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Dobbernack’s contribution to ACCEPT

Dr Jan Dobbernack has recently contributed to ACCEPT Pluralism, a 15-country FP7 project that brought together researchers from a number of countries as well as disciplinary backgrounds (including political science, sociology, anthropology, philosophy) to look into levels of tolerance in European countries (http://www.accept-pluralism.eu).

I work with Tariq Modood and Nasar Meer on the British contribution to ACCEPT.  I am also in the final stages of my doctoral researc h, which deals with how ‘social cohesion’ has become a central component of recent social policy language. (read more)

– Dr Jan Dobbernack

 

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Professor Judith Allsop contributes to RD Lawrence Biography

Life of RD Lawrence

A book on the founder of Diabetes UK – Dr RD LawrenceLife of RD Lawrence has been published together with consultants in this specialty, with the support of the pressure group Diabetes UK. Professor Judith Allsop contributed to the book by describing and appraising the formation of the BDA.

Jane Lawrence, the author of the biography describes what she found in this blog. Here’s an excerpt from the post:

Many people with an interest in diabetes know that Dr RD Lawrence (or RDL, as he was known) was an aspiring surgeon at King’s College Hospital (KCH), London, whose diabetes had been diagnosed by chance in 1920. (read more)