Department of Sociology

Kate Burningham Conducting research that integrates and broadens insights and approaches from multiple perspectives is essential for tackling the complexities of system change. In the inaugural blog of our new series, Kate Burningham reflects on some practical implications of transdisciplinarity for academic work practices. What does transdisciplinary research involve in practice? What aspects of everyday […]

Dr Nerina Boursinou, Ms Anatoli Rontogianni, Dr Christos Kostopoulos Our interdisciplinary collaborative research project (2023-2024), Between Borders and Headlines: A Critical Analysis of the Greek Press’s Narratives on Climate Migrants, aims to understand how climate – induced migration and climate migrants are represented and framed, and the results of this framing on the cultivation of […]

Opening up the Qualitative Al conversation with our free global symposium Christina Silver, PhD, SFHEA, FAcSS. Associate Professor (Teaching), Director of the CAQDAS Networking Project, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey Christina Silver, PhD, SFHEA, FAcSS. Associate Professor (Teaching), Director of the CAQDAS Networking Project, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey Just over a year […]

Dr Peter Hemming, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, 20/11/23 Children’s Voices Today is World Children’s Day, which marks the launch of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and promotes the importance of listening to children’s voices. Since the adoption of the Convention, understandings of children in British society have […]

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 […]

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 […]