Month: October 2014

The Centre for Child Protection is proud to receive The University of Kent’s Social Science Faculty Teaching Prize!  Read the official announcement here Thank you to everyone who has … Read more

This international annual conference held in Amsterdam this year, gets police and criminal justice researchers together to debate diverse topics, from child abuse to road … Read more

Dr Jan Macvarish, co-author of the recent book Parenting Culture Studies, will be joined by Kent colleague Professor Frank Furedi and David Eberhard, Swedish psychiatrist … Read more

Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby gave an invited lecture on Attitudes to Welfare and the Progressive Trilemma in the Churchill Room at the Treasury on 7 October … Read more

Peter Taylor-Gooby gave the keynote lecture at the inaugural meeting of the Polish Social Policy Association/ ESPAnet Poland at the University of Poznan on 3 … Read more

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Wednesday, October 8 – RS4 Rutherford College The Environmental Humanities are an interdisciplinary area of research, drawing on the many … Read more

What would you ask @skystartingout? They’re holding a live Twitter chat exclusively for University of Kent students using the hashtag: #SkyGrads Follow @unikentemploy for updates … Read more

As part of the University’s 50th anniversary celebrations, a placement has been specially created for an SSPSSR student. The successful student will help with the “50 Years of Feminism Project” … Read more

The first of this term’s SSPSSR Staff and Postgraduate Seminars is today at 16.30. The seminar will also be available for you to join online at http://bit.ly/1vba8DF. … Read more

September saw the publication of a book exploring the power dynamics underlying the contemporary affective injunction to ‘be empathetic’, and their complex social and geopolitical … Read more