16 June 2016
Each year the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) holds a Festival to celebrate social sciences research and to encourage both its dissemination to the wider public and its impact on policy and practice. The Festival is held in November.
This year CenSE has been very successful in bids to host three events as part of this Festival. These events will be:
The Co-creation of Value in the Arts
This workshop will explore how the Arts create value (in all its social, cultural, personal and economic dimensions), for whom, and what are the key challenges in managing and governing this process. It will ask what ‘value’ is in the Arts, how it is created and for whom, and how this process is managed and governed. It will also explore ‘value’ across the Arts sector to consider if it varies in different art forms. It will do this from the stand-point of the Arts as a service industry based on co-production. The event will take the form of a ‘Question Time’ panel with five leaders from major Arts bodies in the sector in Scotland and an academic moderator (hosted by Stephen Osborne).
Social Solidarity in Scotland in the Wake of the Recession
This workshop will explore the nature of social ‘solidarity’ in Scottish society in the wake of the recession and how and in what ways grassroots organisations in Scotland can facilitate it. While the term solidarity has spawned various definitions within the social sciences, here this concept identifies practices of mutual help developed by citizens within communities. The event will take the form of a debate involving a panel of five speakers from grassroots organisations and academia. It will be facilitated by an academic chair that will ask a series of key questions to which panellists will answer by presenting their experience (in the case of activists) or research findings (in the case of the researcher). To make the debate interactive, the audience will be facilitated to intervene in the discussion by asking questions as well as expressing their views on the topics of the debate (hosted by Elisabetta Mocca).
The Future of Legal Services
This event will explore how digitalisation can improve legal services for practitioners and service users: will robots really be the better lawyers? A multi-media exhibition will showcase the prospects of digitalisation in legal services, live at the Business School and via a virtual showroom on our website. We will also capture the experience of vulnerable legal services users. Visitors are invited to submit questions in person or online. A panel discussion will then address these questions, including experts from the Scottish Court and Tribunal Services, the Scottish Legal Aid Board, MBM Commercial, UEBS, the Law School, and Citizen Advice Scotland (hosted by Sophie Flemig).
More information will be available from CenSE as the workshops unfold!