03 November 2011
At 16:00 in Room 6.345 (Colchester Campus) and afterwards in the Sociology Common Room.
This presentation shows the involvement of end-users in the particular configurations that the system of broadband provision takes in different countries. I concentrate on the cases of the UK and Sweden showing some preliminary results of the ‘Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour‘ research programme funded by the European Research Council. Read the rest of this entry »
Essex Sociology’s new ‘Research Bytes‘ YouTube channel includes interviews with Professor Mark Harvey and Professor Miriam Glucksmann. Mark discusses his research on the tomato and on new approaches to sustainable biofuels and land-use whilst Miriam describes her recent research on work and especially the new paradigm of ‘consumption‘ work.
Prof. Miriam Glucksmann has secured a €810k grant from the highly competitive and prestigious European Research Council Advanced Investigator scheme.
The project, “Consumption Work and Societal Divisions of Labour” aims to radically revise the foundational concept of ‘the division of labour’ by situating traditional understandings of the technical allocation of tasks within an expanded theoretical framework. Read the rest of this entry »
