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Dr Eric Jensen co-organised a groundbreaking public engagement event at Durrell Wildlife Park in Jersey (Channel Islands) on the 25^th October 2010. Commissioned by the world-leading conservation society Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust () and the European Commission-funded EU-Zoos-XXI project (), Dr Jensen presented on a meta-analysis of previous research on learning in zoos and facilitated the successful event. Twenty visitors spent just over five hours giving their views on how zoos could better communicate a conservation message to other zoo visitors. Their views will be analysed by Dr Jensen and form the basis of a ‘demonstration project’ in which their ideas will be put into action at Durrell through a complete re-design of educational materials in the Reptile and Amphibian House. This unique project aims to shift the direction of zoo education towards a more two-way, dialogical approach that takes account of public input and ideas to better engage visitors with wildlife conservation.

Publication of Food Justice: report of the Food and Fairness Inquiry - a year-long investigation into social justice in food and farming, undertaken by a committee of respected and influential figures from across the food sector.

Dr Gurminder.K.Bhambra spoke on Wednesday 11th August on Radio 4's Thinking Allowed on Black ideas of Emancipation. You can listen to the programme here:

Hilary Pilkington, Elena Omel'chenko and Al'bina Garifzianova

Russia’s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the ‘lumpen’ end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum.

Click on the link below to listen to the podcast by Professor Hilary Pilkington about the book.

Dr Anne-Marie Kramer, spoke on Saturday 12 June at the opening of the art exhibition 'They Do Things Differently There' at the Talbot Rice Art Gallery in Edinburgh:

The Sociology Department continues to do exceptionally well in teaching league tables. The department has been ranked second in the and Times and we are now third in the .

 

Professor Christina Hughes, writing on pleasure and the PhD, see article and debate in

 

Professor Beverley Skeggs: Honorary Professor, Department of Sociology, University of ÌÇÐÄTV We are pleased to announce that Professor Beverley Skeggs, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London has been appointed to an Honorary Professorship in our Department. Professor Skeggs has an outstanding international reputation in the field of cultural and sociological studies and is particularly noted for her groundbreaking work in the fields of class, gender, sexuality and race. Her work is focused on the relationship between the most intimate and the structural through, for example, research that is concerned with how the intimate production of the self illustrates how far capitalist social relations have pervaded our lives.  Her most recent research has explored how new political formations are being shaped through contemporary ethics and specifically how identities based on class are being produced by the new ethical scenarios presented on television.  Professor Skeggs was appointed to a Chair in Sociology at the University of Manchester in 1999 and was Head of Department from 2001-2004.  In 2004, she was appointed Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.  During 2007 she was the Kerstin Hesselgren Professor in Gender Studies at Stockholm University. In 2003 she was elected as an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.