This workshop aims to foster relationships between early career researchers, develop writing practice, and offer new insights into the work of leading researchers in the field.
A full agenda of the day and information on how to submit your abstract can be found below.
Registrations are welcome from early career researchers and doctoral students. You can find further information on how to register here. Workshop proceedings will be organised by area of interest and professional experience.
Key dates:
- Saturday 6 April: deadline to submit a 500-word abstract on your project.
- Tuesday 9 April: list of participants to be finalised.
- Monday 22 April: submission of draft papers by confirmed participants.
Meet the speakers:
Annette Lareau (@AnnetteLareau) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2024, she is a Leverhulme Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at London School of Economics. She is the author of the award-winning books Unequal Childhoods, Home Advantage, and Listening to People. With Blair Sackett, she authored We Thought It Would be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America (University of California Press). She is currently doing a study of the blessings and challenges of wealth for families. Annette Lareau is Past President of the American Sociological Association.
Pere Ayling is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Pere was born in Nigeria and has over 10 years of teaching experience in early years, primary and higher education. Pere is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Sam Friedman (@SamFriedmanSoc) is a Professor of Sociology at LSE, and a sociologist of class and inequality. His research focuses on the cultural dimensions of contemporary class division. He is currently writing a book with Aaron Reeves (under contract with Harvard University Press) exploring how the British elite has changed over the last 120 years. His previous book, The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged, researched social mobility into Britain’s higher professional and managerial occupations.
Ashley Mears primarily works at the intersections of economic and cultural sociology and gender. She investigates how societies in Britain value individuals and objects. Her research focuses on the concepts of value and exchange within the realms of labour, aesthetics, complimentary items, social elites, consumption patterns, and the impact of social media.
Shamus Khan (@shamuskhan) is Willard Thorp Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Princeton University. He writes on culture, inequality, gender, and elites. He is the author of over 100 articles, books, and essays, including Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St Paul’s School (Princeton), The Practice of Research (Oxford, with Dana Fisher), Approaches to Ethnography: Modes of Representation and Analysis in Participant Observation (Oxford, with Colin Jerolmack), and Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus (W.W. Norton, with Jennifer Hirsch), which was named a best book of 2020 by NPR.
Mike Savage (@MikeSav47032563) is Martin White Professor of Sociology and Wealth, Elites and Tax Justice research programme leader at the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. His most recent books include the co-authored Social Class in the 21st Century, and The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of History.
This event is generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE. We regret we cannot cover travel costs, but lunch and refreshments will be provided.