News and events round-up

Published: 23 April 2014

A short summary of news and events from across the University campuses

Knowledge Exchange & Impact: online resources

The University’s inaugural Knowledge Exchange and Impact conference was held on 22 April 2014 at the Glasgow Grosvenor Hilton. The event was well-attended (140+) and the feedback been overwhelmingly positive, with useful suggestions provided that will inform practical support and future events.

Conference materials have been uploaded to Moodle in a ‘course’ format which facilitates access to all and will hopefully establish a continuing forum for queries and discussion and the posting of guidance and resource materials related to knowledge exchange and impact generation.

Please feel free to view the slide presentations from the conference plenary and workshops at: http://moodle2.gla.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4339

Rose-Marie Barbeau, Research Communication Manager, RSIO. rose-marie.barbeau@glasgow.ac.uk

Glasgow China Lecture

The latest in the Glasgow China Lecture Series is titled: “Migrants and Mobilization: Labour Politics and Political Stability in China”.

  • Speaker: Marc Blecher, Professor of  Politics and East Asian  Studies, Oberlin College, United States.
  • Date: Monday 12th May at 17.45pm.
  • Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow

Abstract: Migrant workers have built much — perhaps most — of the dazzling new China. For their trouble, they have been subjected to miserably low wages, dreadful working and living conditions, draconian factory authority, and oppressive, exclusionary state policy. All this they have endured without a great deal of complaining. Yet migrant workers’ pain threshold has had its limits, which employers have helped to discover by pushing so ruthlessly beyond them. Migrants have evinced a capacity for ardent, courageous, and often successful collective action. Its stimuli, repertoires, discourses and capacity for contagion have varied over time and space. Some analysts have detected nascent, potentially destabilizing class-based politics here, while others see something much more akin to bread-and-butter labour-management conflict. Which is right? What are the implications for the regime’s urgent hope of building a “harmonious society"? This promises to be a fascinating talk by a leading international specialist in Chinese labour politics.

To book a space on this talk please visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migrants-and-mobilization-labour-politics-and-political-stability-in-china-tickets-11281319731

Contact: Confucius-enquiries@glasgow.ac.uk

Denis F.S. joins Security Institute April 2014Security role for Denis Fischbacher-Smith

Hard on the heels of his award of a Principal Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy, Professor Denis Fischbacher-Smith of the Adam Smith Business School has been admitted as a member of the Security Institute. The Security Institute is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1999 for the benefit of individuals working in the security sector. It promotes the art and science of security management and works to drive standards, educate and spread best practice across the security sector – a sector responsible for the safety of much of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.

Denis holds the Research Chair in Risk and Resilience in the Business School. He was formally admitted to the Institute at an event late last month at the House of Commons.

First published: 23 April 2014

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