Category: Interviews

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Research News – Summer 2022

Publications Ming-Te Peng (PhD Candidate) has published her first article in Asia Pacific Education Review, under the title “Relocating the education reform movement: how have universities in Taiwan experienced Neoliberalization?” Silvia Bombardini, George Kalivis, and Floriane Misslin (PhD researchers in Visual Sociology) published a short online article titled “Going off script: The subversive potential of misworn clothing” in The … Continue reading Research News – Summer 2022

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Research News – October 2021

Awards Fay Dennis has been awarded the Sociology of Health & Illness New Writer’s Prize for her article Drug fatalities and treatment fatalism: Complicating the ageing cohort theory. Faten Khazaei (Postdoctoral Researcher) has been awarded the Brigitte-Schnegg-Prize for 2021 for her thesis entitled Manufacturing Difference: Double Standard in Swiss Institutional responses to Intimate Partner Violence. … Continue reading Research News – October 2021

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The F Less Travelled… Tracing Feminist Pathways

A podcast by Sabrina Etherington and Amelia Donkor The F Less Travelled… Tracing Feminist Pathways is a new podcast birthed on the Gender, Media and Culture MA by two part-time students, Amelia Donkor and Sabrina Etherington. It’s designed to be a space for storytelling and feminist journeys, where guests are invited to share the three books, … Continue reading The F Less Travelled… Tracing Feminist Pathways

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Sunday

Are you an early bird?   Dr Abby Day will be on BBC Radio 4 ‘Sunday‘ programme this Sunday live, between 7 and 9 a.m being interviewed by local radio stations on American research that shows Islam will be the largest world religion by 2050, overtaking Christianity and all others. Abby will be discussing how this … Continue reading Sunday

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Dub On Air with Dennis Bovell

Franco Rosso director and co-writer of Babylon (1980) passed away on 9th December, 2016 aged 75. The film’s soundtack was written by UK reggae legend Dennis Bovell. On the Sunday the 22nd January, 2017 Dennis dedicated his entire Dub on Air radio show on Soho Radio as a tribute to Franco, and Sociology’s Les Back joined him. You can Listen Again to the … Continue reading Dub On Air with Dennis Bovell

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Les Back On The Radio

Professor Les Back’s book ‘Academic Diary: Or Why Higher Education Still Matters‘, published by Goldsmiths Press, has been a huge success over the summer. Professor Back will be discussing his work in an hour-long special this Sunday [25 Sept] at 8:00pm on Talking Books, the literary programme of Irish radio station NewsTalk. Continue reading Les Back On The Radio