The Corona Crash
PhD Candidate in Sociology and ESRA (Economic and Social Reserach Aotearoa) researcher Jack Foster considers the financial aspects of the current crisis
The School of Social and Cultural Studies brings together the teaching, research and scholarship strengths of Criminology, Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies, Social Policy and Sociology.
You’ll study the current analyses of how societies and cultures are formed, how they are governed, how they break down and how we might envisage new and viable future social and cultural systems.
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Questions of inequality and the COVID-19 virus
Health risk and health outcomes are never evenly shared across a society and this time the same continues during New Zealand's COVID-19 crisis.
50 years of Religious Studies at Victoria
Throughout 2020, Religious Studies will be hosting a variety of public events that help us to mark our 50 years. You are warmly invited to attend any of them.
Fear and Crime in a pandemic
"Under Covid-19, how our crime situations develop will depend heavily on how our institutions and societies respond" - Criminologist Professor Elizabeth Stanley
Inspector for the Office of the Inspectorate at the Department of Corrections
Since graduating with a degree in Criminology, I have also worked at the Court of Appeal, the National Intelligence Centre (New Zealand Police) and the Independent Police Conduct Authority.
Read more about Kymberley JackFrom Sociology Graduate to Graduate Policy Analyst.
"Sociology offers a good foundation for policy work and the skills I developed are transferable. Policy work is meaningful and a great transition from university to the workforce" says Bex Kidson
Read more about Bex
Sociology graduate a senior staff member at Spark
Having a degree in Sociology showed my employer that I could grasp complex concepts, meet deadlines and articular myself clearly with logic and reasoned argument.
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A cultural analysis of toilet paper
While COVID has caused much fear, confusion, and anxiety, it has inspired little bemusement. Except for what it has done to toilet paper.
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Teaching practical skills for human rights investigation
A group of students was trained to verify digital evidence to aid human rights investigations, as Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington becomes the first regional partner of the Amnesty International Citizen Evidence Lab
Upcoming events
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CANCELLED: Religion and the Anthropocene: The Historical Roots of Our Current Environmental Predicament
How the disruptions of the Reformation era inspired changes in Western European ideas, practices, and institutions that laid the foundations for our current global environmental problems – before the Industrial Revolution even started.
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CANCELLED: “The functional benefits of ritual in a post-industrialised society"
Dr John Shaver—University of Otago Across societies, many aspects of religious rituals suggest they provide…
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CANCELLED: Debating theology as a research classification: medieval and modern perspectives
Prof Constant J Mews - Monash UniversityThe recent proposal by the ANZSRC Review Steering Committee…