News
Professor Margaret Archer
Reflecting upon Reflexivity: is it just idle internal conversation? Pavis Lecture live podcast available at http://stadium.open.ac.uk/berrill/
Great Success at the British Sociological Conference, 2008
- Dr Gurminder K Bhambra was awarded the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for her book 'Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination' (2007, Palgrave MacMillan).
- Dr Richard Lampard was awarded the Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence for his article 'Is Social Mobility an Echo of Educational Mobility? Parents' Educations and Occupations and their Children's Occupational Attainment' published in Sociological Research On-Line (2007, Volum 12, Issue 5)
Simon Williams and Sleep Research
Sleep Research: Professor
Simon Williams will be debating the issue of taking drugs to keep you
awake for 24 hours a day at the Wellcome Trust, 28 February 2008.
Dr Bob Carter, appointed to the Editorial Board of Sociology
Robert Fine and the European Sociological Association on Racism
Professor
Robert Fine, co-convenor with Dr Claudine Attias Donfut of the new
network in the European Sociological Association on Racism, antisemitism and ethnic relations.
Professor Robert Fine, appointed to Board of British Journal of Sociology
'Cosmopolitanism'
'Cosmopolitanism' is Professor Robert Fine's new book published by Routledge as part of the Key Ideas Series, 2007. 200pp.
Ethnographic Futures: Transatlantic Dialogue and Debate
The Department Of Sociology Announces An Autumn Term Seminar Series ‘Ethnographic Futures: Transatlantic Dialogue and Debate’
Work in Progress: Call for papers
"Work in Progress: Research Spaces, Research Journeys", Second Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference, Saturday 1 December 2007