Professor Liz Dowler has been selected as a member of the new Social Science Expert Panel for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

Further details can be found here.

Wednesday 2 May, 3 - 6pm
IAS Seminar Room, Milburn House

For further information on the event please see here

Collaborative Doctoral Studentship on the Impact of Elected Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales on Police-Black and Ethnic Minority Community Relations, with specific reference to Stop and Search. Further details can be found here

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ckgfv#synopsis

'Following the introduction of civil partnerships and statistics which indiacte half of all children in the UK are being born outside marriage, it appears that attitudes towards sexuality have greatly relaxed. However, there is one demographic who feel increasingly marginalised in our more openly sexual society; it is estimated that one per cent of people in this country describe themselves as asexual'.

Woman's Hour Wednesday 29th February 2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/26/among-the-asexuals

Among the asexuals

'In a society obsessed with sex. It's hard if you have no sexual desire at all. Some are searching for a new form of intimacy'.

The Observer Sunday 26th February 2012

Church of England faces a fresh blow with the loss of leading role in prisons - read full article here

What is it like to be asexual?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16552173

See Professor Liz Dowler's lead letter printed in The Observer on 1 January 2012 at the following link:

Lead Letter in The Observer

A new book, co-edited by Dr Gurminder Bhambra (Sociology), Dr Daniel Orrells (Warwick) and Dr Tessa Roynon (Oxford), has just been published. 'African Athena' explores the links between classical, African and Middle Eastern cultures.

View the Oxford press release

Distinguished Warwick Sociology alumna, Baroness Amos, will deliver the inaugural VandeLinde Lecture in New York on 3rd November.