Details of workshops and events from January 2012 onwards will be updated in the New Year.

9-10 January 2012
The third and final workshop of the Fire Investigation programme will focus on training, knowledge transfer and the assessment of competence in fire investigation. Email for more info. Schedule of talks now available.

The Insight Institute will be closed from Wednesday 21st December and will re-open on Thursday 5th January. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2012.

8-9 December 2011
The second workshop of the Fire Investigation and Prevention programme will examine the issues around primacy of the scene and how can these be developed to ensure ‘equality of arms’ in legal disputes.

10-11 November 2011
The first workshop of the Fire Investigation and Prevention programme will discuss how the fire investigation community currently interacts with other stakeholder communities such as fire science and engineering.

Friday 4th November, 1.30-4.30pm
Organised by the EPRC, this workshop will discuss how Scotland can better utilise its science infrastructure to support economic development, new facilities for effective commercialisation and a wider embedding of science awareness in public life and social wellbeing. Participation is free but booking is essential. Download a registration form. Email for more info. Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.

2 November 2011 10.00-17.00
An event for practitioners and managers from key public services, policy makers and voluntary sector workers interested in multi-agency service delivery for vulnerable groups. Email for more info. Participation is free but booking is essential. Download a Registration form and a Programme. Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.

Tuesday 23rd August, 9:30am-5pm
The third workshop of the Independent Publishing programme will investigate how both small and medium-sized publishers negotiate competing cultural, aesthetic, political or communicative demands placed on them and how best to support and grow a healthy eco-system for independent publishing through public and private policy initiatives. It will look at how to better grow a book culture of writers and readers. The day will be structured around three themes: networks of benefits, coalitions of value and advocacy/funding. Email for more info. The schedule is now available.

22 August, 6:45-7:45pm. Peppers Theatre, Edinburgh
The Independent Publishing programme is organising, in conjunction with Publishing Scotland, a talk with renowned New York publisher Andre Schiffrin during the Edinburgh Book Festival. This talk looks at the wider crisis of the media that Schiffrin says is contributing to the demise of serious journalism in newspapers. He compares the crisis in the US to the situation in Europe, and demonstrates how the American corporate model has extended its reach across the globe. Schiffrin considers a range of alternative policies that, if pursued, could safeguard the future of publishing, bookselling and the press. Book a space.

23-24 June, 9am-5pm
The second meeting of the Independing Publishing programme will examine the challenges and opportunities of the global literary marketplace for small and independent publishers. Download the final schedule or email for more info.