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Professor Sarah Franklin awarded prestigious Royal Society Medal

31 August 2023

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

23 May 2023

This film, created by the University of Cambridge's Film and Digital Media team, about Professor Brendan Burchell and Dr David Frayne's research, has helped to spread the word about their important work even further. Read more about this research on the world’s largest trial of a four-day working week .

Professor Judith Butler in Cambridge

9 May 2023

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...

Young girls in a classroom Image: David Mark, Pixabay.

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

8 March 2023

Prof Manali Desai, Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge was quoted in The Guardian on Wednesday 8 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...

Man working at a laptop Image by SnapStock from Pixabay.

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

23 February 2023

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...

Stuart Hall speaking at Trafalgar Square - Hall Family Archive

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

22 November 2022

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

23 June 2022

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...

Cambridge Sociology’s outstanding research recognised in the REF 2021

12 May 2022

The results from the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) have highlighted the outstanding quality and impact of Cambridge’s research in the field of Sociology. The Times Higher Education’s rankings of REF 2021 place Cambridge Sociology at #2 for research quality in UK higher education. 94% of Cambridge’s outputs...

Dr Ella McPherson Wins 2022 Pilkington Teaching Prize

17 March 2022

We're proud to announce that Dr Ella McPherson has been awarded the 2022 Pilkington Teaching Prize in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the Sociology Department and excellence in teaching. Dr Ella McPherson is an Associate Professor in the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology and Director of...

Alfred Tarazi (C): ‘A Nations Inflation’.

Lebanon on life support: How politics made a nation sick

11 January 2022

New multi-national research shows how a long series of politically-driven crises have created a failed state and a public health disaster in Lebanon. A new Research for Health in Conflict (R4HC) study led by King ’s College London and partners at the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut, Lebanon...

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

Cambridge Sociology’s outstanding research recognised in the REF 2021

Dr Ella McPherson Wins 2022 Pilkington Teaching Prize

Lebanon on life support: How politics made a nation sick

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