The Spirit Level: Why more equal societies almost always do better
Presented by Professor Richard Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham
6.00 – 7.00pm, Wednesday 26 August, 2009
Sunderland Theatre, Corner Grattan St and Royal Parade, Medical Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville
10am – 12pm, Thursday 30 July, 2009
Room 516, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
This seminar will introduce participants to the work of the award winning Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) at the University of Brighton. CUPP’s university staff, students and local communities develop real solutions to real problems, using University resources to tackle disadvantage and [...]
The program for the McCaughey Centre’s Semester Two Seminar Series is now available. Included in this semester’s program are seminars around the subjects of community-university partnerships, grant writing, family violence and a range of the McCaughey Centre’s projects.
The full program can be viewed below, and further detail about individual seminars will be posted on this [...]
When: 1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 26 May, 2009
Where: Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Professor Wayne Lewchuk, Labour Studies Program, Department of Economics, McMaster University, Canada
1.00 – 2.00pm, Tuesday 12 May, 2009
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street
Presented by Dr Annie Bolitho, Executive Officer, Melbourne Sustainable Societies Institute, The University of Melbourne
Citizens’ juries are distinctive consultative processes centred on a decision-making task and informed by theories of deliberative democracy, capacity building and adult learning.
3.15pm – 5.15pm, Tuesday 7th October
Chemistry Senior Theatre, Chemistry Building (Building Number 153), Level 3, room 370
Stelarc will deliver the lecture “Excess and Indifference: Practal, Phantom and Circulating Flesh”; he will introduce and explore, through performance, his theory of the ‘obsolete body’.
All welcome to attend. Please see Event Flyer for more details.
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Dean’s Lecture Series, Tuesday 2 September 2008
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Professor Dallas English, Chair of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health spoke at the Dean’s Lecture Series on Tuesday 2nd September, 2008
Cancer is a major killer in Australia, causing thirty percent [...]
Dean’s Lecture Series, 13 May 2008
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Professor Ian Anderson, Director, Centre for Health and Society and Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population Health and Research Director, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health spoke at the Dean’s Lecture Series on 13th May 2008.
Prime Minister [...]
As part of the Melbourne School of Population Health seminar series, Professor Julian Peto spoke about Cancer Vaccine development on 30th April 2008.
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