News archive
Posted on Friday 25 May 2012
The following students have successfully completed their PhD degrees and had their awards confirmed by University Senate.
Posted on Friday 4 May 2012
Dr Nicholas Gane has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Posted on Tuesday 1 May 2012
Prof Robin Wooffitt has taken over as the new Head of Department in the Department of Sociology
Posted on Tuesday 1 May 2012
Professor Celia Kitzinger (Sociology) has been awarded a grant for an ESRC Seminar Series Grant for a project called " Advance Decisions: Informing implementation strategies through interdisciplinary and cross-national dialogue".
Posted on Wednesday 18 April 2012
This was a one day postgraduate conference which focussed on perceptions of social science disciplines in the light of current social and political upheaval and uncertainty.
Posted on Friday 27 January 2012
This is the first edition of the Department of Sociology Newsletter
Posted on Monday 23 January 2012
Photographs from the Graduation Reception Friday 20 January 2012. All the graduands were awarded post graduate Masters or PhD degrees.
Posted on Friday 4 November 2011
Department of Sociology PhD Student wins award
Posted on Thursday 3 November 2011
New book written by Prof Robin Wooffitt and Dr Nicola Holt
Posted on Thursday 3 November 2011
Iwona Machoczek is visiting the department for a month and working in SATSU. She is giving a talk on Thursday 17th November at 1.15pm in W/231D. Her title is "Cord Blood - An Analysis of the Social Issues During the Extraction, Conservation and Practice" .
Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011
Professor Johannes Hjellbrekke from the University of Bergen, Norway, has just started a three-month sabbatical in the Department of Sociology.
Posted on Tuesday 2 August 2011
This year’s Annual iCS (Information, Communication & Society) is being held in Oxford at the Oxford Internet institute between Wednesday 21 - Saturday 24 September 2011
Posted on Monday 25 July 2011
Dr Nik Brown in The Guardian: Policymakers, institutions and even language are hopelessly out of step with developments in trans-species science
Posted on Friday 22 July 2011
Eight student entrepreneurs, including a recently Sociology graduate, have taken up summer residence in the superb Ron Cooke Hub building under a new scheme offered by the University of York’s Careers Service.
Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2011
The June York Deviancy Conference was a roaring success; around 250 academics and practitioners from 30 countries joined the historic meeting which was set-up to celebrate critical studies in criminology.
Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2011
One of the Department of Sociology staff has won one of four University Supervisor Awards for her work with both undergraduate and postgraduate students
Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2011
Over one hundred students attended the recent Graduation Ceremony on Friday 15th July. Amongst them was Clare Keegan who has a story to tell about her time at York.
Posted on Wednesday 6 July 2011
Kimberly Jamie has been invited to act as an expert contributor to a Wellcome Trust-funded theatre project exploring the issues and debates raised by pharmacogenetic technology as part of Y Touring’s Theatre of Debate programme.
Posted on Friday 20 May 2011
Our thanks and congratulations are offered to the Sociology posts graduates who baked cakes and biscuits to raise funds for Multiple Sclerosis.
Posted on Monday 16 May 2011
Researchers from the University of York are hoping to create a better understanding of engineering by exploring its role in sound recording. Their starting point will be asking people working in the audio industry if they consider themselves to be technical engineers or artists - or something else entirely.
Posted on Tuesday 19 April 2011
Recent research collaborations and grants within the Department of Sociology
Posted on Tuesday 19 April 2011
Members of staff and two PhD students presented papers at the recent BSA 60th Anniversary Conference in London
Posted on Monday 4 April 2011
The Department of Sociology is involved in the BBC Great British Class Survey - one of the biggest sociological studies ever undertaken. Please read about the study and fill in the on-line survey
Posted on Thursday 10 February 2011
We have 2 ESRC Scholarships to award as part of the Sociology cluster of training pathways within the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre, a major new collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. These scholarships are available on a 1+3 or a +3 basis to students from the UK/EU.
Posted on Tuesday 1 February 2011
This studentship is part of the broader White Rose network on Global Anxieties and Urban Governance.
Posted on Monday 24 January 2011
Photographs from the Graduation Reception and Ceremony on Friday 21 January 2011
Posted on Friday 3 December 2010
The University of York has been named THE University of the Year in the 2010 Times Higher Education Awards.
Posted on Tuesday 2 November 2010
The Department of Sociology web site has been updated.
Posted on Thursday 28 October 2010
Congratulations to Rowland Atkinson and Simon Winlow who have been successful in their bid under the auspices of the Research Visitor Scheme.
Posted on Wednesday 20 October 2010
The PhD Students invited all the Department of Sociology staff and the PG community to coffee and cakes to mark the official opening of the Sociology Graduate Village
Posted on Friday 8 October 2010
Congratulations go to Tamlyn Ryan and Brian Loader for their success in applying to the Rapid Response Fund and being awarded £1124 to support academic writing
Posted on Friday 1 October 2010
Critical perspectives on crime, deviance, disorder and social harm
Posted on Wednesday 1 September 2010
One ESRC 1+3 studentship, commencing October 2010
Posted on Saturday 23 January 2010
University Graduation Ceremony, Saturday 23 January
Posted on Thursday 21 January 2010
Dr Dave Beer has given an interview to The Chronicle of Higher Education in the U.S.A on the problems of being an 'uncool sociologist'.
Posted on Wednesday 20 January 2010
Congratulations to Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce who has just had had her first book published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Posted on Sunday 20 September 2009
York researcher wins silver
Posted on Saturday 24 January 2009
Congratulation to everyone who graduated with either BA Hons, MA, MSc or PhD degrees on Saturday 24 January.
Posted on Sunday 4 January 2009
Considering the political and moral economy of umbilical cord blood banking
