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New Sociology Postgraduates Awarded Highly Competitive Research Fellowships
Dr Sharon Quah and Dr Shawna Tang, recent PhD graduates in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, have both been awarded prestigious Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in the Asia Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore.
Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award for Human Rights/Sociology Staff Member
Dr Susan Banki, a member of the Department’s Human Rights Team, has been awarded the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence.
UN Consultancy Paper on Migrant Domestic Workers released
Associate Professor Nicola Piper and one of the Department’s PhD scholars, Sohoon Lee, were recently granted a consultancy by the UN to develop a backgrounder and issues paper for the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) deliberations concerning women migrant workers, especially women migrant domestic workers.
Forecasting the Onset of Genocide and Politicide: Annual Out-of-Sample Forecasts on a Global Dataset, 1988-2003
Our article “Forecasting the Onset of Genocide and Politicide: Annual Out-of-Sample Forecasts on a Global Dataset, 1988-2003” has been accepted by the Journal of Peace Research, with expected publication in July 2013 [http://jpr.sagepub.com/].
Dr Goldsmith received a Medium Grant from the Electoral Integrity Project
Benjamin Goldsmith has received a Medium Grant from the Electoral Integrity Project to investigate “Authoritarian Elections, Electoral Integrity, and Political Violence”
Latest News
2012 Graduate Felix Eldridge lands his dream job at United Nations[24 April 2013]
Felix Eldridge, a 2012 graduate from the Masters in International Security program was featured in the weekend paper of the Sydney Morning Herald for landing his dream job at the UN Women in Africa.
Sydney Student won the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Thesis Prize [18 April 2013]
Congratulations to Curtis Dickson who has won the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Thesis Prize for the best honours dissertation in Australia for 2012.
Sydney PhD student winner of 2013 Jerzy Zubrzycki Postgraduate Scholarship Award.[2 April 2013]
Olga Oleinikova, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, was awarded the Jerzy Zubrzycki Postgraduate Conference Scholarship in December 2012.
Launch of ‘Food Security in Asia – A Report for Policymakers’[12 March 2013]
On 11 March 2013, the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) officially launched ‘Food Security in Asia – A Report for Policymakers’. The launch included an introduction from the Centre’s new Director and Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies, Professor James Der Derian.