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Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at
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🎁New article by
@sophierwoodward.bsky.social
on the sociology of unwanted gifts: Dormant Gifts: Animating the Imagined and Narrated Pasts and Futures of Gifts
@uomsoss.bsky.social
@uomhums.bsky.social
@uomsociology.bsky.social
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6 days ago
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Jaime Garcia Iglesias
29 days ago
Delighted that our work on
#datingapps
and viral risk during
#COVID
is now out in Social Science&Medicine. Did dating apps help or hinder safety during COVID among LGBT and heterosexual people? Check it out:
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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Maisie Tomlinson
21 days ago
Excited to see this article published in Sociology about Fieldwork Fables, a series of research films, using actors, that myself and Profs Les Back and Michaela Benson made. Used in over 100 universities for methods teaching!
shorturl.at/a3WDC
@morgancentre.bsky.social
@uomsociology.bsky.social
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The Unloved Curriculum: Teaching Research Methods and ‘Demonstrably Alive’ Sociology - Les Back, Michaela Benson, Maisie Tomlinson, 2025
This article reflects our experiences of developing a more sociable approach to teaching qualitative methods. Through a set of examples drawn from our teaching ...
https://shorturl.at/a3WDC
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Leverhulme Trust
21 days ago
This week is
#GriefAwarenessWeek
, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
@ltowers728.bsky.social
@uomsociology.bsky.social
seeks to learn how through narration, siblings bereaved by suicide come to make sense of their loss and grief over time.
media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ltow...
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Storying the unspeakable: narrating the experiences of suicide-bereaved siblings
Using creative elicitation interviews, Laura Towers seeks to learn more about how, through narration, siblings bereaved by suicide come to make sense of their loss and grief over time
https://media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ltowers
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SEMINAR: Student Voices in the Archives 🗓️ 1-2pm, Thurs 11 Dec(Online) 🗣️Sue Heath & Grant Collier Explore student life through UoM archives Part of the
@thejohnrylands.bsky.social
lunchtime seminar series
@uomsociology.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/student-vo...
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Student voices in the archives
The online Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/student-voices-in-the-archives-tickets-1921659056969
about 1 month ago
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📖New book: Gender Studies: An interdisciplinary approach By
@sophierwoodward.bsky.social
&
@kath070.bsky.social
& published by
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
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Gender Studies
‘This ambitious book offers the reader the opportunity to think about gender in a multidisciplinary way. Written in a clear and accessible style, the authors provide interesting case study examples to...
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gender-studies-9781800373945.html
about 2 months ago
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University of Manchester Sociology Department
2 months ago
EXHIBITION: Hulme Nannas' exhibition of (in)visibility, community and urban change 6-8pm Weds 5 Nov 2025, Manchester Museum 🎨Art 🗣️short talks 🍰food 🎵music!
#McrESRCFest
#ESRCFestival
@uomsoss.bsky.social
@muarg.bsky.social
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Hulme Nannas' exhibition of (in)visibility, community and urban change
An exhibition of artwork by older women in Hulme, demonstrating the power of gentle methodologies working in pressured communities
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hulme-nannas-exhibition-of-invisibility-community-and-urban-change-tickets-1673342485419
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Maisie Tomlinson
2 months ago
Spare hour over half-term? Join Chata the golden retriever on Thurs 30th October for a family-friendly foray into what ‘work’ looks like from a dog’s perspective at the PMH in Manchester, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences
@morgancentre.bsky.social
@uomsociology.bsky.social
@ukri.org
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INAUGURAL LECTURE: 🗣️ Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement - Kate Reed 📅4-5pm Tues 29 Oct 2025 📌In person (University of Manchester) or online 🎟️Free, register via Eventbrite
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/start-or-e...
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Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement
The inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, Department of Sociology.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/start-or-end-of-life-advancing-the-sociology-of-life-death-bereavement-tickets-1650593883739?aff=oddtdtcreator
3 months ago
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University of Manchester Sociology Department
3 months ago
FABER LECTURE: 🗣️Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge 📅 7pm Thurs 16 Oct 2025 (doors 6.30pm) 📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester 🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website
faber.co.uk/product/uom-...
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📺Watch our new video series introducing key concepts in the sociology of families & personal life. Please share if you know anybody teaching or studying these topics!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvRUyisSeWeCIGcEQPxLCfGBaK6Z3_PAn
3 months ago
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University of Manchester Sociology Department
3 months ago
📝'Theorising Ageing in Place During Urban Regeneration: A Spatial Approach' New article by Pippa Winship,
@tinebuffel.bsky.social
& Vanessa May
@muarg.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
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📝Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration
@ltowers728.bsky.social
& Kate Reed in
@bjsociology.bsky.social
on the sociology of bereavement admin
@uomsoss.bsky.social
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Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration
This paper uses Bourdieu's concepts of cultural and social capital to critically examine death administration in the UK. Death administration relates to a set of tasks that bereaved individuals (usua....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.70024
4 months ago
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New article: ✨Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception & DNA testing Petra Nordqvist, Leah Gilman, Caroline Redhead, Marie Fox, Nicky Hudson
@fimaccallum.bsky.social
@lucyfrith.bsky.social
from
#ConnecteDNA
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception and DNA testing
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625006859?via%3Dihub
5 months ago
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We really enjoyed teaching our 'Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research' course at the
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
summer school - thanks to our great students!
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...
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Researchers gain new skills at Methods@Manchester Summer School
The Methods@Manchester annual Summer School returned this week, giving researchers the exciting opportunity to meet and connect with their peers while gaining new social science and humanities methods...
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/researchers-gain-new-skills-at-methodsmanchester-summer-school/
6 months ago
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✨Resilience and viral safety among LGBQ+ and heterosexual people using dating apps in the COVID-19 era: Data snapshot Brian Heaphy,
@jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social
& Qian Xiong
figshare.com/articles/pre...
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Data Snapshot (July 2025) from COVID Intimacies
This data snapshot presents findings from the study COVID Intimacies: Resilience and Viral Safety among LGBQ+ and Heterosexual People Using Dating Apps in the COVID-19 Era. Using mixed methods, includ...
https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Data_Snapshot_July_2025_from_COVID_Intimacies/29357213/1?file=55476272
6 months ago
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Healthier Futures at the University of Manchester
6 months ago
Check out the work of
#Austerity
and Altered Life Courses project here:
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
@uomsoss.bsky.social
@morgancentre.bsky.social
@uomseed.bsky.social
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Austerity and Altered Life-Courses - School of Social Sciences - The University of Manchester
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/research/austerityalters/
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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
6 months ago
Last week we had our Anti-Poverty Chats for Change, a lunch event bringing together community, policy+uni folk in Manchester. Together we explored how to galvanise A-P change, working collectively+creatively. Here's our winning create plate by Terri Lucas! If you want to know more, get in touch! 🍽🖍
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Maisie Tomlinson
7 months ago
Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork:
store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
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Morgan Centre
CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity
7 months ago
Join us online or in person for our next seminar: The making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women cultural productions -
@roaa-ali.bsky.social
1-2.30pm Thur 19 June 2025 (Manchester/online)
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
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Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research (Morgan Centre summer school
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
) 30 Jun-2 Jul (Manchester) For qualitative researchers who want to explore more creative/curious ways of researching - see link for taster session & more info
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Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research
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7 months ago
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Morgan Centre
University of Manchester Sociology Department
7 months ago
New from
@ashleycollar.bsky.social
on the changing symbolism of the Manchester bee in the 8 years since the bombing of Manchester arena.
@uomsoss.bsky.social
theconversation.com/eight-years-...
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WORKSHOP: Working with Qualitative Interview Data: Themes & Beyond 2-5pm, Thur 29 May 2025 This
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
workshop explores ways of analysing qualitative data in creative, curious ways.
@uomsociology.bsky.social
@ncrm.ac.uk
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Working with Qualitative Interview Data
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7 months ago
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Morgan Centre
CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity
8 months ago
SEMINAR. Please join us online or in person (Manchester) 📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy 🗣
@drsuriyah.bsky.social
Cardiff University 📆 4.30-6pm Mon 19 May
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
@manchesterup.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
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Morgan Centre
CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity
8 months ago
🖋Fiction and Research 📆2.30-4pm Weds 14 May (online) Register for free ticket.
@uomsociology.bsky.social
@uomcreativemcr.bsky.social
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
@morgancentre.bsky.social
@ncrm.ac.uk
@uomsoss.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fiction-an...
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Sarah Marie Hall
8 months ago
This arrived the other day! Paperback! Available from 20th of this month and much more affordable at £28.99. 30 brilliant chapters on contemporary economic geographies, and all written by female and non-binary authors.
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Morgan Centre
University of Manchester Sociology Department
8 months ago
80% of Northern Irish women first endured sexist behaviour as children - New research from Kim McFalone finds routine sexism and sexual harassment directed at girls. Presented at
#britsoc25
@britsoci.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
@morgancentre.bsky.social
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80% of Northern Irish women first endured sexist behaviour as children
Four in five women surveyed in Northern Ireland said their first experience of sexist behaviour or harassment by men happened when they were children, according to a new study.Kim McFalone, a PhD rese...
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/northern-irish-women-first-endured-sexist-behaviour-as-children/
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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
8 months ago
We are looking forward to reading your submissions!
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Morgan Centre
Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
8 months ago
As an international project, we also welcome blogs that focus on various geographical locations. We encourage submissions from people at different career stages, and from academic, community, and policy backgrounds.
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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
8 months ago
We approach disability inclusively and broadly, welcoming reflections on and about experiences of physical impairment, chronic illness, mental illness, body size, neurodivergence and learning disabilities, in relation to austerity.
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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
8 months ago
If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know. If you have any questions, please get in contact using the email address above and one of our team will be able to help.
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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
8 months ago
If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to
[email protected]
by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’.
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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
8 months ago
Do you conduct work on disability + austerity? Do you have lived/research/policy experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series focusing on ways austerity shapes + changes disabled people’s lives + futures, and we want to hear from you!
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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
8 months ago
📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (
socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'
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✍🏿Austere life-courses and foreclosed futures: A relational geographical approach to work, housing & family across austerity Europe New article from the
@austerityalters.bsky.social
team in
@dialogueshg.bsky.social
@uomsociology.bsky.social
@uomsalc.bsky.social
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20438206251316005
9 months ago
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Morgan Centre
University of Manchester Sociology Department
9 months ago
🎉Congratulations to
@sophierwoodward.bsky.social
- newly minted
@britishacademy.bsky.social
Fellow for her research on material culture, consumption & everyday life.
@morgancentre.bsky.social
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/f...
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Five Manchester experts become Academy of Social Sciences Fellows
An unprecedented five academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their fields by being named as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. New Fellows are n...
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/five-manchester-experts-become-fellows/
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Free resources from the
#DatingAppConnections
team: 📌Why use dating apps? 📌Thinking about using dating apps? 📌How are dating apps changing our worlds? 📌Do’s and Don’ts on dating apps
@nyodovich.bsky.social
@jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social
www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/all-news/mak...
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Making dating apps safe (and fun!) - videos and guides for users and health practitioners > Social Responsibility
https://www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/all-news/making-dating-apps-safe-and-fun-videos-and-guides-for-users-and-health-practitioners/
9 months ago
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One week left to apply for this Lecturer in Sociology post 👇🏾
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9 months ago
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The Sociological Review Foundation
about 1 year ago
How does it feel to navigate bureaucracy in times of bereavement? What impact does this have on our processes of grieving? Kate Reed and Anna Balazs on the violence of bureaucracy and death administration.
#OpenAccess
buff.ly/3OAZXtq
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📚🎉BOOK LAUNCH: 'Families' by Vanessa May 4.30-7.30pm, Thurs 3 April 2025, Manchester Vanessa May in conversation with Jennifer Mason, followed by refreshments. Register by 26/03, or reply below if form doesn't work!
@uomsoss.bsky.social
@uomhums.bsky.social
events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
9 months ago
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JOB: Lecturer in Sociology
@morgancentre.bsky.social
Looking for a new colleague with research expertise in personal life, relationships & everyday lives. Pls share! 🙏🏾 Closing date: 7 Apr
@britsoci.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road
https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=31752
9 months ago
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Interested in our
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
Creative Qualitative Methods summer school course? Join our free online taster session to hear from the course leaders about creative ways to design, carry out & share your research 12.30-1.30pm Weds 19 Mar 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...
9 months ago
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📹Collyhurst Voices: Community perspectives on urban regeneration 📆6-7:30pm Weds 19 Mar 2025 Free screening of community-produced film about regeneration plans in N Manchester.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collyhurst...
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Collyhurst Voices: Community perspectives on urban regeneration
Film screening and panel discussion curated by Manchester Urban Film Series in collaboration with Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collyhurst-voices-community-perspectives-on-urban-regeneration-tickets-1249302921669
9 months ago
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New article: 📝“A Daily Jolt into Another World”: Gendered Risk and Cultural Difference in Student Lodgings at the Victoria University of Manchester - Sue Heath and Grant Collier on student 'digs'
@uomsoss.bsky.social
@uomsociology.bsky.social
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“A Daily Jolt into Another World”: Gendered Risk and Cultural Difference in Student Lodgings at the Victoria University of Manchester
For much of the twentieth century, most university students who left home to study lived not in university residences but in lodgings with local householders. Despite their critical role in absorbi...
https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2025.2468826
10 months ago
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University of Manchester Sociology Department
10 months ago
FILM SCREENING 📽 Collyhurst Voices: Community perspectives on urban regeneration 📆 6pm Weds 19 Mar 2025 Free screening of community-produced film
@muarg.bsky.social
@tinebuffel.bsky.social
@pattydoran.bsky.social
@uomsoss.bsky.social
@uomhums.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collyhurst...
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Collyhurst Voices: Community perspectives on urban regeneration
Film screening and panel discussion curated by Manchester Urban Film Series in collaboration with Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collyhurst-voices-community-perspectives-on-urban-regeneration-tickets-1249302921669
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Morgan Centre
methods@manchester
10 months ago
Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research (30 June - 2 July) This in-person course provides a hands-on introduction to creative approaches to doing qualitative research, led by academics from
@morgancentre.bsky.social
.
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Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research
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https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/p2UwsOcuBIRr7
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Morgan Centre
Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
11 months ago
This past year, we've been working closely with 3 ace community partners to co-create anti-poverty strategies in Manchester. Our framework for how to work together & toolkit for policy-makers are now on our website:
www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...
Please use and share widely!
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Morgan Centre
Austerity + Altered Life-Courses
11 months ago
We've a new paper out today on Austere Life-Courses and Foreclosed Futures in
@dialogueshg.bsky.social
. Read for free here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Morgan Centre
Emma Banister
10 months ago
Looking forward to the
@morgancentre.bsky.social
taster session on
#creative
#qualitative
#methods
. Also check out their
@methodsmcr.bsky.social
summer school course here:
www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/metho...
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Morgan Centre
methods@manchester
10 months ago
You can find out more about this session led by
@uomsociology.bsky.social
's Morgan Centre academics, including how to register, below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...
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Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research
A methods@manchester Summer School Taster
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-approaches-to-qualitative-research-tickets-1254216899509?aff=oddtdtcreator
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