Working Lives Research Institute
Associate Working Lives Institute member Jane Martin (DEd) was academic organiser of a conference in Cambridge (12 - 14 December), entitled ‘Education and the Social Order: revisiting the legacy of Brian Simon’. The conference, organised by the History of Education Society, was also the launch of Women and Education 1800 - 1980, by Jane Martin and Professor Joyce Goodman (King Alfred’s College), published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book examines and celebrates the achievements of Elizabeth Hamilton, Sarah Austin, Jane Chessar, Mary Dendy, Shena Simon and Margaret Cole, educational activists who resisted gender roles to make substantial contributions to public education policy, practice and philosophy.
The Working Lives Research Institute advertised to fill four new posts on two major new research contracts it had just won.
Jinthana Haritaworn, South Bank University: The ‘Thai’ restaurant as a paradox space of cultural identification: negotiating classism, racism, sexism and cultural identity.
Working Lives Research Institute has won a major research grant from the European Social Fund for two projects over the
next two and a half years. One looks at age discrimination against men of 50 and
over and the other project compares the experiences of labour market
discrimination faced by refugees and black and minority ethnic workers.
Kiran Kalsi, London Metropolitan University: Asian Women in Business, Changing Roles and Identities
The Camera at Work: Polly Toynbee in conversation with Mary Davies.
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The Working Lives Research Institute's first public meeting was held on May 16. Historians Eric Hobsbawm, John Saville and Dorothy Thompson spoke to an audience of 200 on Marxism and History.
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