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Dr Hannah Jones has been awarded an ESRC Impact Accelerator Award for the project 'Tate Exchange Year 1: Who are we?' building on the established collaboration between Warwick and The Tate

Dr Ana Chamberlen article 'The real prison crisis is the damage the system does to its prisoners' has been published on The Conversation.

http://theconversation.com/the-real-prison-crisis-is-the-damage-the-system-does-to-its-prisoners-68609

On June 14th 2016, CSWG organised a launch event for the book Genes and the Bioimaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture, written by our very own Prof. Deborah L. Steinberg. The event featured talks by Deborah, and also by Prof. Elizabeth Ettorre and Prof. Stuart Murray.

A video of the full event is now available here.

Maria do Mar Pereira's research on the status that scholarship from, and about, different countries has in global academic exchanges has been featured in Times Higher Education. The article focuses on a presentation that Maria do Mar gave on this research at a conference organised by the Society for Research into Higher Education, entitled "In Depth and In Between?: Conducting Ethnographic Research on Higher Education across International Borders". The title of Maria do Mar's article was "Not all “Internationals” are Created Equal: Negotiating Global Academic Hierarchies in International Ethnographies of Higher Education".

Dr Stella Chatzitheochari has been invited to take part in Eastside Community Heritage’s Online Youth Conference: “Listen, Learn, Share: Young people talk about disability, bullying and wellbeing in East London."

The conference will take place at Dagenham Library on November 22nd from 4.30 onward and it will be live streamed on Facebook. The conference is scheduled to coincide with two events: the beginning of Disability History Month and Anti-Bullying week. 
If you would like to know more about Eastside Community Heritage, please visit their website: www.hidden-histories.org.uk/wordpress/

Professor Bhambra has been honoured with a Research Associate position from the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at Wits University in South Africa in recognition of her collaborative work there

Thursday 20th October 18.00 Embrace of the Serpent Arts Centre Film screening with QnA
***** free tickets to students on a first come first served basis - please collect from Sociology Main Office ******

The Social Theory Centre and the Department of Sociology present Embrace of the Serpent film screening and Q&A with Christine and Stephen Hugh-Jones, anthropologists working in the Amazon.

“Embrace of the Serpent,” is a complicated mixture of myth and historical reality, shatters lingering illusions of First World culture as more advanced than any other, except technologically. Full review’ and ‘though inspired by real-life journals, Guerra’s haunting and beautifully shot film transports us into the realm of the mystical and surreal. Full review’.

 http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/centres/socialtheorycentre/

Dr. Stella Chatzitheochari was awarded the LIVES Best Paper Award for Young Scholars during the annual conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies(SLLS) in Bamberg, Germany, on October 6, 2016.

The LIVES Best Paper Award for Young Scholars was awarded this year during the annual conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies(SLLS) in Bamberg, Germany, on October 6, 2016, to Dr. Stella Chatzitheochari, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at Warwick , for her article “Doubly Disadvantaged? Bullying Experiences Among Disabled Children and Young People in England”, published online in 2015 and in print in 2016 in the journal Sociology (in collaboration with Samantha Parsons of the University College London and Lucinda Platt of the London School of Economics and Political Science as co-authors).

https://www.lives-nccr.ch/en/actualite/winner-lives-award-showed-how-institutional-labelling-fosters-bullying-disabled-pupils

The Toxic Expertise team are pleased to announce that we have secured some further impact funding from the IAA ESRC funds awarded by the University.

These funds will allow us to begin creating a Community Climate Change Action Network.

The Sociology Department is proud to announce an Overall Satisfaction rating of 90% in the 2016 NSS. This represents an increase of 10% on 2015 and is testament to the hard work of the department’s team of dedicated staff. The overall satisfaction rate at Warwick has increased by 1% to 88%

The National Student Survey (NSS) is a satisfaction survey for all final year undergraduate students in the UK. The survey covers topics around teaching, learning and student support. The results are intended to help future students decide where to study, and to help to ensure that universities are achieving the high standards they set for themselves.

We are especially pleased that students have appreciated the Academic Support and Personal Development opportunities available to them, along with the changes made to our Assessment & Feedback system.

We look forward to welcoming our current and incoming undergraduates in October, and working together in the coming year to further enhance the student experience in Sociology at Warwick.