This weekend, Professor Helen Kennedy of the University of Sheffield was appointed honorary doctor at Umeå University’s Faculty of Social Sciences. The award was conferred at the university’s 2024 Annual Celebration to recognise her pioneering contributions to the field of digital sociology.
DIGSUM researcher Samuel Merrill and Professor Ann Rigney of Utrecht University have recently co-edited a special issue of the the SAGE Memory Studies Journal called Remembering Activism: Explorations in the memory-activism nexus (17:5).
We are excited to announce that one of Umeå University’s Honorary Doctors at the Faculty of Social Sciences for 2024 will be Professor Helen Kennedy, University of Sheffield. She will be awarded the title at the 2024 Annual Celebration.