Working Futures – Enabling sustainable transitions from education to employment 30 January 2018 – Breakfast Event @ Kings Place, London ‘Working Futures’ brings together key stakeholders – including employers, schools, policy-makers and NGOs – to discuss the challenges facing young people in transition from education to employment. Building on examples of good practice and international […]
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Quantified Workers in Precarity- Conference and Two Books Launched
Like earlier forms of capitalism which taught workers to act like machines, the current wave of digitalised work, which includes tracking technologies, automation and surveillance, means that we work with and alongside machines and have even started to think like computers and to compete against them. Machines largely self-manage, do not complain, do not call […]
EVI-MED Training Day – Catania (Italy)
Our second training event for practitioners working on refugees reception in the Mediterranean will take place on 20 September 2017 in Catania (Italy), in partnership with Borderline Sicilia and the University of Catania. The working language will be Italian. For more information about the Evi-Med project: https://evimedresearch.wordpress.com/
Summer School 2017: Migration and Europe: borders, mobility and the future of the EU
The Summer Course is a joint effort of Middlesex University, the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The course is designed to provide participants with an understanding of some major and interconnected issues concerning European migration and mobility. Specifically, the course is divided into five themes: The challenges to intra-EU mobility and […]
Stakeholder Event: School Engagement and Youth Transitions. Findings of the RESL.eu project
Disseminating new findings from the project Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe (RESL.eu), our team from the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at Middlesex University and the University of Sheffield organised a half day event on the 9th of June 2017. The event brought together stakeholders, policy makers and researchers working on education and school-to-work transitions at […]
EVI-MED Conference 2017: Multiple crises? The many faces of migration and reception systems in the Mediterranean.
Between 2015 and 2016 more than one million people crossed the Mediterranean, Many fleeing war and persecution. The reception of refugees and migrants has been a major plank of EU policy. This event reports on the findings of the EVI-MED project, an 18 month study which seeks to map and evaluate reception systems in the […]
Kurdish Migration Conference 2017
Globalisation, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging June 15-16, 2017, Middlesex University, London, UK Following the success of the first international Kurdish migration conference (KMC) held in 2016 at Middlesex University (London) and the strong interest and participation by the international scholarly community, the 2nd KMC will be held at Middlesex University on 15 and 16 June […]
Brexit: How Does it Affect You?
The initiative was organised by the SPRC in partnership with the Criminology&Sociology student society to help students better understand the possible effects of the United Kingdom decision to leave the European Union. The event brought together academics from Law, Social Policy and Sociology.
IMISCOE Spring Conference 17th February 2017
The theme of the 2017 IMISCOE Spring Conference is the ‘Tyranny of Categories in Migration Policy, Research and Data Production’. It is based on the premise that categories form the backbone of policies through which they define the conditions of mobility and the concomitant set of entry, residence, economic and social rights as well orient […]
Toolkit launch on 10 June 2016
Schooling in England: a toolkit for newly arrived migrant parents and practitioners working with migrants The aim of this toolkit is to provide information and guidance to help migrant families and practitioners negotiate the school system and to suggest ways in which to support children settle into school and in progressing through primary school and […]