News and events

1 April, 5.30pm: Voices of '68 exhibition launch event: the foyer, Floor 2, Lord Swraj Paul Building, University of Wolverhampton open to staff, students and the public

1 April to 12 April: Voices of '68 interactive exhibition - open to staff, students and the public during University opening times in the foyer, Floor 2, Lord Swraj Paul Building, University of Wolverhampton.

The main news from the School of Social, Historical and Political studies is our school home page.

• Professor Dieter Steinert has been invited to give one of the prestigious Simon Wiesenthal Lectures in Vienna.
• University research report impacts on access to health care for deaf people in Wolverhampton
• ‌Criminology and prostitution: students get an alternative view - Criminology and Criminal Justice students spoke directly to a representative of the English Collective of Prostitutes in an hour-long Skype Q&A session.
• Deaf and Hard of Hearing people struggle to access city’s health and social care - A report conducted by the University of Wolverhampton and local consumer watchdog Healthwatch Wolverhampton highlights the barriers that are still in place for local residents who are either Deaf or Hard of hearing.
• New Route to Registration for Sign Language Interpreters and Sign Language Translators - NCRPD have approved the University of Wolverhampton's MA Interpreting as a route to registration for Sign Language Interpreters and Sign Language Translators. This course is available from September 2018.
• Organised crime expert puts Mafia life under the microscope - An Oxford University criminology expert who went behind the scenes with Mafia gangs will share his experiences during a guest lecture at the University of Wolverhampton.
• BLOG: Should ‘upskirting’ be made a criminal Offence? Professor of Criminal Justice Kate Moss takes a look at whether the UK should change existing legislation to criminalise those who take photographs under women’s’ skirts without their permission.
• School pupils given insight into studying crime - School pupils were given an insight into the legal, social and economic aspects of crime during a two-day event at the University of Wolverhampton.
• The epic political elegance of Emmanuel Macron - Professor George Kassimeris blogs
• Holocaust Survivor to present annual lecture.
• ‘Many Rivers to Cross’: Project to record local history of ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech
• Top recognition for interpreting graduate - A University of Wolverhampton graduate is celebrating after achieving a top status for sign language interpreters
• Kate Moss writes on women's homelessness in The Guardian - Domestic violence: for some women, the streets are safer than their own home
• What monsters like General Mladić can teach us about human conflict - Professor George Kassimeris blogs
• Historian to present lecture revisiting 1918 - leading historian Professor David Stevenson, from the London School of Economics is to present a guest lecture at the University of Wolverhampton revisiting the strategy and politics leading to 1918.
• Prestigious honour for influential historian - Dr Spencer Jones has received a prestigious national accolade for his work on the First World War.
• Dr Spencer Jones to to feature in Channel 4 ‘Forgotten Army’ documentary
• Dr Shirin Hirsch has taken part in a Channel 4 documentary talking about her research into Enoch Powell, racism and resistance. The programme focussed on the election of the West Midlands' first black MP in Powell's former constituency.  
• 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution - Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor Mike Haynes, considers the centenary of the Russian revolution. 
• Carles Puigdemont gambled and failed. The consequences will live on - blog by Professor George Kassimeris, Chair of Security Studies.
• Dr Steve Iafrati to chair Social Policy Association event at the House of Lords
• Boris Johnson has demonstrated a capacity for scheming that Machiavelli would have applauded - Professor George Kassimeris blogs
• Eleanor Smith MP to introduce lecture on Enoch Powell and Wolverhampton
• Game of Thrones: Historical facts behind the hype - Dr Spencer Jones, Senior Lecturer in Armed Forces and War Studies blogs
• ‌Academics from the School of Social, Historical and Political Studies are working with Healthwatch Wolverhampton to look at the healthcare experiences of the Deaf community in Wolverhampton.
• Modern Politics Returns to the 1970s - Professor Keith Gildart blogs
• Theresa May must resist playing politics with terrorism - George Kassimeris, Professor of Security Studies blogs
• As the Manchester Arena attack shows, terrorism has changed for good - George Kassimeris, Professor of Security Studies blogs
• Interpreting students visit Deaf Direct -  University of Wolverhampton students spent a day at deaf-led charity Deaf Direct, seeing how interpreting works outside the classroom.
• Professor of Security comments on the Westminster Attacks
• University takes a uniform approach to a new Policing Degree Apprenticeship - The University of Wolverhampton is set to become one of the first in the country to offer a Degree Apprenticeship in policing.
• Martin McGuinness: A tale of two halves? - Dr Eamonn O'Kane - Reader in Conflict Studies blogs
• Academics in 'Great War Debate' - University of Wolverhampton historians have been taking part in panel discussions.
• Criminology student is the region's first female professional boxer - featured article in the Birmingham Mail
• Trump's vendetta against the US media is about political survival - Professor of Security Studies, George Kassimeris blogs - (article appeared first in the Huffington Post)
• University awarded more than £650,000 for landmark Coal Mining industry research project - The University of Wolverhampton has been awarded more than £650,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to undertake a major study of the British Coal industry and its subsequent demise. The three-year project will be led by Keith Gildart, a Professor of Social and Labour History and former coal miner.

• Monday 18 March 2019, 1pm to 2pm: Sam Leith, Editor of the Spectator 'You Talkin' To Me' in  MA030
• Thursday 31 January 2019, 5pm to 7pm, MC001: Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture, booking essential. Find out more at wlv.ac.uk/holocaust
• Sat 1 December 2018, First World War Study Day '1918: The End of War'
• Wednesday 12 December 2018, 5.30pm to 7pm: Football and War Network present 'The Seven Ages of the FA Cup', ‌Speaker Phil Annets, Room MC001, Millennium City Building (MC), City Campus South, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY
• Thursday 15 November, 6.30pm in MC001: In the fifth and final lecture in the RAF Museum’s 2018 series of Trenchard Lectures in Air Power Studies, Dr Phil Marter of the University of Winchester will discuss Second World War aviation crash sites as heritage assets.
• Thursday 1 November, 5.30pm to 7pm in MH002: Innovation and the British Army under the spotlight. Speaker: Dr Aimée Fox
• Thursday 1 November, 5.30pm in MC001: In conversation with the Editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley in conversation with the University of Wolverhampton's Professor George Kassimeris.
• Thursday 25 October, 12.30pm to 2pm in MH002: 'The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World'. Speaker Dr Karen Salt, University of Nottingham.
• Thursday 18 October, 5pm to 6pm: Professor Laura Caulfield's Inaugural Lecture "Where I am now, I didn’t imagine I could be": Creative approaches to rehabilitation in the criminal justice system.
• Saturday 5 May 2018, 10am to 5.30pm: Room MH002, Lecture Theatre, Mary Seacole (MH) Building: First World War Research Group Study Day 'Stories, Myths and Legends of the War'
• Wednesday 6 June 2018, 5pm to 7pm, MC001, Millenium City Building, City Campus: Football and War Network Seminar - 'Dulwich Hamlet - A Community Football Club in Peace and War'
• Wednesday 13 June 2018, 5.30pm to 7pm: University of Wolverhampton/Western Front Association Public Lecture: Ascending the Learning Curve. The 32nd Division's experience on the Western Front'.
• Thursday 12 April 2018, 11am to 1pm: The Future of the Parole Board - Former Chief Inspector of Prisons and former Chair of the Parole Board Professor Nicholas Hardwick CBE‌ in his first public lecture since his resignation following the Worboys case. Venue: MH002 Lecture Theatre, Mary Seacole Building, City Campus North, Nursery Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1AD. All welcome, no booking required, free event
• Wednesday, 21 March 2018, 5.30pm – 7.00pm, Room MA030, Wulfruna Building: Football and War Network Seminar 'How Football Fouled The Truce'  ‌Speaker Taff Gillingham
• Tuesday 13 March 2018, 1pm to 2pm: Public lecture: 'One man's fight against the Taliban bomb-makers' - speaker Kim Hughes QC
• Wednesday 7 March 2018, 5.30pm – 7.00pm: ‌'From No Man's Land to Auxiliary Hospital: The Work of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War' Speaker: Dr Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds).  The thirteenth lecture of the University of Wolverhampton/Western Front Association First World War Centenary Lecture Series.
• Monday 5 March 2018, 1pm to 2pm: 'Mafia Life: Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime' speaker Professor Federico Varese (Oxford University)
• 5 March 2018, 6pm to 8pm: The University of Wolverhampton in Stafford - Military History Talk by Professor Steinert
• Saturday 3 March 2018, 10am to 5pm: First World War Research Group Study Day 'British Command and Operations in the 100 Days Campaign, 1918'
• Wednesday 21 February 2018, 1pm to 2pm, MH108, Mary Seacole Building, City Campus North (Molineux): Centre for Historical Research Seminar, Combat Motivation at Gallipoli: A Study in Military Sociology and Military History. Speaker Professor Gary Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton. All welcome.
• 13 February 2018, 6.30pm to 8pm:  Free public lecture - 'Military History' by Professor Gary Sheffield. Please note that this event takes place at the University of Wolverhampton in Stafford.