Department of Sociology

By Sara Arber and Robert Meadows There is a long tradition of studying class inequalities in health in the UK, from the 1980 Black Report (1) onwards, but to date there has been surprisingly little attention to class inequalities related to the coronavirus (CV-19). This blog outlines some of the ways that class is implicated […]

By Sue Venn, Kate Burningham and Anastasia Loukianov This blogpost was previously posted on CUSP In this short blog, CUSP researchers Sue Venn, Kate Burningham and Anastasia Loukianov reflect on the challenges of conducting place based research on what people need to live well within planetary limits, whilst sharing the direct consequences of extreme weather […]

By Kavin Narasimhan Water has many uses in society, such as agriculture, livestock rearing, drinking, sanitation, navigation, tourism and recreation. Water is also used to generate energy. The multifaceted and critical role of water in society creates tensions about who gets the water, how and when. These tensions can disadvantage people in some communities more […]

By Ranjana Das Christmas 2019 saw the release of my new Routledge monograph – Early Motherhood in Digital Societies: Ideals, Anxieties and Ties of the Perinatal. The book uses material from interviews with new mothers, and from a range of online sites, to offer an understanding of what the digital turn has meant for new […]

By Kate Burningham, Paul Hodkinson and Katherine Hubbard Colleagues in the Department of Sociology recently played a big part in Surrey’s contributions to the ESRC’s Festival of Social Science. The idea of the festival is to bring academic research to new audiences within our communities and enhance the impact of our work. Sociology’s contributions to […]

By Emily Setty and Ellen Harris The government has recently announced that it is finally knocking on the head the perhaps well-intentioned but inevitably ill-conceived idea for an age verification system for online pornography. Under the law, porn websites would have had to establish that UK-based visitors to the sites are over the age of […]