Georgia Gould chats about her Social Sciences placement with OnlyConnect I spent a year volunteering as a support worker at OnlyConnect (OC), a criminal justice … Read more
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Placement story at Mid Essex Hospital, Patient Experience team
Social Sciences graduate,Selina Dudley chats about her placement experience. I have learnt a lot on my year in professional placement in the Patient Experience department … Read more
Student Policy and Research Officer placement with Hackney Council
Arzu Pirbudak, Social Sciences student, chats about her work placement During my placement I worked as a Student Policy and Research officer in the London … Read more
Urban Ethnography in Paris
Our SSPSSR UG Summer School in Urban Ethnography provides undergraduates with experience of urban ethnography and exposes them to the principles and methods of ethnography … Read more
Katinka van de Ven receives 2016 University Research Prize
Ground-breaking research across the University has been celebrated at a presentation of Kent’s annual Research Prizes. Amongst the twelve prizes for exceptional achievements over the … Read more
How do we think about Human Suffering?
In their new book, A Passion for Society: How We Think About Human Suffering, Kent sociologist Iain Wilkinson and Harvard University’s Arthur Kleinman document the origins and … Read more
Free programme of film screenings for students and staff
The School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, in association with the School of Arts, has arranged for a number of films to be … Read more