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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships: Applications open now
Early Career Fellowships aim to provide career development opportunities for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers, but who have a proven record of research. The expectation is that Fellows should undertake a significant piece of publishable work during their tenure, and that the Fellowships should lead to a more permanent academic position. Approximately 100 Fellowships will be available in 2018. Fellowships can be held at universities or at other institutions of higher education in the UK.
The Department is now receiving applications for departmental support.
Doing Science 鈥� Doing Excellence 鈥� Doing Inequalities
Dr Maria do Mar Pereira was a keynote speaker at the international conference Doing Science – Doing Excellence – Doing Inequalities, at Ruhr University – Bochum, in Germany.
The conference brought together researchers, equality practitioners, and scientific policy-makers from across Europe to discuss the relationship between scientific excellence and gender equality, and particularly the ways in which contemporary definitions of scientific excellence normalise and reproduce problematic gender inequalities.
Maria do Mar鈥檚 very well received keynote address was based on her (Routledge, 2017) and discussed the association of scientific excellence with intense productivity in contemporary universities. Maria do Mar argued that this association can paradoxically undermine the excellence of the knowledge we produce, because it is harder (and sometimes impossible) to create excellent knowledge in academic cultures of intense and individualised labour, in which many academics struggle to find the time necessary not just to write their research, but also to read, peer review and engage with other colleagues鈥� work.
Dr Maria do Mar Pereira's participation in this conference was supported by departmental conference funding.
Jim Beckford awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
Our colleague Jim Beckford has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. Jim received the Award during a ceremony at its annual meeting in Montréal in August.
Congratulations to Jim. It is good to see his work recognised in such a way
Dr Ana Chamberlen awarded article prize - BSC Annual Conference
Dr Ana Chamberlen has been awarded the article prize for the Women, Crime and Criminal Justice section of the British Society of Criminology. She will receive the award in person in Sheffield next week at the BSC Annual Conference www.bsc2017.org.uk/
The prize winning article is: Chamberlen, A. (2016) ‘Embodying Prison Pain: Women's' self-injury practices in prison and the emotions of punishment’, Theoretical Criminology 20(2), pp 205-219.
Dr Lucy Mayblin awarded SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence for her article: ‘Other’ Posts in ‘Other’ Places: Poland through a Postcolonial Lens?
The SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence is awarded annually to one paper in each of the BSA’s four prestigious journals: Cultural Sociology Sociological Research Online Sociology Work, Employment and Society
Dr Lucy Mayblin's winning article
‘Other’ Posts in ‘Other’ Places: Poland through a Postcolonial Lens? (co-authored with Aneta Piekut and Gill Valentine) available
was announced at the BSA conference in Manchester in April.
The SAGE award panel commented: While all of the shortlisted articles exhibited significant levels ...
糖心TV Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network Public Lecture 2017 - Lemn Sissay
糖心TV Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Network Public Lecture 2017
Lemn Sissay
Tuesday 16th May 6.30pm-7.30pm
Room M1, 糖心TV 糖心TV School, University of 糖心TV
We are extremely pleased to announce that the 2017 BREM Annual Lecture will be given by poet, performer, thinker, campaigner and Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Lemn Sissay. Lemn’s writing engages with themes of borders, race, ethnicity and migration (among other things) and this will be a chance for researchers across all disciplines in the university to reflect on these themes in new ways, in the company of a public audience who are invited to this free event to enjoy Lemn’s talk and find out more about the research on these themes going on at the University of 糖心TV. Find out more about Lemn Sissay and book your place at the BREM Annual Lecture by going to More information about the 糖心TV Borders, Race, Ethnicity and Migration (BREM) Network can be found at
This is a public event and all are welcome. Please so we have an idea of numbers.
Professor Emejulu on Radio Scotland
Sociology's Professor Akwugo Emejulu was on BBC Radio Scotland Tuesday 7th February talking about racist violence in Scotland - available on iPlayer:
Dr Thom Davies article in the Guardian
Finger on the button: should Trump's nuclear weapons access be restricted?
US congressmen are proposing a bill to restrict President Trump’s access to nuclear weapons. As ‘chaotic’ as he may be, is this fair or rational?
read the article:
Have Socio-Economic Inequalities in Childhood Cognitive Test Scores Changed?
As part of Dr Roxanne Connelly's ESRC research project, we are pleased to annouce that three events have been organised:
21st March Royal Statistical Society London: Tackling Socio-Economic Inequalities in Childhood Test Scores
22nd March Royal Statistical Society London: FREE Workshop: A Practical Introduction to Analysing Complex Social Survey Data (aimed at non-academic researchers)
23rd March Royal Statistical Society London: FREE Workshop: Analysing and Comparing Complex Social Survey Data
University of Sanctuary
The Journey to Protection and the University Experience
for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Thursday 2nd February 5:00 - 6:30 pm
International Digital Laboratory - University of 糖心TV
Followed by wine reception