News Archive
- 29 March 2012: Annual Sociology A-Level Conference welcomes students to Colchester Campus
- Today, Thursday 29 March, our Annual Sociology A-Level Conference is taking place on the Colchester Campus
- 23 March 2012: Just images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology published in British Journal of Criminology
- Professor Eamonn Carrabine's article on visual criminology has been published in the British Journal of Criminology
- 21 March 2012: Prof Joan Busfield to moderate 'Open Secrets' roundtable
- Joan Busfield to moderate roundtable on Open Secrets: Barriers to Medical Knowledge in the Global Economy at Royal College of Psychiatrists on 21/3/2012
- 20 February 2012: Professor Colin Samson to speak at United Nations Expert Seminar
- Professor Colin Samson is to speak at a United Nations Expert Seminar on indigenous peoples' languages and cultures
- 01 February 2012: New collaborative studentship with Wellcome Trust
- The Essex Doctoral Training Centre and Department of Sociology are offering a collaborative studentship with the Wellcome Trust for 2012
- 01 February 2012: Colin Samson to give conference keynote
- Professor Colin Samson's work will feature at the British Association of Canadian Studies conference
- 31 January 2012: Michael Bailey's work to feature at Public History Discussion Group
- Michael and Simon Popple (University of Leeds) discuss the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike
- 17 January 2012: New research funding for PhD students
- The University of Essex Social Science Research Scholarship offers PhD students a selection of competitive research and teaching awards
- 16 January 2012: Two new books published by Dr Michael Bailey
- Two new books by Dr Michael Bailey have been published about Richard Hoggart, one of the 'inventors' of cultural studies
- 21 December 2011: Have the boundaries of mental illness been overextended?
- A new book by Joan Busfield argues that the boundaries of mential illness have been overextended
- 06 December 2011: Pete Fussey's research to feature at BSA 'Social Sciences and the Olympic Games' event
- Pete's work on 'Securing the Olympic City' will feature in a multi-speaker event at the British Library Conference Centre Monday 27 February, 2012
- 29 November 2011: Eamonn Carrabine's research features at City University seminar
- Professor Carrabine will be presenting 'Just Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology' at City University on Thursday 1 December
- 28 November 2011: Research on history of kinship and sibling relationships gets BBC coverage
- Professor Leonore Davidoff interviewed on BBC R4 Woman's Hour
- 18 November 2011: Linsey McGoey to speak on the rise of 'philanthrocapitalism'
- A series of talks on the tendency for a new breed of donors to conflate business aims with charitable endeavours.
- 17 November 2011: Launch of 'The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance'
- Editors Michael Bailey and Des Freedman will be at the launch at Housman Bookshop, London on 23/11
- 14 November 2011: Eamonn Carrabine to speak at American Society of Criminology conference in Washington
- Prof. Carrabine's work on 'The Iconography of Punishment: Execution Prints and the Death Penalty' features at ASC conference
- 03 November 2011: Dr Michael Bailey to speak at London Counterforum event
- Dr Michael Bailey will be speaking at the London Counterforum: The Politics of Resistance event on 5 November about the marketisation of Higher Education.
- 25 October 2011: Professor honoured in Pink List 2011
- Professor Ken Plummer has received a lifetime achievement award from the Independent on Sunday's Pink List 2011
- 20 October 2011: Professor Diane Elson presents at University of Manitoba
- Professor Diane Elson visited the University of Manitoba to talk about human rights and international economics
- 01 October 2011: Dr Yasemin Soysal to give British Journal of Sociology 2011 public lecture
- Dr Soysal will discuss 'Citizenship and Immigration: rights and obligations of individuality' at LSE on 18 October 2011
- 30 September 2011: Ken Plummer's work to feature in BSA Presidential Event
- Ken Plummer: Tales of a Critical Humanist - Monday 17th October 2011 The British Library Conference Centre, London
- 28 September 2011: Pere Ayling's research contributes to Times Education Supplement (TES) article
- Pere Ayling's research to find out why Nigerian children come and study in the UK contributes to an article in TES magazine
- 19 September 2011: Faculty of Social Sciences Masters Scholarship launched
- The Faculty of Social Sciences has launched a new competitive Masters Scholarship.
- 13 September 2011: Prof. Lydia Morris' work on rights, recognition and welfare published
- 'Rights, Recognition and Judgment: Reflections on the Case of Welfare and Asylum' appears in The British Journal of Politics & International Relations
- 06 September 2011: Dr Michael Bailey to visit China
- Dr. Michael Bailey is to give a series of related lectures on ‘Globalisation, Anticapitalism and Associative Democracy’ in China.
- 26 August 2011: Co-director of new MA Psychosocial Studies to speak at British Sociological Association seminar
- Professor Michael Roper, Co-Director of the new MA Psychosocial Studies course, has been asked to speak on future developments in psychosocial studies
- 24 August 2011: Michael Bailey invited to be a member of the Co-ordinating Committee for Media Reform
- The Committee will co-ordinate input to the Leveson Inquiry into press regulation and ethics as well as the DCMS' ongoing Communications Review.
- 10 August 2011: Sociology post-grad wins Mildred Blaxter post-doctoral fellowship
- Emma Weddell wins prestigious fellowship to support publication of her PhD research
- 05 July 2011: Green Jobs and Ethical Workers
- New research project to study the work histories and ethical values of 'green collar' workers
- 23 June 2011: Colin Samson on Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
- Film on Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change to be shown at Origins: Festival of First Nations followed by Q&A with Prof Samson
- 17 June 2011: Twitter helps to strengthen collaborative research with Taiwan
- Professor Mark Harvey invited to be a Visiting Scholar at the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan to facilitate collaborative research on bottled water.
- 03 June 2011: Apply now for a Department Scholarship to study a Masters in 2011
- Funding available to study one of our taught masters for 2011 entry
- 26 May 2011: Edge Scholar grants for the University of Essex's flagship MA in Sociology and Management
- Three Edge Foundation funded scholarships available for our joint Sociology/Essex Business School MA in Sociology and Management.
- 25 May 2011: Sociology Alumna wins Asian Women of Achievement Award
- Essex graduate Dr Aisha Gill has been named “Professional of the Year” at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2011.
- 19 May 2011: Michael Bailey's "The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance" attracts pre-launch attention
- Michael and Des Freedman's edited collection captures press and media attention
- 19 May 2011: New MA Sociology and MSc Organised Crime for 2011 entry
- Our new flagship MA Sociology and the new MSc Organised Crime, Terrorism and Security are accepting applications for Autumn 2011 entry
- 13 May 2011: Sociology professor receives Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University
- Miriam Glucksmann, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, has been selected to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University
- 13 May 2011: 16 ESRC funded studentships available in the social sciences - apply now!
- The University of Essex has become one of only 21 Doctoral Training Centres (DTC) accredited by the UK Economic and Social Research Council
- 21 April 2011: Lifetime achievement awarded to Professor David Lockwood former Head of Department for Sociology
- Professor David Lockwood has been awarded one of the first ever lifetime achievement awards from the BSA for his pioneering work
- 11 April 2011: Essex Sociology features at international conference to be held at Shanghai International Studies University
- Michael Bailey will give a keynote on Property, Aetheticization and Global Cultural Studies
- 04 April 2011: Asylum, welfare and the cosmopolitan ideal: A sociology of rights
- Prof. Lydia Morris' book now out in paperback.
- 17 March 2011: New research on social network structures
- New BT funded project to use large call record data sets to explore emergent social structures over time
- 08 March 2011: Diane Elson to speak at 'Austerity is not the only option: using human rights to audit the impact of public policy'
- Prof. Elson will ask whether 'austerity' is compatible with the UK’s human rights obligations and what tools of analysis are required to find out?
- 02 March 2011: Faculty of Social Sciences Postgrad Open Day
- Faculty specific postgrad open day from 5pm to 6.30pm in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall of the Colchester Campus. Learn about our MA/PhD opportunities.
- 01 March 2011: Pete Fussey's new book 'Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City' published
- Are utopian visions of legacy sustainable? An analysis of social and community impact of the 2012 Games and its security operation on East London...
- 18 February 2011: Nick Allum's research suggests a new era in the relations between science and society
- Dr Allum and colleagues's paper in Nature Biotechnology hints at a more sophisticated appraisal of the benefits technologies offer.
- 17 February 2011: Diane Elson gives lecture on Gender Budget Analysis for an Age of Austerity
- Prof. Elson's lecture drew on analysis made by the UK Women’s Budget Group of the UK public expenditure cuts announced in November 2011.
- 28 January 2011: Dick Hobbs' research on crime & the Olympics catches media attention
- Dick and colleagues from Brunel and Durham are looking at the policing of Olympic-related crime in the run up, during and after the Olympics.
- 27 January 2011: Essex Sociology contributes to the Beddington Report
- Mark Harvey's work helps to under-pin the recent UK Government Foresight ('Beddington') report on Global Food and Farming Futures
- 20 January 2011: The Gates Effect: the anti-politics of new philanthropic movements
- Linsey McGoey to speak at Essex Business and Human Rights Project seminar on 26/2/2011
- 19 January 2011: Dick Hobbs on R4's Thinking Allowed on crime in West Belfast
- Dick discusses the pseudo-judicial process administered by paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland with Laurie Taylor and Heather Hamill
- 10 January 2011: Collection on religion and socio-cultural change published
- Michael Bailey's edited collection Mediating Faiths:Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century has been published by Ashgate.
- 07 January 2011: CRESI research on transitions to biofuels cause a stir
- Mark Harvey's interviews with a number of NGOs suggests that NGO policy on biofuels has often been driven by political opportunities rather than science.
- 06 January 2011: Research on a 'broadcasting university' published
- Michael Bailey's analysis of early 20th Century adult education through the BBC appears in Citizenship Studies
- 06 January 2011: Fresh media coverage for research on false self-employment
- Mark Harvey comments on Daily Mirror investigation that highlights false self-employment practices.
- 22 December 2010: Sociology MA alumnus confirmed as Iraqi Foreign Minister
- Hoshyar Zebari confirmed in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's new government.
- 06 December 2010: Pete Fussey's new book on Terrorism and the Olympics published
- The book outlines the problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of contemporary serious and enduring threats.
- 30 November 2010: Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
- Róisín Ryan-Flood's book: now out in paperback.
- 28 November 2010: New research from Nick Allum and colleagues suggests deprivation not diversity reduces trust
- Poverty and inequality are six times more likely than ethnic diversity to cause British people to be suspicious of their neighbours.
- 22 November 2010: Mark Harvey to speak at Edinburgh's STIS
- Mark will give a talk on "The Changing Role of the State in Innovation: Global Climate Change, ‘Peak Oil’, and Biofuels"
- 09 November 2010: Mark Harvey's work on bioresources data features in Science
- Mark and co-authors put the case for a "bottom-up" integration and "top-down" financing of databases and biorepositories on an international scale.
- 08 November 2010: Department and ISER to host the 2011 Spring Meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Social Stratification
- Call for papers and imminent deadline - 15th November 2010
- 29 October 2010: High praise for Colin Samson's work with the Innu
- "There are very few authors who... reflect Orwell’s moral challenge. Two such intellectuals are are E. P. Thompson and Colin Samson"
- 21 October 2010: Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology - out now!
- 10th issue and bursting with fantastic work
- 19 October 2010: Pam Cox in the Telegraph on the roots of 'Essex Man'
- 18 October 2010: Robin Blackburn's call for a Public Utility Finance System published
- 'In the 21st century the key institution may well prove to be the publicly-owned and controlled financial fund.'
- 11 October 2010: Pete Fussey to speak at Global security event
- Pete will take part in an expert panel 'Question Time' session on CCTV
- 08 October 2010: Sean Nixon to give keynote at ‘Elite Formation, Consumption and Urban Spaces’ conference
- Humboldt University, Berlin 26th November 2011
- 30 September 2010: Jennifer Bullen's Phd research on WaGs in the media again
- Fresh coverage in the FT...
- 08 September 2010: Department welcomes new members of staff
- Four outstanding sociologists to join the Department for the 2010/11 academic year
- 06 September 2010: Prof. Mark Harvey's new edited collection 'Markets, rules and institutions of exchange' published
- In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis in markets, the book makes a topical and significant contribution.
- 13 August 2010: Dr Dave Elder-Vass' new book 'The Causal Power of Social Structures' published
- 'Dave Elder-Vass has written a book of exceptional clarity in defence of realist ontology with an unusual generosity of examples.'
- 05 August 2010: IDEATE vol 4 Summer 2010 - out now!
- IDEATE showcases and celebrates the very best of our undergraduate work, including essays, projects, presentations and more exploratory pieces
- 04 August 2010: Senior Research Officers wanted to work on Prof. Miriam Glucksmann's ERC grant
- Applications are invited for two European Research Council funded Senior Research Officer Posts in the Department of Sociology
- 30 July 2010: Max Planck Institute and European Research Council honours for Prof. Ewa Morawska
- Ewa has been invited to join a Max Planck Institute Academic Advisory Board and the Social Sciences and Humanities panel of the European Research Council
- 22 July 2010: Sociology Graduation TODAY!
- Ceremony at 4pm, Departmental reception at 6pm-7.30pm in the Lakeside Marquee. If you can't be there, watch online!
- 11 July 2010: Dr Jackie Turton's work features at British Society of Criminology Conference 2010
- Jackie's research on female sexual abusers, children's rights and the victims of maternal incest presented in two papers and her book is now in paperback!
- 21 June 2010: Review of Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
- Róisín and Rosalind's book "a treasure trove of intellectually powerful and unflinching analyses"
- 21 June 2010: "Salesmen of the Will to Want" - new paper by Sean Nixon
- Published in Contemporary British History, Volume 24, Issue 2 June 2010, Sean's paper examines the history and context of TV advertising 1951-1967
- 15 June 2010: New paper by Lydia Morris
- "Sociology and the Two Faces of Human Rights" published in Sociology Compass
- 05 May 2010: New research on Turkish migration in Europe
- Dr Ayse Guveli and colleagues secure 2.4Meuro to study the migration histories of Turks in Europe through an innovative longitudinal historical project
- 03 May 2010: Prof. Rob Stones' work on 'Big IT' in healthcare published
- The paper focuses sociological theory on the question “What happens when government tries to modernise a health service with the help of big IT?”
- 29 April 2010: Nigel South's work features at Legal and Criminological Consequences of Climate Change event
- 22 April 2010: Wanted: Lecturers & Senior Lecturer/Reader
- We are advertising for Lecturers in Sociology and in Media & Communications (Closing 27 April) and a SL/Reader in Criminology (Closing 13 May)
- 15 April 2010: New ESRC funding for sustainable consumption research
- CRESI’s Professor Mark Harvey and Dr Ben Anderson have secured substantial ESRC funding to develop their work on sustainable consumption.
- 04 April 2010: New book features Ted Benton's work on Darwin and Wallace
- Professor Benton's "Race, sex and the ‘earthly paradise’: Wallace versus Darwin on human evolution and prospects" is opening chapter in a new collection.
- 30 March 2010: Miriam Glucksmann wins €810k to study "Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour"
- Prof. Miriam Glucksman's has secured a €810k grant from the highly competitive and prestigious European Research Council Advanced Investigator scheme.
- 28 March 2010: Media coverage: A pill for every ill?
- Professor Joan Busfield’s research on the expansion in medicine use generates media interest.
- 17 March 2010: Postgraduate Open Day - 17th March
- Come and see what postgraduate courses and research opportunities we have to offer from this October.
- 16 March 2010: IDEATE vol 3 2010 - online now!
- IDEATE celebrates and publishes the very best of our undergraduate work.
- 11 March 2010: Diane Elson and the Casablanca Dreamers
- Prof. Diane Elson's work featured recently in two panel sessions at the United Nations as part of the 54th Annual UN Commission on the Status of Women.
- 10 March 2010: Essex academic gives prestigious 2010 Oxford Amnesty Lecture
- Robin Blackburn's work on slavery and human rights is to feature in a prestigious 2010 Oxford Amnesty Lecture.
- 04 February 2010: Research on migrant re-integration services published
- Dr Darren Thiel and colleagues' work on migrants' experiences of the UK Border Agencies' Assisted Voluntary Return programmes has been published.
- 28 January 2010: Recent publications on conceptions of punishment, cosmopolitanism and advertising/market research
- Sociology research features in the Prison Service Journal, the British Journal of Sociology and the Journal of Cultural Economy
- 04 January 2010: New graduate student scholarships for 2010/11 entry
- Apply now for fully funded ESRC graduate student scholarships for 2010/11 entry. These cover 1 year MA and then 3 years of PhD study.
- 11 December 2009: New book on the Sociology of Immigration
- Professor Ewa Morawska has published a new book entitled 'A Sociology of Immigration'.
- 10 December 2009: Human Rights Day Celebrations: Panel discussion on discrimination
- Sociology's Prof. Lydia Morris will be a chairing a panel of discussion on discrimination in the Law Common Room (5S.6.17) at 7pm-8pm.
- 10 December 2009: Re-using the ESDS Qualidata Pioneers of Qualitative Research Collection
- A one-day seminar at the University of Essex, Colchester on the ESDS Qualidata Pioneers of Qualitative Research collection and its academic re-use.
- 02 December 2009: Essex Sociology research to feature at Institute of Historical Research event
- A round-table discussion of Michael Roper's The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War
- 01 December 2009: New research on 'Digital Inclusion' for health
- Dr Ben Anderson, in collaboration with Dr Ewen Speed (Health & Human Sciences) have secured funding from to develop a 'Digital Inclusion for Health.
- 20 November 2009: Peter Townsend Memorial Service and Conference
- A memorial service will be held on 19th November and a memorial conference on the 20th.
- 04 November 2009: Mike Roper on "Home Fires Burning: supporting the soldiers of the Great War"
- Essex sociologist contributes to the Queen and Country Talks programme
- 27 October 2009: Good cop, bad cop?
- New article by Darren Thiel in Public Service Review
- 20 October 2009: Academics Abroad
- Academics and students from the department are giving talks in far-flung parts of the world...
- 20 October 2009: British Academy-funded workshop in Mexico
- 20 October 2009: Mitigating Climate Change
- 20 October 2009: PhD successes
- 20 October 2009: First CRESI Working Papers Are Published
- 15 October 2009: New CRESI website launched
- 15 October 2009: It's no way to make a living...
- Check out Lynne Pettinger's new venture...
- 20 September 2009: Fresher's Week Info
- 16 September 2009: Dennis Marsden Memoriam
- 09 September 2009: Catch Michael Roper on R4's Thinking Allowed
- 27 August 2009: Sociology Graduation 2009 - Photos
- 19 August 2009: Pioneer Projects grant for Paul Thompson & Ken Plummer
- 11 August 2009: Tributes to Peter Townsend
- 11 August 2009: Peter Townsend: Wyvern Extract
- 15 July 2009: Follow essexsociology on twitter
- 22 June 2009: Migration research – grant success
- 17 June 2009: Talk: Capitalism as multi-modal economic process: a neo-Polanyian approach
- 17 June 2009: Book: Public or Private Economies of Knowledge
- 17 June 2009: Consultancy: Evaluating Youth Justice Reform in Vietnam
- 16 June 2009: British Journal of Sociology article by Lydia Morris
- 16 June 2009: New book from former PhD student
- 16 June 2009: New report on policing and terrorism in the UK
- 29 May 2009: New Book: Women On The Line: Updated Edition
- 29 May 2009: New Book: Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship
- 29 May 2009: Teaching: MSc Survey Methods for Social Research new for 2009
- 29 May 2009: Teaching: MA Migration and Citizenship new for 2009
- 29 May 2009: Talk: ‘Marx on Possession and Abstraction’
- 15 May 2009: Publication: IDEATE – new Undergraduate Journal
- 10 April 2009: Documentary film
- 03 April 2009: New Book: The Secret Battle. Emotional Survival in the Great War
- 02 April 2009: Conference: Essex @ the British Sociological Association Annual Conference
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