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General audience

Time:
10:30 - 16:30

Location:
Room 1025, Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB

Debate will take place through workshops and panel discussions on topics related to the relevance of youth work to youth justice, other current developments in both fields and how the field(s) can best serve the needs of young people. The workshops will be led by leading academics, practitioners and students.

Organised by Jean Harris-Evans

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Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
11:00 - 15:00

Location:
Winter Gardens, Surrey Street, Sheffield

Early literacy development is vital for later school success and parents have an important role in supporting their young children. This event for children under five and their families, presents fun early literacy activities and an opportunity talk informally with experts about the beginnings of reading and writing in the early years and view an exhibition of recent family literacy research in the School of Education.  The fun packed ‘literacy trail’ for families to complete together will include meeting characters from nursery rhymes and well known stories to meet, stories, a ‘letter treasure hunt’, and things to make and do.

Organised by Professor Cathy Nutbrown

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

Booking:
Not required

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
12:00 - 17:00

Location:
Winter Gardens, Surrey Street, Sheffield and Student Union

Sheffield is a vibrant multilingual city, in which over 120 languages are spoken in our varied communities. These range from languages used in the home or learnt at school, to those spoken by the many visitors who are welcomed here for work or study. This small exhibition will bring together the voices of Sheffield people in a display showing ‘Why languages matter!’ You will be able to add to the exhibition through writing, drawing or audio-recording. A blog will also be set up so that we can continue to build up a picture of our multilingual Sheffield after the event.

Location:  The exhibition will take place in the Winter Gardens on Saturday 2 November and will move to the Student Union on Monday 4 November - Saturday 8 November 2013.

Organised by Dr Terry Lamb

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

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People with a specific interest

Time:
09:30 - 17:00

Location:
The Workstation, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield

A one-day conference for policy makers,  business community, third sector and academics on Researching Social Media, focusing on methods and analytical approaches. The conference includes a keynote panel of leading social science, policy and industry researchers. It  will also host three skills labs in two consecutive sessions so that participants have the option to go to two out of three. This offers a timely and important overview of different critical methodological and analytical approaches for dealing with social media data in social scientific, reliable ways.

Organised by Dr Farida Vis

Booking:
Invitation only

Suitable for:
Schools or colleges

Time:
10:00 - 12:00

Location:
Kelham Island Art Collective, Ball Street, Sheffield

This event will share findings from research projects about children's spaces and places to young children. The participants will respond to the research findings through a sculpture workshop, where they will make small clay figurines. We will go on a walk in Kelham Island and the children will be invited to place their sculptures in spaces of their own choosing. Anyone can engage with the children's artwork by searching for them in Kelham Island or through the twitter hashtag #hideandseek

Organised by Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice

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this event is invitation only.

Booking:
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Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
18:00 - 20:30

Location:
ICOSS, 219 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP

We spend a lot of time working yet we do not always feel appreciated by our bosses.  This event will look at the things that management do that prevent us, their employees, from talking openly to them and the subsequent effects that this has on us and the wider organisation.  This event will be run by two doctoral researchers, Peter Crellin and Sarah Brooks, and will combine both of their respective research interests; destructive leadership and workplace silence.  The talk is aimed at a general audience including members of the public, academics and students.

Organised by Sarah Brooks and Peter Crellin

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Not required

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
18:30 - 21:00

Location:
The Showroom, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield

What has been the legacy of Thatcherism?  More than three decades after Mrs Thatcher's first government, and with the advantage of hindsight that was unavailable to earlier commentators, it is time for a reappraisal of the policies and legacy of the period 1979-1990 – an assessment which is all the more pressing given the recent death of Margaret Thatcher herself, and the mood of national reflection and discussion it provoked. 

Organised by Professor Stephen Farrall

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

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Suitable for:
Professionals as part of their work

Time:
09:00 - 16:30

Location:
The Circle, 33 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4FW

An interactive workshop introducing the CLEAR IDEAS model of enhancing organisational innovation. The model is a simple, systematic means of developing the skills of people to both better generate and implement new ideas in the workplace. This workshop is targeted at Third Sector organisations. Participants will work in groups and be asked to identify real-world challenges facing them. They will then learn how to apply the various steps of the model to these challenges to not only create more novel solutions but to also develop effective strategies for putting them into practice.

Organised by Kamal Birdi

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this event is invitation only.

Booking:
Not required Invitation only

Suitable for:
Professionals as part of their work

Time:
09:30 - 12:15

Location:
ICOSS, University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield

The event will take the form of a half-day workshop during which we will present the findings of a research study we recently completed on young children’s use of iPads and then we will undertake an animation workshop during which children and industry professionals will work together to explore some of the themes emerging from the iPad research study.  In the first part of the workshop, we will present the findings of the research to industry professionals and engage them in reflection on the design features needed for apps for children. Children will have an opportunity to view the data and discuss the findings in a separate, age-appropriate session. In the second part of the workshop, a professional artist will demonstrate to industry professionals and children ways of making simple animations of characters from story/ game apps. Professionals and children will then work together in small groups to better understand the issues of media production and application.  Organised by Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice

Organised by Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

Please note:
this event is invitation only.

Booking:
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Suitable for:
Schools or colleges

Time:
09:30 - 15:00

Location:
Sheffield University Students Union, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield

Through this programme of events researchers from the Faculty of Social Science will present their research to ask ‘How do the Social Sciences Shape Our World?’ The hands-on events will provide opportunities for children and young people to interact with social science research in an engaging and reflective way. The events aim to raise awareness and understanding of research across different disciplines in the social sciences and may include workshops from Architecture, East Asian Studies, Economics, Education, Geography, Information School, Journalism, Landscape Architecture, Law, Management, Politics, Sociological Studies and Town and Regional Planning.

Organised by Dr Lisa Procter

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this event is invitation only.

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Time:
09:30 - 12:30

Location:
ICOSS, 219 Portobello, Sheffield

This seminar aims at demonstrating how in adopting SCEnAT ( Supply Chain Environmental Analysis) (http://www.scenat.com) companies can gain an understanding of the critical hot spot of GHG emission within the supply chain and identifying tools to reduce the impact of such emissions. SCEnAT uses the most advanced Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and provides a systemic view for modelling supply chain and decision making.  It allows companies to account for carbon emissions and management across the product supply chains by identifying methodological shortcomings in existing tools and proposing a supply chain (SC) framework which provides businesses with a holistic understanding of their supply chains.

Organised by Professor Lenny Koh and Dr Marina Ciaraldi

Booking:
Not required

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
14:00 - 15:00

Location:
ICOSS, University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield

The event is organised by the Development Education Centre South Yorkshire(DECSY) in conjunction with Paul Mosley, Professor of Economics at the University. The event consists of a wall display and a one-hour debate chaired by Paul Mosley, will be on the theme of how development education needs to evolve, from the point of view of development effectiveness and the needs of the education system. It would comprise presentations by Rob Unwin, a recently-appointed national leader for the GEP, and one or more Sheffield teachers. The wall display will be up all week.  It highlights some of the projects in which DECSY is involved, including gender education, teacher education in China, the DFID-financed Global Education Project (GEP),  and strategies for exit from poverty in North and South.

Organised by Professor Paul Mosley

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

Booking:
Not required

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
19:00 - 21:00

Location:
Quaker Meeting House, 10 James Street, Sheffield

Wars, genocide, dictatorial governments, dreadful famines…These are some of the scenarios that generally come to mind when thinking of Human Rights (HR) violations. However, abuses, discrimination and violence are widespread as well in our relatively wealthy and pacific societies. This event aims at tackling the dominant narrative on HR in British society, inviting the audience to explore the blurred boundaries of HR in practice. This will be achieved by bringing together several techniques - storytelling, presentation and audience participation. These elements will propose an analysis of HR violations drawn from the stories and related to local, national and global issues.

Organised by Dr Lorenza Fontana, Dr Sorcha Macleod & Dr Chamu Kuppuswamy

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

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Schools or colleges

Time:
09:15 - 15:00

Location:
Sheffield Hallam University, Student Union HUBS Building, Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2QQ

This is for year 12 students who want to learn more about research methods used in social sciences, covering quantitative, qualitative and textual analyses. It looks at how to research social behaviours and experiences that are deviant or criminal, with the chance to meet postgraduate students currently undertaking such research.

Organised by Sarah Jenkins

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this event is invitation only.

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People with a specific interest

Time:
10:00 - 16:00

Location:
Electric Works, Sheffield Digital Campus, Sheffield, S1 2BJ

This workshop is an opportunity for academics, practitioners and policy-makers to exchange ideas and knowledge on issues relating to illegal entrepreneurship. We aim to work in collaboration, responding to the issues raised to find practical and innovative solutions to related academic, practical and policy issues.

Organised by Gerard McElwee

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Suitable for:
Professionals as part of their work

Time:
15:00 - 17:00

Location:
Richard Roberts Building, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7HF

The issue of ethics and how we carry out business is a huge issue within Higher Education. According to Robert Dingwall, Professor of Social Science at Nottingham Trent University, "a 'free' social science research base is as important to a healthy democracy as a free press. But in the past decade, UK and international funders have required universities to vet all research involving human subjects via institutional ethics committees".  Universities have many policies and procedures for dealing with ethics, especially in the area of research, however, these policies are not always so visible when it comes to conducting Knowledge Exchange (KE) activities.  This event aims to look at some of the issues surrounding ethics in KE and how they should be addressed, what questions should be asked, and how do we decide if something is ethical or not? 

Organised by Dr Jonathan Gorst

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Suitable for:
People with a specific interest

Time:
17:00 - 19:00

Location:
The Management School, Conduit Road, Sheffield

The event looks at entrepreneurs as employers. The events focus on-going research by Tim Vorley (CREED), Ute Stephan (IWP) and Jason Heyes (WOERRC) examining the dilemmas and difficulties that entrepreneurs face when taking on an employee for the first time. This research has been undertaken with the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and this event would have input from them as well as from DWP and ACAS.

Organised by Dr Tim Vorley

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this event is invitation only.

Booking:
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Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
17:00 - 19:30

Location:
Carpenter Room, Sheffield Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield, S1 1XZ

Practitioners from the statutory/voluntary sectors are invited to discuss practices used to address social problems in Sheffield. We'll outline anarchist theory and practice, offering insights into the history of anarchist principles. And we invite practitioners to tell us how they are trying to resolve local conflicts and foster community spirit.

Organised by Jon Dean

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Suitable for:
Schools or colleges

Time:
09:00 - 10:30

Location:
Notre Dam High School, Fulwood Road, Sheffield S10 3BT

‘Volunteers and Communities in the Global South’ is a workshop designed to encourage young people to think critically about how volunteers from the global North interact with communities in the global South.  Through engaging young people with volunteer tourism we hope to not only encourage them to think critically about the projects they may engage with, but also to be able to practically cope with some of these issues ‘on-the-ground’ should they choose to participate in volunteering.

Organised by Tom Smith

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this event is invitation only.

Booking:
Invitation only

Suitable for:
Schools or colleges

Time:
09:00 - 12:00

Location:
Longley Park College, Horninglow Rd, Sheffield, Yorkshire

The event ‘Who Wants to be an Entrepreneur? will be a half day event, involving over 40 local sixth form students getting involved in different enterprising and entrepreneurial activities.

The day will be based on existing and on-going entrepreneurship research, and the event will be used to highlight the work of Drs Nick Williams, Tim Vorley and Peter Rodgers at the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED) but then engage the students with the research. We intend to have a variety of activities interspersed with brief presentations informed by social science research. We believe this interactive day will provide an opportunity to engage students with enterprise and entrepreneurship based on our research and teaching in the area. 

Organised by Dr Peter Rodgers

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this event is invitation only.

Booking:
Invitation only

Suitable for:
Schools or colleges

Time:
09:45 - 11:15

Location:
Sheffield University Students Union, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield

Many young people are passionate about humanitarian issues, from war to famine, and often play important roles in fundraising activities and in raising awareness.  Our aim is to provide a practical workshop as a “taster” to pre-university students, giving them both a basic understanding of the context of international aid work and a flavour of what it is like to work in a humanitarian emergency. The workshop will be predominantly based around a practical simulation exercise of working a humanitarian emergency, exposing them to both the challenges and successes. This practical exercise will be complimented by sessions on “why is our involvement important?” and “how can you get involved?”.

Organised by Dr Simon Rushton

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this event is invitation only.

Booking:
Not required

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
13:00 - 15:00

Location:
Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham

This event will communicate about recent research into how young children (aged under 3 years), learn and interact with museum spaces. The research highlighted the sensory, embodied nature of young children's engagement with museums, and the importance of young children being able to run through the space and touch appropriate objects. A family fun afternoon at Clifton Park Museum in Rotherham on Thursday 7th November will give families the chance to experience the museum in new ways, based on this research.

Organised by Dr Abigail Hackett

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

Booking:
Via website

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
17:30 - 19:30

Location:
ICOSS, University of Sheffield, 219 Portobello, Sheffield

This is an afternoon/evening event for policy makers, the business community and third sector on the politics of open data. The debate will focus on how to facilitate productive collaboration between citizen-led community groups and open data communities, specifically linked to increased interest in urban agriculture. This draws on British and American examples: notably 596 Acres’ work on using US land registry data to identify 596 acres of potential growing land, actively engaging citizens in turning it to agricultural use. Better understanding the potential of citizen engaged open data plays a crucial role in future developments in this area.

Organised by Dr Farida Vis

Booking:
Via email

Suitable for:
Professionals as part of their work

Time:
17:30 - 19:30

Location:
The Management School, Conduit Road, Sheffield

This workshop event seeks to expose the misconceptions and myths of export and internationalisation of SMEs. The event is based on on-going research of three colleagues (Dr Peter Rodgers, Dr Tim Vorley and Dr Rob Wapshott) at the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED), examining the nature of small business development growth. While there is an emphasis by the Government on export and internationalisation as a means of economic recovery, there is an ‘information gap’ that persists in how businesses understand and undertake such activities. By working with UKTI and the Sheffield Chamber of commerce this event will consider the practicalities faced by SMEs in the Sheffield City Region.

Organised by Dr Peter Rodgers

Booking:
Not required

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
18:00 - 20:00

Location:
The Showroom, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield

The people of Sheffield will be invited to attend a discussion in preparation for the forthcoming anniversary of the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85. The events surrounding the death of Margaret Thatcher indicate that this period and the demise of coal mining in South Yorkshire evoke strong emotions and open up the possibility of the period being a contested commemoration. How a country, a city, a community commemorates its past says something about how it sees itself today. What will the commemoration of the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 say about the identity of Sheffield and South Yorkshire thirty years after the Strike?

Organised by Dr Cormac Behan

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

Booking:
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General audience

Time:
18:00 - 19:30

Location:
Bartolome House, Winter Street, Sheffield

Around 13,500 women are imprisoned each year in the UK. Women’s imprisonment has risen sharply during the past decade, despite no evidence of increases in female crime. Many women prisoners have young children, a very high proportion have experienced domestic and/or sexual violence, and many have histories of mental ill health, addiction and self-harm. Dr Gilly Sharpe, Lecturer in Criminology, will open this event with a discussion of the contours of women's imprisonment. This will be followed by an original short play and workshop performed by the award-winning Clean Break Theatre Company (www.cleanbreak.org.uk), exploring the hidden stories of women prisoners.

Organised by Dr Gilly Sharpe

Booking:
Not required

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
19:00 - 20:00

Location:
The Showroom, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield

The digital revolution has changed how we interact with information. On the one hand, we are exposed to so much information that it is difficult to digest all the facts that we encounter in our every day lives. On the other, new technologies have made it easier to visualise and share data, enabling us to distill facts into information that matters. As scientists, we deal in data but rarely make use of these technologies to communicate our ideas with society.  We explore the use of infographics and digital technology to share academic information with the wider public.

Organised by Dr Johan Oldekop

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

Booking:
Not required

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
19:00 - 21:00

Location:
Jessop West Exhibition Space, Gell Street, Sheffield

A public debate will be led by a panel of 5 experts to explore pressing questions raised by the government’s activities in promoting behaviour change.   Most research in this area centres on how to change behaviour. This sidesteps bigger questions.  Is changing our behaviour a legitimate aim for government? Who has decided that the model citizen should be exercise loving, emotionally literate and self-aware, abstemious, non-smoking, volunteering? Where should behaviour change policy begin and end?

Organised by Professor Kathryn Ecclestone

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this event is open to all. Booking is not required.

Booking:
Invitation only

Suitable for:
Schools or colleges

Time:
09:00 - 17:00

Location:
Hillsborough College, Hillsborough Barracks, Sheffield

Social meanings of space are often taken for granted but exercise real and powerful effects on people’s daily lives. This proposed workshop applies critical thought to social space and its uses by: identifying space as social; highlighting what this means in terms of serving / hampering interests; identifying power inherent in social spaces and how they are contested; what effect this knowledge can have on students.  To explore this with Year 12 students (anticipate a group of 30) we will introduce the value of social science research, illustrating this with the example of social space.

Organised by Dr Robert Wapshott

Please note:
this event is invitation only.

Booking:
Invitation only

Suitable for:
Professionals as part of their work

Time:
09:30 - 12:30

Location:
ICOSS, 219 Portobello, Sheffield

This event will form a lively debate around the issue of intergenerational relations. Researchers from the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth (CSCY) and the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) will explore current debates around ageism from a different perspective. While current debates around ageism typically focus on the perceived stereotypes around older people, research conducted within CSCY found that young people increasingly felt that they are disadvantaged by stereotypes bound to them by their age. The event will showcase three research projects to share different perspectives on ageism and will close with a networking lunch culminating in a series of proposals for sharing best practice in intergenerational working.

Organised by Dr Katie Ellis

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this event is invitation only.

Booking:
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Suitable for:
People with a specific interest

Time:
09:30 - 13:00

Location:
Double Tree Hotel, Chesterfield Road South, Sheffield, S8 8BW

The ‘problem’ of behaviour is frequently mislocated within individual children and young people who have the labels of learning difficulties or special educational needs. This event explores what social science research reveals about the nature of behaviour and how this knowledge might lead us to more positive and enabling strategies of support.

Organised by Nick Hodge

Booking:
Via website

Suitable for:
People with a specific interest

Time:
13:30 - 17:00

Location:
Novotel Hotel, 50 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, S1 2PR

This half-day conference focuses on information value management in today’s networked enterprises. It gives practitioners an opportunity to share their knowledge and debate recent developments in the field. Safeguarding data and developing appropriate controls is growing in importance, making this topic relevant to both the general public and enterprises.

Organised by Arun Sukumar

Booking:
Via website

Suitable for:
General audience

Time:
12:00 - 16:00

Location:
Regather Works, Club Garden Road, Sheffield, S11 8BU

A one-day exhibition celebrating co-operation for positive social change in Sheffield, featuring guided tours, presentations, workshops, food, drink and entertainment. The exhibition is provided by Sheffield based co-operatives and held at the Regather Works – a community centre for co-operation in Sharrow, Sheffield.

Organised by Gareth Roberts