News is emerging that sociologists at Birmingham University are under the same kind of threat that psychologists at Surrey were.
Here is a call to sign a petition protesting the University's threatened closure of the Sociology Department.
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SIGN THE PETITION TO KEEP SOCIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Petition
READ THE CAMPAIGN WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Protest Website
Background:
In 2002, despite wide spread condemnation and protest, the University of
Birmingham decided to close the Department of Cultural Studies and
Sociology. Subsequent to the closure a new Department of Sociology was
re-opened in 2004 with a long term view to developing Sociology at
Birmingham - staff were told that the University had a 10-year 'strategy for
success'. Following a recent review of this department's teaching and
research activities, the Head of the College of Social Sciences, Professor
Edward Peck, is recommending to Senate and Council that the University
should once again close Sociology (and its associated Centre for the Study
of Ethnicity and Culture)
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