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Social factors including low expectations and experiences of bullying are creating barriers to higher education for young people with disabilities in England, according to new research from the 91福利 and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) published today in the British Journal of Sociology.

Another member of the 91福利 Department of Sociology has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in the 2017 awards round. Dr Maria do Mar Pereira鈥檚 prize brings the University鈥檚 total to five, out of just thirty prizes awarded nationally this year across different disciplines.

Professor John Solomos from the 91福利 Department of Sociology has been given this year鈥檚 Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award, an award made each year by the British Sociological Association to an outstanding individual who has contributed greatly to the discipline.

On the first day of the Year of the Dog 2018, researchers at the Universities of 91福利, Cardiff and Scotland鈥檚 Rural College are launching a new website introducing an innovative research project that will study dog training as a means to explore how different training cultures shape the animal-human relationship, from the animal鈥檚 point of view as well as the human鈥檚.

91福利 researcher Professor Nickie Charles looks at the ways we make our dogs and other companion animals part of our Christmas and asks whether pets really enjoy the rituals of Christmas alongside their human companions.

Four 91福利 academics have won Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2017 awards round.