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Sociology is a craft, a vocation, and is transformative to study. Leading edge Sociology @GoldsmithsUoL

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@SociologyGold
Sociology, Goldsmiths
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don't forget about our #Sociology Annual Lecture 'Once more with my Sistren: Considering #BlackFeminism ' with Professor Gail Lewis from @bbkpsychosocial on the 20th march 2018 at 3pm. It's FREE and open to everyone, more info here:
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Having trouble coping & feeling ‘unsettled’? Finding it hard to keep up w/ the demands of yr job during a global pandemic? Is anxiety of looming job losses keeping you awake at night? @VikLoveday #research explores anxiety in the neoliberalising HE sector
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Professor Les Back becomes Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences. More here:
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1/ STRIKE TEACH OUT: Shouting the Live Methods Manifesto on the Picket Wednesday 23 March 2022 at 1130 The manifestos are printed! Come & join us for a collective reading of the Live Methods Manifesto! #GoldStrike @GoldsmithsUCU #LiveMethods #Sociology #TeachOut #PhDChat
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THREAD: Following last week's digital picket, & in continuing solidarity w/ the 472 staff facing redundancy (75% of whom are BAME, majority women), we're sharing links to the work so ppl can learn more about the broader issues affecting staff in HEIs right across the sector
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@SociologyGold
Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Prof. Les Back from the @SociologyGold Dept. will be giving the annual Frisby Memorial Lecture on the 14th March at @UofGlasgow titled 'What we Learn From Music: Hidden Musical Lives and the Craft of Understanding Society' More info here:
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Tomorrow! Professor Evelyn Ruppert from the @sociologygold dept. gives her Inaugural Lecture on Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Different DataFutures: An experiment in #citizen #data @goldsmithsuol . Find out more here:
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@SociologyGold
Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Free, but please register! "Why do we need a decolonial feminism? A conversation with Nivedita Menon" 10 June 2021; Time: 8pm (Delhi), 3:30pm (London)
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@SociologyGold
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Check us out 🙌 We have a #Spotify playlist and a #YouTube Channel where you can all listen and watch to your sociological heart and minds delight! #Sociology #LiveSociology
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Stuart Hall: In Conversations. Listen to what Les Back aka @AcademicDiary has to say #StuartHall #InConversations
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Despite our more #liberal world views, #blackhair continues to be #erased , #appropriated and #stigmatised to the point of taboo. Why is that? 'Don't Touch My Hair' is the new book by dept. PhD candidate @EmmaDabiri
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Tomorrow! Les Back ( @AcademicDiary ) from @SociologyGold and Shamser Sinha ( @shamsersinha ) will be guests on Laurie Taylor's Thinking Allowed @BBCRadio4 programme at 4pm talking about their book Migrant City.
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Book of the week- Go Home? The politics of immigration controversies, incl. Yasmin Gunaratnam and Emma Jackson
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a great vintage image of students leaving the Warmington Tower (currently home to the Sociology Dept) @GoldsmithsUoL #throwbackthursday
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Goldsmiths SMT urged to reconsider admin centralisation: #NoJobCuts #NoRedundancies #OpenTheBooks #SaveGoldsmiths
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25th Oct-22 Nov 2018 the @BassCulturedUK 70/50 exhibition will explore the impact of ' #Jamaican and Jamaican-influenced music on #British #culture . More info is available here:
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listen to the Sociology Annual Lecture 'Once more with my Sistren: Considering Black Feminism' by Prof. Gail Lewis from @bbkpsychosocial via @centrefemres here: #race #feminism #sociology
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NEW Masters programme:The MA Ecology, Culture, & Society offers the opportunity to engage with the urgency of contemporary socio-ecological challenges and to imaginatively explore ways of inhabiting the Earth otherwise. Apply here!
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@SociologyGold
Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Today! Professor Les Back ( @AcademicDiary ) from @SociologyGold will be on @BBCRadioLondon at 10am as their #ListedLondoner . Listen to it here:
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Congratulations to @rcecoleman who with Co-I @DawnLyon65 has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme for a Small Grant on everyday temporal experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic, to analyse the diaries submitted to the @MassObsArchive directive on #Covid and #Time
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listen to the @BBCRadio4 Thinking Allowed episode on #Migrants and #Refugees w/ Laurie Taylor, Les Back ( @AcademicDiary ) from @SociologyGold , Shamser Sinha from @Suffolk_U and Lyndsey Stonebridge from @unibirmingham here:
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
7 years
a picture of the Warmington Tower @GoldsmithsUoL taken in 1969. Currently home to the Sociology Dept. #throwbackthursday
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a picture of a Warmington Tower when it was Halls of Residence in the 1960s (now offices and home to the Sociology Dept) #throwbackthursday
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Massive congratulations to @katjungnickel from @SociologyGold @GoldsmithsUoL on the award of a Consolidator Grant 👏👏👏
@ERC_Research
European Research Council (ERC)
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📣 Consolidator grant results! 291 mid-career researchers received #ERCCoG worth in total €573 million - to address frontier research problems, build up their teams & have far-reaching impact. 🇪🇺 #EUfunded @EUScienceInnov @EU_Commission @EU_H2020 @Moedas
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Please come along and see our free Exhibition. It's on until 27 May. @AcademicDiary @vronsta #13DeadNothingSaid
@GoldsmithsUoL
Goldsmiths, University of London
7 years
"The march was represented in very racist ways by the media." New exhibition about Black People's Day of Action. Now open at Goldsmiths
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Book of the week- Walking Through Social Research, eds Charlotte Bates and Alex Rhys-Taylor #Sociology #bookoftheweek
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"So Fi bridges my love of reading novels and short stories and my work as a sociologist" - a great guest editorial piece in So Fi Zine from Les Back ( @AcademicDiary ) @SociologyGold . Read it here:
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Walking the Battle of Lewisham. More info here:
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Congratulations! to Dr Emily Nicholls who graduated today from @SociologyGold and @GoldsmithsUoL
@ejnicholls_
Dr Emily Jay Nicholls
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Graduated!
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Hear from students & staff on the vital work of admin staff for learning & research in the #Sociology Department - #SaveGoldsmiths #OpenTheBooks #ProfessionalStaff #LoveOurARPS
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Today! at 4pm on @BBCRadio4 @EmmaDabiri from the @SociologyGold dept. will explore Afrofuturism in #music and #arts . Listen to Journeys in #Afrofuturism here:
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a brilliant article by Emma Jackson ( @EmmakJackson ) from the dept. "Valuing the bowling alley: Contestations over the preservation of spaces of everyday urban multiculture in London". Read it here: @bowltogether #bowling #diversity #London #urban #space
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Workshop - Decolonising Translation, Decolonising Feminist Art Archives with the @centrefemres , @SociologyGold , @MediaComGold and @GoldsmithsLib . More here: via @goldsmithsuol
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Read more about @GoldsmithsUoL researchers on a mission to engage, incl. @katjungnickel w/ #BikesandBloomers and @ChantelleJLewis w/ the @survivesocpod podcast, both from the @SociologyGold Dept. here:
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Book of the week! Self-Build Homes: Social Discourse, Experiences and Directions, Eds. Michaela Benson from the Sociology dept. and Iqbal Hamiduddin. More here: #community #home
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What should #Sociology and #Anthropology students read? Great suggestions for our joint BA students @GoldAnth
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very excited about @GoldsmithsPress forthcoming new releases incl. Bikes and Bloomers by Kat Jungnickel (March 2018) from the @SociologyGold dept. Find out more about it here: via @mitpress
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Workshop - #Glitter is ubiquitous. From #crafting to make-up, #vagazelling to #glitterbombing . Find out 'How to do #sociology with...glitter' with Jayne Osgood ( @MiddlesexUni ) and Beckie Coleman ( @SociologyGold ). Find out more and register here:
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Next week! Welcome to the Fake: #Photography and the #Politics of Authenticity @TPGallery w/ @thecucr . Find out more here:
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
7 years
Claire Jarman from the Sociology Dept. found this wonderful old #postcard of #Goldsmiths , University of London, incl. Laurie Grove Baths
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
4 years
Issue 115 on Feminist Methods Free to View for Two Months – feminist review @YasminGun
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
5 years
a great event from the Dept. @thecucr Dreaming in a Time of Nightmares: Black Radicalism In The Age of Neoliberalism. More details and registration here:
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Warming up the picket line, admirably led by #Sociology colleagues #GoldStrike
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Job Alert! We are looking for a Senior Lecturer in the @SociologyGold Dept. More info here:
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a great post on the @thecucr blog about the dept. PhD Migration Reading Groups conference 'A conversation on Connecting #Racism and #Migration ' More here:
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Featuring Professor Monica Greco (SociologyGold) on Friday 7 May - see poster for more details and how to register #Sociology #MedicalHumanities
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Did you know .. The excellent #research of Goldsmiths #Sociology Department has been recognised by the QS World University Rankings. We have now moved into the top 40 Sociology Departments in the world. QS World University Rankings: Top Global Universities | Top Universities 🙌
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Today! Prof. Les Back ( @AcademicDiary ) from the @SociologyGold Dept. will be on @BBCRadioLondon speaking on the Robert Elms show at approx 11.30pm. You can listen here:
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Next week! Professor Evelyn Ruppert from the @sociologygold dept. gives her Inaugural Lecture on #Sociotechnical #Imaginaries of Different #DataFutures : An experiment in #citizen #data @goldsmithsuol . Find out more here: via
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Today! Les Back ( @AcademicDiary ) from the @SociologyGold Dept. will be at the SOLD OUT Annual London Conservation Conference speaking about the Laurie Grove Baths @GoldsmithsUoL and home to the Dept. @thecucr . More information here:
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an important and timely conference #Universities , #neoliberalisation and (in)equality, 28 April 2017. More info:
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Tomorrow on the #GoldStrike picket line, feat. #Sociology
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13 Dead, Nothing Said: Photographic Exhibition documenting the Black People’s Day of Action | 9 Mar - 27 May @AutographABP @vronsta #se14
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A postcard to bell hooks, my first academic love from @CloudChild9
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Sociology Annual Lecture: 'Once more with my Sistren: Considering Black Feminism' by Professor Gail Lewis. More here:
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Jamie Matthews from the @SociologyGold dept. has authored a great article 'Populism, inequality and representation: Negotiating 'the 99%' with Occupy London' @TheSocReview Read it here: #assembly #Occupy #populism #representation #socialmovements
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an interesting symposium about #racism and #migration from the Dept. PhD Migration Reading Group. More info here:
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a symposium Engaging in #Urban Image-Making, 28 Apr 2017, 9.30-5 pm. More info here: #photography #image #visual
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Grief and a Scholar - by Stephanie Guirand (PhD candidate) - is a personal account of being an insider/outsider researcher and learning how to hold grief as a scholar in consequence of that.
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Feminist Review 108: Black British Feminisms (2014) #GoldStandard ed by @YasminGun http://t.co/iuHnA2lIGX http://t.co/DJVnWhayOr
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Congratulations! to Michaela Benson ( @Michaelacbenson ) on her ESRC funded #Brexit research project #BrExpats
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an interesting symposium Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe. More info here:
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Book of the week- Space Invaders, Nirmal Puwar #Sociology #bookoftheweek
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Ft. our own ... Dr Margarita Aragon who will be discussing her forthcoming book ‘A savage song: Racist violence and armed resistance in the early twentieth-century U.S.–Mexico Borderlands'
@aaronzwinter
Aaron Winter
3 years
Join us Monday 12 April for this event on Racism, Resistance and Criminal (In)justice with @adamec87 , @simpep and Margarita Aragon. And check out their books in the @ManchesterUP series Racism, Resistance and Social Change
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“The British Academy is delighted to appoint Professor Knowles as the Cities and Infrastructure Programme Director". @thecucr @GoldsmithsUoL @urbanmorph
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This week! a conversation on connecting #racism and #migration with our PhD Migration reading group. More here:
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This week! Don't forget about @thecucr 'Above Street Level' pamphlet launch w/ Michaela Benson ( @Michaelacbenson ) and Emma Jackson ( @EmmakJackson ). Details here:
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Great to see the Urban Encounters 10th Anniversary @Tate and @UrbanPhotoFest with a featured piece in issue 44 of the GOLDLINK magazine
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1/3: Just a reminder that if anyone is in or near Catford, London SE6, do check out the window display in the Broadway Theatre documenting the Black People’s Day of Action on 2 March 1981. @AcademicDiary #13DeadNothingSaid #CivilRights #Sociology
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a lecture about #Humanrights #law with Rashida Manjoo former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
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we have some of Vron Ware's ( @vronsta ) archive photography as part of our #13DeadNothingSaid exhibition:
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an old photo of Laurie Grove Baths @GoldsmithsUoL (home to @thecucr and Sociology Dept. staff) #throwbackthursday
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we are very excited to welcome the ERC Connectors Study ( @ConnectorsStudy ) team to @SociologyGold . Find out more about their ongoing research here:
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Book of the week- In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism, Sara Farris @DukePress
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BBC News - Remote working: How cities might change if we worked from home more ft. @academicdiary from @thecucr
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find out about the International Urban Photography Summer School ( @iUPSS_ ) being held by @thecucr , @the_u_p_a , @UrbanPhotoFest and @VisualUrbanists . Further information available here: .
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A short blog post on anxiety and fixed-term work:
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Look at this shiny new site: 🤩🙌🎉 Come check us out! More content to be added ... #sociology #LiveSociology #Goldsmiths
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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🙌🏻 Congratulations @EmmakJackson for making the shortlist!
@sociologyjnl
Sociology Journal
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We're delighted to announce our shortlist for the 2021 SAGE Prize for Excellence/Innovation - congratulations to the nominees for their fantastic papers!
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Goldsmiths @SociologyGold Professor of Race, Faith and Culture @AbbyfDay reminds Metro readers about nature of causality
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Vikki Bell from @SociologyGold and Oriana Bernasconi from the Alberto Hurtado University in Chile have been awarded a 2018 #NewtonPrize . More information about the research is available here:
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part of the @TheSocReview SI 'Futures In Question' A conv with Lisa Adkins and Mike Michael About Social Futures
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@SociologyGold
Sociology, Goldsmiths
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congratulations! to Les Back ( @AcademicDiary ) who is an @AcadSocSciences Fellow
@AcadSocSciences
Academy of Social Sciences
7 years
47 new Fellows welcomed to the @AcadSocSciences today. Congratulations all!
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Les Back and Brett St. Louis will be speaking at The #Politics of #Racism symposium @Birkbeck Sat 6 May 2017
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a special issue of @GJSS_ - A Conversation Connecting Racism and Migration: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives guest edited by @Laura_Henneke from @SociologyGold and @thecucr
@GJSS_
GJSS
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New special issue- A Conversation Connecting Racism and Migration: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Guest editors @vanesshughes . @laura_henneke @stowsarah @PeterNRees @kaotak5
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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🙌🏻 congratulations @jenfleetwood
@BritSocCrim
British Criminology
3 years
Congrats @bsc_wccjn prize winners: @JenFleetwood @JudithAAldridge @CaroChat (2020) Gendering research on online illegal drug markets, Addiction Research & Theory, 28:6, 457-466 #BSCConf2021 #Criminology
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find out more about our International Urban Photography Summer School 2017 here:
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @YasminGun from the @SociologyGold Dept. will be speaking @lborouniversity Feminist Methodologies 2019 conference on ‘Empirical performance and the research undercommons: researching diasporic affect and materiality at the end of life’
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Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Film screening - 12/1 Legacy In The Dust as part of the Sound System Outernational Vinyl Weekender @GoldsmithsUoL w/ dir. @winstanw @MediaComGold @Anamik1977 @MykaellRiley More here:
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a research project into state-sponsored episodes of "mass #political #violence " against citizens in #Chile that includes Professor Vikki Bell from the @SociologyGold dept. has been shortlisted for the prestigious Newton Prize. Read more about it here:
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the Warmington Tower @GoldsmithsUoL in 1994 when it was still student halls (currently home to the Sociology Dept) #throwbackthursday
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Conference - Urban Encounters: Cartographies @Tate Britain. More here:
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Sharing this useful resource for students who are still collecting data for their dissertation, and for supervisors who advise them: #dissertations #datacollection #COVID19
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When Doctors die @YasminGun
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Welcome! to all of our new and continuing @SociologyGold students. We look forward to meeting each and everyone of you this week.
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