Professor Twigg has been awarded the British Society of Gerontology Outstanding Achievement Award 2016 in recognition of her research on how people feel and behave as they … Read more
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Outstanding success for our postgraduates
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. … Read more
Sue Shepherd wins BELMAS award
The British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) has just announced the 2016 Doctoral Thesis Awards. This year’s joint winner is Sue Shepherd, who … Read more
Sociology of the Sacred to be published in Arabic
The monograph Sociology of the Sacred: Religion, Embodiment and Social Change, by Chris Shilling and Philip A Mellor, has just been contracted for translation into … Read more
Employability Festival
Organised by the Careers & Employability Service; Academic Schools and Professional Services have come together to offer you presentations, workshops, guest speakers, industry experts and … Read more
Bridging the Gap
The Partnership Initiative (PI) ensures that the skills and experiences of service users and carers are integral to Social Work programmes at the University of Kent. The Autumn 2015 newsletter of … Read more
Discussing the Transnational Politics of Empathy
Dr Carolyn Pedwell was interviewed last week by John McMahon from City University of New York about her book Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of … Read more
Students rate SSPSSR programmes highly
Once again, our undergraduate programmes have been highly rated by our students. This year’s National Student Survey results have just been released and confirm high … Read more
Student Prize for Feminist Scholarship 2015
The results of the Student Prize for Feminist Scholarship 2015 have been annouced. It was a very high-quality field of submissions at both undergraduate and … Read more
Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool
A new book by Dr Jonathan Ilan, Lecturer in Criminology, addresses the question of how poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being … Read more