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Academic Staff Colloquia Series 2011/2012

The Academic Staff Colloquia Series provides an opportunity for Social Sciences staff to present findings on recent research activities. Seminars take place on Wednesday afternoons, for times and venues see below. All university staff and post graduate students are welcome to attend.

Date	Speaker	Title

2nd November 2011 1 - 2 pm Room MC 0024	Dr Andrew Defty	Parliamentarians as targets of the intelligence services: The Wilson Doctrine and Parliamentary Privilege
15th February 2012 1 - 2 pm Room MC 0024	Prof. Peter Somerville	‘Life has its ups and downs’: trying to make sense of people’s life histories
For further information contact Ben Kisby bkisby@lincoln.ac.uk

Policy Studies Research Centre Seminar Series:
The Policy Studies Research Centre Seminar Series provides an opportunity for staff and students to listen to, and engage with, presentations from a range of academic and practitioner speakers. Seminars take place on Wednesday afternoons. For times and venues see below. All university staff and post graduate students are welcome to attend.

Date

Speaker

Title

7th March 2012 1 - 2.30 pm Room MC 0024	Dr Lizzie Seal Durham University	Women, Capital Punishment and the Significance of Discourses of Motherhood in Mid Twentieth-Century England and Wales
21st March 2012 1 - 2.30pm Room MC 0024	Prof. Peter John University College London	Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Using experiments to involve citizens in public policy
25th April 2012 1 - 2.30 pm Room MC 0024	Prof. Richard Collier Newcastle University	Male Lawyers, Fatherhood and Work Life Balance in the Legal Profession: Rethinking Law's 'Women Problem'
9th May 2012 1 - 2.30 pm BL Lecture Theatre 1101	Dr Ruth Stirton University of Sheffield	Incentivising sterilisation: The awkward case of paying addicts for hysterectomies
23rd May 2012 1 - 2.30 pm BL Lecture Theatre 1101	Prof. Keith Hayward University of Kent	‘Pantomime justice’: a cultural criminological analysis of infantilization
6th June 2012 1 - 2.30 pm Room MC 0024	Dr Btihaj Ajana King’s College London	Borders of exception: asylum, identity and techno-control

For further details contact Ben Kisby bkisby@lincoln.ac.uk