News and Events

Prof Olympia Palikara, Deputy Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences for External Engagement, recently joined a Warwick delegation to Washington University. Follow the link below to read her update about the visit.

External engagement: Joint Warwick Delegation visit to Washington University in St Louis (WashU) - May 2025 - Social Sciences Grand Challenge - News

We are delighted to offer two PhD scholarships linked to these two important topics:

1. Intercultural research on diversity in professional contexts

2. Linguistic Bias in Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence

A new paper by Assistant Professor Emma Langley has been published in the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.

Titled "Father Involvement in the Lives of Their Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the UK", the article examines the roles fathers play at different stages of their children's lives.

The article is one of the outputs from Dr Langley's study which explored the role of fathers raising children with IDD at different life stagesLink opens in a new window (funded by the Research Development Fund 2021/22).

 Read the full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jar.70091Link opens in a new window

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7354463971808026626/Link opens in a new window

We are delighted to share some positive results we have received from National Student Survey 2022.

Professor James Fenske is one of 63 new Fellows appointed this week to the Academy of Social Sciences, the national academy of academics, practitioners and learned societies in the social sciences.

Professor Fenske’s work focuses on economic history and development economics. He joins existing Warwick Economics fellows Professor Sascha Becker, Professor Sonia Bhalotra and Emeritus Professor Mark Harrison.

The Academy’s FellowshipLink opens in a new window comprises 1,700 leading social scientists from academia, the public, private and third sectors. All Academy Fellows are elected for their excellence in their fields and their substantial contributions to social science for public benefit. Selection is through an independent peer review which recognises their excellence and impact.

10 September 2025

Details of more successes for our students

Graduation provides a welcome opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the successes of our students. This past academic year, two IER PhD students successfully completed their PhD studies, Dr Andreana Glendinning and Dr Danya Nusseir. We also had the opportunity to belatedly celebrate the graduation of Dr Xiaotong Zhang.

A new article, "Dining in the dialogical, listening through the relational: ‘withness-thinking’ for development scholarship and praxis", has been published in Globalizations by PAIS PhD Candidate Raymond Hyma and food researcher Dr Elaine Pratley. The piece explores their respective approaches of listening-based inquiry and food-as-method in peacebuilding and development research.

Read the article now!

The British Academy is inviting proposals from early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project, towards the completion of a significant piece of publishable research.

The Department of Sociology is deeply saddened by the death of Dr Carol Wolkowitz on March 4^th 2025. Carol was a hugely valued member both of the Department and of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender. She will be remembered as a much-loved and inspirational teacher who was devoted to helping students grapple with ideas and hone their sociological imaginations.

You can read Carol's obituary here -> Carol Wolkowitz obituary | Sociology | The Guardian

The University of Warwick’s Centre for Teacher Education (CTE) has received a glowing report following a recent Ofsted inspection, highlighting the exceptional quality of training and support provided to its teaching trainees. The inspection report underscores the University’s commitment to nurturing future educators who are well-prepared and passionate about their careers.