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MSc Criminology and Sociology - New Masters Programme announced for 2023
The Department of Sociology has announced a new programme commencing in September 2023 that will examine criminal justice and punishment, but also how individuals and communities perceive and respond to adverse conditions and deviant behaviour.
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League Tables Success for the School of Social Science
The University of Aberdeen has been ranked 6th in the UK for Anthropology and Archaeology, 4th in the UK for International Relations and 8th in the UK for Politics by the Guardian University Guide 2023.
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Dr Digdem Soyaltin-Colella edits new volume on EU Governance
Newly appointed lecturer in PIR, Dr Digdem Soyaltin-Colella, recently published a book examining governance promotion at the EU level. The book re-evaluates the EU’s governance promotion capacity both within the EU and beyond its borders in light of the simultaneous decline in democracy in Europe in particular, and across the whole...
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Aberdeen achieves highest ever ranking in Guardian University Guide
The University of Aberdeen has achieved its highest ever ranking of 13th in the UK in the Guardian University Guide, and its seven-place rise from 20th last year also makes it the biggest climber in the top 20.
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£4m investment in 20 new research posts to solve major global challenges
The University of Aberdeen is set to invest nearly £4m to recruit 20 experts to address the key global challenges facing society.
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Dr Kathrin Thomas Held Women's Summer School in Quantitative Data Analysis
Dr Kathrin Thomas has convened the University of Aberdeen's first Women's Summer School in Quantitative Data Analysis, held between September 5-9. Funded by a British Academy's Talent Development Award, the workshop aimed to provide the 26 women attending with the opportunity to learn and apply methods of data analysis in the software package Stata 17...
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PhD Student Awarded Joint Traditional Dance Residency
Shailini Vinod, a PhD student in Creative Writing and Sociology has been awarded the competitive Traditional Dance Forum Scotland (TDFS) Join Traditional Dance Residency. After responding to an open call for submissions, Shailini partnered with her daughter, Shashwati Pattwakar Vinod, to submit an entry that draws on their expertise in professional Indian...
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Shailini Vinod Delivers Talk at the University of Duisburg Essen
Shailini Vinod, a SGSAH-AHRC funded PhD student in Creative Writing and Sociology, has participated in the Spring School at the University of Duisburg Essen, and delivered a paper drawn from her thesis. Part of the Mercator Research Training Group, the school, Openness, Tolerance and Sense of Community: Narratives and Realities of Contemporary...
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Just Transitions Lab Meets MSP Richard Lochhead
Dr John Bone and fellow researchers from the Just Transitions Lab at the University of Aberdeen have met with MSP Richard Lochhead to discuss the current energy crisis and the impact of energy transitions on communities in North-East Scotland. The Scottish Government Minister for Just Transition, Employment and Fair Work visited the Old...
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Dr John Bone Discusses Neoliberal Precarity and Primalization
Dr John Bone participated in an interview with the research platform, Faculti, discussing his 2021 paper, 'Neoliberal precarity and primalization: A biosocial perspective on the age of insecurity, injustice, and unreason'. In the article, published in The British Journal of Sociology, Bone draws a connecting line between the growing sense of...