News
Professor Jim Beckford in The Times
Church of England faces a fresh blow with the loss of leading role in prisons - read full article here
Mark Carrigan featured on BBC News website
What is it like to be asexual?
Sam Lyle - 'Social class and Kate Middleton'
Sam Lyle, one of our PhD students, was recently on local radio talking about the social class aspects of the recent royal engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton. To catch up go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00c3gqf#synopsis
Sam says "Speaking on BBC radio, local or national, is one of the more interesting ways that I get to engage people in sociological issues. It's great when events such as the impending royal wedding capture the popular imagination as it's an opportunity for sociologists to stimulate their own and the general public's sociological imagination."
Impact.....in Sweden
Food Justice: report of the Food and Fairness Inquiry, July 2010, Food Ethics Council
http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/node/465
Publication of Food Justice: report of the Food and Fairness Inquiry - a year-long investigation into social justice in food and farming, undertaken by a committee of respected and influential figures from across the food sector.
Dr Gurminder.K.Bhambra - 'Black ideas of Emancipation'
Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and rethinking subcultural lives
Hilary Pilkington, Elena Omel'chenko and Al'bina Garifzianova
Russia’s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the ‘lumpen’ end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum.
Click on the link below to listen to the podcast by Professor Hilary Pilkington about the book.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/podcasts/media/?podcastItem=hilarypilkington.mp3
'Embodiment and identity in an extreme sporting culture'