The UK’s new medical chief, Professor Chris Whitty, will deliver the annual Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) lecture at the University’s Canterbury campus. His … Read more
Month: August 2019
Call for Papers: Tensions at the front line of risk work: implications for policy and practice
Dr Jo Warner, Reader in Social Work, has co-organised a two-day conference in her capacity as co-convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Risk and Society … Read more
Social historian researches lives of first women JPs
Dr Anne Logan, Reader in Social Science, wrote the introduction and did much of the research for the latest update to the Oxford Dictionary of … Read more
Forget ‘Obamageddon’, ‘Prepping’ is now part of mainstream American politics and culture
Long considered an extreme reaction to fears of Armageddon and imminent nuclear disaster, ‘preppers’ in the US have traditionally been portrayed as motivated by extreme … Read more
Is the two-child benefit cap fair?
Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby appeared on BBC Radio Kent’s The Wake Up Call programme this week to discuss the two-child cap on benefit with MEP Ann … Read more