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Educational Research
Book launch
Date: 8 May 2013
The Centre announcesa book launch on 2 September 2013. Inclusive technology enhanced learning: Overcoming Cognitive, Physical, Emotional and Geogra ... Read more»
Viva Congratulations
Date: 3 May 2013
Very many congratulations to the following on their recent PhD awards. Dr Sandra Varey was awarded 'Forthwith' recently, she was supervised ... Read more»
Viva Congratulations
Date: 25 April 2013
Very many congratulations to Dr Jane Costello on the award of PhD. Jane is a member of Cohort 2 of the Doctoral Programme in E-Resear ... Read more»
School farms and eating animals you have cared for
Date: 15 April 2013
Prof Saunders is researching how schools with farms use them to enhance lessons across the curriculum as well as to boost pupils' confidence and tea ... Read more»
UNESCO - World Summit review meeting
Date: 25-27 February 2013
Joining colleagues from the International Federation for Information Processing, Professor Don Passey led feedback in a session at the recent UNESCO ... Read more»
Stockport children swap the classroom for the farmyard
Date: 21 February 2013
Murray Saunders was interviewed on Granada Reports, 20 February, in a feature about a University project , based in a partnership with the Schools Far ... Read more»
New online PhD Programme in Higher Education Research, Evaluation and Enhancement
Date: 15 January 2013
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The silent and the strange
Date: 21 December 2012
Paula Burkinshaw's PhD research was reported in the Times Higher Education on 20th December 2012. The report drew on aspects of Paula's paper entitl ... Read more»
New online PhD programme in Education and Social Justice
Date: 28 November 2012
The Department of Educational Research is launching a new online PhD - by coursework and thesis - in Education and Social Justice. It's a part-time pr ... Read more»
International Partnership on Evaluation and Social Justice
Date: 26 November 2012
International Partnership on Evaluation and Social Justice Professor Murray Saunders has been centrally involved in the development of Evalpartn ... Read more»
Higher Education Close Up 7 Conference at Lancaster
Date: 28 October 2012
The 7th conference devoted to fine-grained research into higher education, Higher Education Close Up (HECU) will be held at Lancaster, July 21-23 2014 ... Read more»
English and Creative Writing
Sarah Sibley's Agenda
Date: 21 May 2013
Sarah Sibley, an alumnus of the Lancaster Writing Programme, was selected as one of three young broadsheet poets to have their work featured in the Wi ... Read more»
Welcome, Sharon Ruston
Date: 21 May 2013
The Department of English and Creative Writing is delighted to announce the appointment of Sharon Ruston, currently Professor of Nineteenth Century ... Read more»
Paul Farley's Roscoe Lecture
Date: 17 May 2013
Paul Farley delivered the 110th Roscoe Lecture in Liverpool this week to a 600-strong audience in the city's St Geroge's Hall.The Roscoe public le ... Read more»
After Awater
Date: 30 April 2013
Congratulations to Jane Draycott on being awarded faculty research funding to support her Literature Residency at the Dutch Foundation to undert ... Read more»
Jenn Ashworth and 'The Friday Gospels'
Date: 26 April 2013
Jenn Ashworth has appeared at two events this week, speaking about her latest novel, 'The Friday Gospels'. On Wednesday 2th April, she spoke to underg ... Read more»
New publication by Roger Ebbatson
Date: 19 April 2013
We are very pleased to announce that Roger Ebbatson, an Honorary Research Professor in the Department, has a new book coming out in May 2013, entitled ... Read more»
Associate Lecturer to join Leverhulme-Funded Project
Date: 19 April 2013
Dr Liam Haydon is an Associate Lecturer in the Department and has just been appointed as the Research Assistant for a five-year Leverhulme-funded proj ... Read more»
Jenn Ashworth is No Stranger to Controversy
Date: 15 April 2013
Jenn Ashworth will be in conversation with John Sweeney and Michael Odell at the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival later this week about dealing w ... Read more»
Polly Atkin and the Mslexia Competition Pamphlet Launch
Date: 15 April 2013
The launch Of Polly Atkin's prizewinning poetry pamphlet, 'Shadow Dispatches' will take place on Saturday 20th April at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasme ... Read more»
Paul Farley's 'The Water Babies'
Date: 27 March 2013
Follow the link below to listen to Paul Farley's playful updating of Charles Kingsley's 150 year old children's novel, The Water Babies Young Tomi ... Read more»
Jayne Steel on James Herbert
Date: 26 March 2013
Jayne Steel was on BBC Radio 4's 'Last Word' on Sunday, talking about James Herbert, the horror writer. Listen again by following the link below. ... Read more»
Creative Writing MA Student Shortlisted for the Postry School/Pighog Press Pamphlet Competition
Date: 7 March 2013
Janet Lees, a current MA student in the Lancaster Writing Programme, has had her poetry pamphlet 'The Magpie in Your Ribcage' shortlisted in the Poe ... Read more»
Former Distance Learning MA Student Shortlisted for Major Prize
Date: 5 March 2013
Catherine Mee, who graduated from the Distance Learning MA in Creative Writing in 2012, was shortlisted for the 2012 Salt's International Prize (short ... Read more»
Ray Robinson rejoins the Department of English and Creative Writing
Date: 1 March 2013
The Royal Literary Fund Fellowship scheme brings published writers into universities to help students from all disciplines with their academic wri ... Read more»
Jenn Ashworth at Newnham College Literary Archive Event
Date: 25 February 2013
Jenn Ashworth from the Lancaster Writing Programme (Department of English and Creative Writing) has been invited to speak with Patricia Dunker a ... Read more»
Paul Farley on BBC Radio 4
Date: 25 February 2013
The Echo Chamber is s a new programme on BBC Radio 4, introduced by Paul Farley and featuring the best of poetry now. The first in the series looks at ... Read more»
The Missing Slate
Date: 22 February 2013
The Missing Slate, an arts and literary journal founded by Lancaster graduate Maryam Piracha (Creative Writing MA, 2011), has celebrated Interna ... Read more»
Final Year Undergraduate Student is a Published Children's Author
Date: 18 February 2013
Beth Cortese, a final year undergraduate studying for a degree in English Literature with Creative Writing, has recently had her book for children ... Read more»
Second-Year Student's Stage Production of 'The Canterbury Tales'
Date: 15 February 2013
''Tell me, have you ever heard a tale To chill the bones and flatten the ale?' 'The Canterbury Tales' is a new adaptation for the stage by se ... Read more»
A strong start for the Lancaster Writing Awards
Date: 5 February 2013
The first Lancaster Writing Awards for Poetry, Prose and Criticism have now closed to entries. With 120 entries from Year 12 students across the UK, t ... Read more»
Creative Writing MA Student longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize 2012
Date: 4 February 2013
Lancaster Creative Writing MA student Janet Lees and photographer/videographer Rooney have had a collaborative piece longlisted for the Aesthetica A ... Read more»
Pathways to Imapct - Funding Successes
Date: 29 January 2013
We are pleased to announce that two funding applications to the University-wide 'Pathways to Impact' scheme have each been awarded £4,00 Youn ... Read more»
Wordsworth Trust in Residence - Exhibition Opening
Date: 21 January 2013
The Department of English and Creative Writing is pleased to announce that, as part of the University's special agreement with the Wordsworth Trus ... Read more»
Jenn Ashworth on BBC Breakfast
Date: 14 January 2013
Jenn Ashworth will be appearing on BBC 1 Breakfast tomorrow (15th January), talking about 'The Friday Gospels'. ... Read more»
Undergraduate's Appointment at Buckingham Palace
Date: 11 January 2013
Congratulations to Sarah Kinley, a first year English with Creative Writing student who will be visiting Buckingham Palace on 15th January 2013 to col ... Read more»
Jenn Ashworth on BBC's 'Front Row'
Date: 11 January 2013
Jenn Ashworth will be speaking about her new novel, The Friday Gospels, in an interview with Mark Lawson for BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row', to be broadcas ... Read more»
Martha Sprackland
Date: 4 January 2013
The Department is very pleased to congratulate Martha Sprackland on her appointment as Assistant Poetry Editor at Faber. Martha read for both he ... Read more»
Prof Simon Bainbridge on BBC Radio 3
Date: 14 December 2012
Professor Simon Bainbridge travels to Paris and Waterloo to trace the footsteps of Napoleon's literary pilgrims and decriers - this Sunday night on BB ... Read more»
Visit by Paul Muldoon
Date: 11 December 2012
We are delighted to announce that on May 7-8th 2013 the poet Paul Muldoon, winner of a Pulizter Prize for Poetry, former Oxford Professor of Poe ... Read more»
Dr Polly Atkin wins Mslexia Poetry Pamplhlet Prize
Date: 4 December 2012
Congratulations to Dr Polly Atkin, one of our Associate Lecturers and a former PhD student, who has just won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition w ... Read more»
European Languages and Cultures
DELC Head of Department quoted in Guardian Teacher Network article
Date: 13 May 2013
Dr. Crawshaw contributed to an article looking at the language learning landscape in the UK, in particular in the light of the new draft primary and s ... Read more»
DELC postgrad to talk at NW Doctoral Training Centre symposium
Date: 30 April 2013
DELC Postgraduate student Jenny Wattrus will give a paper at the North West Doctoral Training Centre, Language-Based Area Studies Pathway, Postgradu ... Read more»
Rebecca Braun awarded an AHRC Early Career Fellowship
Date: 16 January 2013
Rebecca Braun has been awarded an AHRC Early Career Fellowship for over £170 000 for her major interdisciplinary project 'The Author and the Wo ... Read more»
History
Sarah-Ann Robin on Radio 4
Date: 21 May 2013
Sarah-Ann Robin, a History PhD student, appeared on Radio 4's Making History on 14th May 2013 to talk about her research on material culture and emoti ... Read more»
Derek Sayer on Night Waves
Date: 23 May 2013
Professor Derek Sayer will be discussing his new book Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History with Rajendra Chitnis (Bristol Un ... Read more»
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in Early-Modern Economic History
Date: 20 May 2013
Current MA student, Matthew Pawelski, has been awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, to work on a PhD in early-modern history. The pro ... Read more»
Professor Derek Sayer's new book reviewed in Financial Times
Date: 7 May 2013
Professor Derek Sayer's new book Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), was rev ... Read more»
Two New Historians at Lancaster from 2013
Date: 7 May 2013
The Department of History will be welcoming two new colleagues from August 2013 to extend its range ofhigh-quality research andteaching. Professor ... Read more»
Monograph Wins Prize
Date: 23 March 2013
Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored by Dr James Taylor, has been awarded the Ralph Gomory ... Read more»
Angus Winchester interviewed for BBC Radio 4
Date: 26 February 2013
Professor Angus Winchester, Department of History, has been been interviewed for the 'Making History' programme on BBC Radio 4 at 3.02 p.m. on Tu ... Read more»
Essay by History PhD Student is Recognised by the Dorothy Dunnett Society
Date: 4 February 2013
An essay byAdrian Cornell du Houx (History, PhD) has been commended by the trustees of theDorothy Dunnett Society. The essay—entitled 'A Courtly Myste ... Read more»
Professor Jeffery Richards writes blog for The Independent
Date: 18 January 2013
The AHRC funded 3 year research project on the cultural history of Victorian pantomime concluded on 30 September 2012. It will result in tw ... Read more»
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Trinity College, University Dublin's Visiting Professorships & Fellowships Scheme
Date: 6 February 2013
Professor Elaine Aston is to be a 2013 recipient of Trinity College, University Dublin's Visiting Professorships & Fellowships Scheme.Her grant- ... Read more»
Law
Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley to attend ESRAN Workshop at UCD, Ireland.
Date: 24 May 2013
Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley attended the bi-annual colloquium of the Economic and Social Rights Academic Network UK and Ireland (ESRAN-UKI) at UCD, Dublin ... Read more»
Professor Steven Wheatley presents paper at King's College London.
Date: 9 April 2013
Professor Steven Wheatley presented a paper on 'Deliberative Democracy and International Human Rights' at a Workshop on 'The law of del ... Read more»
Professor Wheatley takes part in the Bahrain International Symposium.
Date: 31 March 2013
Professor Steven Wheatley was an invited Participant and member of the Judiciary Panel at the Bahrain International Symposium (University of Bahrain ... Read more»
Dr. Amanda Cahill-Ripley gives a training seminar on 'The Right to Food'
Date: 20 March 2013
Dr. Amanda Cahill-Ripley was invited to give a training seminar on 'The Right to Food' by Advocates for International Development (A4ID), an NGO bas ... Read more»
Alisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost receive university funding for Child Sexual Exploitation seminar
Date: 25 January 2013
Alisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost have received university funding for a Pathways to Impact seminar entitled Child Sexual Exploitation and the Law, ... Read more»
Alisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost awarded funding from the Modern Law Review
Date: 17 January 2013
Alisdair Gillespie and Suzanne Ost have been successful in a bid for a prestigious Modern Law Review-funded seminar entitledTackling Child Sexual Expl ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak invited to Panel Discussion with Members of the European Parliament
Date: 17 December 2012
Ruth will participate in a panel discussion with MEPs from the Green Party and some prominent Austrian journalists, about the Nobel Peace Prize awared ... Read more»
Professor Sugarman Is Acknowledged and Cited In Jack Straw's Memoirs
Date: 28 September 2012
The assistance of Professor David Sugarmanis acknowledged by Jack Straw in Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor (London: Macmillan, Se ... Read more»
Linguistics and English Language
Research on Google by Paul Baker and Amanda Potts in the national press
Date: 20 May 2013
The findings of a paper published by Paul Baker and Amanda Potts on the implications of Google's auto-complete search function have been reported in ... Read more»
Richard Xiao appointed to the peer review panel of the University of Bologna
Date: 17 May 2013
Richard Xiao has recently been appointed to the peer review panel by the University of Bologna. The appointment letter says, "in recognition of your e ... Read more»
Richard Xiao awarded a new ESRC grant
Date: 16 May 2013
Richard Xiao has been successful in a bid to the ESRC for a project on'Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code: English and Chin ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak invited Keynote, VALS - ASLA Conference
Date: 13 May 2013
Ruth Wodak is invited keynote speaker at the VALS - ASLA Conference, May 13, 2013, University of Basel (Switzerland).The title of her keynote is ... Read more»
Our department rated 10th in the world!
Date: 8 May 2013
The Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University has been rated as 10th in the world in the QS 2013 rankings! This is up fro ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak panel discussion about 'lieux de memoire'
Date: 7 May 2013
Ruth Wodak will be participating in a public forum/panel this evening, 7pm (which will also be broadcast in TV, ORF III). The panel will discuss lieu ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak gives plenary at the i-Mean Identity and Language Conference
Date: 19 April 2013
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Richard Xiao gave a talk at Beijing Foreign Studies University
Date: 9 April 2013
Richard Xiao gave an invited a talk at China's National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University on 9th Apri ... Read more»
Elena Semino gives plenary lecture at Cognitive Futures of the Humanities Conference (Bangor)
Date: 4 April 2013
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Ruth Wodak made an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences
Date: 18 March 2013
Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak of the Department of Linguistics and English Language has been made an Academician of the Academy of Social Scien ... Read more»
Paul Baker gives talk at University of Portsmouth
Date: 12 March 2013
Paul Baker gave a talk on the representation of Islam in the UK press at the University of Portsmouth. ... Read more»
Ruth invited to Final European Conference, ACCEPT Project, Brussels
Date: 6 March 2013
As member of the 7th Framework EU project ACCEPT, Ruth is invited o participate at the final presentation at Brussels, 6/7 March 2013. Conference p ... Read more»
Postgraduate studentships available in the Department of Linguistics and English Language
Date: 1 March 2013
Postgraduate studentships available at Lancaster's Department of Linguistics and English Language The Department of Linguistics and English Langua ... Read more»
State-of-the-art research equipment for the Lancaster Linguistics Research Lab
Date: 27 February 2013
State-of-the-art research equipment is being acquired for the Lancaster Linguistics Research Lab. Lancaster University is funding the acquisitio ... Read more»
Paul Baker gives talk at City University of Hong Kong
Date: 27 February 2013
Paul Baker gave a talk on the representation of Muslim women at City University Hong. ... Read more»
Article by LAEL PhD student published in the Guardian online
Date: 26 February 2013
Danny Whitehead, a Linguistics and English Language PhD student, had the following article on language policy in Indonesia published in the Guardian ... Read more»
Linguistics with Chinese degree praised in UK Trade & Investment North West award
Date: 26 February 2013
Our Linguistics with Chinese degree praised in UK Trade & Investment North West award. For full details see the BBC website ... Read more»
Paul Baker gives plenary at Washington DC
Date: 15 February 2013
Paul Baker gave a plenary talk at the 20th Anniversary of the Lavender Linguistics and Languages Conference, held at American University, Washington D ... Read more»
Professor Ruth Wodak giving Open Lecture at the University of Manchester
Date: 12 February 2013
Distinguished Professor Ruth Wodak is giving an Open Lecture at the University of Manchester on Tuesday 12 February 2013. Hosted by the Centre for ... Read more»
Ruth holds Research Seminar, Business School, Helsinki
Date: 7 February 2013
Ruth is invited to hold e research seminar in the Hanken Business School, on Applying CDA in the Analysis of Meetings! See http://www.hanken.fi/pub ... Read more»
Ruth at Workshop about the notions of 'critique' and 'critical'
Date: 7 February 2013
Ruth is invited to University Jyväskyla from 7-9 February, to participate at a workshop discussing the notions of critique and critical. See b ... Read more»
Paul Baker gives talk at University of Chester
Date: 6 February 2013
Paul Baker gave a talk to the English department at the University of Chester entitled: Do men all just want the same thing? A corpus linguistics appr ... Read more»
Charis Stefanou wins Language Learning Dissertation Grant
Date: 2 February 2013
LAEL PhD student Charis Stefanou has been awarded the "Language Learning Dissertation Grant" from the internationally renowned Journal of Language L ... Read more»
Yvonne Prefontaine wins best graduate student paper competition
Date: 31 January 2013
Yvonne Prefontaine, a PhD student in the Thesis and Coursework programme, has won the Canadian Modern Language Review Best Graduate Student Paper co ... Read more»
Funding to develop links between Lancaster and Georgetown University, Washington
Date: 24 January 2013
The Department of Linguistics and English Language has received funding from FASS to support the development of links between Lancaster and Georgeto ... Read more»
Study Start: New 2-week intensive study skills course
Date: 24 January 2013
Study Start is a 2-week intensive study skills course designed to help international students get the best possible start for their degree at ... Read more»
Elena Semino gives an invited talk at London's Eastman Dental Hospital
Date: 23 January 2013
Elena Semino gives a talk entitled 'A Linguistic approach to the McGill pain questionnaire' at the Eastman Dental Hospital in London. The talk is part ... Read more»
Statement of Austrian Expertenrat on 'Acquisition of German Language'
Date: 14 January 2013
A statement about the best ways to teach and acquire necessary German proficiency for school children and pre-school children was drafted by Ruth Woda ... Read more»
Applications for PG scholarships open until 22 March 2013
Date: 17 January 2013
Applications for our postgraduate scholarships are open until 22 March 2013. For MA scholarships see http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/study/masters/fun ... Read more»
ESRC Centre on Corpus Approaches to Social Science
Date: 16 January 2013
We are delighted to announce that a group of Lancaster linguists led by Professor Tony McEnery have been awarded a £3.5 million ESRC Centre on ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak invited to Panel Discussion with Members of the European Parliament
Date: 17 December 2012
Ruth will participate in a panel discussion with MEPs from the Green Party and some prominent Austrian journalists, about the Nobel Peace Prize awared ... Read more»
Daniel Johnson interviewed for BBC Radio Merseyside
Date: 28 November 2012
Daniel Ezra Johnson was interviewed for BBC Radio Merseyside about the current interest in the French-accented interview of Liverpudlian and QPR ... Read more»
Elena Semino lectured at the University of Fuzhou, China, 19-22 November
Date: 27 November 2012
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Jane Sunderland awarded joint-winner of the IGALA book prize for 2012
Date: 27 November 2012
Jane Sunderland's research monograph, Language, Gender and Children's Fiction (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2011) has been awarded joint-winner of the bian ... Read more»
Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR
Department to host EPOP 2013 Conference
Date: 19 February 2013
Friday 13th-Sunday 15th September This September, the Department will be hosting the annual conference of the Elections, Public Opinion and Parties ... Read more»
PPR Scholarships 2012 now awarded
Date: 15 February 2013
The "PPR Scholarships" have been awarded for 2012 entrants. The2012 awards are for £3000 (over three years) and are funded by a generous donati ... Read more»
NEW - MA in Diplomacy and International Relations (Distance Learning)
Date: 15 January 2013
The new MA in Diplomacy and International Relations programme offered by the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, ... Read more»
MBE for Linda Woodhead
Date: 14 January 2013
Professor Linda Woodhead of Lancaster University has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours List for services to higher education. ... Read more»
Opinion piece - 'Regulating food companies: restricting or empowering?'
Date: 5 December 2012
As part of the EU-funded I.Family project on children, families and health, Garrath Williams has published a short opinion piece on how rules and regu ... Read more»
Dr Basil Germond spoke to the European Parliament Sub-Committee on Security and Defence
Date: 27 November 2012
Dr Basil Germond has been invited as an expert in maritime security and naval affairs to speak to the European Parliament, Sub-Committee on Security a ... Read more»
'New press release for the EU-funded I.Family study on children, diet and health'.
Date: 21 August 2012
I.Family is a major EU FP7 project, in which PPR at Lancaster University is a partner. A new press release sets out a key focus of the project - the a ... Read more»
Charles Clarke - podcast of inaugrual lecture
Date: 25 March 2011
Charles Clarke gave his inaugural lecture as Visiting Professor in Politics and Faith, on Wednesday 23rd March at the Storey Institute Lancaster.For t ... Read more»
Sociology
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»
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»
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