Dr Hordósy, Dr Betul Yasdiman & Dr Lashari : "‘What is sociological research?...... "

Departmental Seminar: 20/3/24
Dr Rita Hordósy, Dr Meryem Betul Yasdiman & Dr Asad Lashari, University of Nottingham
"What is sociological research? Exploring Norwegian, Hungarian and English student and staff views, and curriculum documents"
This talk explores sociology through a mixture of curriculum document analysis and interviews with sociology students and staff in three European countries. An overview and comparison of curriculum documents from Hungary, England and Norway explores the theoretical, methodological and thematic foci of undergraduate degrees. Alongside this, student and staff interviews show how they see the diversity of the discipline as something to embrace to help solidify students’ reflexivity and sociological imagination.
Bios
Dr Rita Hordósy is a Nottingham Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests revolve around social justice issues in education and post-compulsory education trajectories, with her current work focusing on the research/teaching nexus compared across European universities.
Dr Meryem Betul Yasdiman is a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, specializes in the well-being of young adults, particularly university students. Her research delves into suicide risk factors and protective mechanisms among young populations, and the differences in cross-cultural responses to traumatic life events.
Dr Asadullah Lashari conducted his doctoral research at the University of Nottingham, as a recipient of Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence International Award. He is affiliated with the University of Sindh, Pakistan as a lecturer. His research interests include post-structural discourse theories in educational leadership and educational policy.