Catherine Coveney will be on Laurie Taylor’s BBC radio 4 show thinking allowed on May 21^st talking about her recent article, 'Medicalisation or customisation? Sleep, enterprise and enhancement in the 24/7 society' and links to her ESRC project with Simon Williams.

Denise Riley (School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia)

Geoffrey Gilbert (Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris)

Charles Turner (Sociology, University of Warwick)

• the place of shame in the ‘affective turn’ within the Humanities
• shame and the animal who writes
• the cultural configurations of shame and writing around questions of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity
• the translation of shame across linguistic and cultural borders
• shame in history writing and anthropology
• shame and new media practices, especially the negotiation of the private/public spheres
• the shame of reading forbidden texts
• shame and plagiarism (or the writing of borrowed words)
• the writer’s shameful practices (e.g. writer’s block; interminable editing and re-drafting; the abandonment or destruction of writing; and the anxieties of ‘confessionalism’ or ‘impostureship’).

Lunar Society, Nishkam Centre, Soho Road, Handsworth - 6:40pm - Wednesday, 14th May

Liz Dowler will join Chief Executive of the Trussell Trust, Chris Mould, and Birmingham's Director of Public Health, Dr Andrew Philips, to debate food poverty and obesity, in Birmingham, later this month.

The event will ask how Birmingham has an obesity epidemic, at the same time as a major growth in the use of food banks. It is organised by the Lunar Society, and joint hosted with Midland Heart, Localise WM, and The Birmingham Leadership Foundation

Attendance is free, and open to non members.

Visit the website for more information

If you are a postgraduate student writing your dissertation, then Dissertation Station is for you. Dissertation Station is designed to provide support as you transition from the taught element of your course to writing your dissertation.

The programme, which is organised in collaboration with the Academic Writing Programme, CAL, Masters Skills Programme, Student Support and the Library, runs in the PG Hub from 28 April 2014 until the end of August offering a variety of activities that will help you to maintain your work-life balance and provide practical information and support during your dissertation.

Sessions include:

· Academic writing for your dissertation

· Literature searching

· Managing procrastination

· Practical paraphrasing

· Sensational studying

· Dissertation Survivors (Social Sciences, Sciences, Arts & Humanities)

· Drop-in sessions with the Writing Mentors and the Wellbeing Adviser

· 'Shut up & Write' sessions

· Health & wellbeing activities: e.g. Yoga

· PG Tea chats with experts & current doctoral researchers

To see the full list of events and to sign up, please have a look at our events calendar:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/pghub/your/calendar/ 

This year we are also introducing the 'relaxation room' (PG Hub 7), which can be used for short breaks to relax and recharge during your dissertation writing. (Photos are attached)

If you would like to find out more, please email: pghub@warwick.ac.uk or visit our website: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/pghub/dissertation 

Liz Dowler discusses the benefit of a living wage over food banks, in an article published today on theconversation.com

The prize was awarded after a panel of BSA judges agreed this was ‘the best sole-authored book in sociology published in the UK between 1^st December 2012 and 31^st December 2013’. 27 books were nominated for the prize and five were shortlisted.

Senior Leverhulme Research Fellow, Alexander Smith, discusses English engagement in the referendum.

Watch the video on the BBC website.

Routes to Sociology is a student-led initiative, enouraging local students from non traditional backgrounds to consider a Sociology degree at Warwick.

King Edward VI College visited the campus yesterday for a tailor-made open day, which included two taster lectures given by Nicholas Gane, and Cath Lambert; informal seminar groups; and campus tours.

Take a look at the programme for the day.

The Committee can also arrange school visits, tutoring, ementoring, and UCAS advice. Please get in touch if you are interested in more information.

The Warwick Sociology Journal is a student-led initiative, showcasing undergraduate and postgraduate work.

If you have a piece to submit or any questions, please email SociologyJournal@warwick.ac.uk

Download the latest issue, "Education and Learning."