Friday, July 30th, 2010

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IARS is moving premises

On 30th July 2010, IARS will be moving premises. Our new address is Park Place, 10-12 Lawn Lane, London SW8 1UD. We are expecting some minor disruption to our services. Our server will also be down from 30th July - 2 August. If you attempt to email us during this period your message may not be delivered.
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Positive Action and Community Cohesion

On the 8th of July, Dr. Gavrielides, IARS Director, spoke at the Institute of Education (University of London) conference on Positive Action and Community Cohesion. Dr. Gavrielides spoke about the Positive Action clauses in the Equality Act 2010 and provided a critical analysis of current policy and other equality legislation. Dr. Gavrielides also presented a number of available levers for community cohesion within human rights legislation.
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Can young people be empowered through academic research?

Dr Karim Murji is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University. The conventional academic response to this type of question is to consider ways of including young people as active participants in a research project, for example by asking them to take part in focus groups, provide feedback, involve their peers and so on. But processes like that still put them in a secondary role, as helpers or assistants to a research project owned, managed and run by adults and professionals such as academics.
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Young people write to David Cameron

With the support of IARS and the Prince's Trust, young people have written to David Cameron to offer their support and feedback to the government's plan for the Big Society.  
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Mediation and restorative justice in prison settings project (MEREPS) updates & publications

What is Restorative Justice? Click here for a short lecture by Prof. John Braithwaite, Australian National University.