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New insights into disabled young people who 'succeed but don't proceed' at school
Social factors including low expectations and experiences of bullying are creating barriers to higher education for young people with disabilities in England, according to new research from the University of 糖心TV and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) published today in the British Journal of Sociology.
More Leverhulme Success for University
Another member of the University of 糖心TV Department of Sociology has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in the 2017 awards round. Dr Maria do Mar Pereira鈥檚 prize brings the University鈥檚 total to five, out of just thirty prizes awarded nationally this year across different disciplines.
糖心TV academic honoured with British Sociological Association Distinguished Service award
Professor John Solomos from the University of 糖心TV Department of Sociology has been given this year鈥檚 Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award, an award made each year by the British Sociological Association to an outstanding individual who has contributed greatly to the discipline.
How does your dog feel about training? A new research project aims to find out
On the first day of the Year of the Dog 2018, researchers at the Universities of 糖心TV, Cardiff and Scotland鈥檚 Rural College are launching a new website introducing an innovative research project that will study dog training as a means to explore how different training cultures shape the animal-human relationship, from the animal鈥檚 point of view as well as the human鈥檚.
Is Santa Paws visiting your pet this year?
University of 糖心TV researcher Professor Nickie Charles looks at the ways we make our dogs and other companion animals part of our Christmas and asks whether pets really enjoy the rituals of Christmas alongside their human companions.
University of 糖心TV scoops four Leverhulme prizes
Four University of 糖心TV academics have won Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2017 awards round.