Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences News

Sociology ESRC researcher comments on flooding

Date: 29 January 2013

Lessons of the 1953 East Coast flood disaster View the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9mDpPbLyUQ ​Sixty years ago, on ... Read more»

Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Research Day

Date: 8 March 2013

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Special Issue: Austerity Parenting

Date: 16 January 2013

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Dr Richard Tutton Co-Editorship of the 'New Genetics and Society'

Date: 14 January 2013

This month Dr Richard Tutton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, takes up co-editorship of the journal New Genetics and Society, publi ... Read more»

PhD Award - Erkan Ali

Date: 10 January 2013

Congratulations to Erkan Ali who passed his Sociology PhD viva today. ... Read more»

John Urry - New Book Launch

Date: 3 January 2013

Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures ISBN 9781780321684 'A brilliant book. A pioneering effort to fill a yawning ga ... Read more»

Lancaster University to host new research centre on energy DEMAND

Date: 17 December 2012

From May 2013, Elizabeth Shove, from the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, will be Co-Director of a new cross-Faculty, RCUK-funded res ... Read more»

PhD Award - Shireen Chilcott

Date: 10 December 2012

Congratulations to Shireen Chilcott who successfully defended her PhD thesis in the Department of Sociology. Her research topic was Explain ... Read more»

British citizenship naturalisation study by Ann- Marie Fortier

Date: 10 December 2012

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Dr Maggie Mort contributes to 'Trident and the Future of Barrow

Date: 7 December 2012

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Maureen McNeil talks on Genetics and Genomics

Date: 7 December 2012

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Four visions, three dimensions: the future of 3D printing

Date: 4 December 2012

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Four visions, three dimensions: the future of 3D printing

Date: 4 December 2012

Chances are you've heard about 3D printing - or additive manufacturing as it's otherwise known: a process that turns computer-aided designs into three ... Read more»

PhD Award - Yi-Ping Cheng

Date: 3 December 2012

Congratulations to Yi-Ping Cheng who successfully defended her PhD thesis. Her research topic was A Home Consumption Study: Material Flow and Stor ... Read more»

'Naked Protest' Imogen Tyler Keynote @ Finnish Women's Studies Annual Conference

Date: 16 November 2012

Women's Studies Conference, Tampere, November 16-17, 2012In November 2012 Women's Studies Annual Conference gathers together scholars in Women's and G ... Read more»

CPERC Crisis Conference

Date: 1 November 2012

The CPERC Conference "Never Waste a Crisis: Strategies of Representing and Managing Crisis After the Crash" gathered discourse analysts and political ... Read more»

Graduate School for Social Research inaugural lecture

Date: 25 October 2012

On Thursday October 25th The Graduate School for Social Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFi ... Read more»

Migrancy Research Group

Date: 7 November 2012

The Migrancy Research Group is for staff and students working in the areas of immigration, borders, citizenship, migrant workers, refugees and asylum ... Read more»

Imogen Tyler Keynote Lecture @ BSA Forthcoming Feminisms Conference

Date: 16 October 2012

Imogen Tyler will give a keynote lecture "Revolting Subjects: The Sexual and Racial Politics of Eviction and Occupation in the 'Big Society' " at the ... Read more»

Congratulations to Paula Bialski

Date: 12 September 2012

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