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A new issue of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (2010; 13:3) and associated text has been published by Christina Hughes and Rachel Cohen.  This explodes the myth that feminists don't use quantitative approaches in their research.  Take a look at this ground breaking work at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g922967824 Or buy the text:  Hughes, C and Cohen, R (2010) Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender, Oxford, Taylor and Francis

Professor Walter Mignolo from Duke University, USA, will be a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study and will be hosted by the Department and the Social Theory Centre from 22-27 November 2010. Professor Mignolo will be involved in a number of academic activities during his time here including a reading group session on his book, ‘The Idea of Latin America’, a postgraduate advanced seminar on ‘Delinking and Connecting Histories’, as well as being involved in a symposium on ‘Decoloniality, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern’ co-organised with the Centre for Global History.

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: http://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/current.htm

http://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/events.htm

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

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264659/Beware-family-tree-You-lift-lid-things-youd-know.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7567716/Genealogy-can-open-Pandoras-box-of-family-secrets.html

Professor Christina Hughes, writing on pleasure and the PhD, see article and debate in Times Higher Educational Supplement.

 

New research by the University of Warwick and Royal Holloway finds that neither the general public nor even radical leaning Muslims have any real personal knowledge or understanding of real jihadists and both rely on stereotypes and what they can glean from the mainstream media to inform their understanding of what makes for radicalised jihadists.

Professor Beverley Skeggs: Honorary Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick 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. 

 

The Guardian online ranked Sociology as 3rd in the UK for Teaching Quality in it's University Guide 2009.