Department of Sociology

By Rachel Brooks I have been studying higher education students with caring responsibilities for over a decade now. Over this period of time, although the academic research has grown considerably, change in the policies and practices that affect this group of students has been notably slow. Indeed, extant research has documented the substantial obstacles often […]

By Ranjana Das and Paul Hodkinson We write this blog post at the end of an impact partnership to enhance the wellbeing of new parents. The project was funded by an ESRC impact acceleration award and followed various pieces of individual and joint research on the mental health of new parents and the role of […]

By Philip Jackson and Ranjana Das What expectations do citizens have of new technologies for media personalisation? How do audiences and users of future technologies feel about the use of their personal data? Our exciting new project brings together academics from engineering and sociology to explore, in partnership with the BBC, how citizen voices can […]

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 […]