Dr Rachel O’Neill nominated for the SAGE/Sociological Research Online prize for innovation and excellence

Congratulations to Dr Rachel O’Neill who has been nominated for the SAGE/Sociological Research Online prize for innovation and excellence. This is an outstanding achievement which recognizes the very best of sociological research. There are five nominees each year, and Rachel’s nomination has her alongside luminaries like Les Back. It is an extraordinarily impressive achievement for someone who was only awarded her PhD in January! The paper for which she was nominated is The work of seduction: intimacy and subjectivity in the London seduction community, 20 (4), 5http://www.socresonline.org.uk/20/4/5.html

Rachel did her PhD with Prof Ros Gill and since then has been stacking up accolades normally reserved for much more senior scholars: she was a guest on Laurie Taylor’s Thinking Allowed on March 31st, was offered a job at Sussex University (which she starts next week), and was also selected as the Department’s candidate for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Rachel has been working as a VL in the Department since January, teaching on a course with Jean Chalaby.

I’m sure everyone would like to join me in congratulating her on this fantastic achievement.