🎁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 doi.org/10.3167/ee.2...

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...

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

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...

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...

📖New book: Gender Studies: An interdisciplinary approach By @sophierwoodward.bsky.social & @kath070.bsky.social & published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gen...

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 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hulme-nann...

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

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...

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-...

📺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...

📝'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 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📝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 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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...

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...

✨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...

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

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! 🍽🖍

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...

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:...

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 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/p2Uw...

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-...

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 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/qt8E...

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

🖋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...

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.

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 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

We are looking forward to reading your submissions!

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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!

📢✏️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'

✍🏿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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🎉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...

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...

One week left to apply for this Lecturer in Sociology post 👇🏾

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

📚🎉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:...

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...

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...

📹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...

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 doi.org/10.1080/0046...

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...

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. new.express.adobe.com/webpage/p2Uw...

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!

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/...

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...

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...