Vacancy - Co-convenor of the BSA Postgraduate Forum (17/04/2009)
Lara Killick, one of the BSA’s Postgraduate Forum convenors, will soon submit her PhD thesis. This will leave us with a vacancy on the team of four.
Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor?
Being a Postgraduate Forum (PGF) Convenor is a very rewarding experience both personally and professionally. The role of PGF Convenors is to make sure that student members of the association are kept up to date with matters of specific interest to them. Convenors facilitate contact between student members, and between student members and the BSA Council.
Please see the announcement for more details. If you’re interested in hearing about experiences directly from one of our convenors, send an email to the PG Forum.
If you would like to join the PGF team, send an email to the BSA. Include a short note about why you want to co-convene the PGF and attach a CV. All shortlisted candidates will be contacted, and unsuccessful applicants will be informed via email.
Submission deadline: Friday May 15 2009
Sociology Blogging (15/08/2008)
Sociology at Keele University has developed two new blogs you might be interested in. The first is shared with the Criminology programme. The second is highlighting Sociology research and postgraduate opportunities. You can find regular short articles, links to resources and publications and information about our activities on these blogs. Please subscribe to the blog for regular updates.
New Website Initiative for Graduates (19/06/08)
The Graduate Junction is a brand new site which gives research students an easy way of making contact with others who share their research interests no matter which department, institution or country they work in.
The Graduate Junction has been created by two graduate research students, who felt isolated within their own research projects. This isolation was lessened at conferences, where graduate researchers can meet others performing similar research. However, relevant conferences don't happen all the time. The other primary information source for research, published literature, is essential but can only inform on completed work. The Graduate Junction provides the first online meeting place for graduate research students from any background so that you can find out what research is currently being done by your fellow students.
The Graduate Junction also has a bold vision to break down the disciplinary and national boundaries that exist in research. Our own experiences have taught us that research in different subject areas has much overlap. The Graduate Junction allows links to be made based on research keywords rather than subject area, department or institution. Visit The Graduate Junction today!
BSA Postgraduate Day School Events 2008 (08/04/08)
The BSA is committed to providing a range of services for its membership including the really important constituency of postgraduate students. Funding has been agreed for four Postgraduate Day School Events to take place this year in Cardiff, Edinburgh and two in London (one specifically on visual sociology). Find out more>>
New Postgraduate Journal Launched (05/03/08)
Run by Postgraduates ENQUIRE aims to be established as a high quality online journal for the Social Sciences which provides an encouraging and exciting space for Postgraduate academic research from the UK and world-wide. ENQUIRE also hopes to fill a gap in the Postgraduate Research world by providing a critical, quality-oriented but nevertheless supportive and motivating procedure for publications by postgraduate students, post-doctoral students and beyond. Find out more about ENQUIRE.
Nominations invited for The Phil Strong Memorial Prize (07/02/08)
The Phil Strong prize is awarded at the BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference and exists to support postgraduate research in Medical Sociology.
Applicants must be unwaged, working in the field of Medical Sociology and registered for a higher degree at a recognised British University or other recognised British research institution, with a named supervisor who is a member of the BSA. For further details visit the Phil Strong Memorial Prize webpage. Deadline: 15 August 2008.
Masters Degrees at University of Aberdeen 2008 (07/02/08)
The School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen is inviting applications for the following Masters Degrees starting in October 2008. The Department of Sociology is one of the best in the UK.
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MSc. European Politics and Society: An advanced course with a research focus about how to study European societies. This degree has PSAS recognition.
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MSc. Globalisation The study of global social processes and theories of globalisation
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Master of Research: offering research training over one year that can be developed into a doctoral degree or employment as a social researcher. This degree has both PSAS and ESRC recognition
The University of Aberdeen also welcomes applications from doctoral students.
Bursaries and grants are offered on a competitive basis by the College of Arts and Social Sciences for full or partial costs. The deadlines are 15th February and 31st May 2008 for the following year. The degrees also have PSAS recognition which means that there is some funding from the Scottish Government.
For further information visit the Universityof Aberdeen's website.
Or contact Tony Glendinning, Postgraduate admissions.
Call for Papers - Journal Configurações (12/12/07)
Theoretical Guidelines
The complexity, the diversity, and the reflexivity that mark contemporary societies confront social theorists with the need to methodologically elaborate their objects in order to look at, analyse, and understand the identity processes and the cultural dynamics, which characterise modern societies, revealing the profound imbrications between structure and action, public and private, individual and social/collective, emotional and rational, more>>
SAGE Web Sale Now On - Up to 50% Off Books (05/12/2007)
SAGE Publications' Winter Web Sale is now on. With up to 50% off book prices and over 200 sociological titles to choose from, what are you waiting for? Visit the Sociology Sale Section to find out what's on offer.
Calling all Postgrad's - We Need Your Help! (09/10/2007)
To all postgrad's,
We are currently in the process of putting together the schedule for the 2008 BSA Annual conference to be held at Warwick University on Friday 28th-Sunday 30th March and need your help....
As you may be aware, we currently hold three postgraduate sessions at the conference and would like your input into how we utilise the time this year. In the past, we have held sessions dedicated to the following topics:
- preparing for your viva;
- dealing with Professor Ego at conferences;
- Tom Hall responding to Buroway's Public Sociology paper;
- a publishing panel;
- The emotional labour of a PhD;
- "Crazy Paving: Careers after postgraduate study";
- "Sociologie sans frontiers?: The responsibility of sociologists".
If you have any particular topics you would like us to include in this year's line up please drop us an email. Equally, if you have any feedback on how we might better cater for PG students at the conference please do not hesitate to get in touch with your ideas.
We hope to hear from you soon,
Lara, Kerrin, Sam & Ruth
BSA PGF convenors
Call for Papers - Communicating Experiences: 3rd International Conference for Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise
In 2008, the 3rd International Conference for Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise is being hosted by the Centre for Scientific and Cultural Research in Sport (CSCRS) at Roehampton University. Qualitative research at Roehampton has a long tradition of capturing and conveying the experiences of sport, exercise and physical activity, with a focus on performance, identity, the media, consumption and embodiment. The theme for the 2008 Conference is, therefore, ‘Communicating Experiences’. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 March 2008.
Calls for Papers - The 13th Annual Congress of the European College of Sports Science, Estoril, Portugal
The 13th Annual Congress of the ECSS aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research in sports science and its related fields The panel of distinguished scholars that we shall invite to share their expertise with the members of the scientific and professional community who will attend our Congress shall, without doubt, prove invaluable to its success. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 March 2008.
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