Department of Sociology

By Ranjana Das, Niklas Chimirri, Ana Jorge and Christine Trültzsch–Wijnen We reflect in this blog, on just-completed fieldwork with 16 households across the UK, Austria, Denmark and Portugal – on parents’ experiences of creating and maintaining their networks in digital societies. In all four national contexts, there has, for some time now, been a proliferation […]

By Moslem Boushehrian, Kate Burningham, Robyn Muir and Kavin Narasimhan Edited by Paul Hodkinson The ESRC Festival of Social Science offers a valuable opportunity for those involved in scholarly research to engage with policy makers, practitioners and the public. Over the last few years, colleagues in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey […]

By Christine Hine Wednesday 1st December marks the launch event for the recently published edited collection Research Methods for Digital Work and Organization co-edited by Surrey Sociology’s Christine Hine in collaboration with Gillian Symon from Royal Holloway, University of London and Katrina Pritchard from Swansea University. This collection had its inception at a workshop funded […]

By Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey) and Johanna Waters (UCL) Over a decade ago, we began work on a book that was published in 2011 as Student Mobilities, Migration and the Internationalization of Higher Education. We were overwhelmed by the positive response we received to this book from the wider academic community. However, over the […]

By Ranjana Das and Emily Setty Surrey Sociology is delighted to announce that Ranjana Das and Emily Setty have won funding from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences to undertake a multi-disciplinary, staff-student collaboration – EEAS – Embedding Employability via Assessments in Sociology. EEAS is a project proposing to conduct a rapid set of […]

Compiled by Ranjana Das and Paul Hodkinson, with contributions from Pete Barbrook-Johnson, Rachel Brooks, Amanda Eastell-Bleakley, Nigel Fielding, Nigel Gilbert, Vicki Harman, Sazana Jayadeva, Andrew King, Graham Scambler and Emily Setty As a department engaged in critical research on sociology, criminology and communications, the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey has seen numerous […]