Registration for the Emotional Politics: The Role of Affect in Social Movements and Organizing symposium on 31 May 2018 is now open. This one-day interdisciplinary … Read more
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Fashion and Physique Symposium in New York
Professor Julia Twigg was a keynote speaker at the recent Symposium on Fashion and Physique at the New York Museum at FIT. Held in the old … 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
Nearly 2 in 5 children will be in poverty by 2021
Commenting on a report from a leading thinktank that poorer Britons face three years of income stagnation, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy, says the impact … Read more
Prize winners for outstanding research
Professor Sarah Vickerstaff, Professor Stephen Peckham and Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby from the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research have been selected by a … Read more
Review of disability benefit claims highlights problems
Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy, says the Government’s decision to order a review of all 1.6 million disability benefit claims is evidence of serious problems … Read more
Why British people don’t trust the government any more – and what can be done about it
The Conversation has just published an article by Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent and Bejamin Leruth, Assistant Professor in Politics and … Read more
Register now for the Governing Trust in the Biosciences conference
The concluding conference of the ESRC funded project Governing Accountability in China’s Life Sciences will be held next month. Dr Joy Zhang, Senior Lecturer in … Read more
The shocking state of prisons
Following the latest damning reports on the state of prisons in Liverpool and Nottingham, prisons expert and Professor of Criminology Yvonne Jewkes commented ‘The Dickensian … Read more
Student Success (EDI) Project team builds on success
Following the success of The Student Success (EDI) Project, which won a Times Higher Education award for outstanding student support in November 2017, the team … Read more