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 Apologies if anyone else forwards this but it didn't seem to have come to
Social Policy on the listing I got.
David Byrne

Subject: INTERACTIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE, 5,6,7 JAN


>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Interactive Social Science
>A conference on the production and consumption of social science
>Brighton Oak Hotel, Brighton, UK, 5/6/7 January 1998 - subsidised places
>still available
>
>As you know, we are holding a conference on interactive social science.
>This is an important initiative, reflecting a new wave of debate about an
>innovative approach to social science research. That debate is central to
>the ability of the social sciences to maintain the strength and relevance
>of research carried within and across our disciplines.
>
>The focus of the conference is the engagement with users, the subjects as
>well as consumers of social science research. The inclusion of users is
>increasingly being seen as best practice and is rapidly becoming a part of
>the requirements of funders both here and in the European Union in their
>search for socially useful knowledge for public policy and understanding.
>An indication of the significance of this agenda is the support for this
>conference is being provided by the ESRC.
>
>The conference will be held at the Brighton Oak Hotel on 5/6/7 January
>1999. The ESRC support means that we can offer a very attractive attendance
>fee for the first 100 delegates - and there are still some subsidised
>places left.
>
>Further, the programme committee have decided that post-graduate students
>may benefit from attending this event, and so have agreed to offer up to 30
>three day non-residential packages for bona fide post graduate students at
>50% of the advertised costs - 50% of UKP115
>
>The conference will cover the field of practice and research which relates
>both to practice and policy. Workshops will take a broad view of  key
>current issues both in the nature of our research and its impact on policy
>taking full account of issues relating to specific users and beneficiary
>communities but also considering more individual questions of research
>practice and more general ones of knowledge production and policy,
>particularly in terms of impact. A range of invited and submitted
>contribution will consider these issues in the context of established
>social science research work, both historical and current, and in a number
>of specific fields including health, education, public policy and
>management, with the central objective of understanding and influencing the
>current debate about the nature and future of social science as well as our
>own practice.
>
>I would be very grateful if you could bring this conference to the
>attention of your discipline in general and to specific individuals and
>specialist groups of researchers who could benefit  from attending. The
>programme is below. Those interested can also visit our web site for
>details at http://www.alsiss.org.uk. Or contact me the ALSISS Executive
>Secretary at [log in to unmask]
>
>Here is the programme and booking details as of today ...........
>
>________________________
>
>Programme
>
>Tuesday 5th January 1999
>10:00 Registration
>10:30 Coffee
>11:00 Welcome and introductions
>11:30 Keynote 1: The case for Interactive Social Science  Howard Newby
>12:30 Lunch14:00 - 15.30  Panel: Interactive Social Science  history and
>experience  session 1: Interactive Social Science in environmental research
> Chair Jim Skea with Alister Scott (Interactive Environmental Research  The
>Case of Global Environmental Change), Peter Simmons (industry and the
>environment - an HSE project on major hazard sites), Tim Ingold, Department
>of Anthropology, University of Manchester, Extended Notions of Interaction
>16.00  - 17.30 Users Panel
>17:30 Welcome reception
>19:30 Dinner
>
>Wednesday 6th January 1999
>9.30 Panel: The implications of Interactive Social Science for methods and
>methodology  speakers and discussion from floor  Chair  Nigel Gilbert with
>Frank Blackler, Steve Woolgar and Arie Rip
>11:00 Coffee
>11:30 Breakout session
>12:30 Lunch
>14:00 Thematic session 2:  Interactive Social Science in management and
>business research  Chairs Robin Wensley and Paul Jeffcutt with three
>speakers and discussion from floor  Andrew Pettigrew with Tom Lupton and
>Tony Watson
>15:30 Tea
>16:00 Panel: Interactive Social Science in health and social work  research
>- Chair Joan Orme with three speakers
>17:30 Ends
>19:30 Conference dinner with after dinner speaker
>
>Thursday 7th January 1999
>09:00 Thematic session 3: Interactive Social Science and users  Chair Andy
>Cawdell with Sally Baldwin, Janet Lewis and Elizabeth Shove
>10:30 Coffee
>11:00 Panel: Putting Interactive Social Science into practice  3 speakers
>and discussion from floor chaired by Chris Caswill  with Suzanne Moffatt,
>Carol Woodhams, and Geoff Cooper
>
>12:30 Lunch
>14:00 Panel:  Differing International comparisons  speakers and discussion
>from floor  Steve Rayner (North America) and Thomas Baumgartner (Europe)
>15:30 Keynote 3: The case for and against Interactive Social Science  (Ron
>Johnston, Australian Centre for Innovation and International
>Competitiveness, University of Sydney
>16:30 Conclusion
>
>Accommodation and meals
>The conference venue, board and lodging are in a three star hotel near the
>Brighton seafront. The special, subsidised rate to the first 100 delegates
>for Package 1' is  #195. Other delegates will be charged at #225.
>
>Package 1'
>Full board ensuite: single occupancy of twin-bedded or double room for
>Tuesday and Wednesday nights, all meals Tuesday lunch to Thursday lunch
>including conference dinner. #195/225
>
>Package 2'
>Same as Package 1' but non-residential. #115
>
>Package 3'
>One day non-residential including lunch and refreshments. #50
>
>Additional night/s ensuite B&B as an extra to the above. #65
>
>Additional person per night B&B not attending conference. #20
>
>Conference dinner
>An extra #20 as an extra to package 3 partner welcome. The conference
>dinner is included in packages 1 & 2
>
>To register for the conference, either:
>1) go to the ALSISS Web site at  http://www.alsiss.org.uk or
>2) ask us to post or fax a booking form
>_______________________
>
>
>With best wishes
>Andy Cawdell
>Executive Secretary, ALSISS
>'phone and fax +44 (0) 181 693 0866
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>http://www.alsiss.org.uk
>
>The Association of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences -
> representing 30,000 UK Social Scientists
>
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