BSA Teaching Group
Inaugural Conference
28th – 30th September 2012
Menzies Strathallan Hotel, Birmingham
 
Speakers:
 
Professor John Holmwood (University of Nottingham),
Former Chair of the Council of UK Heads & Professors of Sociology,
Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences & the incoming
President of the British Sociological Association
 
Professor Corrine Squire (University of East London), Humanities & Social Sciences
Author of ‘Women & AIDS: Physiological Perspectives’
 
Dr Paul Bagguley (University of Leeds)
Researcher in the Sociology of Protest
Author of ‘Riotous Citizens: ethnic conflict in multicultural Britain’

Exam Training Sessions - delegates will be able to attend exam training sessions run by chief examiners from the major exam boards, select from workshop sessions to match specific career development targets and see recent subject specific resources.
Workshops will include sharing Ofsted experiences, Differentiation, Gifted & Talented and ICT in the Classroom.

Postgraduate Micro-lectures covering areas such as: culture & identity creation; differentiation; inequality & stratisfication; demography; welfare & government policy in most fields of life; family & households; the role of women; minority groups; aging; youth culture; all aspects of education especially potential changes & their effects on different groups within sociology; health & welfare; wealth & poverty & welfare provision; politics & power; globalisation in all its many aspects; religion; crime & deviance; methodology; theory & the role of research.
Conference Registration Cost:
 
Full Conference (including accommodation & food): 
BSA Members £260; BSA Teaching Group Members: £285; Non-members: £350
 
Saturday Day Delegate (excludes Conference dinner & accommodation)
BSA Members £70; BSA Teaching Group Members: £90; Non-members: £120

Thanks to the generous support from The Higher Education Academy, the BSA Teaching Group committee is able to offer 10 FREE places, to include Conference fees, meals, accommodation and dinner for the successful candidates.    To qualify you must be: a postgraduate student and not have access to institutional or other alternative funding; a PGCE Student and those who have qualified in the last year.       
 
Early bird discount ends 17th August 2012, any bookings received after this date will incur an additional £50 charge.
 
For further information on how to join the BSA, the Teaching Group and funded places, please go to www.britsoc.co.uk
Please direct any enquiries to: [log in to unmask] Tel: (0191) 383 0839.