ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF A NEW CENTRE FOR RESEARCH TO STUDY SOCIALLY
INCLUSIVE SERVICES
As Government policy stresses the importance of joined-up action,
inter-agency working and community empowerment, a new Research Centre is
being established in Edinburgh to provide a national centre of expertise on
issues of social inclusion in local private and public services. The School
of Planning and Housing in Edinburgh College of Art, in association with the
School of Management in Heriot-Watt University, has been awarded a Research
Development Grant of nearly £0.5m by the Scottish Higher Education Funding
Council (SHEFC) to establish the Centre for Research into Socially Inclusive
Services (CRSIS). This will create an interdisciplinary centre to stimulate,
support, undertake and disseminate research into the provision and use of
local private and public services in deprived areas. Key themes of the
Centre include the analysis of financial exclusion, retailing and social
exclusion and local public service provision. The Centre aims to raise
understanding of the issues of social inclusion in the sphere of service
access and consumption to inform policy in Scotland and the UK.
To mark the designation of the Centre a launch event will take place on
Tuesday 8 May 2001. This event will be held in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh and
will involve key note speakers addressing key research and policy
questions.
Attendance is by invitation only but if you or your organisation would like
to attend, or would like further information regarding the Centre's
activities, please contact the CRSIS Director, Professor. Glen Bramley at
the address below, or visit our web site: http://www.crsis.eca.ac.uk
Prof. Glen Bramley
CRSIS Director,
School of Planning and Housing
Edinburgh College of Art / Heriot Watt University
79 Grassmarket
Edinburgh
EH1 2HJ
Tel: 0131 221 6174
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