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Sociology and Policy SOCIOLOGY AND POLICY UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES Contents “Aston University has a relatively small campus, f 4 Welcome therefore you don’t feel like just a number but instead, part of a community. You always see people you know f 5 Excellence in teaching on the way to the library, lectures, the gym or the and research Students’ Union. I would recommend Aston University f 12 Positive placements to prospective students more than ever now that the and Year Abroad university has invested huge amounts of money into programmes further improving the resources and facilities available to all students. They really do make us as students the f 16 Graduate careers priority. f 18 A green and sustainable campus I have always been fascinated in social stratification in society and how individuals and/or groups interact with f 20 Birmingham one another on a national and international scale. Aston f 22 Degree programmes University offers modules such as ‘Racism, Class and f 24 Sociology BSc Gender’ and ‘CSI: Crime, Subversion and Injustice’. Lecturers always make an effort to relate theory to f 25 Sociology and Social Policy BSc the current affairs and societal issues, so you always feel you are learning something relevant to society today. Thanks f 26 Typical modules Another reason why I chose to study here was the “to Aston f 28 Sociology and French/Spanish BSc facts emphasis on taking a placement year. I completed University’s a PR and communications internship for a medical f 29 International Relations charity in Ghana and a fundraising internship for a placement and Sociology BSc Sociology at Aston is ranked charity that aims to improve the lives of those living 2nd for Overall Student f 30 Politics and Sociology BSc with HIV/AIDS in London. I’ve gained skills and year, I have satisfaction in the 2016 knowledge that will prove invaluable to a future career already been f 31 Business and Sociology BSc Guardian University Guide. in communications, ideally for a multi-national NGO. In f 32 Psychology and Sociology at Aston is ranked Top such a tough graduate job market these transferable offered a Sociology BSc skills, along with Aston’s excellent reputation for 20 for graduate prospects in graduate employability, mean that my CV stands out. graduate job f 33 Sociology and the 2016 Complete University In fact, thanks to Aston University’s placement year, English Language BSc Guide. I have already been offered a graduate job by my in Ghana! f 34 International Relations employer in Ghana!” and Social Policy BSc The Sociology and Policy group have published more than 200 f 35 Politics and Harriet Southwood books, articles and chapters. ” Social Policy BSc Sociology and English Language BSc f 36 English Language Sociology at Aston is ranked in the and Social Policy BSc Top 10 for NSS Teaching and in f 37 Business, Management Assessment and Feedback the and Public Policy BSc 2016 Guardian University Guide. f 38 Teaching and assessment Social Policy at Aston is ranked f 39 Student support 3rd for Graduate Prospects in the 2017 Complete f 40 Languages for All University Guide. f 42 Applying to Aston Social Policy at Aston is ranked f 43 Come and see us in the Top 15 in the UK in the 2016 Complete University Guide. For more information follow 2 us on Facebook and Twitter /AstonLSS 3 Dr Gary Fooks (BA, MA, PhD) Welcome to Sociology Excellence in My work brings together two of the most important issues in contemporary society – the emergence of the corporation as the main and Policy at Aston teaching organising institution in neoliberal societies and the increasing inability of nation states to mitigate the harms that they cause. I try to draw on methods and ideas across academic disciplines and focus on We are very pleased that you are are leading contributors to their and research “highly externalising corporations” – those that seek to thinking of joining Aston’s vibrant respective fields of study and this systematically shift as many of their costs as possible onto community of scholars and students is reflected in the structure and consumers, workers, and communities. I’m particularly interested in Sociology and Policy. content of our curriculum. Our interested in how large corporations which produce Sociology and Policy has a long aim is to complement study of unhealthy products, such as tobacco, soft drinks, and history at Aston University and the foundational theoretical and agrochemical companies, influence democratic decision- makes a major contribution to the methodological skills required by Dr making and have published widely on corporations’ use teaching and research activities of successful social scientists with the Anneliesse of corporate social responsibility to influence government, the School of Languages and Social opportunity to explore in greater Dodds their efforts to reshape the underlying administrative Sciences. In recent years the Group depth specialist areas of research Senior architecture of policymaking, and their misuse of scientific has grown to become one of the and scholarship. In our approach Lecturer in evidence to change how government officials think about largest Academic Subject Groups to teaching and research we are Public Policy the merits of proposals aimed at promoting the public’s in the School, as judged by the particularly keen to consider the welfare. I also have emerging interests in corporate tax number of students following our intersection between sociology avoidance and multinational corporations’ involvement in programmes and the size of the and policy, so that the varied human rights abuses. I believe strongly in the importance staff group. Over 400 undergraduate ways in which social theory of research-led teaching, which I feel is the most effective students follow one of our 13 and research methodology can way of stretching students intellectually and ensuring that single and joint honours degrees, aid our understanding and their education reflects the most up-to-date research. and we also offer opportunities for awareness of the world can be postgraduate research and study. directed towards social issues The academic staff group has also that have relevance to policy grown significantly and among and practice. All this, we believe, the 15 current members are two adds up to the opportunity for Dr Anneliesse Dodds professors, four senior lecturers, students to join a stimulating and (BA, MRes, PhD) seven lecturers and one teaching lively academic environment that fellow. is concerned with many of the Health regulation; Education policy and ideas and issues that define the liberalisation; Comparative public policy; Our approach, we believe, is contemporary world. Dr Karen West risk and regulation; Institutionalism. both distinctive and rewarding. Senior Lecturer in Anneliese’s research has been As you can see from the list of Dr Karen West Sociology and Policy published in a number of policy-related academic staff members and their Senior Lecturer in international journals, such as the respective research interests, many Sociology and Policy Journal of Public Policy and Journal of Social Policy. She has also recently completed a textbook on ‘Comparative Public Policy’. Anneliese’s contemporary Here at Aston, sociology and policy is about the real life, everyday experiences of people and research is focused on regulation in publics, about the critical engagements that make and challenge social norms. We explore how the health sector, and the impact of Dr Gary Fooks social structures and forces such as class, gender, disability, ethnicity, identity, citizenship, liberalisation on higher education. Senior Lecturer in globalization, urbanization and religion structure our daily interactions and assumptions, and how Sociology they intersect with powerful discourses, interests, and organizations to translate social issues into Anneliesse is currently working as an policy problems. Our teaching brings social theory to the study of pressing social issues such as MEP and has taken a parliamentary migration, ageing, health, the environment, sexuality, reproduction, the family, and corporate political leave of absence. influence. Together, in class and through our research in the Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture, we explore the inequalities, injustices, and dependencies that pattern our social lives, and seek to understand and engage with the social activisms that create the individual and collective agencies that enable us to rethink – and possibly re-make – the world around us. 4 5 Dr Demelza Jones Excellence in teaching (BA, MA, MSc, PhD) International migration; ethnicity and ethnic identifications; diaspora, transnationalism and and research translocalism; diasporic Hinduism; long-distance nationalisms; Tamil South Asia; qualitative research methods. Demelza’s recent research has explored forms of diasporic identification among Tamil Dr Tom Farnhill migrants in the UK, and findings from which have Dr Tom been published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, (BSc, MA, PhD) Ethnicities and Ethnic and Racial Studies. She Farnhill Employee relations and Human Resources Management; Teaching is also interested in the intersections of religious British and international trade unions and trade union Associate in and ethno-linguistic identifications in diasporic renewal; environmental politics; the labour-environmental Sociology Hinduism, newly ethnically and religiously diverse relationship; British politics; comparative public policy; the towns and cities, and issues around migrancy ‘social
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