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Polity Prize winners 2023

We’re delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Polity Prizes for academic excellence in Sociology, who all receive £100 worth of books from Polity Press. The Part 1 2023 Polity Prize winner is Brad Barrass from Magdalene College who was awarded the highest mark in the SOC1 exam. Callum MacKenzie Finnigan from...

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Sandi Toksvig OBE awarded inaugural Q+ Fellowship

The LGBTQ+ research programme , based here at the Department of Sociology has awarded the inaugural Qantabrigian Fellowship to Sandi Toksvig, the prize-winning author, broadcaster, entertainer and founder of the Women’s Equality Party. The Q+ Fellowship enables distinguished Cambridge LGBTQ+ alumni to spend time at the...

Black British Voices Project Report 2023 launched in Parliament

We are proud to announce the launch of the Black British Voices Project Report 2023 today, Thursday 28th September 2023, at the Houses of Parliament. The project is a collaboration between Cambridge Sociology, the Voice newspaper and I-Cubed Consultancy . It is the largest ever research initiative conducted with Black...

Professor Sarah Franklin awarded prestigious Royal Society Medal

The Department of Sociology is delighted that Professor Sarah Franklin has been awarded the Royal Society ’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2023 for research related to the social function of science. The first sociologist to have won this award, she has been recognised for her research into, and advocacy for...

4 day working week video reignites debate about flexible working and achieves over 130,000 views

This film, created by the University of Cambridge's Film and Digital Media team, about Professor Brendan Burchell and Dr David Frayn's research, has helped to spread the word about their important work even further.

Professor Judith Butler in Cambridge

LgbtQ+@Cam , the Department of Sociology, and the Centre for Gender Studies were honoured to host Professor Judith Butler ’s public lecture‘ Who is Afraid of Gender? ’ at West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge on Wednesday 26th April. It was a remarkable and memorable evening. Introduced by Professor Sarah Franklin, Professor...

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Prof Manali Desai reacts to the FCDO’s new gender equality strategy

Prof Manali Desai, Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge was quoted in The Guardian on Wednesday 8th March, reacting to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s new strategy to advance gender equality around the world, launched on the same day that MPs announced plans to investigate the...

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New results from the world's largest trial of a four-day working week

A team of Cambridge social scientists led by Prof Brendan Burchell, Department of Sociology, have been conducting research on the world’s largest trial of a four-day working week. Last year, 61 organisations in the UK committed to a 20% reduction in working hours for all staff for six months. With no fall in wages. The...

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Public Sociology and Racial Justice: Dept of Sociology Alumni Festival Event Recording

This Alumni Festival 2022 panel event explored how sociology can both inform and learn from global discussions of racism and racial justice. Watch the event recording to hear Professor Manali Desai, Head of the Department of Sociology, Professor Mónica Moreno-Figueroa , Professor Ali Meghji and Dr Rachell Sánchez Rivera...

Photography Competition 2022 Results

The Department of Sociology is delighted to announce the results of this year’s Photography competition, the theme of which was 'Sociology of Resistance'! This year's theme was 'Sociology of Resistance'. Students were encouraged to be creative in their interpretation of the theme "Sociology of Resistance" and think about...

Polity Prize winners 2023

Sandi Toksvig OBE awarded inaugural Q+ Fellowship

Black British Voices Project Report 2023 launched in Parliament

Professor Sarah Franklin awarded prestigious Royal Society Medal

4 day working week video reignites debate about flexible working and achieves over 130,000 views

Professor Judith Butler in Cambridge

Prof Manali Desai reacts to the FCDO’s new gender equality strategy

New results from the world's largest trial of a four-day working week

Public Sociology and Racial Justice: Dept of Sociology Alumni Festival Event Recording

Photography Competition 2022 Results

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