News archive
Posted on Monday 13 May 2013
Dr Nisha Kapoor has edited a new book: The State of Race
Posted on Monday 29 April 2013
Prof Sharon Macdonald publishes a new book: Memorylands
Posted on Wednesday 27 March 2013
The latest edition of the Department of Sociology Newsletter has now been released.
Posted on Friday 22 March 2013
Dr Amanda Rees has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship: Excavating Deep History: historiography, methodology and narratives of human nature
Posted on Friday 22 March 2013
Each month Epilepsy Action Magazine Seizure Reviewers read the summaries of the articles in the latest issue of Seizure. They then decide which one should be readers' choice. In December 2012 it was the turn of Catherine Robson (PhD student in Department of Sociology), Paul Drew, Traci Walker, Markus Reuber, The University of York and the University of Sheffield
Posted on Thursday 14 March 2013
Laurie has recently published two new articles. The first of these looks at ethnicity and education aspirations in Brussels, while the second focuses on how museum visitors understand and conceptualise the art that they see. More information appears below about both of these, which are now available online.
Posted on Wednesday 20 February 2013
The Department is pleased to announce that we are able to award two 50th Anniversary Postgraduate Scholarships each worth £10,000
Posted on Wednesday 20 February 2013
Dr Paul Johnson has participated in a one-hour panel discussion about sexual orientation and human rights on China Radio International
Posted on Monday 11 February 2013
Celia Kitzinger has been awarded a grant from the ESRC to fund further research on chronic disorders of consciousness.
Posted on Tuesday 29 January 2013
21 graduands graduated at the University ceremony on Friday 24 January
Posted on Wednesday 23 January 2013
A one year position is now available. Apply by 13 February 2013 (extended deadline)
Posted on Thursday 20 December 2012
Back in October, Prof Sarah Nettleton took part in a seminar on Endurance Sports at the University of Warwick.
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012
An interview with Colin Campbell, emeritus professor in the department, has been published in a special issue of an Italian sociology journal
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012
Laurie Hanquinet gives a press conference in Belgium
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012
Lecturer in sociology Gareth Millington has just published an article in Sociological Research Online. In the paper Gareth offers an urban perspective on the disturbances of August, 2011 arguing that the socio-spatiality of contemporary London plays a critical role in explaining how and why the riots unfolded in the highly idiosyncratic form they did. The article is unashamedly inspired by Marshall Berman’s (1982) classic text, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, especially in terms of understanding the friction that exists in the city between competing forms of urban modernism.
Posted on Tuesday 18 December 2012
Well done to SATSU Research Fellow Kim Jamie on receiving an award for her 'outstanding' PFA teaching portfolio
Posted on Wednesday 28 November 2012
Written by Dr Paul Johnson
Posted on Wednesday 28 November 2012
Edited by Dr Rowland Atkinson and Prof Simon Winlow
Posted on Wednesday 28 November 2012
Dr Michaela Benson, of the University's Department of Sociology, aims to shed light on the diversity of self-builders, their motivations, and their decisions concerning what and how to build.
Posted on Tuesday 16 October 2012
An international project on the use of mobile phones and digital identities
Posted on Wednesday 22 August 2012
Congratulations to Jennifer Reynolds, PhD student, Department of Sociology who won third prize in a competition to commemorate the Olympic Torch Relay in York. Ten University of York PhD students presented their research to a lay audience and ‘passed on the baton’ of research to the next generation.
Posted on Friday 27 July 2012
Success for Kimberly Jamie in her PGCAP (Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice) qualification
Posted on Friday 13 July 2012
Brian Loader has been awarded a research grant from the Spencer Foundation.
Posted on Friday 13 July 2012
Celia Kitzinger has won one of the University of York C2D2 awards for 'Chronic Disorders of Consciousness:An interdisciplinary Research Project'
Posted on Friday 6 July 2012
The University of York has been awarded a top 8 UK ranking and a top 46 world ranking in Sociology. Published annually since 2004, QS World University Rankings® is the most trusted university ranking in the world.
Posted on Thursday 28 June 2012
The Department of Sociology, University of York is offering an AHRC-funded Collaborative PhD studentship with the British Museum.
Posted on Thursday 21 June 2012
3 Minute Thesis Competition in Collaboration with York Enterprise 2012: Ready, steady, GROW at York Race Course
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
