The School is delighted to announce that Michael Mills and Elke Van Hellemont have been awarded the Social Sciences Seminar Leader Teaching Prize 2018. The … Read more
Animation to show impacts of Children’s Centre closures
Dr Eleanor Jupp, Lecturer in Social Policy in the Faculty of Social Sciences, worked with the University’s Digital Media Hub to produce an animation based … Read more
Sarah Marsh wins Graduate School Prize
Sarah Marsh has won the 2018 Graduate School Prize for exceptional achievements in support of postgraduate education and research in the Faculty of Social Sciences. … Read more
PhD Sociology student wins prize
Nicole Brown has been selected as the Postgraduate Research Prize Winner – Social Sciences for 2018 and received her prize at the Postgraduate Festival this … Read more
Family on the move – Erasmus+ project
Professor Jane Reeves and Emma Soutar attended the Erasmus+ 3-day final meeting last week in Budapest – scheduled to bring together the ideas and outputs … Read more
US painkiller restriction linked to ‘significant’ increase in illicit online drug trading
Research involving Dr Jack Cunliffe has found that tighter prescription regulations on certain opioid medications led to a significant increase in illicit online drug trading … Read more
The Challenges of Religious Urbanization in Africa
The ‘Challenges of Religious Urbanization in Africa’ workshop, funded by the British Academy/Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) through the Religious Urbanization in Africa (RUA) project, … Read more
Professor Sally Kendall awarded MBE
Professor Sally Kendall from the Centre for Health Services Studies has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition of 30 years of … Read more
Celebrating the 200th birthday of Karl Marx
The School’s Social Theory Cluster held a symposium celebrating the bicentenary of Karl Marx this week. Guest speakers, representing a range of generational experiences and … Read more
WelfSoc in Florence
The WelfSoc “Our Children’s Europe” project presented eight papers at the final conference of the Norface Welfare Futures programme at the European University Institute in … Read more