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Please see below the press releases that will go out during the month and forthcoming events you might find of interest.

Press Releases…

Releases based on the following research will be issued during the month and can be sent to you by email. Contact the Press Team by telephone on: 01793 413122.

Knowledgeable, innovative, skilful, fun-loving, caring, supportive, task and pupil centred – it’s official – the most effective teachers are in a class of their own. They stimulate a pupil’s imagination, challenge their views, encourage them to do great things and motivate them through tailored teaching practices to ensure that every pupil feels a sense of achievement and valued as part of the class community. These are the latest findings of research funded in primary and secondary schools by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) into what makes good teachers even better.
(Wednesday 8th July)


Those students with only a vocational background are still less likely to get to university than those with A levels, despite the fact that government policy advocates vocational education as an alternative route to higher education. Furthermore, they are more likely to drop out after their first year. Students that combine vocational education with academic education are nearly as successful at entering and completing the first year of higher education as those with general academic qualifications.
(Friday 24th July)



Events…

1st July: Public services and worker motivation
This workshop will cover topics like: Public sector workers – Risk averse and altruistic, disentangling the sources of pro-social behaviour and how important is pro-social behaviour in the delivery of public services?

Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) is hosting this workshop at the Boardroom, 2 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TX.
For more information contact Evie Norman: Evie.Norman@bristol.ac.uk or telephone 0117 3310799.

2nd July: Global Uncertainties- Security for all in a changing world: lunch session at the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 (WCSJ)
This session is an introduction to the Research Council’s Global Uncertainties Programme. Security operates at multiple levels, from the individual to the global and covers a wide range of issues. The Programme will integrate and support multidisciplinary research across the science and engineering base on conflict, crime, terrorism, environmental stress, and global poverty. The programme aims to draw together research that helps us to understand the drivers of uncertainty in a security context and assists in the detection, prevention and mitigation of security threats. For example the programme will draw on and commission research on issues such as the impact of extreme weather events on insecurity and instability, responding to new and emerging diseases, understanding terrorist activity and predicting and adapting to scarcity in natural resources

This session will introduce the programme and there will be a presentation from Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer on his research into radicalisation.

If you are attending the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 (WCSJ) please join us at lunch session 7 from 13.15 to 14.15 at Central Hall, Westerminster.

For more information:
http://www.wcsj2009.org/ 

9-11 July: British Household Panel Survey research conference
This conference provides an international forum for the exchange of research based on longitudinal data - primarily for the British Household Panel Survey, the European Household Panel and the European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions. It will also include other research promoting the use of longitudinal data on individuals or households.
The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) will be hosting the conference at the University of Essex.

For more information:
http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/events/conferences/bhps-2009-conference/overview 

16th July – LARCI ESRC Public Services Programme: What’s shaping public service performance? A research perspective.
This seminar presents a cross-section of academic and practitioner perspectives on improving the management and delivery of public services, driven by local government requests for better informed research, policy and practice.
Contact Andrea Turner to register for this free event.

For more information: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/innovation/partnership/larci/events/default.htm 

30th September: Public Policy Seminar- Chaos or Community? The future of the leadership of local communities and local public services beyond the economic downturn.

The purpose of the seminar is to explore the future possible trajectories for the leadership of local communities and local public services as we move through the global recession and beyond. It will explore the key trends and events and what they may mean for those charged with the strategic leadership of local communities and services.

This seminar will be organise in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Business School, Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations (ACOSVO) and Society of Local Authority Chief Executives & Senior Managers (SOLACE Scotland).

For more information contact Marzena Bien (marzena.bien@esrc.ac.uk) in the ESRC's Knowledge Transfer team on 01793 413137.