| Manchester Graduate Summer Programme in Social Change | |
| Every year SCHMi brings together faculty and graduate students from US and UK universities to discuss the political, social and economic issues associated with social change, and its effects on factors such as race relations, social stratification, civil society, the role of government and social integration at local and national level. |  |
| Summer School 2010 – Inequality and Social Change in Britain and the US | |
10th June - 25th June 2010, , Crewe Hall, Cheshire The summer workshop was held between the 10th June to 25th June. This year’s workshop, chaired by Bruce Western organized around the broad theme of social and economic inequality.
The developed world now faces the challenges of acute recession, rising inequality, and growing economic insecurity. The social and political dimensions of these challenges were explored in the 2010 workshop. The workshop addressed three main themes: (1) trends in inequality and their causes, (2) the consequences of inequality for the political process and social cohesion more generally, and (3) the contours of social risks and insecurity facing families and communities.
In addition to 20 graduate students from the UK, US and other European countries, participants included over twenty invited faculty, all of whom are internationally renowned researchers. These included: Richard Alba(city University of New York), Fiona Devine (University of Manchester), Kathy Edin (Harvard University), Ed Fieldhouse (University of Manchester), Irv Garfinkel (Columbia University), Filiz Garip (Harvard University), Andrew Gelman (Columbia University), Paul Gregg (Bristol University), John Hills (London School of Economics), Dan Hopkins (Georgetown University), Kathleen Kiernan (University of York), Yaojun Li (University of Manchester), Sara Mclanahan (Princeton University), Ceri Peach (Oxford University), Kate Pickett (Univesity of York), Bob Putnam (Harvard University), Mario Small ( University of Chicago), Tim Smeeding ( University of Wisconsin) Bruce Western (Harvard University),
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