Passes, positions, prizes and publication
We are delighted to announce that this term has seen an amazing range of achievements for our postgraduate research students. Ten students successfully defended their PhDs, four were awarded Lectureships, two accepted Research positions, one received a Faculty prize, two have been published and a team of three have been awarded funding for a workshop later this year.
Professor Chris Shilling (Director of Graduate Studies for Research) welcomed these accomplishments as ‘testament to the dedication and quality of our postgraduate community, which reflects the supportive and internationally excellent environment that SSPSSR provides to all its students.’
The ten students whose research theses were successfully examined this term are Michael Bedford, Pravnav Bihari, Lauren Holdsworth, Jade Johns , Nilay Kavur, Mark Kerr , Boran Mercan, Precious Sango, Camille Stengel and Mengwei Tu. Their theses covered a wide range of topics including the relationship between evidence and policy in children’s social care, the roles of affects and dispositions in the formation of the professional criminal in Ankara, and comparing the significance of spirituality in faith and non-faith based care services.
In March, Katinka van de Ven took up the post of Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. Katinka was also awarded the Faculty of Social Sciences prize for postgraduate research. In July Giulia Zampini started at the University of Greenwich, also as a Lecturer in Criminology.
The following students are moving on to employment or further research positions in September. Yeosun Yoon has been appointed as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, whilst Jon Ward has been appointed Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on a three year project exploring the role of the arts in sustainable prosperity, in the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds. Brian J. Frederick has been appointed to the post of Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Gloucestershire and Deanna Dadusc to the position of Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton (Applied Social Sciences).
Congratulations to Mengwei Tu, who has had her paper entitled ‘Chinese one-child families in the age of migration: middle class transnational mobility, ageing parents, and the changing role of filial piety’ published in the international refereed journal The Journal of Chinese Sociology. Deanna Dadusc has had published a chapter entitled ‘Squatting and the Undocumented Migrants Struggle in The Netherlands’ in the book Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy.
Finally, Luke Shoveller, Sophie Rowland and Emma Pleasant (together with Katy Lawn from Royal Holloway) have been awarded funding following a successful application to the SEDTC Interdisciplinary Competition for a two-day ESRC postgraduate-led workshop planned for September 2016. The event will take place at the University of Kent, and is entitled ‘Heritage and biography: narrating pasts, imagining futures’.
Congratulations to all our postgraduate students on their various successes.