PROMISE hits Hamburg! International ECPR conference in Germany

Sep 17, 2018 | Dissemination

The Manchester teams delivered papers at this year’s European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference at the Universität Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018. The international conference in Hamburg encompassed a breadth of scholars from social and political...

Manchester PROMISE dedicated website launched!

Jul 6, 2017 | Media, News

While the University of Manchester hosts the main PROMISE website, the Manchester team now has its own website dedicated to PROMISE research relevant to the UK. The webpages provide detailed information about the two ethnographic case studies and the research team....

PROMISE makes a splash at the European Youth Partnership Symposium in Prague, June 2017

Jun 21, 2017 | News, Policy and Practitioner Network

PROMISE team members linked in with colleagues from across Europe at the Youth Partnership Symposium held in Prague from 12 -14 June.  Project coordinator, Jo Deakin, University of Manchester, and team member, Katerina Konecna from the YES Forum, took part in...

PROMISE professor wins BBC/BSA Ethnography Book Award!

May 11, 2017 | Media, News

PROMISE member Prof. Hilary Pilkington from The University of Manchester has won the prestigious BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award prize for her fascinating new book “Loud and Proud: Passion and Politics in the English Defence League”.   The award,...

Meeting the Experts: PROMISE’s first UK National Policy and Practice Network (NPPN) meeting

Feb 20, 2017 | Events

Early in January 2017, we held our first meeting with our UK National Policy and Practice Network (NPPN) at The University of Manchester. It was a constructive and energetic meeting with a range of youth experts from across several organisations who have many years of...