The following is a selection of research funding grants, awards and special appointments received by the Department of Sociology.
2024
2023
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
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ US Centre Programme. Charismatic Infrastructure for Climate Change Adaption in the US. (Rebecca Elliott)
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European Research Council. Total: €1,200,000 (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Portion £38,000). (Sam Friedman)
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Social Mobility Commission. Total: £68,700. (Sam Friedman)
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ESRC. . Total: £2,462,013.75 (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Portion £20,172.54). (Suzanne Hall)
- City of London. Total: £5,000 (Don Slater)
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Horizon 2020. . Total: £56,390.00 (Don Slater)
- Southwark Council Great Estates Programme. Total: £35,000. (Don Slater)
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UKRI. Transforming Social Inequalities through Inclusive Climate Acton. Total: £1,200,000. (Mike Savage)
2019
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
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Dr Ayça Çubukçu received a Resident Fellowship from the Transforming Solidarities Consortium at Humbolt University & Freie University, Berlin (2022).
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Dr David Madden delivered the “The Housing Crisis” Keynote at the De Dependance public symposium, Rotterdam (2022).
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Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the “Rethinking the (Economics) Curriculum” Keynote at the University of Hasselt, Belgium (2022).
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Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa delivered the “Decolonising Home and Belonging” Keynote at the Association of Low Countries study Conference, Edinburgh (2022).
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Professor Mike Savage received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Aalborg, Denmark (2022).
2021
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Dr Sara Salem delivered the “(Re)Imagining SWANA Futurities” Keynote at York University, Canada (2021).
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Dr Sara Salem delivered the “Intersectionality and Feminism” Keynote at the Central European University, Austria (2021).
2019
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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).
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Professor Fran Tonkiss delivered the “Urban Inequalities” Keynote at the Oslo Urban Arena (2019).
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Professor Fran Tonkiss delivered the “Everyday Experiments” Keynote at La Triennale di Milan XXII, Milan (2019).
2022
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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).
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Professor Suzanne Hall was awarded the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Excellence in Education Award (2022).
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Dr Monika Krause’s book (2021) received an Honorable Mention for the from the American Sociological Association (2022).
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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).
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Professor Mike Savage was awarded the by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (2022).
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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
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Professor Sam Friedman was awarded the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Excellence in Education Award (2021).
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Professor Suzanne Hall was awarded the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Excellence in Education Award (2021).
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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).
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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
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Dr Monika Krause was awarded the for Theoretical Agenda Setting from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association (2019).
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Professor Sam Friedman was awarded the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Excellence in Education Award (2019).
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
2022
2020
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Dr Carrie Friese was appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Tübingen Institute for Sociology (2020).
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Dr Carrie Friese was awarded the Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna (2020).
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Dr Carrie Friese was appointed Chair of the Interview Committee for Research Fellowships in Society and Ethics at the Wellcome Trust (2020-22).