4th June - 16th June 2011 , Crewe Hall, Cheshire
As in previous years the 2011 SCHMi Summer workshop was a tremendous success, the workshop, chaired by Mary Waters, examined the challenges posed by economic hard times including coping with immigration and immigrant integration, social and economic inequality and insecurity, and political polarization. The workshop brought together twenty students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds with faculty from Harvard University and the University of Manchester as well as other leading experts in academia and government to discuss the unfolding consequences of global recession in Britain, the United States, and beyond.
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:
Larry Bartels Princeton University.
Sheldon Danziger Population Studies Center.
Fiona Devine University of Manchester.
Robert Erikson Columbia University.
Nancy Foner City University of New York.
Rob Ford University of Manchester.
Ed Fieldhouse The University of Manchester.
Morris Fiorina Stanford University.
Frank Furstenberg University of Pennsylvania.
Paul Gregg Bristol University.
Jane Green University of Manchester.
David Halpern Institute for Government David
Anthony Heath University of Manchester.
Ruud Koopmans Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).
Chaeyoon Lim University of Wisconsin
Susan Mayer Harris School.
Bob Putnam Harvard, University
Gerry Stoker
University of Southampton.
Mary Waters Harvard University.
Margaret Weir University of California. |
