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Congratulations to Dr Robert Pralat

Congratulations to Dr Robert Pralat who has been awarded the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship to study moral judgments and public funding allocation in 'desire-driven' medicine. His study will examine the formation of moral judgments and rhetorical mechanisms used in advocacy and criticism concerning free access to...

Sociology Green Team wins Platinum Award

This time last year, the department had been awarded Silver as part of the NUS Green Impact Awards. This year, despite building work disruption and office moves, we are pleased to announce that we have won Platinum! This is our second year partaking in the NUS Green Awards so we are really proud of our achievements. Our...

Congratulations to Merve Sancak!

Congratulations to Merve Sancak, a PhD candidate from the department, who has won The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research on Development. The award identifies and funds outstanding research proposals in developing and transition countries that have a high potential for excellence in research and policy implications for...

Congratulations to our Head of Department!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sarah Franklin has won the 2018 4S Mentoring Award which is given annually to recognise exemplary mentoring in Science and Technology Studies. The 4S Mentoring Award implements an expansive conception of mentoring, recognising the wide range of ways that effective mentors share...

Congratulations to the Reproductive Sociology Research Group!

Congratulations to the Reproductive Sociology Research Group for having secured a £1.4M Wellcome Collaborative Award for a new project on 'Changing In/Fertilities' in partnership with Dr Marcia Inhorn at Yale and a network of 16 research partners around the globe. The new project will investigate not only how perceptions...

CANCELLED CUQM Annual Lecture 2018

THIS LECTURE IS CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED This year the Cambridge Undergraduate Quantitative Methods Centre is delighted to welcome Branwen Jeffreys (BBC Education Editor) to give the CUQM Annual Lecture 2018, on “Data & A Journalist’s Sense of Smell”. The Annual Lecture will be taking place in Bateman...

17.5 million of public tenders are being released on Opentender.eu today, covering 2003-2017 for selected countries

The Horizon 20-20 DIGIWHIST research team launches today Opentender.eu, with millions of public contracts from over 30 European countries. Opentender.eu is a platform that allows to search for public tenders in 35 European jurisdictions (28 EU member states, Norway, the European Commission, Iceland, Switzerland, Serbia...

Timur Alexandrov on informal social groups in Central Asia for the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality

Timur Alexandrov, PhD Candidate from the Department of Sociology, contributes to the new Global Encyclopaedia of Informality (Volume II, page 47) with his research on informal social institution of “Gap” in Central Asian societies. Based on ethnographic research, the study sheds light on a variety of “Gap” networks as...

Awards for Department of Sociology Administrative Staff!

The University’s Professional Services Recognition Scheme Awards, 2017, were held on 11th December at the new University development in Eddington. The Professional Services Recognition Scheme aims to highlight and celebrate the very best administrative work across the University, with nominations being submitted by anyone...

One Day in the Art World: The MPhil in Media and Culture takes a trip to the Tate Modern

by Margarita Martens and Tekla Iashagashvili In November, members of the Media and Culture MPhil pathway travelled to London to visit the Tate Modern and pop-up exhibition The Glass Room . During this field trip, we tried to connect the ideas of media and culture theorists we have covered in our seminars so far – such as...

Congratulations to Dr Robert Pralat

Sociology Green Team wins Platinum Award

Congratulations to Merve Sancak!

Congratulations to our Head of Department!

Congratulations to the Reproductive Sociology Research Group!

CANCELLED CUQM Annual Lecture 2018

17.5 million of public tenders are being released on Opentender.eu today, covering 2003-2017 for selected countries

Timur Alexandrov on informal social groups in Central Asia for the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality

Awards for Department of Sociology Administrative Staff!

One Day in the Art World: The MPhil in Media and Culture takes a trip to the Tate Modern

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