Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The 2nd PostGrad Cafe Conference

The 2nd PostGrad Cafe Conference will be held on the 20th of Febuary 2008. 'The New Generation of social research' will see ten postgraduate research papers celebrating the range and quality of postgraduate research. Students and staff with an interest in socail research are welcome to attend. The conference will be hekd in the Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University.
The plan for the day is as follows:

1:30pm
Registration, poster presentations and introduction - Committee Room 2
2pm-5pm
Parallel presentations in rooms -1.56 and -1.80, including the following presentations (running orders will be anounced shortly).


- 'Huntingdon’s Disease: Ethnography of a research clinic' - Jackie Needs

- 'A difficult day in the field' - Mark Whiteley

- 'Exploring the relation between migration management and EU strategies for employment. An ethnographic study of the policy process at the European Parliament' - Gabriella Alberti

- 'What’s in a name? The diagnostic labelling of 22q11 Deletion Syndrome' - Rebecca Dimond

- 'Genuine or fake? Mbeki, AZT, and the status of scientific controversies' - Martin Weinel

- 'Ceci n’est pas Cardiff Bay: Visual research, representation and meaning' - Rob Smith

- 'Picture this! An intergenerational case study involving participant-directed visual data production' - Dawn Mannay

- 'Searching for citizenship: LGBT movements in Argentina and Chile' - Penny Miles

- 'The comparative advantage of non-comparability' - Heike Doring

- 'Free home care for disabled people in Wales: elite perspectives on policy failure' - Aimee Grant

5-5:30pm
Buffet in the Senior Common Room


5:30pm onwards
Postgraduate cafe
Presentations on completing a doctorate
, from Pam Robinson (second speaker TBC), as well as wine and refreshments.

Many thanks,
The Postgraduate Cafe Team

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