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The Department recently launched an exciting new undergraduate degree programme, BA Sociology and Quantitative Methods, for students interested in specialising in the statistical side of sociology.

The degree is funded by the Q-Step programme, which was developed as a strategic response to the shortage of quantitatively-skilled social science graduates.

For more information about Q-Step and their five-year strategy, visit the new website.

We now have a dedicated web space for new students, joining us for the 2014-15 academic year. Whether you're interested in more information about induction, freshers fortnight, summer reading lists, or a check list of what to do before you arrive, you'll find all you need to know on the pages below.

More information will become available towards the beginning of term, so keep an eye out for updates.

N.B. The Undergraduate and PhD pages are password protected. If you are an offer holder and have not yet received notification of the page passwords, please contact our Web Content Editor to gain access.

New Undergraduate Students

New Masters Students

New PhD Students

Alice's book, Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism, advances the concept of 'global legacies' - enduring forms, processes, or ideas of the 'global' that shape urban identity and politics. Global legacies provide a key lens on the difficult pasts and uncertain futures of cities. In particular, port cities, with their distinctive global dynamics, long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and roles within international trade networks, exhibit fascinating global legacies.

We have officially launched our own Department YouTube Channel, showcasing a wide range of staff and student videos.

Monday 30 June, 2014 12:30 – 14:00 (Lunch provided) in Wolfson Exchange

Praktiksha Baxi will present her work in her recently published book on rape in the criminal courts in India Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (OUP: New Delhi 2014).

Pratiksha Baxi is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India since 2006.

Her book Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India is a courtroom ethnography that brings together her interest in sociology of law, feminist theory and violence.

Her research interests include critical perspectives on medical jurisprudence, ethnographies of courts, sociology of violence, gender studies, politics of judicial reform, judicial iconography, courtroom architecture and feminist legal theory.

See Pratiksha Baxi’s media contributions.

Take a look at video footage from our recent Max Weber conference:

• Geoff Ingham (Cambridge) - ‘Money, Capitalism, and the West’
• Scott Lash (Goldsmiths) - 'Weber and Markets: From Neoclassicism to Neoliberalism’
• Linsey McGoey (Essex) - ‘Charismatic Authority and the Rise of the 21st-Century Philanthrocrat’
• Keith Tribe - ‘Market Order and Social Rationality’
• Sam Whimster (Global Policy Institute) - ‘The Economics of Power: Max Weber on Banking’
• David Woodruff (LSE) - ‘Weber and Money as an Economic Institution’
• Roundtable discussion

Warwick Sociology Department and the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies invite you to a workshop on

Race, Racism and Digital Communication

We are delighted to welcome contributions from:

• Alana Lentin, University of Western Sydney, on transformations of race through translation within digital communication networks
• Sanjay Sharma, Brunel University, on social media and ambient racism, exploring forms of racism denial on Twitter
• Kirsten Forkert, Birmingham City University, on social media, racism and migration, with reference to the effects of Home Office immigration campaigns
• Nathaniel Tkacz, University of Warwick, will respond before we open up the discussion to the workshop as a whole.

Please join us to hear the panel speak about their developing work in this area, and to take part in a lively discussion. The workshop will be followed by lunch, with a chance for more informal discussion.

Register to attend

WORKSHOP: 10.30-13.00 [LUNCH AVAILABLE] SEMINAR: 13.00-16.00

Warwick Sociology Department and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow invite you to a seminar to launch:

Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and Location

Featuring discussions based on the book from:


• Emma Jackson, University of Glasgow and Hannah Jones, University of Warwick, Creeping familiarities and cosmopolitan futures

• Kieran Connell, Birmingham University, Dread Culture: Music and Identity in a British Inner City
• Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia, LSE, Agency, Ambivalence and Emotions in a Public Housing Anti-Demolition Struggle

And with a response from

• Goldie Osuri, University of Warwick

This is part of a series of events which will include talks from international researchers whose work is included in the book, with response and discussion, and a chance to mingle over refreshments and purchase the book at a discounted price. More details of the book

Register to attend

For more information, email Hannah Jones: h.jones.1@warwick.ac.uk

The Authority & Political Technologies group at Warwick hosts a series of annual events that bring together world leading, emerging and postgraduate scholars from across the social sciences whose work promises to renew post-structuralist critical thought through empirical scholarship. This year the conference will be 'Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment’.

Plenary Speakers:

• Louise Amoore (Durham)
• Christian Borch (CBS, Copehagen)
• Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck)
• Amade M'charek (Amsterdam)
• Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths)
• AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths)

For more information, to register, and to view the programme for this event, visit the conference webpage