Our next pubTALK is on Monday 11th March and we are very excited to welcome Hind Elhinnawy to talk about 'Secular Muslim Women’s Activism in the Age of ISIS'.
Experiencing abuse, harassment, and sometimes death threats from ‘radical Islamists’, and accused of collaborating with Western imperialism by importing alien ideas and practices, secular Muslim women activists challenge discriminatory laws within Islamic texts, reject and condemn the jihadist political message, and assert that human rights laws have precedence over religious and cultural considerations.
In this presentation, Hind Elhinnawy will focus on two organizations run by two secular Muslim women activists; “Inspire” a counter-extremism and women’s rights organization; and “Mother’s Brigade” a French organization that provides support for traumatized mothers of foreign fighters working to save children from recruitment in extremist and jihadist groups. In doing so, she hopes to unravel many of the tensions, conflicts and ambiguities that mark the nature of activism of Muslim women in the West opposing what they define as “violent Islamist Extremism”.
Venue: The Old Buttermarket, 39 Burgate, CT1 2HW, 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
All are welcome!
我们的下一次pubTALK将于3月11日星期一举行，我们非常高兴地欢迎Hind Elhinnawy谈论‘伊斯兰国时代世俗穆斯林妇女的行动主义’< / p >
Experiencing abuse, harassment, and sometimes death threats from ‘radical Islamists’, and accused of collaborating with Western imperialism by importing alien ideas and practices, secular Muslim women activists challenge discriminatory laws within Islamic texts, reject and condemn the jihadist political message, and assert that human rights laws have precedence over religious and cultural considerations.
In this presentation, Hind Elhinnawy will focus on two organizations run by two secular Muslim women activists; “Inspire” a counter-extremism and women’s rights organization; and “Mother’s Brigade” a French organization that provides support for traumatized mothers of foreign fighters working to save children from recruitment in extremist and jihadist groups. In doing so, she hopes to unravel many of the tensions, conflicts and ambiguities that mark the nature of activism of Muslim women in the West opposing what they define as “violent Islamist Extremism”.
Venue: The Old Buttermarket, 39 Burgate, CT1 2HW, 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
All are welcome!
2018 saw the publication of Dr Rob de Vries' new book, Critical Statistics: Seeing Beyond the Headlines. He is now pleased to have received an award for this from the Textbook and Academic Authors Association in the category, 'Most Promising New Textbook'. See here for further details and here if you would like to purchase the book. Many congratulations to Rob on this prestigious award!
2018年，Rob de vries博士’新书《关键统计学:超越头条》。他现在很高兴获得了教科书和学术作者协会颁发的“最有前途的新教科书‘”奖项。如果你想购买这本书，请参见here了解更多细节和here。非常祝贺Rob获得这个著名的奖项!< / p >
Jack Cunliffe's upcoming research, in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London and the University of Montreal, shows a rise in the popularity of sedative drugs on darknet markets, with the UK level increasing at the quickest pace, and also that there has been an increase in the purchasing of the most potent sedative alprazolam – where in the USA is has been the most common version all along. However, diazepam, the ‘traditional’ sedative prescribed in the UK, is still the by some way the most popular. See more at the University's News Centre.
A very belated Happy New Year to you all! We have our first pubTALK of 2019 coming up on Monday 11th February, 7 for 7.30pm at the Old Buttermarket, Burgate Canterbury. Our speaker is Professor David Oliver from the Tizard Centre, and the title of his talk is, 'Palliative care - not just for cancer?'. David writes:
Palliative care is the active support of people with life threatening illness, considering all aspects of care – physical, psychological, social and spiritual. It is often associated with the care of people with advanced cancer, although when St Christopher’s Hospice was opened in 1967 by Dame Cicely Saunders, patients with other diagnoses were admitted.
My interest has been in the development of palliative care of people with neurological disease and my research and publications has been on this developing field, particularly for people with motor neurone disease. This pubTALK will look at this area and how palliative care, in hospices, hospitals and the community, is developing to care for people with any disease.
Do come and join us - entry is free - and it would be lovely to see some of you there!
My interest has been in the development of palliative care of people with neurological disease and my research and publications has been on this developing field, particularly for people with motor neurone disease. This pubTALK will look at this area and how palliative care, in hospices, hospitals and the community, is developing to care for people with any disease.
Do come and join us – entry is free – and it would be lovely to see some of you there!
Very best wishes from all at Kent Q-Step Centre for a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous new year!
Recent research from the University of Kent has suggested that flexible working often leads to negative views from other employees, while for those doing the flexible working, feelings are also negative - that their careers will suffer if they use flexible working arrangements.
Interestingly, women, especially mothers, who work part-time and on reduced hours, reported that their careers were negatively impacted by flexible working, more so than full-time flexi- workers. Men, on the other hand, especially fathers, were more likely to report that their own jobs were negatively impacted by others working flexibly.
To read more on this research undertaken by Dr Heejung Chung, see the full paper, Gender, Flexibility Stigma and the Perceived Negative Consequences of Flexible Working in the UK, here.
Interestingly, women, especially mothers, who work part-time and on reduced hours, reported that their careers were negatively impacted by flexible working, more so than full-time flexi- workers. Men, on the other hand, especially fathers, were more likely to report that their own jobs were negatively impacted by others working flexibly.
To read more on this research undertaken by Dr Heejung Chung, see the full paper, Gender, Flexibility Stigma and the Perceived Negative Consequences of Flexible Working in the UK, here.
Monday 10th December, 7 for 7.30 pm, The Old Buttermarket, Canterbury, SSPSSR's Dr Rob de Vries will be talking about, 'Lies, Fake News, and Statistics'.
Browse your social media feed, turn on the TV, or open your news website of choice - chances are it won't be long before you come across a story based on a statistic. Maybe it's that '70% of married women have cheated on their partners' (The Washington Post) or that '32,000 people in the US die from gun violence every year' (tweet by US Senator Tammy Baldwin) or that 'One in five British Muslims sympathise with Jihadis' (The Sun).
The news is full of numbers for a good reason: numbers and statistics are vital to understanding what's really going on in the world. But they can also be deceptive. In the wrong hands, they can easily end up giving us a distorted picture of reality. In this talk, based on his new book Critical Statistics: Behind the Headlines, Robert de Vries will show how understanding a few simple tricks and some basic statistical concepts can help us see the truth behind the numbers in the news.
12月10日星期一，7晚7点30分，坎特伯雷的老Buttermarket, SSPSSR’s Rob de Vries博士将谈论，‘谎言，假新闻，和统计’。
浏览你的社交媒体动态，打开电视，或打开你选择的新闻网站–机会是它赢’不久之前，你遇到一个基于统计数据的故事。也许它’s ‘70%的已婚女性都欺骗了他们的伴侣’(《华盛顿邮报》)或者美国每年有32000人死于枪支暴力’(美国参议员塔米·鲍德温的推文)或者，五分之一的英国穆斯林同情圣战分子’(太阳)。< / p >The news is full of numbers for a good reason: numbers and statistics are vital to understanding what’s really going on in the world. But they can also be deceptive. In the wrong hands, they can easily end up giving us a distorted picture of reality. In this talk, based on his new book Critical Statistics: Behind the Headlines, Robert de Vries will show how understanding a few simple tricks and some basic statistical concepts can help us see the truth behind the numbers in the news.
Do the British public believe 'myths' about the benefit system, or do they have a roughly accurate view about how it works? A new paper by Ben Baumberg Geiger, published in the journal Social Policy & Administration in August, looks at this question in detail - access the paper here. Alternatively see the working paper from the LSE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion available here. Ben's other numerous papers are available on his website with links to the web appendices and web tables - plus two of the datasets used in the Social Policy and Administration paper.
英国公众相信神话吗?关于福利制度，还是他们对它的运作有一个大致准确的看法?本·鲍姆伯格·盖格在《社会政策》杂志上发表的一篇新论文;管理in August，看这个问题的细节–访问论文here.;或者参见LSE社会排斥分析中心的工作论文在这里。Ben’他的其他许多论文可以在他的网站上获得，并链接到web附录和web表格–加上社会政策和管理论文中使用的两个数据集
This was the underlying question at a summer conference attended by Gianna Eick. Gianna's own thoughts on this are that, when data is used well, combining findings from various surveys, staff and student focus groups, then progress can be made in improving the student learning and living experience. See here for Gianna's post, which includes her reflections on presenting at a large conference as a young and less experienced researcher.
This month's 'must buy' text 'Critical Statistics Seeing Beyond the Headlines' is now available on the publisher's website. Authored by Q-Step's Rob de Vries, this is a fabulous introductory texts for students doing statistical research for the first time or for all those out there interested in the facts behind the headline news.
这个月必须买’s ‘关键统计数据，超越标题’现在可以在出版商’s网站。作者是Q-Step’s Rob de Vries，这是一个神话般的介绍性文本，为学生做统计研究的第一次或所有那些有兴趣的事实背后的头条新闻。开云体育网址< / p > < p >, < / p >