Leading researchers meet at York to debate the ‘Big Society’
Posted on 24 June 2011
The Centre for Research on Education and Social Justice (CRESJ) in the Department of Education held their annual Summer Seminar on 15 June in conjunction with the National Foundation for Educational Research and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The theme of the Seminar was the Big Society.Representatives from local government, leading national and international universities, and academics from several York departments debated key current issues and explored possibilities for future high impact research. The principal speaker at the seminar was Nick Johnson, Research Fellow at The Smith Institute and was between 2004-7, Director of Policy and Public Sector for the Commission for Racial Equality and, since 2007, director of Policy at the Institute of Community Cohesion. The discussant was Dr. Paul Warwick of Leicester University, Principal Investigator of the engagED project in collaboration with colleagues from University of Cambridge, Community Service Volunteers and the Society for Educational Studies.
For further information about the Creating Citizenship Communities project please email citizen@york.ac.uk or visit our website at https://www.york.ac.uk/education/research/cresj/citizenship-communities/. For information about research in the Department of Education at the University of York please visit https://www.york.ac.uk/education/research/.
