Professor Tim Lang, from the Centre for Food Policy in the Department of Sociology at City University London, has been reflecting on the impact of Brexit for the UK food industry. Listen to, and read, his enlightening pieces here: A 4-minute summary of concerns about Food & Brexit for the BBC World Service, go to…
Important new research by Matt Barnes has helped shed light on the large inequalities in incomes among people in older age. The research, funded and published by Independent Age, draws on analysis of incomes data from the Family Resources Survey. It shows that there are huge variations in incomes of pensioners, with hundreds of thousands…
A new report looking at well-being in the UK and across Europe over time has just been published. A joint effort from the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London, The New Economics Foundation and Cambridge University, the report – Looking through the wellbeing kaleidoscope: Results from the European Social Survey – looks at: the design…
A new article by Gerbrand Tholen has appeared ahead of print online in Sociology. The paper is named ‘Symbolic Closure: Towards a Renewed Sociological Perspective on the Relationship between Higher Education, Credentials and the Graduate Labour Market’. Tholen examines how graduate workers are able to create labour market advantage over other graduates and non-graduates in…
Rima Saini, 2nd year PhD in Quantitative Sociology, wrote a timely piece in the Conversation UK about Tory and Labour efforts to garner votes in this month’s London Mayoral elections. She used data from the 2010 Ethnic Minority Survey from the British Election Study team to look at what South Asian groups in the UK…
The 2nd Postgraduate Q-Step Network event of the academic year was held at City University London on 27th April 2016. The PG Q-Step network is a forum for Q-Step postgrads interested in quantitative pedagogy and research to share ideas and learn from each other. This event organised on behalf of the network and sponsored by City…
A number of the Sociology department’s PhD students and senior academics presented papers at the British Sociological Association’s (BSA) Annual Conference 2016 last month at Aston University, Birmingham. Heated discussions – both inside and outside the plenary and panel sessions – took place not only on this year’s conference theme of ‘Global Societies: Fragmenting and…
Less than a week after John Mercer argued with Liza Schuster on Channel 4 news that safety means different things in London and Kabul, Kabul has been rocked by a major attack leaving 64 dead and 347 injured. In the aftermath, a great deal of anger was directed at President Ghani, who at the beginning…
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