Events diary

Conferences

• Roundtable on Green skills for a low carbon economy

  Date: 18 June 2013
  Venue: 4B01, Frenchay Campus

  This Roundtable is hosted by the Bristol Law School of the University of the West of England. If you are interested in knowing more about green skills, why not join us. The aims of the event are to highlight good practice models for green skills that integrate the development of environmental literacy amongst workers, employers and business and explore various opportunities available in the South West region that allow businesses, trainers and local partnerships to promote the development of green skills.

• Victims and perpetrators of sexual violence: law, policy and research update seminar

  Date: 27 June 2013
  Venue: Frenchay Campus

  The purpose of this seminar is to examine recent legal, policy and research developments in the area of sexual violence. The seminar will focus on a broad range of issues of relevance to those working with victims and perpetrators of sexual violence as well as those researching, teaching and studying in this area. This seminar will help those who attend to better understand how criminal justice responses to sexual violence are developing across a range of areas.

• Shifting Gears: Making cycling a policy priority for health and sustainability

  Date: 02 July 2013
  Venue: Exhibition and Conference Centre, UWE, Frenchay Campus

  This national one-day conference responds to the new opportunities created by the changing policy landscape for cycling in the UK and the challenge of increasing population levels of physical activity.

• IMPACT 8 International Print Making Conference

  Date: 28 August - 01 September 2013
  Venue: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee

  A celebration of interdisciplinarity and exploration through the medium of print. The eighth Impact international conference will be hosted in Dundee as a central element to the inaugural Print Festival Scotland.

• Annual UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference

  Date: 11 September - 13 September 2013
  Venue: UWE, Bristol

  Annual international conference showcasing research from Planning and related disciplines.

• Transgression

  Date: 21 November - 23 November 2013
  Venue: M Shed and Arnolfini

  This conference asks how those working within spatial practice can think and work transgressively; it asks what transgression means, where society places the limits within which architects and related professions work, and how those limits can shift.