1. RESEARCHING MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN PROF JOHN EADE CRONEMROEHAMPTON/SURREY

2. Reformism and Empirical Research: 1850-1945 Victorian pioneers – Mayhew, Booth and empirical study of urban social and economic inequality The Labour Party – Fabians, municipal socialism, LSE, Mass Observation, sociology and anthropology create their empires

3. Decolonisation and Welfare State, 1945-1960 collapse of the old empires and the triumph of the new empires: managing decline in Britain, welfare state and university elite autonomy Disciplinary boundary maintenance and applied social science

4. MARX, WEBER AND MODERN URBAN SOCIETY: 1960-1980 SOCIOLOGY TAKES THE LEAD – Modernity and Industrial Society: John Rex on housing-classes, race and urban politics in Birmingham; Ray Pahl and urban managers Responding to Culture: New Commonwealth settlement and the move from race to ethnicity, from anti-racism to the politics of cultural identity

5. The Empire Strikes Back: 1980- Cultural Studies takes over – constructing new boundaries and categories, new ethnicities, cultural hybridity, counter-culture Sociology and Anthropology engage – transnationalism, diaspora, scapes, imagined communities

6. Expansion of Policy Research: Universities Face Competition, 1990- University policy centres, think-tanks, NGOs and government in-house research Fieldwork methods – focus groups and opinion poll organisations; the continuing tension between quantitative and qualitative research ESRC and auditing research; AHRC and relevance of arts to policy

7. Global Flows of Elites and Servants Move from national industrial society to globalised conditions dominated by services Urban revival, flows of capital, images and information and global hotspots (legal and illegal) Control of those servicing hotspots and super-diversity

8. Cultural Difference and Class Established minorities lie broadly between the global elite and their servants in urban working and middle class neighbourhoods Creation of new cultural traditions shaped by class difference (income, education, occupation)

9. Meeting across Boundaries to understand the complexity of these contemporary processes we need to work across disciplinary boundaries At CRONEM we are trying to do this through five research projects

10. Meeting across Boundaries 1. psychiatry and sociology/anthropology – ethnicity and class through narrative and everyday practice 2. psychology and sociology/ anthropology – qualitative and quantitative study of British Bangladeshi and mixed heritage identity

11. Meeting across Boundaries 3. economics and sociology/ anthropology -Polish migrant workers in London 4. a community project on collective memory and cultural heritage with Shadinata in Tower Hamlets 5. a mentoring project with Georgie Wemyss on the re-imaging of place and people in Tower Hamlets

12. Challenge Our challenge will be to link these local developments to transnational and global processes through working both across disciplinary boundaries and within our particular disciplinary traditions and debates