{"id":6021,"date":"2022-04-07T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=6021"},"modified":"2022-04-07T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:38:58","slug":"meet-your-lecturer-professor-iain-wilkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2022\/04\/07\/meet-your-lecturer-professor-iain-wilkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet your lecturer: Professor Iain Wilkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Read our Q&#038;A with Professor Iain Wilkinson, Professor of Sociology and Head of SSPSSR <\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your taught subject at Kent?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sociological Theory, Enlightenment Revolution and the Modern Social World, Social Suffering<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><strong>How long have you taught at Kent?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I&#8217;ve taught here full-time since 2003. I also taught at Kent part-time between 1993\u201398<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><strong>Before joining Kent, what were you doing?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was a Lecturer in Sociology and University of Plymouth<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><strong>What are your hobbies or interests?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I play acoustic fingerpicking guitar<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><strong>Who\u2019s your favourite author\/musician\/celebrity?<br \/>\n<\/strong>George Orwell\u00a0(author), John Smith (musician) &#8211; I have no interest in celebrity culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><strong>What\u2019s your favourite sport?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Football<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><strong>What kind of books do you like?<br \/>\n<\/strong>These days, when time allows, I mostly read history books<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><strong>What would you say are some fun things to do in Kent?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Walking along the coastal path between Kingsdown to St Margaret&#8217;s Bay,\u00a0attending performances\u00a0at\u00a0theatres (Gulbenkian and Marlowe), visiting Dover Castle and War Tunnels<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Wilkinson\u2019s profile: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/people\/1403\/wilkinson-iain\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/people\/1403\/wilkinson-iain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @IainWilki<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read our Q&#038;A with Professor Iain Wilkinson, Professor of Sociology and Head of SSPSSR What\u2019s your taught subject at Kent? Sociological Theory, Enlightenment Revolution and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2022\/04\/07\/meet-your-lecturer-professor-iain-wilkinson\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77937,"featured_media":6022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,25252],"tags":[43783,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}