This workshop on Technology for Independent Living is a one day event organised by the Institute of Digital Healthcare (IDH), at the University of Warwick. This event aims to bring together biomedical engineers, researchers, health professionals from various academic institutions and industry, working in the field of independent living and the various assisted technologies for older person.

The Technology Strategy Board and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are to invest up to £1.5m in a programme of technical feasibility studies and knowledge transfer partnerships (KTPs) to stimulate the development of new multi-disciplinary approaches to software development.

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/MDSD-KTP-call.aspx

In response to a conference at Kings Place held by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), Music promoters Serious present a fascinating series exploring distinctive musical identities across Europe.

The notion of ‘evidence-based policy’ is a key rhetorical weapon, in arguments over the legitimacy or otherwise of government interventions. But what does ‘evidence-based policy’ mean in practice? What demands does policy place upon academic research? How, historically, have the social sciences co-evolved with modern government, and what then is different about more recent appeals to ‘evidence’? How do think tanks reconfigure how knowledge is used in the public sphere? And what professional or ethical questions does the ideal of evidence-based policy pose to social scientists?

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A submission has been made against your form /services/library/researchexchange/space/booking

Your Name:

Caroline White

Your Email:

 c.j.white@warwick.ac.uk

Your department:

Centre for Education and Industry

Name of person running event:

Caroline White and Penny Smith

Email address of person running event:

 c.j.white@warwick.ac.uk

Organiser telephone number:

02476 524234

Title of Event:

Networking Lunch - Education Researchers' Network

Date Check our calendar first.:

30/05/2013

Event start time (We automatically provide you with 15 mins set up time prior to the event):

12.00

Event end time:

2.15

Number of Attendees:

18

Room set up:

Boardroom

Equipment Required:

Catering Tables

External guests:

No

Additional Information:

I've put 2.15 as the end of the event, although the event will actually end at 2.00 - I added on the 15 minutes to allow for tidy up time before the next event. Not sure whether I have to do that. But just to clarify, our event will end at 2.00.

The event will officially start at 12.15 but I have booked from 12.00 to allow for set up time - for the food to arrive, etc.

Is your event open to all researchers:

Yes

If yes describe your event briefly and include any contact detail that will help promote your event:

A networking event for educational researchers across the University e.g. from WIE, CEI, IER and WMS, and others, but any researcher or research active member of staff would be welcome and we will advertise widely.

This event is relevant to::

Early Career researchers

Research staff

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Modern medicine has developed a number of methods to diagnose somatic diseases, including blood tests and imaging techniques such as X-ray, CT, MRI; through which, disease markers can be observed directly. However, these methods are not applicable to mental diseases, since mental disorders typically include behaviour change symptoms that are difficult to be observed directly...

An interdisciplinary symposium on the impact of visual culture on politics organised by Greg Frame, Film and Television Studies Department.

The R2i2 Electronics Conference will provide the opportunity for the UK’s electronics industry, research & development companies and institutional research centres to meet, review and discuss the best of the nation's academic electronics research projects.

Are our first year undergraduate unable to think for themselves and to engage effectively with any learning which is not exam oriented?

Dispelling the myths around our students and enabling them to learn better

In his talk, Obama Power, Professor Alexander will examine President Barack Obama's reelection campaign against conservative challenger Mitt Romney to illustrate the dynamics of social performance at play in competitions for power in a democratic context. Using his theory of cultural pragmatics, Professor Alexander will explain how political actors work and walk the symbolic boundaries that distinguish the civil from the non-civil spheres of contemporary American life. Political actors create narratives in relation to an overarching cultural code -or binary definitions of actors, motives, and institutions- to situate themselves on the sacred, civil side, and their opponents on the polluted, uncivil side. Professor Alexander will examine how these narrative practices take place through public performances, which are mediated and spun by opinion makers, and interpreted by publics.

‘Staging the Scottish Court’ is a two year, interdisciplinary research project which will stage Sir David Lyndsay’s "A Satire of the Three Estates" as part of a wider investigation of the Scottish Renaissance and Stewart court and modern images of national identity and the Scottish past.

This one-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars of all levels whose research touches upon the everyday lives and networks of dissident women in early modern England, America and Europe.

For further information please contact the conference convener Naomi Wood (University of Warwick, History) at n.r.wood@warwick.ac.uk.

The Centre (CIM) will be hosting seminars, every other Monday throughout the Spring and Summer terms. These will predominantly feature papers from CIM colleagues, presenting recent or current work. External speakers, whose work is relevant to CIM research interests, will be invited later in the Summer term.

Neoliberalism is commonly identified as a belief in the self-regulating powers of markets, especially financial markets. Markets, from this perspective, are powerful information-processors, which are uniquely capable of governing complex societies while preserving liberty. In recent decades, financial institutions have added further computational power, which, among other things, has led to the automation of trading and the calculation and simulation of market scenarios to manage risk. The financial crisis has been perceived by some as the outcome of this collision between markets and increasingly ‘performative’ economics.

The CHIST-ERA consortium is holding its third annual Strategic Conference on 13-14 June 2013 in Brussels. The annual conference brings together ICT researchers from across Europe and European research funders with the aim to identify promising scientific and technological challenges for the upcoming CHIST-ERA Joint Call.

The NEMOG (New Economic Models and Opportunities for Digital Games) project, which recently received EPSRC funding, aims to harness widespread enthusiasm for digital games to contribute to advances in society and science in addition to economic impacts.

This project also brings the UK digital games industry closer to scientists and healthcare workers to unlock the potential for scientific and social benefits in digital games.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/mediacentre/wmgevents/?calendarItem=094d43d53e1cef6c013ecbc7b80271be

The University of Warwick Book Festival "Worlds of History" celebrates writing about a diverse range of historical periods, themes and ideas.