October | 2017 | City Sociology

The future of welfare: Basic income?

The European Social Survey (ESS) is joining together with Ronnie Cowan MP to host an event that will look at public attitudes towards the introduction of a universal basic income in London next month.

The Department of Sociology continued its Research Seminar Series with Pat Caplan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Title: LEARNING TO THINK ABOUT FOOD: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL VIEW Chair: Martin Caraher, Centre for Food Policy, Sociology Are there any common issues which we should be considering when we study ‘food’? My own career has involved research in Tanzania, India and the UK, has ranged from rural to urban settings and covered a period from…

The Jeremy Tunstall Global Media Research Centre began its seminar series this week

On Wednesday the 11th of October, Jane Singer, Director of Research and Professor of Journalism Innovation in the Department of Journalism, gave the following talk. Title: ‘Fact-Checkers as Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs: Readers, Remits and Resources for a New Form of Watchdog Journalism’ Abstract: This study considers fact-checkers as innovators, exploring funding models as well as perceptions about three…

Invitation to tender: Report on measuring the media

The European Social Survey (ESS) ERIC is seeking applications to produce a scoping report that will outline potential methods for measuring the media context during future survey fieldwork periods.

On Wednesday the 4th of October The Department of Sociology began its Research Seminar Series with Lynne Pettinger (University of Warwick)

Title: ‘Work in a time of ecological crisis’ Speaker: Lynne Pettinger, University of Warwick Chair: Rachel Cohen, Head of Department, Sociology We live ‘In Catastrophic Times’ (Stengers, 2015). Ecological crisis is central to that catastrophe, made through a capitalism that takes for granted the extraction of value from ‘nature’. This matters in lots of ways….

New article by Jordan Frith and Michael Saker published in First Monday

A new article by Jordan Frith and Michael Saker, entitled ‘Understanding Yik Yak: Location-based sociability and the communication of place’, has just been published in First Monday. Yik Yak was a location-based social application that allowed users to anonymously create, read, and respond to posts made within a few miles radius. Frith and Saker report…