MSc Social Development Practice

Plans are underway for the SDP Overseas Practice Engagement. This is the second year of working with our partners, at the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University. Grateful for the time and presence of Piyapong Boossabong and Pobsook Chamchong.from.CMU,.who spared valuable time during their UK visit to invigorate the planning along with students. As we embark on this wonderful collaboration with a committed batch of SDP students, we are also remembering our alumni fondly for the beautiful memories created through these pedagogic engagements.

Serious staff planning underway to prepare for the SDP Overseas Practice Engagement taking place at the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University (CMU) 😊. This is the second year of partnership with SPP and the theme is Urban Inhabitation. Grateful that our partners from CMU, Piyapong Boossabong and Pobsook Chamchong, spared valuable time during their UK visit to invigorate the planning along with students. As we embark on this wonderful collaboration with a committed batch of SDP students, we are also remembering our alumni fondly for the beautiful memories created through these pedagogic engagements.

This week, in Social Policy and Citizenship module, led by , Dr Angelo Martins Junior (University of Birmingham) delivered a guest lecture titled: “Problematising Narratives of ‘the Migrant’: Criminals / Victims.” Dr Martins Junior is Associate Professor in Sociology & Criminology at Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology at University of Birmingham. He invited students to question who counts as a “migrant” and who counts as a “citizen,” and to reflect on how these categories are [re]shaped by the state, the media, and public discourse. The session explored how the figure of “the migrant” is racialised, gendered and classed and how inequalities are produced and normalised through legislation and everyday practices. He also discussed the politics of “Modern Slavery” by screening a co-produced video that challenges the framing of asylum seeker as either “criminals” or “victims.”