Research News – March 2021

Awards Congratulations to Rebecca Coleman, who has been awarded £8,903.92 by the British Academy / Leverhulme for a Small Grant entitled: “Feeling, making and imagining time: Everyday temporal experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic”. Publications Clare Levy has had a chapter published in a new book on Youth research on participation and inequalities. The chapter is … Continue reading Research News – March 2021

China’s response to HIV and Covid-19: social exclusion, stigmatisation and invisibility

Doctoral research in progress by Xu Liu (they/them) Based on the existing research of HIV stigmatisation and the novel situation in the public health issues of COVID-19 in China, this research intends to explore the formulation and reproduction of pandemic politics from the categorised population groups’ daily life to China’s handling measures and policies, as … Continue reading China’s response to HIV and Covid-19: social exclusion, stigmatisation and invisibility

Walking Places Conference Proceedings

Co-edited by Anita Strasser Published in February 2021 by Dinamia ISCTE-IUL – The Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies at University Institute Lisbon The symposium Walking Places, which Anita Strasser, PhD candidate in Visual Sociology, co-organised with her colleague Carla Duarte in Lisbon, took place in January 2019. It was hosted by Dinamia ISCTE-IUL – … Continue reading Walking Places Conference Proceedings

Research News – February 2021

Awards Congratulations to Yesim Yildiz, who has been awarded a 3-year funded ESRC New Investigator’s Grant, entitled: Official Archives of State Violence, starting 1 March. Congratulations, also to Miranda Armstrong who received an award of £8385 from the grassroots organisation Resourcing Racial Justice to further develop her PhD research and undertake some advocacy around the … Continue reading Research News – February 2021

Situated Norms: Home Visits and the (Re)production of Social Difference through Child Protection

By Dr Faten Khazaei “Situated Norms” is a postdoctoral research project at Goldsmiths which looks at State’s child protection mission through the lens of social difference. The need to protect children from neglect and abuse is one of the most accepted missions of the welfare state. Despite the extensive consensus on the need for public … Continue reading Situated Norms: Home Visits and the (Re)production of Social Difference through Child Protection

Poetry in the classroom

Yasmin Gunaratnam, Ulla McKnight, Aisha Edeor-Lawal, Nicole Evangelou-Georgiou, Melitini-Penelo Havoutis Andrew Jemmott, Abigail Joseph, Rhianne Phillips, Kaila Stone Studying sociology can feel like learning another language. There are new strange words and different schools of thought with their own vocabularies. Somewhere along the line we also become writers of sociology. How this happens is often … Continue reading Poetry in the classroom