A Prize for Dr O’Neill

Congratulations to recent CMCI doctoral programme graduate Dr Rachel O’Neill, who has been named the winner of the SAGE prize for Excellence and Innovation for her article “The Work of Seduction: Intimacy and Subjectivity in the London ‘Seduction Community’”.

Rachel undertook the research for this paper as a PhD student at CMCI, supervised by our former Professor Rosalind Gill. The award is run in conjunction with the British Sociological Association and includes a prize of £250 worth of SAGE books.

Full details are available here: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/sage-prize-for-innovationexcellence.aspx

Rachel will be joining the Department of Sociology at the University of York from September as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, where she will be working on a new project on the cultural politics of food.