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SSPSSR student Hannah Perrin has won the Graduate School’s Postgraduate Experience Award for a project supporting postgraduate students. The innovative “Shut Up and Write!” scheme … Read more

The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research is pleased to announce a new and exciting partnership with Department of Sociology and Social Work … Read more

The Centre for Philanthropy has created a new dissertation prize open to third year undergraduate students at Canterbury and Medway. The Kent Centre for Philanthropy … Read more

It would have been a safe bet that last week’s budget would include further cuts to welfare. Many people assume that the grand tradition of … Read more

On 19th February, Professor Alex Stevens of SSPSSR at the University of Kent debated drug policy with Julian Brazier, MP for Canterbury. At the invitation … Read more

Faced with another year of cutbacks in funding and resources the NAS Conference 2013 sought to celebrate creativity and innovation by focusing on the positive … Read more

Parenting site, Netmums, recently published a survey entitled “Tweens – does childhood end at age 12?” The survey revealed that many Netmums members feel that … Read more

We are pleased to announce that the first award for Best Postgraduate Dissertation, has been given to Dainis Ignatans, who has received an award of … Read more

A new book and work of public sociology by Frank Furedi, Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, explores the precarious status of … Read more

A major European conference on “Technology Assessment and Policy Areas of Great Transitions” will have a dedicated session focusing solely on the work of Dr … Read more