Events
Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis
Wednesday 3 November 2010
A one-day course on analysing qualitative data at the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey.
Departmental Seminar 4 November 2010
Thursday 4 November 2010
Professor Warren Thorngate of Carleton University and Visiting International Fellow at the Department of Sociology will give a seminar today from 2-3 pm in Room 04 AD 00. The title of the seminar is Inference is not evidence: An Old (and easy) way of testing theory-data fit.
Departmental Seminar Series Autumn 2010
Thursday 4 November 2010
The Department of Sociology holds a number of seminars throughout the Autumn and Spring terms. View the forthcoming seminars being held in Autumn 2010.
MAXqda Introductory Workshop
Wednesday 10 November 2010
MAXqda Version 10, developed by Verbi Software, Marburg. is a CAQDAS package suited to the management and analysis of qualitative data, that is text and multimedia data/information. This one day event focuses on ways to organise both data and the project itself within MAXqda.
NVivo 8 Introductory hands-on workshop
Wednesday 17 November 2010
NVivo 8, developed by QSR, Doncaster, Australia is a CAQDAS package which now integrates the handling of textual data with multimedia forms of information/data. The workshop is structured to provide step by step support for the some of the tools in NVivo.
Research Management
Thursday 18 November 2010
FREE CAQDAS Users' Seminar
Friday 19 November 2010
This event on Friday 19th November 2010 from 10.30 am to 15.30 pm will comprise presentations and discussion and lunch will be provided.
'Suicide: Sociological autopsy and repertoires of action'
Thursday 25 November 2010
As part of the Department of Sociology seminar series Ben Fincham of the University of Sussex will present the seminar on 'Suicide: Sociological autopsy and repertoires of action'
Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing
Tuesday 30 November 2010
This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of qualitative interviewing in both academic and applied social research, including the evaluation of services.
'Managing ethics? Critiquing regimes of ethical control'
Thursday 9 December 2010
As part of the Department of Sociology seminar series, Rebecca Boden of the University of Cardiff will give a seminar entitled 'Managing ethics? Critiquing regimes of ethical control'
'Gendering 'soft' policing: The fluidity and fragilities of occupational cultures'
Thursday 16 December 2010
As part of the Department of Sociology seminar series Dan McCarthy of the University of Surrey will give a seminar entitled 'Gendering 'soft' policing: The fluidity and fragilities of occupational cultures'
QUIC Conference 4-5 May 2011
Wednesday 4 May 2011
The QUIC Results conference 2011 takes place from the 4th - 5th May at the University of Surrey
Please view the conference page for further details
SEMINAR 'Social Movements and Contested Identities: An Analytical Framework'
Wednesday 10 October 2012
SEMINAR: 'Why do People Comply with the Law and Cooperate with the Police? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions'
Wednesday 17 October 2012
SEMINAR: 'Victim, perpetrator or simply unwise? A comparison of judicial responses to 'teenage sexting' in the US, Canada and the UK'
Wednesday 31 October 2012
SEMINAR: ‘“I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work”. Ordinary girls, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia'
Wednesday 7 November 2012
SEMINAR: 'Drawing together: using visual images to manage expectations about being a child of a mentally ill parent'
Wednesday 21 November 2012
SEMINAR: 'Prepare for Impact: knowledge exchange, equality work and austerity'
Wednesday 5 December 2012
SEMINAR: 'Researching Riots'
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Prof John Lea from the University of Brighton will provide a brief review of the types of official inquiry into the major riots in the US and England since the 1960s. He will illustrate the decline of welfare citizenship and the transition to a neoliberalism in which the state abrogates responsibility and concern for poverty and marginality.
John Lea was one of the founders of the left realist approach to criminology. He is currently Professor of Criminology at Middlesex University, where his research interests include policing, organised crime, business crime and the historical development of crime and criminal justice institutions. John is the author of Crime and Modernity: Continuities in Left Realist Criminology (2002) and is Visiting Professor in Criminology at the University of Brighton.
SEMINAR: 'Furthering Equality in International Higher Education'
Tuesday 29 January 2013
SEMINAR: 'Students’ job searching'
Wednesday 6 February 2013
SEMINAR: 'Research policy and practice'
Wednesday 20 February 2013
PG Sociology Open Event for Final Year Students
Wednesday 27 February 2013
Our Sociology Postgraduate Open Event gives you the opportunity to talk to our academic experts and find out more about the taught and research opportunities available to you in Sociology at the University of Surrey.
SEMINAR: 'The social world of an English prison'
Wednesday 1 May 2013
SEMINAR: 'Findings from the Impact of Injuries research project'
Wednesday 15 May 2013

