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Teaching quantitative methods: the challenge and how to meet it

By Dan - Last updated: Monday, October 5, 2009

The Royal Statistical Society are hosting a workshop on developing undergraduate quantitative methods teaching in sociology, social policy, politics and international relations, social anthropology and other social science subjects beyond economics and psychology.
It will take place on Friday 23rd October at the Royal Statistical Society, Errol St, London from 09.30 to 16.30.
Those speaking at [...]

Lectureship in Social Science for Medical Humanities, Durham

By Dan - Last updated: Friday, September 11, 2009

The position of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Science for Medical Humanities is available at the University of Durham. The post is a joint appointment by the Department of Geography and Centre for Medical Humanities in Durham, with the first 3.5 years being based in the Centre for Medical Humanities and thereafter a permanent position in [...]

Research workshop: Rethinking Migration

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Rethinking Migration. New Glances on Migration/s
 
Research-Workshop, Sept, 29th and 30th 2009, Graz/Austria
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Research-group Migration at the Centre for Cultural Studies (University of Graz, Austria) invites you to submit an abstract (3000 char. incl. space) for the Research Workshop “Rethinking Migration.  New glances on Migration/s” in September 2009.
 
Proposals from Research-groups, PhD-Students (especially teams) as [...]

PhD studentship in demography

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Monday, April 20, 2009

The newly established ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton is pleased to announce a new PhD studentship in demography.
The studentship would suit a person with good computing skills and an interest in demographic measurement, who has, or expects to have, a postgraduate degree in demography, or a related social science or [...]

Reader/Soc. Sci. for Medical Humanities – Univ. Durham

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, February 26, 2009

Reader/Soc. Sci. for Medical Humanities – Geography – University of Durham
 
The Centre for Medical Humanities and the Department of Geography seek to appoint a Reader in Social Science for Medical Humanities from 1st September 2009 or as soon as possible thereafter. S/he will be based for the first four years in the Centre for Medical [...]

POPFEST 2009 – Call for papers

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Friday, February 6, 2009

We would like to draw your attention to Popfest 2009, the 17th annual conference of postgraduate students in Population-related studies. Popfest 2009 will be taking place from the 2nd July to the 4th of July 2009, and will be hosted by the Population At LSE research students at the London School of Economics and Political Science [...]