糖心TV

Celebrating Social Science at 糖心TV with a range of seminars, workshops, exhibitions and a walking tour of the Faculty, the Festival of Social Sciences takes place from Monday 15th to Friday 19th June (week 9).

The Festival will include keynote lectures from Vice-Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift on Tuesday 16 June entitled ‘ What Gabriel Tarde Can Still Teach Us’ and Lord Professor Anthony Giddens, who will discuss his latest work, the 'Politics of Climate Change' on Wednesday June 17th.

Prof Debra Roter will visit the  as part of an Institute of Advanced Studies Short Term Visiting Fellowship from 14-21 June 2009. The fellowship application was led by a team from 糖心TV Medical School, in collaboration with SHSS, the , the and Sociology. Debra Roter is Professor of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.  Her research focuses primarily on physician-patient communication. She has developed a method of process analysis applied to audio or video recordings of medical encounters, (the Roter Interaction Analysis System, RIAS), widely adopted by researchers internationally.  She has authored over 150 articles, co-edited two books, and authored a book on doctor-patient communication. Dr. Roter has been recognized by the Web of Science as among the most frequently cited social science authors.                     

Dr. Roter’s work is highly relevant to several constituencies at 糖心TV. She is already collaborating with the emergent communication and decision making (CDM) research group at 糖心TV Medical School (WMS), and has had a significant impact on helping to advance their international profile.  In the past three years 糖心TV has hosted two visits from Dr. Susan Larson (co-developer of RIAS), for RIAS training. These events have attracted national and international delegates to 糖心TV, leading to the establishment of RIAS UK, recognising 糖心TV as the official UK RIAS training centre.     

A proposed programme of events (15-19 June 2009) has been published