One of CRaB’s members, Lexie Scherer from the School of Education and Childhood Studies, has been nominated for the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abram’s Memorial Prize for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology. The book, entitled Children, Literacy and Ethnicity: Reading Identities in the Primary School is published by Palgrave Macmillan and was launched in Portsmouth at a CRaB event in 2016 – http://crab.port.ac.uk/2016/11/11/booklaunch-for-lexie-scherers-children-literacy-and-ethnicity/
Congratulations to Lexie! The full shortlist is available here – https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/bsa-philip-abrams-memorial-prize/