People archive | Social Research Unit

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Unit co-director speaks at the Family Nurse Partnership day Michael Little addressed the Family Nurse Partnership Annual Study Day in Manchester on the 22nd of November. Here is what he said.	November 22 2011
Unit's epidemiologist completes his Phd! Tim Hobbs, a researcher here at the unit, completed and defended his dissertation this month at the University of Bath. Congratulations Dr. Hobbs!	May 25 2011
A new post-doc joins the unit! Triin Edovald joined the unit in February 2011 to assist the team with the translation of an economic model developed by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP) to inform government investment decisions for use in the UK.	February 11 2011
From Istanbul to Totnes; a new researcher joins the unit! Seden Karakurt joined the Unit in November, 2010 for a period of ten months to assist the team with the implementation and evaluation of three evidence-based programmes in Birmingham.	December 07 2010
Douglas and Mavis Hooper Douglas Frederick Hooper PhD, Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Hull, and member of the Unit's partnering Centre for Social Policy has passed away on October 25th, 2010, along with his wife Mavis in a car accident. He will be missed by all at the Social Research Unit.	November 06 2010
Using risk as a whetstone for development Children who view inevitable risk as a positive challenge rather than a threat are more likely to achieve positive psychosocial outcomes.	September 16 2010
Promoting the well-being agenda How promoting the well-being of all children can simultaneously reduce impairments to the lives of the more vulnerable was one of the themes of Unit co-director Michael Little's contribution to a conference on emotional well-being and social justice.	February 25 2010
Minna joins Unit as research assistant Joining us from Luton and the University of Bedfordshire, where she specialised in educational psychology and identity development, is psychology graduate Minna Lehtonen.	December 28 2009
Kate Tobin joins the Unit Joining us from sunny Scotland is recent psychology graduate Kate Tobin. During her studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow she developed a keen interest in high quality innovative qualitative research, particularly within health improvement.	December 09 2009
Directorship for our man in Wisconsin The American practitioner who was at the centre of the Unit’s early efforts to organise its development work between the US, Spain and the UK has just been appointed Executive Director of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families.	November 26 2009
Upward to the Observatory Research assistant Matthew Jonas has left the Social Research Unit to take up a position with SERIO, the Socio-Economic Research and Intelligence Observatory based at Plymouth University.	November 13 2009
Charity changes begin at home Changes have been announced to the Board of the Warren House Group at Dartington, the charity that supports the work of the Social Research Unit. Roger Bullock and Gillian Downham are standing down as trustees after serving their maximum terms.	October 27 2009
Perkins completes UK translation Our visiting US professor, Daniel Perkins, has returned home to Pennsylvania and Penn State University at the weekend with messages about UK research implementation efforts and the attractions of an English summer.	August 11 2009
Builder of a unique centre and research community Harold Richman, founder of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, one of the Unit's partner organisations, has died at the age of 72.	August 10 2009
New Phd graduate at the Unit Vashti Berry graduated as Doctor of Philosophy today from the University of Bath.	July 02 2009
Norman Glass, 1946-2009 Norman Glass, Director of the National Centre for Social Research, or NatCen as it became known, has died at the age of 63.	July 01 2009
Founder of the Centre for Social Policy dies at 81 Peter Townsend, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Bristol University, Essex University and the London School of Economics has died of a heart attack at the age of 81.	June 09 2009
Psychology graduate on board David Jodrell, a psychology graduate whose dissertation on disability policy in education won him a British Psychological Society award in 2007 has joined the Unit this month as a research assistant.	April 30 2009
What everyone can do for child protection A clear need for public health measures to educate people about how to resolve domestic conflict has emerged from Unit senior researcher Vashti Berry's newly-completed doctoral study.	April 30 2009
Penn State loans us translation expert Joining us on a year’s sabbatical from the influential Prevention Research Centre at Penn State University is US Professor of Family and Youth Resilience and Policy Daniel Perkins.	February 25 2009