Section: Events
Other Events
New Directions Conference
The conference will be held in the David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South.
This year the conference showcases the work of our current postgraduate students at various stages in their research. Conference themes include power and money, the self and the body in research, research on children and families, social movements, rituals, symbols and identities and narrative and textual research.
The conference programme is available here.
The conference abstracts are available here.
The conference poster is available here.
ROBERTS PRIZE WINNERS
We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Roberts Prize for Best Presentation and Paper 2008 are:
Amy Chandler: "Just" attention seeking? Morality, mortality and self-injury
Ruth Lewis: Shutting the bathroom door: negotiating bodily boundaries within families
Suryakant Waghmore: Politics of Caste and Civil Society in India: A view from below.
UPDATED
Powerpoint slides from the conference are now available:
Steven MacLennan: Calculating Practices
Edgar Zavala-Pelayo: Power and Networks in the University Research Environment
Sveta Milyaeva: Changing the Law: Putting Forward Regulation
Gregor Schnuer: The Spaces between 'introspection' and 'just reading books'
Lucy Nicholas: Contemporary Anarcho-Queer Gender Politics: A reciprocal ethics of practice
Ruth Lewis: Shutting the bathroom door: negotiating bodily boundaries within families
Eric Chen Zhong: I'm bringing (sex)y back: Developing a Bio-Sociological Framework for the Demography of Fertility
Fraser Stewart: Researching the Environment: A critical appraisal of Ecological Modernisation
Heather Blenkinsop: The timing of myth: Exploring the contradiction
Carl Kieck: Olive Schreiner's The Dawn of Civilization and Anti-imperialism: A potential socio-historiographical key?
Amy Chandler: "Just" attention seeking? Morality, mortality and self-injury
Carrie Purcell: Massage as a form of bodywork' Some methodological considerations
This page was published on 29 July 2008