Thinking Like a Social Scientist lunchtime lecture series
Date: Thursday 29 October 2009
Time: 1.05pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Eileen Munro
In this lunchtime series of lectures, a selection of LSE's academics from across the spectrum of the social sciences explain the latest thinking on how social scientists work to address the critical problems of the day. They survey the leading ideas and contributions made by their discipline, explain the types of problems that are addressed and the tools that are used, and explore the kinds of solutions proposed.
This lecture examines how society's highly emotive response to child deaths from parental abuse has unintended consequences in the child protection system that inadvertently increase risks to children.
Eileen Munro is a Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. She has extensive experience as a social worker. Her key interests are in risk assessment and decision making in child protection work.
The next lecture in this series, Thinking about Evidence and Risk will take place on Thursday 5 November.
A list of all the lectures in the Thinking Like a Social Scientist lunchtime lecture series can be found here.
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