Sociology SAGE Prize Announced
It was a great pleasure to be on the judging panel with Dr Ala Sirriyeh at Lancaster and Prof Ian Tucker at University of East London for this year’s SAGE Innovation/Excellence Prize for the journal, Sociology. It was not easy to decide on a winner as all shortlisted papers were exceptional in their own ways – … Continue reading
AstraZeneca, Scientific ‘Cold War’ and Infodemic
I know, the title doesn’t quite make sense. It is a cluster of key words to summarise a few outreach highlights from last month. Thanks to the platform the Aspen Institute provided, I was on the Italian foreign policy radio programme ‘Nessun luogo รจ lontano’ when the side-effect of AstraZeneca was sensationalised in Europe. This … Continue reading
From the South to Mars!
How does one depart from the Global South and reach Mars in 12 weeks? Well, we had an answer! By ‘we’ I mean me and my 61 inquisitive and amazing students! The second week of April marked the end of my module SO627 Sociology of the Global South. I designed this module as a reaction … Continue reading
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