Game-playing, ‘spurious precision’ of league tables and heavy workloads also highlighted by insiders from 2014 audit. Article in the Times Higher on research undertaken by Professor Daniel Neyland and Dr Sveta Milyaeva from Goldsmiths Sociology. Continue reading Old and male REF panels fail to reward innovation
Oscar nominees’ refusal to be paid props for Brand Israel could reflect a desire to avoid a very polarised discussion; writes Catherine Rottenberg [Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths]. Continue reading Why Hollywood has abandoned Brand Israel
Sat 18 March 2017 14:45 – 16:45 GMT Tate Modern Southwark Room, 5th Floor, Tate Exchange London SE1 Political propaganda is not new. With migration, it’s a world of shadowing boxing. ‘They’re coming to take your jobs’ ‘We can’t help them’ ‘Health tourists!’ ‘Let’s get tough’ Recently, government policy in the UK and elsewhere has been about shaping what … Continue reading Alternative facts and immigration: fake it til you make it?
Thursday March 9th 5-7pm RHB 143, Goldsmiths University of London Interrogating Inequality Richard Wilkinson, Professor at York University and co-author of ‘The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better’, discuss the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness, (and) encouraging excessive consumption”. Bigger income differences between … Continue reading Interrogating Inequality
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG DATES 14 March 2017 at 12.00–18.00 15 March 2017 at 12.00–18.00 16 March 2017 at 12.00–18.00 17 March 2017 at 12.00–18.00 18 March 2017 at 12.00–18.00 19 March 2017 at 12.00–16.00 Drop-in daily In a moment of global movement, connection and dis-connection of people across national borders, we ask who … Continue reading WHO ARE WE?
Just published – Abby Day’s research about the last active Anglican generation whose disappearance will accelerate Christianity’s decline in the ‘global North’. The details for the book can be found here. Continue reading The Religious Lives of Older Laywomen
Research undertaken by Professor Daniel Neyland and Dr Sveta Milyaeva offers the first in-depth, qualitative analysis of the UK Higher Education Research Excellence Framework. The report generated from their research is available from: www.marketproblems.com http://www.marketproblems.com/uploads/2/6/2/7/26276885/mists_ref_report_final.pdf Continue reading Goldsmith reveals key findings in new research into REF 2014
Free Workshop 18 March 2017 1445 – 1645 Tate Modern Book tickets here. Continue reading Alternative facts and immigration: fake it til you make it?
8th March 2017 4.30-6.30pm Deptford Town Hall (DTH) 109 Goldsmiths, University of London Political Theology of The Earth Prof. Catherine Keller (Drew University) Discussant: Prof Vikki Bell (Sociology) In a moment of perilous political repatterning, our planetary entanglements emit signals of emergency. Immediate crises of immigration, race and Islamophobia are thrown into competition with the slower … Continue reading Political Theology of The Earth
Professor Evelyn Ruppert writes in The Sociological Review about her recent visit to Davos. Continue reading The Other Davos: A Sociologist Goes to the World Economic Forum
