Department of Sociology, University of York

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Conversation Analysis Short Course - Repair

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 3: Repair (3 days) (SPACES STILL AVAILABLE)

Tutors to include: Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger

Date: Tues 11 – Thurs 13 October

Pre-requisites: Developing Conversation Analytic Skills 1 and 2 (Turn-taking and Sequence Organisation)

This course is one of two – on repair and on word selection – designed to provide further core training in conversation analysis (CA).

It will provide a systematic grounding in the CA domain of repair. It will be an intensive course, limited to 12 participants. The course will be taught via mini-lectures, practical activities and exercises, with an emphasis on hands-on work with data. It is intended for those with some prior familiarity with CA – especially turn-taking and sequence organisation – who want to acquire key skills for working with conversational data. It is not necessary for participants to have their own data set.

Location: University of York

Cost: £360 (to include course materials, lunches, tea & coffee)
Enquiries/registration: sarah.shrive-morrison@york.ac.uk
Further info: http://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/shortcourses/

Monday, 26 September 2016

Chevening Scholarships - exciting opportunities for funded Masters-level study at the University of York

The Department of Sociology at the University of York is ranked 1st in the UK for research quality by the recent major Research Excellence Framework review (REF 2014).

With impressive credentials and a supportive atmosphere, our innovative Department is driven by excellence in both research and teaching.

We welcome enquiries and applications from prospective Masters students wishing to apply for a Chevening Scholarship.

Chevening Scholarships provide one year of fully-funded postgraduate taught study in the UK (i.e. a Masters programme). They are awarded to future leaders by British Embassies and High Commissions around the world. More information about eligible countries, selection criteria, and the application process is available as www.chevening.org.

We can support general applications to Chevening in a variety of ways, listed below.

In addition, we would welcome applications for the exciting new Chevening Partnership Scholarship, which is specifically for Chinese students applying for one of 10 named Masters degrees at York, including the MA in Culture, Society and Globalisation, offered in Sociology.

See the following websites for more information:

www.chevening.org

http://www.chevening.org/partners/universities/york

https://www.york.ac.uk/study/international/your-country/china/

https://www.york.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/ma-culture-society-globalisation/

https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/postgraduate/

DEADLINE for applications for study in 2017-18: 8^th November 2016

Please note: you do not require an offer letter from us by 8 November in order to apply for a Chevening scholarship. You just need evidence that you have submitted an application to us. However, applicants who already have an offer letter will be in a stronger position to be shortlisted by Chevening.

Support we offer to Chevening applicants

If you wish to apply for a Chevening Scholarship, we can support you in two key ways:

1. Skype, telephone and/or get in touch with you by email you so that you can ask us questions and make a more informed choice about which programme would be best for you.

2. Provide you with more details about our MA and MSc programmes so you are can provide a strong justification for your chosen programme in your application or at the interview stage.

Contact:

Dr Merran Toerien, Deputy Director of Teaching (with oversight for Postgraduate Taught programmes), Department of Sociology, University of York

Merran.Toerien@york.ac.uk

Tel: +44(0)1904 323061

Friday, 23 September 2016

Ending up in Death Research

Ruth Penfold-Mounce has been published on the up and coming blog Women are Boring. This blog and twitter account is run by Catherine Connolly and Grace McDermott both PhD students at Dublin City University. They seek to disseminate interesting research done by women and to challenge dismissal of women on multiple fronts.

Ruth has written about how she ended up in death research despite being a criminologist in a sociology department. Have a read of Death and Me to see how doing death and crime research led to her meeting the Hairy Bikers.

womenareboring

Thursday, 25 August 2016

New Member of Sociology Staff - Tim Huijts

Welcome to Tim Huijts who has joined the Sociology Department as Senior Lecturer. Tim has studied and worked in the Netherlands and also in Oxford before arriving in York this August.

Tim has research interest in socioeconomic inequalities in health, political regimes, gender equity and depression and ethinic diversity. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society of Health and Medical Sociology.

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Death and Culture Comes to York

The Death and Culture Conference is next week (1st-3rd Sept).

The badges are made, the programme is being printed and the conference meals have been chosen and ordered.

Its still not too late to register if you want to come.

Thursday, 11 August 2016

Sex Work Research Hub Hosts: A Symposium on Sex Work, Decriminalization & Social Justice

The Event Features:

A Keynote Address from Associate Professor Gillian Abel, Otago University, New Zealand

A screening of Nic Mai's latest film 'Travel' that explores the different emic and ethic understandings of exploitation and freedom at work in the process of asylum granting in relation to trafficking. The film is the result of ethnographic workshops with Nigerian women working in the Paris sex industry. Click here tovView the Trailer for Travel

When: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 from 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM (BST)

Where: Research Resource Centre (ReCCS) - Training Room YH/001b - 6 Innovation Way YO10 5ZF

Register for this Free Event: SWRH Eventbrite

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

New ! Short Courses in CA - Autumn 2016 and Spring 2017

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills: Turn-taking (3 days)

Tutors to include: Clare Jackson, Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger

Dates: 29 November - 1 December 2016

Pre-requisites: An introductory CA course (preferably at York)

This course is one of two – on turn-taking and on sequence organisation - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA). It will provide a systematic grounding in the CA domain of turn-taking. The course will be taught via mini-lectures, practical activities and exercises, with an emphasis on hands-on work with data. It will be an intensive course, limited to a maximum of 12 participants. The course is intended for those with some prior familiarity with CA who now want to acquire key skills for working with conversational data. It is not necessary for participants to have their own data set.

Location: University of York: Research Centre for Social Sciences

Cost: £360 (to include course materials, lunches, tea & coffee)

Suggested accommodation

For further information, and/or to register for one or more of the courses, please contact Sarah Shrive-Morrison: sarah.shrive-morrison@york.ac.uk

Developing Conversation Analytic Skills: Sequence Organisation (3 days)

Tutors to include: Sue Wilkinson, Merran Toerien and Celia Kitzinger

Date: 13 December - 15 December 2016

Pre-requisites: An introductory CA course (preferably at York)

This course is one of two – on sequence organisation and on turn-taking - designed to provide core foundational training in conversation analysis (CA).

It will provide a systematic grounding in the CA domain of sequence organisation. It will be an intensive course, limited to a maximum of 12 participants. The course will be taught via mini-lectures, practical activities and exercises, with an emphasis on hands-on work with data. It is intended for those with some prior familiarity with CA who now want to acquire key skills for working with conversational data. It is not necessary for participants to have their own data set.

Location: University of York: Research Centre for Social Sciences