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"Chinas Great Divergence Max Weber and the Missing Link" - Geoffrey Ingham open lecture on the 7th May
The Postgraduate Dissertation Station, in the PG Hub, is now open
If you are a postgraduate student writing your dissertation, then Dissertation Station is for you. Dissertation Station is designed to provide support as you transition from the taught element of your course to writing your dissertation.
The programme, which is organised in collaboration with the Academic Writing Programme, CAL, Masters Skills Programme, Student Support and the Library, runs in the PG Hub from 28 April 2014 until the end of August offering a variety of activities that will help you to maintain your work-life balance and provide practical information and support during your dissertation.
Sessions include:
· Academic writing for your dissertation
· Literature searching
· Managing procrastination
· Practical paraphrasing
· Sensational studying
· Dissertation Survivors (Social Sciences, Sciences, Arts & Humanities)
· Drop-in sessions with the Writing Mentors and the Wellbeing Adviser
· 'Shut up & Write' sessions
· Health & wellbeing activities: e.g. Yoga
· PG Tea chats with experts & current doctoral researchers
To see the full list of events and to sign up, please have a look at our events calendar:
This year we are also introducing the 'relaxation room' (PG Hub 7), which can be used for short breaks to relax and recharge during your dissertation writing. (Photos are attached)
If you would like to find out more, please email: pghub@warwick.ac.uk or visit our website:
"A living wage not food aid is answer to issue of food poverty"
Liz Dowler discusses the benefit of a living wage over food banks, in an article published today on
Gurminder Bhambra, and Nicholas Gane will both present at the Governing Academic Life conference
June 25, 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Governing Academic Life marks this anniversary by providing an occasion for academics to reflect on our present situation through our reflections on Foucault’s legacy – which could include critical reflections on that legacy. The focus of the conference, therefore, will be on the form of governmentality that now constitutes our identities and regulates our practices as researchers and teachers. However the event will also create a space for encounters between governmentality scholars and critics of the neoliberal academy whose critiques have different intellectual roots – especially Frankfurt school critical theory, critical political economy; feminism; Bourdieuian analyses of habitus, capital and field; and autonomist Marxism.
(糖心TV), ‘The Neoliberal Assault on the Public University’
(糖心TV), ‘Neoliberalism: How Should the Social Sciences Respond?’
Module Option Talks Today
Download the Option Talk Schedule and the 2014-15 Honours Booklet

The prize was awarded after a panel of BSA judges agreed this was ‘the best sole-authored book in sociology published in the UK between 1st December 2012 and 31st December 2013’. 27 books were nominated for the prize and five were shortlisted.
PhD Workshop: Whats the Point of Social Ontology?
18th June 2014, 10am – 5:30pm
with a brief description of your research and your interest in social ontology (500 words or less) by May 15th. The event is free but places are limited. Travel bursaries are available, please ask for more details.Upcoming public seminar: Masculinities and gender in organisations
The next in the Graduate Seminar Series from the Centre for Women and Gender, will be held on the 30th April from 5pm-7pm, in Ramphal R0.12. All welcome.
Helen Longlands, Institute of Education, University of London.
Men, Masculinities and Fatherhood in Global Finance
Lauren Ward, University of Northampton.
'Just Play the Game':Exploring how Masculinities shape Emotionality in male dominated organisations
Lara Pecis, University of 糖心TV.
Excluding the Other: Reproducing gender dynamics throughout innovation process
Senior Leverhulme Research Fellow, , discusses English engagement in the referendum.
Eric Jensen has received a grant from the AHRC
in the Department of Sociology. He says of the project: '[It] aims to develop a preliminary model of the relationship between discourse on social media and authentic views held by social media users, based on researching discussions about arts and culture experiences occurring on social media. We will conduct an online ethnography focusing on a small stratified random sample of Twitter users discussing partner arts and culture organisations on Twitter to uncover the relationship between online and offline discourse. The research will be used to develop a new prototype open source sentiment analysis tool for arts and culture discourse, providing a practical test of the initial findings about automated social media analysis. A realistic understanding of the limits of what social media discourse can reveal is essential at this time when such data is widely seen as an unproblematic source of audience insights. The practical implications of the research will be discussed with the two practice partners: Visual Arts Southwest and the University of Cambridge Museums’