February 2010
23rd February. Strathclyde Energy Forum Meeting. For more details and participation, please email.
9th February. Workshop 3: Practical Results and Follow-up Activities. This workshop will be facilitated by Quentin Cooper (BBC Radio 4 - Material World). Download more details about the workshop here.
January 2010
Due to extensive work on the institute's floors, IAS is closed until 20th January 2010. If you have any queries please call or email us.
Friday 22nd January 2010, 6pm. Making New Worlds: Policy and Academia. This public lecture with Jan Bebbington, will be hosted by the DCA. Free and open to all but please book a space by email. Download a flyer.
December 2009
18th December. FAN Club meeting. Download a programme. For more info and registration, email.
16th-17th December. Designing Environments for Life, workshop 4. Final workshop of the DEFL programme. Download a programme. For more information and registration, email.
Tuesday 8th December. Databases, surveillance and crime control. An expert panel of speakers from the UK and the Netherlands will critically examine the issues surrounding the use of databases in crime control and the war on terrorism. Co-hosted by SIPR and IAS. Download a programme. For info and registration, email.
November 2009
27th November. Overcoming Silos in Policy Making. This half day session will explore how we can understand policy impacts across different policy domains and avoid the creation of policy silos. Download a programme, for more info and registration, email.
26th November, 2pm. Shocks from a policy maker's perspective by John Elliott (Chief Economist, Home Office) John Elliott will look at how alternative modelling techniques can be used in economic appraisals to add extra layers of realism to the assessments. For more info and registration, email.
18th-19th November. Governing Decarbonisation Workshop: Implementing Transition Policies in Scotland. This two day workshop builds upon the transition policy approach discussed in the first workshop of the Governing Decarbonisation programme. For more info and registration, email or download a programme.
Tuesday 17th November. Preparing for Pandemics. This one day event seeks to examine how different methodologies can help inform planning for future pandemics. Speakers include Donny Jack and Joe Grifin (Deputy Directors for Pandemic Flu, Scottish Government Health Directorates and Scottish Resilience), Dr Peter Bennett (Head of Analysis, Dept of Health), Prof. Chris Robertson (Health Protection Scotland). Part of the Investing in an Uncertain Future programme. For more info and registration, please email or download a flyer.
Thursday 12th November, 6pm. Small, Local, Open, Connected: An Orienting Scenario for Social Innovation and Space Design in the Age of Networks. Public talk with Ezio Manzini. Download a full abstract, a flyer or visit Ezio Manzini's blog. Participation is free and open to all but please book a space by email. The talk will be held in Lecture theatre M405, James Weir Building, 75 Montrose street, Glasgow G1 1XJ.
Wednesday 11th November 6.30pm. The Little and the Great: From a Knoll to a Village to the Tibetan Plateau. Public lecture by leading international eco-artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. This lecture will be hosted by the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall street, Glasgow G2 3JD. Download a flyer, read more about the lecture or visit The Harrisons' website. Participation is free and open to all but please book a space by email.
10th-12th November. Designing Environments for Life: Workshop 3. More details will be added soon. If you would like to attend, please email.
5th-6th November. Modelling Skills Workshop.
This workshop is aimed at Ph.D. students from predominantly wet-lab backgrounds. The lectures are designed to equip students with the necessary skills and techniques required to develop, understand and analyze simple theoretical models. The emphasis is on the learning and practical implementation of the latest theoretical tools and methodologies and their appropriate application to address real biological problems. The learning outcomes and skills obtained will provide an excellent grounding in the basics of simulation modelling and theory and will encourage cross-disciplinary learning, thinking and communication. For more details and registration, email.
October 2009
28th October. Were Models Responsible for the Financial Crisis? Public Lecture by John Kay. In this lecture, John Kay will discuss the models used in risk assessment and securities rating in the financial sector, their role in regulation, management and product design and the lessons that can be learnt from the crisis about these models and the ways in which models are used.
Read more about the speaker, John Kay, and download an abstract. To register, email.
26th and 29th October. Legal Education Event. This two-day event will commence work on an annotated bibliography and evaluate how work-related learning principles are embedded in Innocence Project casework. To register for this event, please email Michael Bromby (Glasgow Caledonian University).
22nd October. Distance Communication. This cross-displinary workshop will investigate the issues involved in making communication at a distance an enjoyable and rewarding experience. The discussions will address how to design and develop new approaches to supporting rich interaction by remote means, and will include designers, educators, social scientists, scientists and engineers. There will be a selection of talks, demos and hands-on activities. Download a flyer or email for more info and registration.
21st October. Space Special Interest Group: Shaping the Space Sector. This one-day conference, funded by the Technology Strategy Board, will bring together members of the Space Special Interest Group to capture their views, capabilities and aspirations for the UK space sector. Download a flyer or email for registration.
12th-16th October. Investing in an Uncertain Future: Food Policy. This week long workshop will focus on the development of techniques and methodologies to better link quantitative and qualitative methods in analyzing the future in support of food policy, based on the recent Scottish Government Food and Drink Policy Access, the UK Government policy statement Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century, and the Chatham House report Food Futures: Rethinking UK Strategy. Download a programme.
6th-8th October. Designing Environments for Life. This second series of workshops will bring together participants to imaginatively explore the programme themes and facilitated continued collaboration. Download a programme.
September 2009
21st-25th September. Investing in an Uncertain Futures. Download the programme of this workshop series. For more info, email.
14th-15th September. Human Services in the Network Society: Changes, Challenges and Opportunities. This research symposium, organised by IRISS, will provide a focus for an international exchange about the emerging changes, challenges and opportunities networked technologies are bringing to the lives of the users of human services and to the practice of human service practitioners. For more information and registration, visit the symposium blog or download a flyer.
10th-11th September. Designing Environments for Life, Workshop 1. Download a programme here. For more information and registration, email.
3rd-4th September. Exploring Transitions to Decarbonisation. This first workshop of the Governing Decarbonisation programme will explore theory and practice in the application of a transitional management strategy to decarbonisation policies. Download a preliminary programme. For more info and registration, email: decarbonisation@instituteforadvancedstudies.org.uk.
2nd September. AHRC/SFC Workshop: Scotland and Asia, Cultural Translations. An interactive workshop connecting arts and humanities research with other academic disciplines and professionals. Download a preliminary programme here. To register email: knowledgetransfer@ahrc.ac.uk.
August 2009
25th-26th August. Miscarriages of Justice in Scotland. First meeting of the new IAS programme on the legal and socio-economic mechanisms in place to identify miscarriages of justice in Scotland. The two-day programme is available here and for more info, contact: m.bromby@gcal.ac.uk.
July 2009
30th July. Methodology Exchange: Methods for Assessing Uncertainties and Values in Long Term Policy Making. In this first meeting of the Investing in an Uncertain Future programme s
peakers will give overviews of a number of different commonly used approaches in economics and management science, discussing their benefits, assumptions and application, covering Cost-Benefit Analysis, Portfolio Analysis, Scenario Planning, Expert Judgement, Mapping and Systems Dynamics.
To register by 25th July, email:
matthew.j.revie@strath.ac.uk.
8th-9th July. Ecological Modelling for Marine Renewable Energy Development. A two-day workshop exploring the interface between marine ecology and marine engineering in the development of marine renewable energy in Scotland. Download more info and a programme.
June 2009
Monday 22nd June. "Have Economists Gone Mad?" Public lecture by Paul Ormerod, at 5.30PM in lecture theatre M405, James Weir Building. Download an abstract here.
15th June-3rd July. Limits to Rationality in Financial Markets. This international 3 week workshop will entail intensive focused discussion on the following aspects impacting decision making in today's financial markets:
15-16th June. Philosophical Issues. Download a programme and abstracts here.
18-19th June. Neuroeconomics. Download a programme and abstracts here.
22nd-23rd June. Economic Analysis. Download a programme.
25-26th June. Experiments in Financial Markets. Download a programme and abstracts here.
29-30th June. Mathematical Modelling. Download a programme here.
2nd-3rd July. Policy Implications and Closing. Download a programme here.
Download a full programme, a general workshop description and discussion questions.
11-12th June. International Refugee Integration Seminar. Download a programme here and abstracts.
May 2009
25th-29th May. Applications of Complex Networks. A week long workshop, part of the Complex Networks Programme, which will connect the fundamental and dynamic properties of complex networks to real examples taken from the natural, technological and social sciences. Download more information and a programme here.
19th May. Energy Production and Consumption: Testing Solutions Against Scenarios. Final workshop of the Transforming Attitudes to Energy Production and Consumption Programme. Download details here.
April 2009
27th April-1st May. Surveillance Symposium. An international week long discussion and debate on concepts and definitions of Surveillance, an interdisciplinary perspective on Surveillance studies and methodology and a special session on Surveillance in Literature in homage to George Orwell. Part of the IAS programme on Surveillance and Society in the 21st Century. More details available soon.
Thursday 23rd April. The Arts: A Pathway to Refugee Integration? This event, co-organised by IAS, the Scottish Refugee Council and arts practitioners seeks to review, explore and exemplify how cultural activities can effectively promote social cohesion and mutual acceptance between refugee and host communities. Download a registration form and programme here. Places are limited, so please register by emailing: participate@instituteforadvancedstudies.org.uk
16th-17th April. Transport: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis. This workshop, part of the Attitudes to Energy Production and Consumption Programme, will examine the ability of transport providers' infrastructure, built environment and people to provide and/or adopt low-carbon transport systems. Discussion will focus on potential solutions and hypothetical options to transform Scotland's transport system as part of a sustainable low-carbon economy. Speakers include Stephen Stradling (Transport Psychology, Napier University),Ash Gupta (Gupta Partnership) and Roger Levett (Partner, Levett-Therivel Sustainability Consultants). Download a programme.
30th March-3rd April. Dynamic Properties of Complex Networks. An international workshop examining the nature of the relationship between the dynamics of complex networks and the behaviours of complex systems. Download a revised programme and more information here.
March 2009
30th March-3rd April. Dynamic Properties of Complex Networks. An international workshop examining the nature of the relationship between the dynamics of complex networks and the behaviours of complex systems. Download a revised programme and more information here.
27th March. Refugee Integration: The Interface between Policy, Practice and Research. Co-organised by the Scottish Refugee Council and the IAS Integration of Refugees Programme. Download a programme here. To register for this event, please send an email to: graeme.corbett@scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk
17-18th March: Obstacles, Choices and Opportunities in Energy Production and Consumption. A two day workshop for academics, policy makers and industry part of the IAS programme Attitudes to Energy and Sustainability. Download more information here and a programme.
February 2009
4-6th February: Open days at IAS. All visitors interested in finding out more about the Institute are welcome for tea or coffee between 1.30PM and 4.30 PM.
10-12th February: Interdisciplinary Conceptual Dialogues: A Workshop on Energy and Sustainability. Part of the IAS programme on Attitudes to Energy and Sustainability. Download a programme here.
19th February: Seminar "UK Immigration under New Labour: The Privatisation and Socialisation of Policy" by Gareth Mulvey, research officer with the Scottish Refugee Council from 3.30-5PM. Gareth Mulvey will discuss and contextualise attitudes to different types of migration over the past fifteen years. An abstract is available here.
25-26th February: Interrogating Integration. A two-day international conference for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners, part of the IAS programme Integration of Refugees. Download a prelimirary programme here.
Saturday 28th February: The Convention on Modern Liberty: Surveillance in Scottish Society. In partnership with NO2ID, a day of talks and debate on surveillance and civil liberties in 21st Century Scotland. Programme details are available here. Numbers are limited, please register by sending an email to: Scotland@NO2ID.net
January 2009
Official launch of the inaugural IAS programmes.
26th-30th January: Interdisciplinary International Workshop on Complex Networks in Natural and Technological Sciences.
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