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COP29 delegates standing in a row in the Wave

Conference of the Parties (COP) 29

The Faculty of Social Sciences is well represented at this year's COP currently underway in Azerbaijan with delegates from a range of disciplines.
Festival of the Mind

Festival of the Mind 2024

We hope you can join us at Dr Steph Ejegi-Memeh's event, Unearthing Our Joy, which is part of this year's Festival of the Mind.
Festival of the Mind

Festival of the Mind returns to Sheffield

Sheffield's Festival of the Mind is back for its seventh edition this September (19-29 September). The free Festival, featuring the beloved Spiegeltent in Barker's Pool, promises to be the most ambitious programme yet.
A photo of Helen Kennedy

Professor Helen Kennedy elected as Fellow of the British Academy

The British Academy has bestowed its highest honour in recognition of Helen's research which investigates how developments in digital technology are experienced in everyday life.
Athena Swan Bronze SCS 2023

Sociological Studies recognised for the advancement of gender equality

The Department of Sociological Studies is very pleased to announce that, in August, we were awarded the Athena Swan Bronze Award.
The image is a close-up of two hands wrapped around the bars of a prison cell.

Support for mothers in prison and on release lacking, according to new report

Mothers who are in prison, or on release, who are also victims or survivors of domestic violence and abuse (DVA), are being let down by the criminal justice system, a new report has found.
Dr Tanya and Dr Sheng

Welcome to our Early Career International Fellows

Dr Tanya Aberman and Dr Sheng Zou visit the Department of Sociological Studies as part of the Visiting International Fellowship scheme.
Professor Mary B Setrana delivering a lecture

Professor Mary Setrana visits from University of Ghana

Through the Erasmus+ mobility scheme, the Department of Sociological Studies is pleased to host Professor Mary Setrana from the University of Ghana.

Professor Loretta Baldassar

Department welcomes Professor Loretta Baldassar

We are delighted to welcome our first of three Visiting International Fellows of 2023, Professor Loretta Baldassar from Edith Cowan University, Australia, who was successfully appointed the Senior International Fellowship.