Dear Colleagues

I hope it is alright to forward the message below.

Thanks and best wishes

Rana Jawad
Lecturer in Social Policy
SSPSSR
University of Kent


ESRC +3 Studentship in Social Policy at the School of Social Policy,
Sociology and Social Research at The University of Kent

Applications are invited for a fully-funded 3 year ESRC studentship in the
subject area of social policy, to start by 1st September, 2010. The award
covers tuition fees, maintenance (currently £13,290 a year), a training
support grant as well as funds to conduct UK-based and overseas fieldwork.
This award is only open to UK national and EU nationals who have been
resident in the UK for three years prior to starting.  As this is a +3
award, it is expected that the successful candidate will already have ESRC
accredited research training, though in some cases, extra training may be
provided if needed. Please make sure you see the section below (Application
Criteria) for further information about +3 studentship requirements.

We are looking for a committed and enthusiastic candidate to engage in an
innovative area of social policy research on the role of religion in social
welfare, preferably within a comparative perspective. The studentship is
linked to a larger ESRC project, run by Dr. Rana Jawad called Social Policy
and Religion in the Middle East: Beyond the Rentier Sate, Toward a New Ethic
Welfare.  The studentship should explore an aspect of the contemporary
relationship between religion and social policy, though the successful
candidate will be able to negotiate the specific parameters of their
research. The PhD is also expected to be a comparative study looking at the
UK and one other country in the Middle East (ideally Egypt) therefore,
candidates with knowledge of the Middle East and the Arabic language are
particularly welcome. However, applications not focused on the Middle East
will also be considered and assessed on the basis of their overall academic
quality.
Application Criteria and Procedures

Applicants MUST have at least a merit at Masters level or academic
equivalent, in a relevant discipline.
Applications should be sent by post or email (details below) and should
consist of:
- A covering letter, which explains why you are applying and how you meet
the application criteria
- A 3-page research proposal  [inclusive of bibliographic references], which
should be double-spaced and written in Times script size 12
- An up-to-date CV
- A transcript of your previous degree
- Two academic references

The deadline for applications is Monday 22nd March 2010 at 16:00. Interviews
are likely to be held towards the end of April, 2010.

Please post or email the above documentation, marked clearly with “ ESRC
Studentship  -  Rana Jawad - 25782” to: Marilyn Morley, SSPSSR – Medway,
University of Kent,  Gillingham Building, Chatham Maritime, Kent,  ME4 4AG,
Email: [log in to unmask]
For further information on the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social
Research, please visit http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/

Informal enquiries about the subject matter of the studentship can be made
to Rana Jawad, Email: [log in to unmask], Tel: 01634 888998
Administrative enquiries should be made to Mr. Jeremy Bede-Cox, School
Administration and Business Manager, SSPSSR, University of Kent,  Kent :
[log in to unmask]
Important note regarding ESRC +3 Studentships
Please check the following ESRC webpage to find out if your Masters
qualification is accredited by the ESRC for a +3 studentship.  Please note
that there are various guidelines for degrees obtained before and after
2007. If you are unsure whether or not your Masters course is recognised by
the ESRC, please contact both Rana Jawad and Jeremy Bede-Cox by email for
advice.  It is possible to apply for this studentship if you have a relevant
Masters qualification but still have gaps in your research skills as you can
pursue further research training once at Kent University.
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/postgraduate/
eligibleoutlets/index.aspx

Rana Jawad
Lecturer in Social Policy
SSPSSR, University of Kent
Gillingham Builiding
Chatham Maritime
Kent, ME4 4AG
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0)1634 888998
Fax: +44 (0)1634 888890
Email:[log in to unmask]

Social Welfare and Religion in the Middle East
http://www.policypress.co.uk/results.asp?sf1=keyword&st1=jawad&CID=&TAG=&PGE
=
Social Policy Association: http://www.social-policy.com/
________________________________________
From: Sociology of Religion [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ghazala Mir
[[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 February 2010 10:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: SOCREL Digest - 7 Feb 2010 to 8 Feb 2010 (#2010-19)

Can anyone explain how to get socrel messages in a format that doesn't
include so much gobbledegook?

G Mir

Dr Ghazala Mir
Head of the Centre for Health and Social Care
Director, Ethnicity Training Network
Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
University of Leeds
Charles Thackrah  Building
101 Clarendon Road,
Leeds LS2 9LJ

Tel:  0113 343 4832
www.leeds.ac.uk/lihs/hsc/
www.etn.leeds.ac.uk






-----Original Message-----
From: Sociology of Religion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
SOCREL automatic digest system
Sent: 09 February 2010 00:06
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: SOCREL Digest - 7 Feb 2010 to 8 Feb 2010 (#2010-19)

There is 1 message totalling 341 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. CFP: 'Living Together' conference - CRONEM / Runnymede Trust

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date:    Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:42:39 +0000
From:    Elisabeth Arweck <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: 'Living Together' conference - CRONEM / Runnymede Trust

> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

--B_3348510530_1995259
Content-type: text/plain;
        charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

8/2/10

 fyi

Elisabeth
> -------=20




Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM)
University of Surrey / Roehampton University
CRONEM 6th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010
Joint international conference with the Runnymede Trust
(http://www.runnymedetrust.org <http://www.runnymedetrust.org/> )
Living Together=20
Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants, Minorities and
National Populations:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
29 =AD 30 June 2010=20
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS=20
(Deadline 15 February 2010)

This conference will range across different academic disciplines and explor=
e
links between academic knowledge, policy, practice and the media. The forma=
t
will consist of keynote addresses, parallel paper sessions, convened
symposia, a poster session and a panel debate organised by the Runnymede
Trust.

Speakers already confirmed:
=B7 Benjamin R. Barber, President (CivWorld at Demos) and Walt Whitman
Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, USA
=B7 Constance Flanagan, Professor of Youth Civic Development, Penn State
University, USA=20
=B7 Yvonne Galligan, Director, Centre for the Advancement of Women in
Politics, Queen's University Belfast
=B7 J=F8rgen S. Nielsen, Director, Centre for European Islamic Thought,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
=B7 Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of
Westminster, UK=20
=B7 Antje Wiener, Professor of Politics, University of Hamburg, Germany
Despite the recent =8CObama effect=B9, conventional forms of political
participation have declined in many countries in recent years, with growing
levels of political apathy, disengagement from formal democratic processes
and increasing distrust of, or lack of confidence in, political
institutions. However, research suggests that issues, which might have
mobilised individuals into taking political action in the past, are now
being tackled in many cases via voluntary, community or charitable
activities, protest movements or consumer activism instead. Hence, current
trends in political participation, especially among younger people, may be
indicative not of public disengagement per se but of a shift to a different
kind of public activism.

Gendered perspectives on cultural, civic and political engagement, which
explore the conditions governing women=B9s participation, as well as
perspectives which examine engagement and participation among migrant or
minority groups, can be especially illuminating here. Women, migrants and
minorities play vital roles in any society, contributing through their
skills, labour, taxes, community participation and cultural activities. Yet=
,
when restrictive criteria, practices or policies prevent members of these
groups from participating fully in the political, civic and cultural life o=
f
the country in which they live, members of these groups often develop novel
forms of engagement in order to circumvent the obstacles.

Policy can have a crucial impact on levels of participation, either by
creating impediments and barriers to participation by specific groups, or b=
y
minimising these impediments. However, policy issues can be complex to
tackle, with the policies which exist at different levels (e.g., at
community, regional, national and supranational levels) often being
incongruent with each other, and with discrepancies frequently existing
between intended policy, the content of policy texts, policy implementation=
,
and the interpretation of policy by citizens.

This conference aims to take stock of the different forms of civic,
political and cultural engagement which currently exist, and investigate th=
e
factors and processes which are driving them. A special feature of the
conference this year will be an event organised by the Runnymede Trust,
which will consider where Britain stands 10 years after the Parekh Report
(http://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects/meb/report.html
<http://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects/meb/report.html> ) on the future of
multi-ethnic Britain and 25 years after the Swann Report.

We would like to encourage the submission of papers which address the
following themes:=20
=B7 Active engagement, interaction, expression and dissension at civic,
political or cultural levels
=B7 The participation of young people, women, migrants and minorities
=B7 Different forms of engagement among adult national majority populations
=B7 The role of public policy in civic, political or cultural participation
As this is an international conference, papers reporting on contexts other
than the UK are especially welcome.

For more information about the Call for Papers, abstract submission forms
and registration, please visit http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.ht=
m
<http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.htm>

For any conference queries, please contact Ms Melek Muderrisgil
([log in to unmask])


------ End of Forwarded Message


--B_3348510530_1995259
Content-type: text/html;
        charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>CFP: 'Living Together' conference - CRONEM / Runnymede Trust</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#6C0000"><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'>=
8/2/10<BR>
<BR>
&nbsp;fyi<BR>
<BR>
Elisabeth<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT COLOR=3D"#6C0000"><FONT
FACE=3D"Palatino=
"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'>-------</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
FACE=3D"Pal=
atino"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'> <BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-size:14.=
0px'><BR>
<BR>
<BR>

</SPAN></FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"><B>Centre
for R=
esearch on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
(CRONEM)</B></FONT><F=
ONT FACE=3D"Palatino">=20
</FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Times New
Roman"><B>University o=
f Surrey / Roehampton University</B>=20
</FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"><B>CRONEM
6th A=
NNUAL CONFERENCE 2010
</B></FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Joint
internati=
onal conference with the Runnymede Trust (<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U><a
href=3D"=
http://www.runnymedetrust.org">http://www.runnymedetrust.org</a></U></FONT><
=
/FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"> <a
href=3D"http://www.runnymedetrust.org/">&lt;ht=
tp://www.runnymedetrust.org/&gt;</a> </FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">)
</FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000080"><FONT SIZE=3D"5"><FONT FACE=3D"Times New
Roman"><SPAN STY=
LE=3D'font-size:24.0px'><B>Living Together
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'>
</SPAN></FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT COLOR=3D"#000080"><FONT FACE=3D"Times
New =
Roman"><B>Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants,
Minoritie=
s and National Populations:</B></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New
Roman">=20
</FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT COLOR=3D"#000080"><FONT FACE=3D"Times
New =
Roman"><B>Multidisciplinary Perspectives
</B></FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Times New
Roman">29</FONT><FONT =
FACE=3D"Palatino"> </FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Tahoma">&#8211;</FONT><FONT
FACE=3D"Times =
New Roman"> 30 June 2010
</FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">University
of S=
urrey, Guildford, UK=20
</FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"><B>CALL FOR
PAP=
ERS
</B></FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT></SPAN>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"><B>(Deadline
15=
 February 2010)
</B></FONT></SPAN>
<P>
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:14.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">This conference will range across
diffe=
rent academic disciplines and explore links between academic knowledge,
poli=
cy, practice and the media. The format will consist of keynote addresses,
pa=
rallel paper sessions, convened symposia, a poster session and a panel
debat=
e organised by the Runnymede Trust.<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Speakers already confirmed: <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Benjamin R. Barber, President (CivWorld at
Demos) =
and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, USA <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Constance Flanagan, Professor of Youth Civic
Devel=
opment, Penn State University, USA <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Yvonne Galligan, Director, Centre for the
Advancem=
ent of Women in Politics, Queen's University Belfast <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">J&oslash;rgen S. Nielsen, Director, Centre for
Eur=
opean Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen, Denmark <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Professor of Political
Philoso=
phy, University of Westminster, UK <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Antje Wiener, Professor of Politics, University
of=
 Hamburg, Germany <BR>
Despite the recent &#8216;Obama effect&#8217;, conventional forms of politi=
cal participation have declined in many countries in recent years, with
grow=
ing levels of political apathy, disengagement from formal democratic
process=
es and increasing distrust of, or lack of confidence in, political
instituti=
ons. However, research suggests that issues, which might have mobilised
indi=
viduals into taking political action in the past, are now being tackled in
m=
any cases via voluntary, community or charitable activities, protest
movemen=
ts or consumer activism instead. Hence, current trends in political
particip=
ation, especially among younger people, may be indicative not of public
dise=
ngagement per se but of a shift to a different kind of public activism.<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Gendered perspectives on cultural,
civi=
c and political engagement, which explore the conditions governing
women&#82=
17;s participation, as well as perspectives which examine engagement and
par=
ticipation among migrant or minority groups, can be especially illuminating
=
here. Women, migrants and minorities play vital roles in any society,
contri=
buting through their skills, labour, taxes, community participation and
cult=
ural activities. Yet, when restrictive criteria, practices or policies
preve=
nt members of these groups from participating fully in the political, civic
=
and cultural life of the country in which they live, members of these
groups=
 often develop novel forms of engagement in order to circumvent the
obstacle=
s. <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Policy can have a crucial impact on
lev=
els of participation, either by creating impediments and barriers to
partici=
pation by specific groups, or by minimising these impediments. However,
poli=
cy issues can be complex to tackle, with the policies which exist at
differe=
nt levels (e.g., at community, regional, national and supranational levels)
=
often being incongruent with each other, and with discrepancies frequently
e=
xisting between intended policy, the content of policy texts, policy
impleme=
ntation, and the interpretation of policy by citizens. <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">This conference aims to take stock of
t=
he different forms of civic, political and cultural engagement which
current=
ly exist, and investigate the factors and processes which are driving them.
=
A special feature of the conference this year will be an event organised by
=
the Runnymede Trust, which will consider where Britain stands 10 years
after=
 the Parekh Report (<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U><a
href=3D"http://www.runnymedetr=
ust.org/projects/meb/report.html">http://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects/meb
=
/report.html</a></U></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"> <a
href=3D"http://www=
.runnymedetrust.org/projects/meb/report.html">&lt;http://www.runnymedetrust.
=
org/projects/meb/report.html&gt;</a> </FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">)
o=
n the future of multi-ethnic Britain and 25 years after the Swann
Report.<BR=
>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"><U>We would like to encourage the
submi=
ssion of papers which address the following themes:</U> <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Active engagement, interaction, expression and
dis=
sension at civic, political or cultural levels <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">The participation of young people, women,
migrants=
 and minorities <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Different forms of engagement among adult
national=
 majority populations <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Symbol">&middot;</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino">
</FONT><FO=
NT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">The role of public policy in civic, political or
c=
ultural participation <BR>
As this is an international conference, papers reporting on contexts other =
than the UK are especially welcome.<BR>
<BR>
For more information about the Call for Papers, abstract submission forms a=
nd registration, please visit <FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U><a
href=3D"http://www.s=
urrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.htm">http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index
=
.htm</a></U></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"> <a
href=3D"http://www.surrey.=
ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.htm">&lt;http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.h
=
tm&gt;</a> <BR>
<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman"><B>For any conference queries, please
c=
ontact Ms Melek Muderrisgil ([log in to unmask])</B> <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Palatino"><BR>
<BR>
------ End of Forwarded Message<BR>
</FONT></SPAN>
</BODY>
</HTML>


--B_3348510530_1995259--

------------------------------

End of SOCREL Digest - 7 Feb 2010 to 8 Feb 2010 (#2010-19)
**********************************************************
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2675 - Release Date: 02/08/10
19:35:00

SOCREL-PG is the Postgraduate e-mail list of the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group.
To  join SOCREL-PG, send the following one-line message:
join socrel-pg YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME
to: <[log in to unmask]>
Send contributions to the list by
sending messages to: [log in to unmask]
To leave SOCREL-PG, send the following one-line message:
leave socrel-pg YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME
to: <[log in to unmask]>