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W H O W A N T S T O B E A N W H O W A N T S T O B E A N www.shef.ac.uk/festivalofsocialsciences Fear and Loathing in Sheffield: Public Fear in an Urban Landscape Saturday, 12th March 2010 2010 ESRC Festival of Social Science 12 - 19 March 2010 Saturday 13th March and Wednesday 17th March Should young people have the vote? Sheffield Green Roof Safari The Art of Development: Looking at an international discipline from an innovative perspective Why development still matters – International Development after the global financial crisis Searching, shopping, sightseeing: Literacies in your virtual lives The Good of the Game: Football, Society and Globalisation Designing Schools - Participation in Practice Sing to me, Muse’: Inspiration and Where it Comes From Who Wants to be an Economist? Business Breakfast - Job crafting: how to improve the quality of work by engaging employees Monday, 15th March 2010 Wednesday, 17th March 2010 Thursday, 18th March 2010 Thursday, 18th March 2010 Thursday, 18th March 2010 Friday, 19th March 2010 Wednesday, 17th March 2010 Thursday, 18th March 2010 Thursday, 18th March 2010 Monday, 15th March 2010 Monday, 15th March 2010 Tuesday, 16th March 2010 The beginning of an interactive project between The University of Sheffield, local schools, Sheffield City Council and Veolia which combines a field trip to Sheffield’s incinerator with further classroom activities that will culminate in student- created sculptures which would represent and engage with the waste issues as they affect Sheffield. These would then be exhibited at various locations around the city, including the university, Veolia’s travelling education van and ‘shop windows’ exhibition space used by the University in agreement with the city council. Department of Geography – Dr Alan Metcalfe Closed event for local schools This event is a mobile ‘landscape workshop’ where participants can discuss and use photography and writing to document elements of the landscape which provoke emotions of fear or unease. Photographs and text produced from this exercise will be used to produce a web exhibit, documenting fear in the landscape. The workshop is targeted at individuals and families who use the case study landscape in their everyday lives, and allows people to express attitudes about elements of their landscape which they are unhappy or uneasy about. School of Law – Dr Camilla Priede Starting at the School of Law, 11 am or 2pm Open to the public Contact c.priede@sheffield.ac.uk to book your place The first Festival event run by a student organisation, The Exchange team up with local schools to provide an interactive educational workshop aimed at stimulating debate amongst young people about how they can become engaged in the political process. The event will include talks from experts, including Jon Tonge, chair of the government’s Youth Citizenship Commission. It will give participants an excellent chance to work in groups to produce posters outlining their thoughts on the issue of youth involvement in politics and the idea of reducing the age of voting. The Exchange (Sheffield Student’s Union) Closed event for local schools How researchers and practitioners explain the concept of inspiration and the process by which new ideas get generated. The two-hour event will be a mixture of presenting research findings and offering practical tips and suggestions drawn from the social sciences, arts and sciences. School of English Literature – Professor Rachel Falconer Showroom Cinema, 7.00pm-9.00pm Open to the public. For tickets visit: www.shef.ac.uk/english/arts-science An interactive event designed to develop young people’s understanding of contemporary economic issues based around the ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ format. Topics such as: the financial crisis; unemployment; global warming and other environmental issues; welfare reform; education and health care provision will all be explored with input from policy makers about the role of economics and economists in developing and informing economic policy. Department of Economics – Professor Andy Dickerson Afternoon Closed event for local schools ConsultIWP, the commercial division of the Institute of Work Psychology, will be holding a free interactive business breakfast on the 16th March at the Hilton Hotel, Sheffield, targeted at CEO’s, Senior Managers and Directors in all sectors. Our aim is to have an audience size of at least 30 to 50 Business Leaders. This interactive session is relevant to our target audience as this session will show business leaders how they can make sure that the employees in their organisation have high quality jobs that foster high well-being and performance, particularly prevalent in the current economic climate. Institute of Work Psychology – Carol Tighe Sheffield Hilton Hotel 8.00pm-9.30am, (7.30am registration & breakfast) Open for businesses to apply For tickets visit: www.consultiwp.com/training/business_ sessions An urban safari of green and living roofs in Sheffield. Green roofs are one the most easily accessible sustainable technology available. Their positive impact on water management and wildlife in UK urban centres is rapidly becoming more important. Sheffield has the largest number of green and living roofs in the UK, outside London, and this tour aimed at sixth-formers and members of the public will provide an informative and interactive experience of the social science behind them. Sheffield Green Roof Safari - Dr Jeff Sorrill Starting at ICOSS, Afternoon Open to the public For tickets contact: grsafari@ thegreenroofcentre.co.uk Exploring how to communicate the results of research to an audience of young people, in particular when that research concerns them. Working interactively with film-makers and facilitators, students will be able to create films aimed at engaging their peers into research. Centre for the Social Study of Childhood and Youth – Professor Allison James Closed event for local schools Bringing together policy-makers from across the region and key academics from the social sciences, this event will both showcase the world-leading research carried out at the University of Sheffield as well as ask research users what they see as being the priorities for future research and collaboration between government and academia. Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS) and the Public Services Academy (PSA) Closed event for Policy Makers An event working with a select group of GCSE school children, parents and invited guests to address issues involving social science research access to personal data. The ‘Y Touring Theatre Company’ will introduce students to the topic through a performance of their ‘Breathing Country’ play. Provocative scenarios will then be explored in class sized workshops. The day will conclude with a ‘Question Time’ style panel and audience involving students and guests, including media. School of Law – Ryan Davenport Closed event for Local Schools Social Sciences Serving Society: Improving links between policy makers and researchers Views on Using Personal Information in Research Performance arts, interactive workshop and debate to promote and integrate artistic activities into the development process: this event brings international musicians SOSA-XA! (African music) and John Ball (Indian music) to Sheffield and invites the audience to experience international arts and to participate in a debate on the role of the arts in development. Sheffield International Development Network (SIDNet): Part I ICOSS, Lunchtime Open to the Public For tickets contact: C.Kuppuswamy@sheffield.ac.uk A glamorous evening event at a Sheffield Football stadium with a wide-ranging mandate to explore not only the benefits of football to society, but also the benefits of engaging with society to the game. It will comprise of an all-star panel consisting of former England and Sheffield Wednesday Manager, Howard Wilkinson; Former Minister for Sport, Rt Hon. Richard Caborn MP; Chairman of the Premier League, Sir Dave Richards; Sheffield United Biographer, Dr Gary Armstrong; Co-Founder of the Football Supporters Association, Dr Rogan Taylor; Chairman of Sheffield United, Kevin McCabe; Chief Executive of Sheffield and Hallamshire FA, James Hope-Gill; and chaired by ITV Sports anchor, Matt Smith. The Public Services Academy Sheffield United FC Bramall Lane, 6.30pm-8.00pm Open to the Public For tickets contact: psa@sheffield.ac.uk Are you in Second Life (SL), the virtual world? Find it frustrating to search for information and get around? Researchers in information and digital literacies will kick off this session and then lead you onwards for some more virtually literate sightseeing, shopping and searching. Basic SL skills movement/chat skills needed. Department of Information Studies – Sheila Webber Second Life, 8.00pm (GMT) 12,00pm (Second life time) Register http://infolit-week-in-sl.ning.com/events/ searching-shopping-sightseeing Open to the Public The event will be a public debate on the future of international development in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Invited speakers are to include Claire Melamed (Action Aid); Duncan Green (Oxfam); and Prof Stuart Corbridge (LSE). The event will also act as a public launch of Sheffield International Development Network (SIDNet): SIDNet is a group of research-active interdisciplinary scholars (many supported by the ESRC) within the University of Sheffield who will present their work before and after the debate through posters and other media. The event will be held in conjunction with The Exchange and Sheffield Student’s Union. Sheffield International Development Network (SIDNet) Launch: Part II (In conjunction with The Exchange – Sheffield Student’s Union) Sheffield Student’s Union Auditorium, Evening Open to the Public For tickets contact: psa@sheffield.ac.uk The Power of Sheffield’s Waste The Festival will showcase the University's world- class social science research and knowledge exchange with an exciting schedule of events which will aim to shed light on and celebrate how this research influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future. Topics covered in this year's event will include how football benefits society, green and living roofs in Sheffield, youth and politics, and the fear of crime in Sheffield. Open to public Reserved for schools Reserved for business or policy makers The Festival of Social Sciences is a week-long celebration of the science of everyday life, incorporating interactive events and activities for a range of audiences.
