Sick of reading and writing? Here’s a chance to communicate in images instead! Submit a single image capturing what Sociology means to you with a short caption (about 150 words) and you could win an iPad or a cash prize. The competition is open to all three undergraduate year groups of students on the SociologyContinue reading “Seeing Sociologically Competition 2016”
Author Archives: Darryl Humble
Research Grant Success for Dr Katy Jenkins & Dr Hugo Romero-Toledo
Congratuatlions to Dr Katy Jenkins and Dr Hugo Romero-Toledo (COES, Chile) who have been awarded a British Academy International Partnership and Mobility Grant for £29,886! Developing a participatory approach to understanding socio-environmental transformations and conflicts in the Atacama Desert, Chile: Gender, indigenous communities and large scale mining. This project brings together UK and Chilean academics researchingContinue reading “Research Grant Success for Dr Katy Jenkins & Dr Hugo Romero-Toledo”
A rooftop farm – revitalising urban life in NYC
This is a new post by Dr Abigail Schoneboom who joined the department as a part time member of staff in September 2015. Here Abigail reflects on her research in New York City. On a suffocatingly hot day this August, I ascended from the polluted dusty air of New York City’s Northern Boulevard to aContinue reading “A rooftop farm – revitalising urban life in NYC”
Seeing Sociologically … COMPETITION
In February we launched our Seeing Sociologically competition – an opportunity for our Sociology students in the Department of Social Sciences and Languages at Northumbria University to capture their Sociological view of the world in up to 5 photos, with the first prize of an iPad! Staff in the Department also took up the challengeContinue reading “Seeing Sociologically … COMPETITION”
Sensing (and finding room for) the emotional in policy-relevant research: The case of homelessness
Adele Irving and Oliver Moss introduce their research into homelessness in NewcastleImaging Homelessness in a City of Care was an ESRC-funded participatory mapping initiative, undertaken in the summer of 2014. It was led by Northumbria University and supported by Newcastle City Council, five homelessness charities and 30 members of the Newcastle’s homeless community. The aims ofContinue reading “Sensing (and finding room for) the emotional in policy-relevant research: The case of homelessness”