Professor Mark Harvey has been invited to be a Visiting Scholar at the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan to facilitate collaborative research on sustainable consumption and bottled water, with Dr William Li, a graduate from the Department of Sociology.
The collaboration stemmed from a job posting to the Department’s Twitter and Facebook feeds for a research officer to support Professor Harvey’s ESRC funded project on bottled water. Read the rest of this entry »
Mark Harvey and Ben Anderson from Department of Sociology, University of Essex
Thursday 10 February 2011
At 16:00 in Room 6.345 and afterwards in the Sociology Common Room.
What is sustainable consumption? Mark Harvey and Ben Anderson are part of a new £1.5 million ESRC research group, led by the University of Manchester, which is at the first stages of research. They will present the aims and agendas of their projects in the broader SPRG programme, and open a discussion on consumption and sustainability, with both theoretical and empirical research questions. Read the rest of this entry »
ESRC funded Senior Research Officer in the Department of Sociology needed to undertake comparative research on consumption practices of bottled water in Europe, Mexico and India. The post has arisen as part of the formation of the Sustainable Practices Research Group, led by the University of Manchester, a programme of research on sustainability and consumption. The appointed researcher will work under the direction of Professor Mark Harvey, Director of the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI).
For more information see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACC425/senior-research-officer/
