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Educational Research
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»
ESRC Doctoral Training Awards Competition: 2013 Entry
Date: 22 November 2012
Applications for research study are invited by the Department of Educational Research for ESRC Doctoral Training Awards, funded through the North West ... 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
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»
Sara Maitalnd: 'Gossip from the Forest'
Date: 5 November 2012
Sara Maitland's http://www.saramaitland.com/Home.html new book,Gossip from the Forest will be published by Grantain November 2012. In honour of the ... Read more»
Associate Lecturer Gets Post at Soran University
Date: 29 October 2012
Muli Amaye, one of our Associate Lecturers in Creative Writing has just accepted a lecturing position at Soran University, in Kurdistan, North Iraq. ... Read more»
Creative Writing Alumnus Publishes First Novel
Date: 29 October 2012
Richard Mason, a graduate of the Lancaster Writing Programme at the Department for English and Creative Writing, is to publish his first novel. ... Read more»
Paul Farley Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize 2012
Date: 24 October 2012
​A book called 'The Dark Film' by Lancaster University poet Professor Paul Farley has been shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry ... Read more»
Department of English and Creative Writing Welcomes Zoe Lambert
Date: 19 October 2012
The Department of English and Creative Writing are pleased to announce that Dr Zoe Lambert will be joining us as a Lecturer in Creative Writing in Jan ... Read more»
Danny Boyle on Paul Farley's 'A Poem for the Queen'
Date: 19 October 2012
In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, the film director Danny Boyle talks about Royal reading habits and reveals that Paul Farley's 'A Poe ... Read more»
Honour for Lancaster Poet
Date: 24 September 2012
Professor Paul Farley (English and Creative Writing) has been included in a new piece of civic architecture in Liverpool that gathers togeth ... Read more»
Postgraduate Student Wins Raymond Williams Society Essay Prize
Date: 24 September 2012
Chris Witter, a research student with the Department of English and Creative Writing, has won the 2012 Raymond Williams Society Postgraduate Ess ... Read more»
Lancaster Lifest - October 2012
Date: 17 September 2012
The programme for this autumn's Lancaster Literature Festival has just been released, and we're pleased to announce that several current ... Read more»
Lancaster Writing Programme student Catriona Child publishes debut novel: Trackman
Date: 14 September 2012
Catriona Child gained a Distinction in the Lancaster University Distance Learning MA in Creative Writing in 2010. Her portfolio contained the openin ... Read more»
Lancaster Writing Programme student Sophie Duffy publishes second novel: This Holey Life
Date: 14 September 2012
Sophie Duffy, a former Lancaster Writing Programme student, has recently publisher her second novel. This Holey Life tells the story ... Read more»
European Languages and Cultures
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»
Staff in German invited to visit Cardinal Newman College, Preston
Date: 19 June 2012
Rebecca Braun, Daniela Flint and Birgit Smith were delighted to be invited back to Cardinal Newman College, Preston, for a second year running to spea ... Read more»
History
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»
Professor Angus Winchester interviewed by the Daily Telegraph and BBC Radio Cumbria
Date: 17 November 2012
Professor Angus Winchester was interviewed by BBC Radio Cumbria about Viking history this week. He has also recently been interviewed by the Daily ... Read more»
The Huffington Post discusses the international symposium on 'Culture, Politics, Eschatology'
Date: 13 November 2012
The Huffington Post discusses the proceedings of the international symposium on 'Culture, Politics, Eschatology' http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/por ... Read more»
Dr John Welshman talks about the process of writing his book about the Titanic
Date: 29 October 2012
Dr John Welshman talks about the process of writing his recent book Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012) ... Read more»
Paper by Dr John Welshman published on the History & Policy website
Date: 9 October 2012
A paper by Dr John Welshman, '"Troubled Families": The Lessons of History, 1880-2012' was published on the History & Policy website on Tuesday ... Read more»
Recent PhD History graduate publishes book
Date: 1 October 2012
Dr Dianne Lawrence, a recent PhD student in the History Department, and former Honorary Research Fellow, has just had published a book, derived from ... Read more»
New article on the history of financial reporting
Date: 7 September 2012
Dr James Taylor (History) has published an article in Historical Research exploring the origins of financial reporting in Britain.'Watchdogs or Apolog ... Read more»
History PhD student wins national award
Date: 5 September 2012
James Bowen (History, PhD) has been awarded the Tawney Fellowship for 2012-13, administered by the Economic History Society and the Institute of Histo ... Read more»
Visiting Scholarship in the United States
Date: 6 July 2012
Dr John Strachan will spend Lent Term 2012-2013 as a visiting scholar at Tulane University, New Orleans. In addition to writing up a monograph on colo ... 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»
Felipe Otondo's receives Honorary Mention at the prestigious competition Musica Nova
Date: 20 November 2012
Felipe Otondo receives an Honorary Mention at the MUSICA NOVA 2012 International Electroacoustic Music Competition.Jury: Lenka Dohnalova, Rainer Burck ... Read more»
Felipe Otondo's wins the first prize at the MUSICACOUSTICA composition competition in Beijing.
Date: 5 November 2012
Felipe Otondo was awarded the first prize at the 9th MUSICACOUSTICA composition competition in the category 'electroacoustic music' in Beijing. ... Read more»
Felipe Otondo's wins the first prize at the 2012 Computer Space competition
Date: 25 October 2012
Felipe Otondo was awarded the first prize at the 2012 Computer Space competition in the category 'Computer and electronic music' in Sofia, Bulgaria. ... Read more»
New piece by Felipe Otondo premiered at concert curated by INA-GRM in Paris
Date: 6 October 2012
The piece Irama will be premiered at the concert Banc d'essai organised by INA-GRM in Paris using the acousmonium loudspeaker orchestra. ... Read more»
'Welcome to India: Lancaster graduate's latest work for the BBC'
Date: 5 October 2012
Lancaster University Film Studies graduate, Daniel Dewsbury, is associate producer on the three-part documentary series, Welcome to India, currently ... Read more»
Law
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»
Lancaster Law School Ph.D student, Sanaa Alsarghali, wins prize at the Annual Methods Fair
Date: 20 November 2012
Lancaster Law School Ph.D student, Sanaa Alsarghali, wins prize at the Annual Methods Fair Congratulations to Sanaa Alsarghali (Law, Lancaster Univ ... 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»
The Law School is Expanding
Date: 17 September 2012
The Law School is expanding - five new academic members of staff The Law School is delighted to announce that five new colleagues are joining t ... Read more»
Report on gender quotas on management boards
Date: 6 May 2012
Professor David Sugarman contributed to the Report on Gender Quotas on Management Boards commissioned by the European Parliament's Committee on Gende ... Read more»
Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London University, 2012-13
Date: 1 May 2012
Professor David Sugarman has been awarded Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, 2012-13 academic year. The ... Read more»
Linguistics and English Language
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»
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»
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»
Research on Representation of Islam in the British press rated outstanding
Date: 19 November 2012
An ESRC funded research project on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British press has been rated as "outstanding" by the ESRC's internal ... Read more»
Tony McEnery and Paul Baker present at House of Commons
Date: 12 November 2012
Tony McEnery and Paul Baker presented research from their forthcoming book (co-authored with Costas Gabrielatos) Discourse Analysis and Media Bias: Th ... Read more»
Ruth Wodak ainvited as keynote speaker at ILINC, Belfast
Date: 9 November 2012
Ruth is invited as keynote speaker at the PG Conference in Belfast, University Belfast. See http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/ilinc2012/plenary-speakers/for m ... Read more»
Laura Cariola quoted in Psychologies Magazine
Date: 8 November 2012
Laura Cariola, PhD student in Linguistics and English Language, is quoted in this week's Psychologies Magazine talking about how the language we use ... Read more»
Paul Baker gives talk at Northumbria University
Date: 7 November 2012
Paul Baker gave a talk on the representation of Islam in the UK press at Northumbria University, based on his forthcoming CUP book co-authored with To ... Read more»
Sam Kirkham plenary speaker at NRFIL conference
Date: 2 November 2012
Sam Kirkham is plenary speaker at the New Researchers Forum in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, 2-3 November 2012. His talk is titled ... Read more»
New Journal: Language and Psychoanalysis
Date: 1 November 2012
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Journal: Language and Psychoanalysis, edited by Laura Cariola and Andrew WilsonThe first volume of the ... Read more»
Ruth distinguished visitor of Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Carleton University, Canada
Date: 30 October 2012
Ruth is invited as distinguished visitor at Carelton University, Linguistics Department. She will be giving a departmental lecture and a public lectur ... Read more»
Ruth gives annual Jakob Grimm Lecture, Waterloo University
Date: 23 October 2012
Skip to uWaterloo navigation | Skip to site specific navigation | Skip to main content area search: ... Read more»
Paul Baker interviewed for ABC Radio National, Australia
Date: 9 October 2012
Paul Baker was interviewed about Polari for Australian Radio. ... Read more»
Lancaster Linguistics comes top in the National Student Survey
Date: 2 October 2012
The National Student Survey results have now been released in the form of rankings by subject.In the Linguistics ranking, we come top out of 28 dep ... Read more»
Judit Kormos promoted to a Readership
Date: 1 October 2012
Congratulations to Judit Kormos who has been promoted to a Readership, with effect from 1st October. She has chosen to be called 'Reader in Seco ... Read more»
MA student receives the 2012 Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters Award
Date: 27 September 2012
We are pleased to announce that Veronika Timpe, a student on the MA in Language Testing, has been awarded the 2012 Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters ... Read more»
CICCOM- Communication, Cognition and Media: Political and Economic Discourse
Date: 19 September 2012
Ruth is invited as keynote speaker to the conference on Political and Economic Discourse, in Braga, Portugal, 19-22 September 2012. Her lecture is ... Read more»
Polari exhibition at the John Rylands Library, Manchester uses Paul Baker's research
Date: 19 September 2012
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Paul Baker gives keynote speech at CADS International Conference, Bologna
Date: 14 September 2012
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Study Chinese in your first year
Date: 13 September 2012
Study Chinese in your first year Mandarin Chinese (intensive) is available as a first year part 1 option. The course will take learners to th ... Read more»
Greg Myers elected Chair of BAAL
Date: 11 September 2012
Greg Myers has been elected Chair of BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) for the next three years. ... Read more»
Symposium: Integration und Bildung/ Integration and Education
Date: 11 September 2012
As members of the expert advisory board (Expertenrat) of the MInistry for Interior Affairs, Ilan Knapp and Ruth Wodak organised an expert workshop for ... Read more»
Department in the top 50 Linguistics departments in the world
Date: 10 September 2012
The Department of Linguistics and English Language is once again in the top 50 Linguistics departments in the world (49th to be precise), according t ... Read more»
National Student Satisfaction Survey 2012
Date: 9 September 2012
In the 2012 National Student Survey, 96% of our students say they are satisfied with their experience of studying with us. ... 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»
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»
Huffington Post review of the Culture, Politics and Eschatology Symposium at Lancaster University
Date: 19 November 2012
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Dr Thomas Mills discusses Cuban missile crisis on BBC radio
Date: 23 October 2012
Dr Thomas Mills appeared on BBC Radio Lancashire's Ted Robbins show to discuss the Cuban missile crisis 50 years after the event (the contribution beg ... Read more»
Dr Mark Garnett appears in BBC documentary
Date: 22 October 2012
Dr Mark Garnett appeared in the BBC1 programme Exiled: The Ugandan Asian Story. Transmitted on Sunday 21st October 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/i ... Read more»
Does the Family Play a Key Role in Helping "Tweens" Maintain a Healthy Weight?
Date: 18 October 2012
DOES THE FAMILY PLAY A KEY ROLE IN HELPING 'TWEENS' MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT? The EC funded I.Family research study working across 8 European c ... Read more»
Does the Family Play a Key Role in Helping "Tweens" Maintain a Healthy Weight?
Date: 18 October 2012
DOES THE FAMILY PLAY A KEY ROLE IN HELPING 'TWEENS' MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT? The EC funded I.Family research study working across 8 European count ... 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
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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