News

Dr Stella Chatzitheochari is co-author of a short article on measuring time allocation of young people in the Millennium Cohort Study Age 14 survey, with colleagues from the University of Oxford, University College London, and Ipsos MORI. The article appears in Volume 12 of the electronic International Journal of Time Use Research (eIJTUR) and can be accessed here: eijtur.org/content.php  

Professor Gurminder K Bhambra will be delivering a keynote address on ‘Postcolonial and Decolonial Reconstructions: The Difference that Haiti Makes’ at an international conference at the University of Kassel, Germany. The conference is on 14-15 January and is titled, Beyond the Master’s Tools: Post- and Decolonial Approaches to Research Methodology and Methods in the Social Sciences. For more details, see: http://www.uni-kassel.de/veranstaltung/beyond-the-masters-tools/welcome.html

The Department of Sociology are delighted to announce that Professor Wing Chan and Professor John Ermisch have had an article pulished in Population Studies. The article entitled 'Residential proximity of parents and their adult offspring in the United Kingdom, 2009–10' can be found in Population Studies, 2015, Vol. 69, No. 3, 355–372.

If you’re a first year undergraduate student who’s free this Thursday (5 November) from 12-1pm you're invited to sign up for a focus group.

At the focus group we’d like to hear your thoughts on the design and content of our new undergraduate student recruitment communications. This will include the prospectus and emails.

In return we’ll give you a free lunch and a £5 credit on your Eating at Warwick account!

To sign up, please click on the link: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/students/news/newsevents/recruitmentfocusgroups

Dr Simone Varriale has just published two new journal articles: 'Beyond Distinction: Theorising Cultural Evaluation as a Social Encounter' (Cultural Sociology), and 'Cultural Production and the Morality of Markets: Popular Music Critics and the Conversion of Economic Power into Symbolic Capital' (Poetics).

The Department is proud to announce that Kristin Hubner (one of our current PhD students) has been shortlisted for a prize in “The World in 2065” Essay Competition. The ESRC and SAGE awards ceremony, at which the winners will be announced, will take place on Tuesday 10 November in the House of Commons.

Disabled Children Conference 2015: Promoting and Empowering the Rights of Disabled Children and Young People - Children in Wales takes place on 11 November 2015 in Cardiff. Dr Stella Chatzitheochari will be speaking about the Trajectories and Transitions of Disabled Children and Young People, an 18 month ESRC-funded research study which looked into the outcomes for disabled children and young people in England. For further information about the conference and to book a place, please visit:

http://www.childreninwales.org.uk/item/disabled-children-conference-2015-promoting-empowering-rights-disabled-children-young-people/.

Dr Stella Chatzitheochari will be speaking at the forthcoming 2-day event Time Use in Britain. Stella will talk about time diary data from the Millennium Cohort Study. The event is being hosted by the Centre for Time Use Research of the University of Oxford and will take place on 9/10 November 2015 at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.

The event is free but registration is required. For further information and to register please visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-use-in-britain-tickets-18887752777.

Dr Stella Chatzitheochari will be chairing an event on Preventing and Tackling School Bullying, hosted by Inside Government. The event is aimed at School teachers and practitioners and will take place on Thursday 10th December 2015 in Central London. Further information about the event can be found on the Inside Government website http://www.insidegovernment.co.uk/event-details/school-bullying/547/#agenda.

The Festival of the Imagination will take place on campus on 16-17 October 2015 and will be the centrepiece of the University's 50^th anniversary celebrations, showcasing the work we do at Warwick through a diverse programme of events all focused around the central theme 'Imagining the Future'.

As part of this festival, there will be lots of talks and acitivities for staff and students to get involved in.

Highlighted below are some events which might be of particular interest to our Sociology community:

• ‘Is Diversity Academic in UK Universities?’ - Prof. Gurminder Bhambra is on the panel exploring this issue on Saturday 17 October at 2.15pm. This event free, but you should book tickets: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/warwick50/events/imagination/talks/diversity/
• ‘Solving Inequality’ - Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Poverty in Britain is at a post-war high and set to increase yet further. What prevents us from plugging the gap between rich and poor, and how can we redress the balance? This talk will take place on Saturday 17 October at 12pm. Students can attend for the discounted price of £5. More information and booking can be found at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/warwick50/events/imagination/talks/inequality/

We hope that you'll join us there!