New strategy

We have launched our new strategic plan for the coming five years highlighting the main directions across the whole of the programme as well as specifically in the six core areas.

Latest Features on our website

• Security sector - too rigid for dynamic terrorism?
• Riots and rationality
• After the Spring

GU Funding

• Call for GU Leadership Fellows - deadline 28 September
• Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards - deadline 11 November

Other funding

• NERC call for proposals in Probability, Uncertainty and Risk in Environment
• International Research in US Homeland Security Science and Technology Mission Areas
• US Minerva Programme Call for Proposals
• MOD Call for Proposals on Trustworthy Digital Systems
• EU FP-7 Call for Security Theme

Other general news

Launch of Defence Special Interest Group (SIG): The Defence SIG seeks to build new links and to encourage engagement across the UK innovation network.

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GU events

Capturing urban conflicts (Cambridge Festival of Ideas) 19-23 October.
Explore what everyday life is like in cities in conflict such as Jerusalem, Belfast and Beirut at this exhibition of photo-essays and maps.

Violent Nature (Cambridge Festival of Ideas) 25 October.
Volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes do untold damage around the world from Haiti to Japan. Can governments, scientists and aid agencies manage the risks of living in potentially lethal locations?

Arab Spring (Cambridge Festival of Ideas) 26 October.
With uprisings, protests and civil wars, the Arab world is undergoing major social, political and military changes. Discover the consequences and uncertainties for the people from these nations and the wider world.

COMPAS (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society) Conference: Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space (Oxford) 22-23 September

The International Crime and Intelligence Analysis Conference (Manchester) 3-4 November

AHRC and ESRC Religion and Society Programme: Young, British and Muslim (Manchester) 22 November

Other events

• European Security Research Conference (Poland) 19-21 September
• Ethical Issues in Security (Brussels) 29 September
• Counter Terror Expo 2012 - Technology Workshops call for papers (London) - 30 September 2011
• Workshop on Security Industrial Policy (Brussels) - 18 October 2011
• ESRC Festival of Social Science: a UK wide festival celebrating the social sciences (29 October to 5 November)