Rachel Brooks (on behalf of the research team that includes Jill Timms, Frances Gow and Adeeba Ahmad) Today, the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) has published our report on widening participation to sandwich courses in English universities. Background Sandwich courses are undergraduate degree programmes that include a year-long placement in industry or part-time work-experience. Existing research has demonstrated that […]
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By Christine Hine Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers simultaneously a wealth of opportunity and a significant challenge for a society wanting to handle its power responsibly. The Digital Societies research grouping of the Department of Sociology at Surrey carries out research across multiple substantive domains, to look beyond the hype, to explore the impacts of AI […]
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By Emily Setty Policy and practice pertaining to Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in England has been and remains fraught. While the long-fought battle to introduce a statutory national curriculum for RSE has been won, we continue to see RSE as site within and through which the so-called ‘culture wars’ play out. In light of […]
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By Christina Silver The CAQDAS Networking Project (CNP) was founded in 1994 by Professors Nigel Fielding and Raymond Lee in the Department of Sociology, here at the University of Surrey, and our remit is to provide impartial information, advice, training, and ongoing support in all things Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) to research communities. Since the outset […]
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By Paul Hodkinson and Matt Hall Colleagues will be familiar with the feeling of excitement that can accompany receipt of the first responses from volunteer research participants for a new project. Such feelings, though, quickly turned to something else altogether for us in January this year. An encouraging initial trickle of early responses to our […]
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By PJ Annand The Queering Shelter project is running a series of LGBTQ+ creative workshops to explore the topic of queer shelter, offering hot vegan and vegetarian food, travel reimbursements and a £50 shopping voucher exhibition contributions. Find out more and reserve your place here. As we celebrate LGBT History Month, it’s a good time […]
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