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Photography Competition 2020 - Results

The Department of Sociology is delighted to announce the results of this year’s Photography competition, which bore the theme "Sociology of Change". This year we received entries not just from across the UK but also from as far afield as Kuala Lumpur! The Department would like to thank all of the students that took part in...

UK and US firms ‘lag’ in race to commercialise COVID-19 diagnostic tests

The diagnostic industry in countries such as Germany, South Korea and China lead the pack on getting coronavirus tests ready for market. Researchers warn that lax EU regulations could see it become a “dumping ground” for bad tests. The lag is striking because it mirrors the spread of the pandemic Stuart Hogarth Nations...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Contingency Plan

The Department of Sociology is committed to supporting the learning and wellbeing of our students during this particularly challenging time. We know that this unprecedented time is challenging and uncertain for all of us, and we want the Department to be a site of community and support for all of its students and wider...

“Making it up as they go along”: New guidance addresses UK university failures in responding to staff sexual misconduct

Research by The 1752 Group has identified that many institutions appear to be “making it up as they go along” when responding to complaints of staff sexual misconduct. Speaking to Wonkhe , Co-founders Dr Anna Bull and Dr Tiffany Page said “When students attempted to report their experiences they found that there was no...

Queer Feminist Approaches to Social Reproduction in the Environmental Crisis

Queer Feminist Approaches to Social Reproduction in the Environmental Crisis University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology, October 23 2020. info.png Registration for this conference is now open . Organisers Carolina Topini (PhD researcher, Institute of Gender Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland; visiting PhD...

New "Dish Life" game puts an entire scientific career in your pocket

Part-Sims, part-Tamagotchi game puts players in the shoes of a budding stem cell researcher as they progress from undergraduate student to professor "Dish Life" is a new free-to-play game developed by researchers from ReproSoc (Reproductive Sociology Research Group) and the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute , and produced by...

Information about the 2020 strike action

Seventy-four UK universities will be hit with 14 days of strike action in February and March 2020. The action will start on Thur 20 Feb and escalate each week, culminating with a week-long walkout from Mon 9 to Fri 13 March. The Department of Sociology has a strike information webpage to help provide information about the...

A message from the Vice-Chancellor about the UK’s exit from the EU

The end of January is finally upon us, bringing with it a political and economic move that many in this country have hoped for and that many others would have wished to avoid. Before the month is over, the United Kingdom will have left the European Union. Whatever views any one of us hold as individuals, this is now a fact...

Cambridge Sociologist Prof Jennifer Gabrys is awarded €2 million to launch “Smart Forests” research

Congratulations to Prof Jennifer Gabrys who has received a Consolidator Grant worth €1,996,004 for her project “Smart Forests: Transforming Environments into Social-Political Technologies” The European Research Council has announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition , which is part of the Horizon...

Chile in Crisis: Analysis from a country on the brink

Affiliated Lecturer Dr Jorge Saavedra Utman reports on the civil unrest from his home country of Chile, which he presents as “a pivotal case in the existence of neoliberalism, the shortcomings of democracy and the brutality of police”. Described as “the North Korea of Neoliberalism”, in Chile the richest 1% of the country...

Photography Competition 2020 - Results

UK and US firms ‘lag’ in race to commercialise COVID-19 diagnostic tests

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Contingency Plan

“Making it up as they go along”: New guidance addresses UK university failures in responding to staff sexual misconduct

Queer Feminist Approaches to Social Reproduction in the Environmental Crisis

New "Dish Life" game puts an entire scientific career in your pocket

Information about the 2020 strike action

A message from the Vice-Chancellor about the UK’s exit from the EU

Cambridge Sociologist Prof Jennifer Gabrys is awarded €2 million to launch “Smart Forests” research

Chile in Crisis: Analysis from a country on the brink

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