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Read more at: We're hiring!

We're hiring!

26 September 2024

Join us! We are currently advertising two prestigious positions within the Department of Sociology: Professor of Sociology The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Sociology (1985) invite applications for this Professorship. Candidates will have an outstanding research record of international stature in Sociology and...


Read more at: On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography and Critical Theory

On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography and Critical Theory

26 September 2024

Professor Darin Weinberg ’s latest book, On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography and Critical Theory was published on 27th September 2024 by Duke University Press. In it he offers a new theorization of addiction in which he contends that addiction requires a supple theoretical framework that provides for movements...


Read more at: In celebration of Amílcar Cabral

In celebration of Amílcar Cabral

12 September 2024

Filipe Carreira da Silva presented his paper “Amílcar Cabral, Colonial Soil and the Politics of Insubmission” at the International Symposium commemorating the centenary of Amilcar Cabral, in Praia, Cape Verde 9-12 September 2024. One of Africa's foremost anti-colonial leaders, the Symposium celebrates the centenary of...


Read more at: Brendan Burchell’s team nominated for prestigious prize
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Brendan Burchell’s team nominated for prestigious prize

12 September 2024

We’re delighted that The Digit Working Time Reduction Team , led by Professor Brendan Burchell is among the finalists nominated for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)’s Celebrating Impact Prize 2024 . The prize recognises outstanding economic or societal impact achieved by ESRC-funded researchers. The Team’s...


Read more at: Dr Robert Dorschel wins award

Dr Robert Dorschel wins award

29 August 2024

Congratulations to Dr Robert Dorschel who has received the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Dissertation Award 2024. His winning PhD thesis is titled “The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On the Quest to be Middle-Class Wealthy and Morally Worthy”. Dr Dorschel completed his PhD in Sociology at the University...


Read more at: CUQM SOC5 prize 2024 winner announced

CUQM SOC5 prize 2024 winner announced

4 July 2024

Congratulations to Charlotte Blixen-Finecke who has won the Cambridge Undergraduate Quantitative Methods SOC5 prize for the highest mark in the 2024 SOC5 (statistics and methods) exam paper. Charlotte, pictured above, said, ‘Having recently finished my degree in Politics and Sociology (HSPS), I still look back at SOC5 as...


Read more at: Professor Brendan Burchell contributes to ground-breaking research on restless leg syndrome

Professor Brendan Burchell contributes to ground-breaking research on restless leg syndrome

6 June 2024

An international team of researchers, including Brendan Burchell, Professor in Sociology , have discovered genetic clues to the cause of restless leg syndrome, a condition common among older adults. The discovery could help identify those individuals at greatest risk of the condition and point to potential ways to treat it...


Read more at: New Publication: The Kazakh Spring by Diana T Kudaibergen

New Publication: The Kazakh Spring by Diana T Kudaibergen

4 June 2024

Congratulations to Diana Kudaibergen whose third book, The Kazakh Spring: Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship has just been published by Cambridge University Press. The book tells the story of regime-society relations and explains this dynamic in the context of the Kazakh Spring protests from 2019. Focussing...


Read more at: Dr Jess Miller gives evidence at House of Commons

Dr Jess Miller gives evidence at House of Commons

29 May 2024

Dr Jess Miller, PI of the Policing Trauma project, spoke at an evidence session of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee on police wellbeing on Wednesday 22nd May. Dr Miller was asked about her research on mental health and wellbeing among police officers in specific relation to trauma and working conditions. You can...


Read more at: Sociology students win Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards

Sociology students win Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards

21 May 2024

We are delighted that Faustine Petron , a final-year Human, Social and Political Sciences student specialising in sociology and Mayumi Sato (pictured above), a PhD student here at the Dept of Sociology, both received awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement in contributing to society. The University of...