthood:
encounters between exhibitors, exhibition and visitors at ‘The Baby Show’
Dr Lydia Martens
Keele University
Thursday 8 November
The Outside Within: Exploring sentiments of belonging in Higher Blackley, North Manchester
Katherine Smith
University of Wales, Lampeter
Thursday 15 November
Some problems of social movement research
Phil Burton-Cartledge
Keele University
Thursday 29 November
Personhood and agency in inquest files returning a verdict of suicide
Dr Susanne Langer
Manchester University
Thursday 6 December
The Politics of infiltration: factionalism and litigation in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana
Professor Pnina Werbner
Keele University
2008 Tues 26th Feb Dana Rosenfeld
Keele University
The influence of household routine on adherence to medical treatment
regimens: A call for research
Tues 4th March Siobhan Holohan
Keele University
”No Silence Please’: The confession in contemporary culture and society’
Tues 18th March Sue Scott
Keele University
Putting the interaction back into sex
Tues 22nd April Lauren Brooks
Keele University
‘Bring Back Matron’: Nostalgia, trust and MRSA
Tues 29th April Mark Featherstone
Keele University
The utopian dimensions of the campus university
Tues 6th May Jane Parish
Keele University
Culture, Capital and Catholicism: sacredness and artefact in Liverpool
2006
R Leach organised the conference Baby Boomers in Europe: Patterns of Consumption and Lifestyle from Three Countries at the Royal Society for ESRC Social Science Week (March)
R Leach organised the internal Thinking Sociologically lunch group which was well-attended by staff and postgraduates
Papers given by invitation:
2008
2007
R Leach Rhythms and Routines conference, Florence (Cultures of Consumption programme) title (May)
2006
R Leach Morgan Centre seminar, Manchester University Baby Boomers: personal relationships and consumption patterns (16 Nov)
R Leach Farapack, conference of the Faraday Packaging partnership Who are the Baby Boomers? (October)
R Leach Institute for Public Policy & Management seminar series Baby Boomers: an overview (May)
Conferences attended:
2008
2007
2006
