Events

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.

The Department of Sociology holds a number of seminars throughout the Autumn and Spring terms.  View the forthcoming seminars being held in Autumn 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.

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'

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'

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'

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.

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/Seminars/Themes/WSSTW02_Surrey

While we know much about student employment, we actually know very little about a group we might describe as non-employed student job-seekers. Yet this is a group of a significant size in the UK; in fact, while youth unemployment in the UK reached just over 1 million for the first time since comparable records began, this headline figure marginalises a rather startling statistic: of this 1 million 16 -24 year olds searching for a job, more than 285,000 are full-time students looking for part-time work. This group represents something of an unknown and under-researched quantity, yet their very existence raises a number of interesting and important questions for social inquiry.

'Who needs social research? An exploration of stakeholder engagement, evidence and impact in the production of policy and practice relevant research.' Andrew Brown, Institute of Education.  This presentation traces the development of a national research strategy for adult vocational education in Singapore and the establishment of a research programme to explore adult learning, performance and productivity at work and the impact of government workforce development initiatives.

 In this session we will be looking at how students feel in face to face settings, exploring reasons why conventional seminars are sometimes not the most comfortable or effective learning experiences for them.