Sociology of Health and Illness Editorship (Posted 11/10/2011)
Expressions of interest are invited for a new Editorial Team from one or more universities to take over the editorship of the journal Sociology of Health and Illness, which is owned by the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness. The involvement of a member of the Editorial Team based outside the UK would be welcomed but is not required.
Sociology of Health and Illness was founded in June 1979 and is a highly successful journal, with seven issues per year from 2012, plus a special issue also published as a Monograph. The current editorial team of Clive Seale, Jonathan Gabe, Steven Wainwright, and Clare Williams complete their term of office at the end of September 2012 and the new team will take up their positions on 1st October 2012. The team will serve for a period of three years, renewable for no more than one further term of three years.
The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, the charity that owns the journal, will contract with the institution of the lead Editor to provide up to £95,000 a year to meet the costs of editing the journal. Applications should be submitted no later than 1 February 2012. Find out more>>
BSA Letter to the THE (Posted 04/08/2011)
Committee Commended - The BSA and the Council of Heads and Professors of Sociology welcome the Commons Science and Technology Committee's report on peer review. Read the full letter in the Times Higher Education.
Bloomsbury publish biography on Barbara Wootton (Posted 26/05/2011)
Barbara Wootton was one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms, the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords and the first female president of the British Sociological Association!
This is a fascinating and highly readable biography of the life and work of this singular woman. It is an engaging account of the making of British social policy at a critical period seen through the lens of the life and work of a pivotal figure. Oakley tells a story about the intersections of the public and the private and about the way her subject’s life unfolded within, was shaped by, and helped to shape a particular social and intellectual context.
About the Author - Ann Oakley is a leading British sociologist and writer. She is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she set up the Social Science Research Unit and the EPPI-Centre, an enterprise devoted to making social research useful to policy-makers.
For interview and feature enquiries please contact Ellen Williams in the Bloomsbury press office: tel: 0207 494 8533 or email.
A Critical Woman Barbara Wootton
Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781849664684
Published by Bloomsbury, 8 June 2011
£30.00 • Hardback
Digital Social Research: call for Demonstrator projects (posted 17/05/2011)
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) invites applications for projects that demonstrate the use of digital tools, techniques and practices in economic and social science research. The purpose of these demonstrator projects are:
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to develop, promote and raise awareness in the use of new digital research tools and methods in social science research; and
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to exploit their potential for translatable practice across the social sciences.
The spectrum of demonstrators will include projects with impact beyond the academic research community.
The call is part of the Digital Social Research programme and is open to the whole research community. It is applicable not only to projects which were commissioned explicitly to develop digital methods (such as the e-Social Science programme) but to any projects which have developed digital innovations of wider applicability to benefit the social science community.
Deadline for applications: 16.00 UK time on 2 June 2011
The projects within this call may vary in size (eg between £10k and £60k at 80 per cent of fEC); we expect to fund up to approximately five projects. Applications over £80k (80 per cent fEC) will not be considered.
Projects funded under this call are expected to run between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012 for a period of up to 12 months. These projects may supplement existing projects to demonstrate their outcomes and enhance their impact but new activities will also be considered.
Applicants are advised to read the guidance for applicants on the ESRC website, designed to help those who wish to apply for funding. Read more>>
BSA/C-SAP National Award for Excellence in Teaching Sociology Winners Announced (Posted 07/04/2011)
Sarah Cant and Peter Watts accepted the award on behalf of The Sociology Teaching Team at Canterbury Christchurch University at the BSA Annual Conference.
Education Study Group launches blog (Posted 09/02/2011)
SocofEd is for academics, teachers, students, policy makers and anyone who wants to engage in critical debates about education. SocofEd aims to bring sociological approaches to education into conversation with a wide and diverse audience.
SocofEd is edited by David Mellor (University of Bristol, UK) and Richard Waller (UWE Bristol, UK), who are the convenors of the British Sociological Association‘s Education Study Group. SocofEd was officially launched in January 2011 with the aim of providing a space for on going debates about the practices, structures and politics of education from a range of critical sociological perspectives. Visit the SocofEd blog.
Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize - Call for Nominations 2011 (Posted 02/02/2011)
The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize awards outstanding scientific contributions of individuals from all disciplines aiming at the improvement of young people’s development and perspectives worldwide. The prize is endowed with 1 Mio. Swiss Francs, of which 900’000 Swiss Francs are for use in a research project, 100’000 Swiss Francs are for related costs, such as travel, networking, and dissemination.
The prize addresses scholars from all countries who have achieved major breakthroughs in understanding and contributing to child and youth development and at the same time have the potential to advance the field by actively conducting research.
An international jury will choose the laureate from the pool of nominated candidates. The following individuals form the jury:
- Professor Albert Bandura, Stanford University, USA
- Professor Monique Boekaerts, Leiden University, the Netherlands
- Professor Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University, USA
- Professor Meinrad Paul Perrez, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Professor Anne C. Petersen, University of Michigan, USA
- Professor Rainer K. Silbereisen, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
- Professor William Julius Wilson, Harvard University, USA
Your support in the nomination process would be very much appreciated. Please have your nomination submitted by 15 March 2011 at the latest. To find out more about the Research Prize, please also visit our website.
Norbert Elias Prize 2011 - Nominations Invited (Posted 02/02/2011)
The seventh Norbert Elias Prize will be awarded in 2011. The Prize consists in a sum of €1,000 and it will be awarded to a significant first major book published between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2010. First-time authors from any part of the world are eligible for the award.
The Prize is awarded ‘in commemoration of the sociologist Norbert Elias (1897–1990), whose writings, at once theoretical and empirical, boldly crossed disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences to develop a long-term perspective on the patterns of interdependence which human beings weave together’. This does not mean, however, that the prize-winning book will necessarily be directly inspired by Elias’s own work.
Previous winners of the Elias Prize have been:
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1999 David Lepoutre, Coeur de banlieue: Codes, rites et langages (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997)
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2001 Wilbert van Vree, Meetings, Manners and Civilisation (London: University of Leicester Press, 1999)
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2003 Nikola Tietze, Islamische Identitäten: Formen muslimischer Religiosität junger Männer in Deutschland und Frankreich (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2001)
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2005 Jason Hughes, Learning to Smoke: Tobacco Use in the West (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
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2007 Georgi Derlugian, Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).
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2009 Elizabeth Bernstein, Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
For the 2011 prize, the jury will consist of three previous winners of the prize, under the chairmanship of Wilbert van Vree.
Nominations for the prize should be sent via email to Marcello Aspria, Secretary to the Norbert Elias Foundation, by 30 April 2011, or by post to J.J. Viottastraat 13, 1071 JM Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Consultation on the Academic Infrastructure - What is the Academic Infrastructure? (Posted 12/01/2011)
Members may contribute to the joint BSA/HAPS response by emailing comments to BSA Chair, Professor Rob Mears by no later than Monday 21st February and/or respond directly to the QAA. Find out more about the QAA's Consultation on the Academic Infrastructure.
Government Committee Vacancies: SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WANTED (Posted 05/01/2011)
Nominations are urgently sought for vacancies that have arisen on two government advisory committees:
a) The Cabinet Office is advertising for a member of the Science & Technology Honours Committee; and
b) The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is advertising for up to 10 members for the Prime Minister's Council for Science & Technology.
The BSA wishes to encourage greater recognition of the work of sociologists and its members and therefore believes that it is important that social science is represented within these Government advisory committees.
The names of suitable BSA members along with their contact details and reasons for nomination should be sent to the BSA Chief Executive by no later than Friday, 28 January 2011.
Further Information
a) Cabinet Office Science & Technology Honours Committee
Brief description
The Science and Technology Honours Committee is one of the eight specialist honours committees which consider candidates for honours recommended by members of the public, government departments and professional bodies. The Committee considers candidates for honours who work in the science community. The Committee selects those it wishes to recommend for inclusion in the list which the Prime Minister submits to The Queen for the New Year and Birthday Honours Lists.
Full description
Full details of the honours system, membership of the Science and Technology Committee and the areas of work covered by each committee, can be found at www.direct.gov.uk/honours. Working arrangement: Part Time - two days and some preparatory reading.
Skills
The requirement is for a candidate who is an expert in the worlds of science and technology and who is to able to command the confidence of other experts in the sector. Members will be persons with a track record of success in their own fields who are well qualified to judge the relative merits of competing candidates for honours. They will be able to act with independence of judgement and be individuals of the highest standards of probity and discretion. The consideration of individual nominations for honours has to be carried out with absolute confidentiality. They will need to be able to handle a large volume of submissions in a timely and efficient manner and be able to work closely with the supporting Secretariat and with their fellow committee members. They will need to be sympathetic with the aims of the honours system and have an awareness of the importance of diversity in the honours process.
b) The Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology - Independent Members
Brief description
The Council for Science and Technology (CST) is the Government's top-level advisory body on science and technology and reports directly to the Prime Minister.
This vacancy is for membership of the CST which meets four times a year - March, June, September and December.
Full description
The Council is looking to renew its membership from January 2011. We are looking for up to 10 new members from:
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business - large and small; manufacturing services and financial sectors.
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academia - in particular physicial scientists (including information and communications technology), social scientists and an economists, and if possible a vice-chancellor
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a science and society background
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an education background
Applicants will have management experience, usually at the equivalent of Chief Executive, Vice-Chancellor or Professor level particularly in industry, in business or in economics. They should be of sufficient stature and dynamism to contribute actively to both the Council's policy agenda and to be able to nurture links across the Council's vast network of stakeholders. They will need to work effectively with and command the confidence of the Prime Minister, Government Ministers, and those at the highest level within the research base, business and the public services.
Skills
Applicants will have management experience, usually at the equivalent of Chief Executive, Vice-Chancellor or Professor level particularly in industry, in business or in economics. They should be of sufficient stature and dynamism to contribute actively to both the Council's policy agenda and to be able to nurture links across the Council's vast network of stakeholders. They will need to work effectively with and command the confidence to the Prime Minister, Government Ministers, and those at the highest level within the research base, business and the public services.
