Self-harm study wins book prize
An exploration of how and why someone might self-harm has been announced as the join winner of a major book award.
Self-Injury, Medicine and Society by Dr Amy Chandler has won British Sociological Association’s (BSA) Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.
Dr Chandler is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Health through Arts, Design and Humanities and based in the School of Health and Social Science.
Fresh ideas
The award is given for the best, sole authored first book in sociology. The BSA established it to stimulate new ideas and fresh research in sociology by encouraging new British authors.
The result was announced at the BSA conference on 5 April.
Joint winner
Dr Chandler shared the £1000 prize with Dr Paul Campbell from Coventry University, who wrote Football, Ethnicity and Community: The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club, a case study of an east Midlands football club.