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Grants, Awards, Honours and Prizes

We are successful in gaining external funding for our research and publish in leading academic outlets and in vital public fora.

The following is a selection of research funding grants, awards and special appointments received by the Department of Sociology.

Funding grants and awards

 2024

  • ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Political disempowerment and economic change in ex-industrial England (Sacha Hilhorst)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Seed Fund Award. Digital Funerals and the Digitisation of Grief. (Carrie Friese)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Seed Fund Award. Palestine: Spaces and Politics Introductory Curriculum. (Dena Qaddumi)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Seed Fund Award. Play/ Work: Precarity, Creativity and Labour in a ‘play crisis’. (Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Seed Fund Award. Sonic Lives: On the Radio and Anticolonial Solidarity. (Sara Salem and Mai Taha)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Impact Grant. Revolutionary Papers Traveling Exhibition. (Mahvish Ahmad)
  • Understanding Society Research Data Fellowship. Understanding the effects of health and caregiving dynamics on credit usage and financial distress. Total: £70,000. (Ursula Henz)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ KEI PhD Fund. A Tale of Two Towns (Sacha Hilhorst)
  • Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Owners and Occupiers: The Politics of Housing Tenure. Total: £64,991. (David Madden)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ KEI PhD Fund. A dialogue on dynamics of racism in Turkey. (Helen Mackreath)
  • International Science Partnerships Fund. . (Don Slater)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Impact Grant. Pilot Community Engagement Project with London's Turkish-speaking LGBTI+ Migrants. (Hakan Sandal-Wilson)
  • Global Research Fund. Reading-Through: towards a methodology for political sciences otherwise. (Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa)

2023 

  • Philip Leverhulme Prize. . Total: £100,000. (Rebecca Elliott)

  • Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship Award, to host (University of Pennsylvania) in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology from January to June 2024. Total: £109,360 (Professors Sam Friedman and Mike Savage)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Seed Fund Award. Embodied Theory Lab Workshop I: Care Without Paternalism. (Jana Melkumova-Reynolds)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Seed Fund Award. Mapping generative AI: A material political economy approach. (Nils Peters)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Seed Fund Award. The Social Life of Climate Change – online hub. (Rebecca Elliott)
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Sociology Impact Grant.  (Sara Salem and Mai Taha)
  • BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. . (Mahvish Ahmad
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ KEI Large Bid Fund. . Total: £29,843 (Don Slater
  • ESRC. Taxing the Super Rich. Total: £800,000. (Mike Savage) 

2022 

  • Trans-Atlantic Platform and the ESRC. Total: €540,000. (Kristin Surak) 
  • Wellcome Trust. BA Academy/Wellcome Trust Conferences award. (Carrie Friese)  
  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ GNCA/ODA awards for UKRI awardees. Wealth inequality in Ghana. Total: £80,000. (Mike Savage)  

2021 

2020 

2019 

Prizes, Honours, Special Appointments

Honours | Prizes | Special Appointments

Honours

2023 

  • Dr David Madden delivered the “Residential Frontiers” Keynote at Wohngespräche, Technische Universitat, Vienna (2023). 
  • Dr David Madden delivered the “Housing Politics in an Era of Intersecting Crises” Keynote at the 7th Congress of Urban Studies Association, Ankara (2023).  
  • Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the “Decoloniality, Epistemic Blackness, and Academic Rigour” Keynote at the European University Institute, Italy (2023). 

2022

  • Dr Ayça Çubukçu received a Resident Fellowship from the Transforming Solidarities Consortium at Humbolt University & Freie University, Berlin (2022).    

  • Dr David Madden delivered the “The Housing Crisis” Keynote at the De Dependance public symposium, Rotterdam (2022).     

  • Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the “Rethinking the (Economics) Curriculum” Keynote at the University of Hasselt, Belgium (2022).       

  • Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the “Decolonising Home and Belonging” Keynote at the Association of Low Countries study Conference, Edinburgh (2022).      

  • Professor Mike Savage received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Aalborg, Denmark (2022).  

2021 

  • Dr Sara Salem delivered the “(Re)Imagining SWANA Futurities” Keynote at York University, Canada (2021).      

  • Dr Sara Salem delivered the “Intersectionality and Feminism” Keynote at the Central European University, Austria (2021). 

2019 

  • Dr Ayça Çubukçu received a Senior Fellowship from The Fung Global Fellows Program, administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University (2019).  

  • Professor Fran Tonkiss delivered the “Urban Inequalities” Keynote at the Oslo Urban Arena (2019). 

  • Professor Fran Tonkiss delivered the “Everyday Experiments” Keynote at La Triennale di Milan XXII, Milan (2019).  

Prizes 

2022 

  • Dr Rebecca Elliott’s book  (2021) was awarded joint winner of the   from the Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2022) and received an Honorable Mention for the  from the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (2022). 

  • Professor Suzanne Hall was awarded the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Excellence in Education Award (2022). 

  • Dr Monika Krause’s book  (2021) received an Honorable Mention for the  from the American Sociological Association (2022).  

  • Dr Claire Moon’s research film Do the Dead Have Human Rights? (2022) was nominated for the Learning on Screen Awards for best film in the Education Film category (2022).  

  • Professor Mike Savage was awarded the  by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (2022). 

  • Dr Kristin Surak’s article “Millionaire Mobility and the Sale of Citizenship” in The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2021) was awarded the Best Publication Award by an International Scholar by the American Sociological Association’s Section on Global and Transnational Sociology (2022).  

2021 

  • Professor Sam Friedman was awarded the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Excellence in Education Award (2021). 

  • Professor Suzanne Hall was awarded the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Excellence in Education Award (2021). 

  • Dr Sara Salem’s book  (2020) was shortlisted for The British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize (2021) and The British International Association’s International Political Economy Group Prize (2021).  

  • Professor Mike Savage was awarded the  for his paper “Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain”, Koch et al., in Sociology (2021).  

2019 

  • Dr Monika Krause was awarded the for Theoretical Agenda Setting from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association (2019). 

  • Professor Sam Friedman was awarded the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Excellence in Education Award (2019). 

Special Appointments 

2024 

  • Professor Mike Savage has been named as an Affiliate of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR), hosted by the University of Cape Town, South Africa (2024). 

2023  

  • Professor Chetan Bhatt was appointed the Anthony Giddens Professor in Social Theory by the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (2023). 

2022 

  • Professor Chetan Bhatt was appointed a panel member of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Violence in Leicester (2022).  

2020 

  • Dr Carrie Friese was appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Tübingen Institute for Sociology (2020).  

  • Dr Carrie Friese was awarded the Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna (2020).  

  • Dr Carrie Friese was appointed Chair of the Interview Committee for Research Fellowships in Society and Ethics at the Wellcome Trust (2020-22).