The Bonnart Trust Annual Research Seminar: Making Differences Now
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 30 Russell Square
***Please note: due to upcoming UCU strike action this event has been postponed. Please check back for revised event details to be released in due course***
Exploring how academic research can challenge and promote action to build a better world
'Migration – Making the Difference'
Speaker: Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)
Lunch will be provided from 12:30
Migration scholars, in common with many social scientists are motivated to ‘make a difference’ in the world. Yet it seems we are having precious little effect. For all the research projects and policy interventions, more people than ever are dying at the borders of Europe and the United States and public hostility to ‘migrants’ across the world has intensified. In this presentation I will consider the reasons for this apparent failure, and how we might move beyond a critique of the current system to develop new ways of thinking and acting on migration-related issues. I will also discuss the more general lessons that can be learned about university engagement with policy and practice.
This event is intended primarily for Birkbeck PhD students and researchers, but all are welcome.
This event is a collaboration between the Bonnart Trust and the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR).
About the Bonnart Trust
The purpose of the Bonnart Trust is to “Establish and maintain scholarships at universities in the United Kingdom for research at the postgraduate level into the nature of racial, religious and cultural intolerance with a view to finding a means to combat it.”
The Bonnart Trust fully funds a PhD scholarship each year in the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy at Birkbeck. Research topics explore themes concerned with either 'diversity and belonging' or 'minorities and social justice' From 2020/21 the Trust will also fund two part-time master students across a range of MA/MSc programmes. Website: https://www.fbbtrust.org.uk/.
Contact name:
Lou Miller