Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research

School Seminar Series


All seminars take place on Thursday afternoons between 4.30-6.00pm (unless otherwise stated). We meet in room CNEO8 in the SSPSSR building unless stated otherwise.

Most seminars are followed by a 'social occasion' that includes drinks and a meal in Canterbury. SSPSSR will subsidise the costs of meals for postgraduate students. For further details, please contact Dr Miri Song A.M.Song@kent.ac.uk tel: 01227 827042.

Spring

Spring Term

Date Speaker
January 28 Dr. Will Atkinson (U. of Bristol)
'Rigid Relations through Shifting Substance: the Changing Face of Social Class'
[Chair: Steve Roberts]
February 4 Professor Shadd Maruna (Queen's University, Belfast)
Title TBA
[Chair: Keith Hayward]
February 11 Dr. Mathew Bond (Kent)
‘The ecological/geographical correlates of British National Party membership’
[Chair: Miri Song]
February 18 No seminar this week
Feb. 25 Dr. Dawn Lyon (Kent)
‘Working with fish: socio-economy, craft, and social relations in the everyday life of fishmongers’
[Chair: Miri Song]
March 4 Professor John Eade (Roehampton University)
Title TBA
[Chair: Miri Song]
March 18 Professor Mark Harvey (Essex)
Title TBA
[Chair: Tim Strangleman]
March 25 Alex Stevens (University of Kent)
'Telling policy stories: an ethnographic study of the evidence-policy link'
[Chair: TBA]
April 1 Professor Larry Herzog (San Diego State University) Title TBA
[Chair: Keith Hayward]
 

 

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Last Updated: 27/05/2011