Month: June 2012

It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2012 Lin Melville Prize Winners. Lady Melville, wife of the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of … Read more

Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, has been awarded an OBE for … Read more

SSPSSR received the most number of student nominations by a School in the 2012 Teaching Awards.

Peter McGill, Co-Director of the Tizard Centre is one of the authors of a recently published position paper on the prevention of behavioural and emotional … Read more

Criminology and Cultural Studies undergraduate student, Rachel Stewart, has been awarded the second prize in the John Howard Essay Prize. Eric Allison, the essay prize … Read more

It is with great pride that we announce that Dr Nick Gore has been awarded  fellowship funding for a three year period from the Estate … Read more

Dawn Lyon, “Fishmongers in a Global Economy: Craft and Social Relations on a London Market.” in Sociological Research Online

The University is offering a £1,000 Graduate School Scholarship to graduates of Kent, who have finished their undergraduate studies in the previous academic year and … Read more

Theresia Baumker has been awarded her PhD in Social Policy with minor corrections. Theresia’s thesis was entitled “The Costs and Cost-effectiveness of Extra Care Housing … Read more

On the 22nd May “Agreeing together – a contract for the future” was launched in the House of Lords.  This was the result of five … Read more