News from CRESC
Below you can see the latest news from CRESC. Click on the title of a news item for more details.
2013
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Fri, 24/05/2013We've had such an enthusiastic response to the call for papers and so many exciting submissions for the CRESC Annual Conference on In/Vulnerabilities that we're expanding the meeting to cope with the...
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Thu, 16/05/2013The deadline for submitting papers for the CRESC Annual Conference on In/Vulnerabilities is now past. There are many excellent submissions. If you missed the deadline and still want to submit a paper...
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Thu, 18/04/2013CRESC now has its own Twitter account @CRESC4. Please follow us for updates on conferences, workshops, jobs and news.
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Wed, 03/04/2013There are seven social classes in Britain, not three, say Mike Savage and Fiona Devine describing the results of the BBC's Great British Class Survey. 160,000 people filled in the on-line...
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Sun, 10/03/2013CRESC’s John Law has been working with Oslo anthropologist Marianne Lien on the farm in a long-term ethnography of fish farming. This has led us to think about nature and to pose an old question:...
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Tue, 05/03/2013Do you want to present a paper or organise a panel at the CRESC Annual Conference on In/vulnerabilities? The deadline is May 13th. Please check out our Conference web page.
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Sun, 17/02/2013CRESC is continuing to support Vron Ware's important work on the military. Building on her existing work, she's won a small award to prepare a bid to examine the effect of military organisations on...
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Sat, 09/02/2013Andy Haldane, Executive Director of Financial Stability at the Bank of England, will give a CRESC public lecture on September 5th in London during the CRESC Annual Conference on In/...
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Thu, 10/01/2013CRESC's John Law participated in the launch event of the Berlin Haus der Kulturen der Welt's two year programme, 'the Anthropocene Project'. This was a major three-day event of public performances,...
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Sat, 05/01/2013Congratulations to Michelle Bastian, who will be heading up a team exploring the link between shifting experiences of time and alternative economies that is being funded by the AHRC Care for the...
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Thu, 03/01/2013Congratulations to CRESC Senior Research Fellow, Dr Evelyn Ruppert! Evelyn has been appointed Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and will be taking up her new...
2012
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Thu, 11/10/2012The CRESC Annual Conference 2013 is on In/vulnerabilties. It's from 4th-6th September 2013. Please visit our Conference website for further details.
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Tue, 03/07/2012CRESC's Sophie Watson discussed David Harvey's new book Rebel Cities on BBC Radio 4's Thnking Allowed on Wednesday 4th July at 4.00.
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Tue, 08/05/2012CRESC and the Whitworth Art Gallery have joined forces to develop a programme of activities for Manchester schools in support of our 2012 annual conference, ‘Promises: Crisis and Socio-Cultural...
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Mon, 30/04/2012Three CRESC members recently participated in a unique event - a joint inaugural lecture! Professors Marie Gillespie, Elzabeth Sliva and Kath Woodward, all in Sociology at the Open University, talked...
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Sun, 26/02/2012Charisma: Consumer Market Studies Charisma goes live! Charisma is a newly launched site which is a companion project to CRESC and the Journal of Cultural Economy and aims to act...
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Mon, 06/02/2012A multi-disciplinary team led by CRESC Senior Research Fellow Dr Andrew Miles has been awarded £1.5 million by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a five-year research project under its...
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Sun, 22/01/2012As part of the development of the new cross-council research theme 'Connected Communities' the AHRC has funded a number of Pilot Demonstrator Projects aimed at showcasing its distinctive approach....
2011
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Sun, 18/12/2011An article by CRESC's Wendy Bottero has been chosen by the British Sociological Association for inclusion in its Articles in British Sociology: BSA 60th Anniversary Special Collection. Wendy's...
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Wed, 14/12/2011Clusters, Voices and Urban Words: Artists at Work in Regeneration What is the role of the artist in urban regeneration? This question was explored at a seminar event entitled Art, Work and...
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Mon, 28/11/2011CRESC’s ‘Social life of Methods’ theme has announced three events on ‘How methods move’ in 2012. Distinguished speakers from within and beyond CRESC with reflect critically on their own experience of...
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Mon, 28/11/2011CRESC is working with the BBC World Service on 'Generation 2012', an exciting initiative with a group of young citizen journalists between 15 and 21 who live close to the Olympic Park in London....
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Sun, 27/11/2011After the Great Complacence is an account of the first phase of the financial crisis. Nominated by in the Guardian by Paul Mason as one of his five economics books of 2011, Mason writes: "With...
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Tue, 22/11/2011The Keynote line-up for our 2012 Annual Conference on Promises has been announced. Speakers include Barbara Adam (Social Sciences, Cardiff University), Robert Boyer (ENS, Paris), ...
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Sun, 20/11/2011CRESC's new book After the Great Complacence: Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform was published in September. Now the authors have summarised the argument in a new CRESC Working Paper,...
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Fri, 11/11/2011Madeleine Reeves, a research fellow at CRESC, has featured in a discussion show on the growth of the far right in Russia and the illegalisation of migrant labour. http://stream.aljazeera....
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Thu, 27/10/2011Professor Fiona Devine recently participated in the University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas (Exploring the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for Free). She gave a talk on the BBC’s Great...
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Sat, 22/10/2011Allan Cochrane, Professor of Urban Studies at the Open University, has been awarded a £314550 grant by the ESRC (ES/I038632/1) as Principle Investigator, to work with Bob Colenutt (...
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Tue, 04/10/2011We are pleased to announce the final result of the CRESC Framing the City Conference competition. Winners of the Creative Writing Competition are as follows: First prize goes to Sarah Butler for her...
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Mon, 18/07/2011In today's Financial Times, columnist Tony Jackson explores the decision to award the new Thameslink train contract to Siemens rather than Bombardier. In debating the new CRESC Report Knowing What to...
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Tue, 12/07/2011CRESC has released a new Pubic Interest Report: Knowing What to Do? How not to Build Trains. This argues that the UK government's June 2011 decision to award the contract for new Thameslink trains to...
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Sun, 10/07/2011Conference at the Institute of Communications Studies, Leeds 7-8 July CRESC in conjunction with ICS held a two-day international conference exploring aspects of ethics, moral economy and cultural...
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Thu, 07/07/2011In the month of June Urban Experiments held its first two cross cutting theme workshops on city cultures and on city materialities. Stimulating discussion took place around a group of papers which at...
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Sun, 19/06/2011The New Blackwell Companion to the City, edited by Gary Bridge and CRESC's Sophie Watson is reviewed in today's Observer by architecture critic, Rowan Moore, todether wth Living in the Endless...
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Thu, 16/06/2011The seminar is aimed at policy-makers, journalists, academics and students. It is organised by Birkbeck College’s Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life in partnership with the...
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Wed, 15/06/2011A two day conference on THURSDAY 7th and FRIDAY 8th July 2011, at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds. Organised by The Media Industries Research Centre, ICS, Leeds and...
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Thu, 09/06/2011CRESC's new working paper, City State against National Settlement: UK Economic Policy after the Financial Crisis, has just been released. Critical of the coalition government's fiscal policy, it...
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Tue, 24/05/2011We're happy to announce that the CRESC blog now has space for (moderated) comments. Many thanks to our web developer, Jack Latimer for this upgrade. Please check it out and tell us what you think....
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Mon, 23/05/2011Professor Sophie Watson was recently interviewed on Thinking Allowed by Laurie Taylor on the issues explored in her newly edited book: The New Companion to the City (with Gary Bridge), which...
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Mon, 16/05/2011This event is one in a series of CRESC workshops which bring into inter-disciplinary conversation scholars whose research focus is social class and post-industrial/post-colonial politics in...
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Wed, 04/05/2011CRESC ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2011: ‘FRAMING THE CITY’ CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION Call for Entries CRESC and the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester are pleased to...
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Fri, 01/04/2011We would like first of all to offer all those who took part in this year's first ever CRESC Photography Competition our very sincere thanks. The standard was incredibly high and we were...
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Fri, 01/04/2011The What Is Black British Jazz? research team based at The Open University is presenting a panel of four papers at these venues: Rutgers University, Wednesday 13 April, 4 - 6.30pm: ...
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Thu, 24/03/2011Penny Harvey and Evelyn Ruppert blog about census categories, the realities that don't quite fit those categories, and the negotiations that lead to them.
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Thu, 24/03/2011John Law, on what insects might have to do with the social life of method They asked me to review a book: Hugh Raffles’ Insectopedia. (New York, Pantheon, 2010). Raffles is an anthropologist and his...
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Mon, 21/03/2011We are now inviting applications for a two day residential workshop on the interconnections between time and community. The workshop is funded by the AHRC as part of the new cross-council research...
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Wed, 16/03/2011CONFERENCE REPORT Encountering Markets: consumers, credit and devices 10-12 March 2011, Copenhagen Business School Convenors: Liz McFall (Open University, UK); Paul du Gay (Copenhagen Business...
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Fri, 04/03/2011The annual CRESC lecture at SOAS in London given by Professor Andrew Ross from New York University attracted an audience of around 100 people from across the UK. Andrew Ross, who is Professor...
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Thu, 03/03/2011Will the UK's 2011 Census be the last? CRESC's Social Life of Method researcher, Evelyn Ruppert reviews the pros and cons of the digital alternatives in an OU OpenLearn think-piece, and in an article...
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Thu, 24/02/2011CRESC Senior Research Fellow Andrew Miles has been awarded £12,000 by the AHRC under the Connected Communities Project Development Scheme to develop a large-grant application for a study entitled ‘...
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Tue, 22/02/2011Professor Sophie Watson has been invited by the "Urban Culture and Public Space" (SKuOR) of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the Technical University Vienna to take up a City of Vienna...
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Fri, 11/02/2011Committee room 10 at the House of Commons was packed on Thursday 10th February 2011 for the CRESC and NPEN co-organised debate on ‘How shall We Rebuild the British Economy’. CRESC co-...
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Thu, 03/02/2011In a new blog entry Evelyn Ruppert reports on 'sociomic' methods: the business of compiling and analysing complete social datasets. Is this 'cultronomics' replacing good old fashioned social science...
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Mon, 31/01/2011Gemma John and Annabel Pinker joined CRESC in January and will be contributing to the Topologies of Social Change research theme. Dr John's previous work focused on Freedom of...
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Mon, 24/01/2011Madeleine Reeves writes in Open Democracy about the official report into last year's violence in Kyrgyzstan, arguing that it is poorly researched, political, overly assertive, and leaves as many...
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Thu, 20/01/2011"What JCB's yellow digger tells us about our manufacturing malaise". In today's G2 Adita Chakrabortty uses CRESC's Rebalancing the Economy Working Paper in a major piece on manufacturing and...
2010
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Fri, 17/12/2010John Law, CRESC director, gave a plenary at a day conference on December 17th at the Ecole des Mines de Paris. The workshop, Debordements: une journée scientifique en l'honneur de Michel Callon,...
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Thu, 16/12/2010Our latest working paper, on 'Digital Devices: nine theses', co-authored by Mike Savage, Evelyn Ruppert and John Law, has now been published, and is available for download.
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Thu, 09/12/2010Alban Webb, a CRESC OU Research Fellow, was among speakers at a Commonwealth Journalists' Association meeting on 'BBC World Service: Death by a Thousand Cuts? Alban explored the new funding...
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Mon, 06/12/2010CRESC Senior Research Fellow Andrew Miles and Theme 5 Affiliate Member Abigail Gilmore from Manchester’s Institute for Cultural Practices attended a three-day AHRC Research Development Workshop in...
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Fri, 03/12/2010CRESC's Gillian Evans chaired a public meeting at the University of East London Dockland's Campus on Thursday 2nd December 2010 on 'How can the sporting legacy of the London2012 Games deliver lasting...
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Wed, 24/11/2010This joint CRESC/Institute for Cultural Practices seminar took place on 24 November 2010 as part of the dissemination of the Department for Culture Media & Sport's prestigious CASE (Culture...
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Tue, 23/11/2010CRESC Researchers, Dr Andy Miles and Dr Niamh Moore, along with Professor Mike Savage (University of York) will team up with colleagues at the internationally-renowned Institute of Transport Studies...
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Mon, 08/11/2010A report written by CRESC Senior Research Fellow Andrew Miles and Alice Sullivan from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education on 'Understanding the relationship between...
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Mon, 01/11/2010CRESC researcher, Niamh Moore, in collaborations with colleagues at a number of other universities, has been successful in gaining funding from the cross-council Connected Communities research...
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Fri, 01/10/2010We're sorry to be losing Mike from CRESC. He's just moved to York, where he's accepted the post of Professor of Sociology. We wish him well in his new home! Mike has been central to the CRESC effort...
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Thu, 23/09/2010CRESC Senior Research Fellow Andrew Miles was the Guest Lecturer in the first meeting of Leeds Metropolitan University’s Knowledge Exchange Network on participation and engagement in the arts, which...
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Thu, 09/09/2010At the CRESC Annual conference in Oxford at the end of August, CRESC was delighted to welcome a pre-event day doctoral workshop on 'Overflows: Flows, Doings, Edges'. The approach came from a network...
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Wed, 28/07/201012-13 July 2010, Manchester The conference was a great success, with demand for places exceeding our plans, with over 55 participants, so it was good to see how much interest the event...
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Wed, 16/06/2010Will Hutton's Channel 4 Dispatches programme, How the Banks won which went out on June 14th, used extensive research drawn on CRESC Working Paper 75 on Undisclosed and...
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Tue, 11/05/2010CRESC RCUK fellow Dr Reeves writes in the London Review of Books about the Revolution in Kyrgyzstan. "There is an eerie thrill to be had from walking through the home of a deposed president....
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Fri, 02/04/2010Professor John Law has joined CRESC. Following Tony Bennett's departure, John has moved from Lancaster to the Chair of Sociology at the Open University. He'll be working closely with OU colleagues...
2009
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Fri, 13/03/2009A conference will take place in Cumbria on Friday 13th March to look at the role of street and outdoor arts in the UK. The event Street Arts: People and Places at Play is being organised at Kendal...
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Sun, 01/03/2009The boost of £4.5million ensures the Centre's core funding will be renewed for a further period of five years, from 2009-2014. CRESC, based at The University of Manchester and the Open University,...
