Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences News

VACANCY Senior Research Associate in Corpus Linguistics

Date: 17 June 2013

Senior Research Associate in Corpus LinguisticsSociologySalary: £31,331 to £36,298Closing Date: Tuesday 02 July 2013Interview Date: To be co ... Read more»

VACANCY: Senior Lecturer (Media Industries)

Date: 17 June 2013

Senior Lecturer (Media Industries)SociologySalary: £47,314 to £53,233Closing Date: Monday 08 July 2013Interview Date: To be confirmedReferen ... Read more»

Ranked 3rd by the Guardian

Date: 4 June 2013

Today at the Guardian we have been ranked 3rd overall for Sociology.93% Student satisfaction for the course, not bad! ... Read more»

Evidence, Politics and Policies

Date: 4 June 2013

There are widespread current concerns about current 'policies' in various domains as failing, marginalising 'good' practices and causing harm. Yet, po ... Read more»

Theorising Surfaces: An Interdisciplinary Seminar

Date: 24 May 2013

The Storey Creative Industries Centre, LancasterTheorising Surfaces brings together academics and artists to begin mapping out a set of theoretical co ... Read more»

Surfaces in the Making

Date: 23 May 2013

23 May - 1 June 2013The Reading Room, The Storey Creative Industries Centre, LancasterFree entrySarah Casey (Lancaster University)Daniel Rozin (New Yo ... Read more»

'Evidence, Politics and Policies'.

Date: 6 June 2013

'Evidence, Politics and Policies'. When? Thursdays 6 June, 13 June, 20 June, 12-1pm Where? Bowland North SR 25 Who? Vicky Singlet ... Read more»

Wellcome Trust 'Ethics in Society' Visit DayFunding Opportunities Presentation & Clinic

Date: 3 June 2013

Wellcome Trust 'Ethics in Society' Visit Day Funding Opportunities Presentation & Clinic > Date: Monday 3rd June 2013 Time: 1pm ... Read more»

Silicon Valley or Hollywood?

Date: 29 May 2013

Upcoming talk from Adam Fish Silicon Valley or Hollywood? Place, Politics, and Technology in Cultures of Internet and Television Convergence IC ... Read more»

Proformations:The Network Activism of American TV Producers,Media Reformers,& Free Software Geeks

Date: 10 May 2013

Proformations: The Network Activism of American Television Producers, Media Reformers, and Free Software Geeks "New Media, Public Opinion and ... Read more»

Ranked 5th!

Date: 2 May 2013

Ranked number five in the UK for Sociology by the Complete University Guidehttp://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Sociol ... Read more»

CGWS coffee morning

Date: 2 May 2013

Our fabulous and friendly CGWS coffee mornings take place on Tuesdays at 9.15am in Bowland North B Floor (Sociology). These coffee mornings are for ... Read more»

Congratulations

Date: 29 April 2013

Congratulations go to Sandra Kytir who passed her viva today.If you are in the department this afternoon please come to the postgraduate kitchen are ... Read more»

CGWS Research Day: Feminism and the Digital: researching spaces, communities and media

Date: 14 June 2013

CGWS Research Day, entitled 'Feminism and the Digital: researching spaces, communities and media', will be held on Friday 14 June, 2013, in Furness ... Read more»

Queering Anarchisms- Lunchtime Seminar

Date: 8 May 2013

'Queering Anarchisms' an extended Lunchtime Seminar by Jamie Heckert 13:00-15:00 Wednesday May 8th, Bowland North Seminar Room 24 Anarchism has a lo ... Read more»

Performing Post-Post Feminisms? A One Day Workshop

Date: 2 May 2013

Performing Post-Post Feminisms? A One Day Workshop 2nd May, 2013 Charlotte Brunsdon (Film and Television Studies, Warwick University) Geraldine H ... Read more»

Spotlight (2) on Health & Medicine

Date: 2 May 2013

Spotlight (2) on Health & Medicine Thursday May 2nd 2013 The Faculty of Health & Medicine is hosting the second one-day symposium tha ... Read more»

Colin Pooley (CeMoRe) presents evidence on active travel to Welsh Assembly members

Date: 18 April 2013

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Special Issue of Citizenship Studies: Immigrant Protest

Date: 29 March 2013

Imogen Tyler (Lancaster CGWS and Sociology) and Katarzyna Marciniak (Ohio University) have edited a special issue of Citizenship Studieson the theme o ... Read more»

Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Research Day

Date: 8 March 2013

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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»

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»