REMINDER: our next seminar is from Ulla McKnight, who will be sharing her research on racialised health inequalities. You can join us in person or online, 1pm Thurs 20 Nov 👇🏾

#ERSBookSymposium 📕 What is antiracism, how should it be done, and what are its aims? Brett St Louis @ethnicityuk.bsky.social engages with John Solomos's #Antiracism, exploring the plurality of antiracisms and how to build alliances. @politybooks.bsky.social Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

Still time to book for this event in Leicester on Friday on language policing and the right to satire 👇🏾

1 WEEK: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions 📅 17 Nov, 5pm 📍Sam Alex Building Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers

@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

January 2026 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke UP) edited by Sarah Bufkin & Ida Danewid theorises racial capitalism in (post)imperial Europe. My contribution discusses the relationship between racialisation of Roma through workfare & debtfare, and high industrial employment in Czechia

@meghanetinsley.bsky.social comments on the importance of representation in memorials in this article about delays to a proposed Muslim war memorial by @weronikas.bsky.social in @hyphenonline.com @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/11/05/m...

New article from Siobhan O'Neill 📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal @uomsociology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0306...

New article from Siobhan O'Neill 📝Understanding UK state violence and resistance in police pursuit killings Out now in @irrnews.bsky.social Race & Class journal @uomsociology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0306...

🏠 Decent Homes for all 📅 9.45-1pm Fri 21 Nov 2025 📌 Ascension Church Hulme Exploring progress so far, & next steps in, providing good quality, safe, affordable and secure homes for Manchester residents. @ndenoronha.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decent-hom...

SEMINAR: Addressing racialised health inequalities in Sexual health care by using race as a marker of vulnerability to Trichomonas vaginalis infection – what could possibly go wrong? 🗣️Ulla McKnight (Sussex) 📅1-2.30pm, Thurs 20 Nov 2025 📌Manchester/online events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

Join us for this panel event exploring Manchester criminal prosecutions by focusing on the experiences of Jade Akoum, whose brother Yousef Makki was killed in 2019 aged 17. Free - all welcome.

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship: 'A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre Supervisors: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social @sadiahabib.bsky.social & Kerry Pimblott Apply by Fri 14 Nov 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📝Leading Bangladesh’s government colleges toward achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4: principal and vice-principal perspectives - Subrata Kumar Mallick on how college leaders put SDG4 (inclusive/equitable education) into practice in their work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fully funded PhD opportunity Centring older ethnically minoritised residents' experiences in N Manchester to create more resilient communities Apply by 14 Nov Working with Camilla Lewis @tinebuffel.bsky.social @muarg.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

NEW: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions 📅 17 Nov, 5pm 📍Sam Alex Building Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers

Introduced by @duncanivison.bsky.social, last night Professor of Sociology Gary Younge delivered the inaugural @faberbooks.bsky.social lecture as part of @mcrlitfest.bsky.social It was presented in partnership w/ @ethnicityuk.bsky.social and chaired by Prof Claire Alexander of @uomsoss.bsky.social

📢We have just released a few more tickets for Gary Younge's Faber lecture this Thursday evening 👇🏾 @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @socialresponuom.bsky.social @ethnicityuk.bsky.social

“Courage, vision, planning & fearless work”: the Congress Lives On. 📅 Mon 3 Nov | Manchester Central Library With Gary Younge, Young Identity & Shirley May. Reflection, resistance & creativity to honour Black histories & the 1945 Pan-African Congress. ✊🏾

Just a few days remain to enter this year's Stuart Hall Essay Prize, open until 5pm GMT on Monday November 3, 2025. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.

FABER LECTURE: Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge 📅 Thurs 16 Oct 2025 7pm 📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester 🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.faber.co.uk/product/uom-...

📝Not white, not seen: study uncovers France’s racial blind spot New research from @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social writing in @ersjournal.com @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...

🔗Read more about the story here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s... @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

Early Career Researcher Network meeting: 🗣 Activism & Academia (followed by 'Pigeonholed', Faber lecture by Gary Younge) 📆Thurs 16 Oct 2025 Manchester www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/activism-a...

Call for papers: 'On the body' conference 7 Nov, Uni of Dundee Race & racialisation in medicine and humanities. More info 👇🏾 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

“A flag doesn’t hold any inherent meaning – it’s about why you put it up and what’s behind it.” Bridget Byrne comments on the recent increase in St George's flags @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/life-style/e...

EVENT: Collaborative Café: Conversations on Racism 📆 12-4:30pm,Thurs 11 Sept 2025 📍Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool Dialogue & discussions on racism & intersectionality. Organised by Dr Niroshan Ramachandran. @uomsociology.bsky.social events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

🎧Dharmi Kapadia contributes to this episode of #AntiSocial on racism & prejudice. Dharmi discusses our research on the many complex, overlapping & accumulating impacts of racism. (Dharmi's section starts around 22:40mins) @uomsoss.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New article from @amit-singh.bsky.social on how young working-class people balance potential risk and reward in decisions on whether to go to university 👇🏾

Are you part of our early career scholar network? We are collecting feedback on our activities - if you can help us out by filling in our short & sweet form we'd appreciate it 🙏🏾 www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

📽 RECORDING OF 'The Making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women cultural productions '- @roaa-ali.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social youtu.be/mzTYUTkmCWg

Care, community & wellbeing event for early career researchers who are racially minoritised or working on 'race'/racism Weds 23 July, Manchester Registration 👇🏿

Researching equality at work & in society in a hostile political context 🗣 @shamuskhan.bsky.social & Nelarine Cornelius 📆2-4pm Weds 16 July (lunch from 1pm) Manchester Workshop from @workequalities.bsky.social & @ethnicityuk.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researchin... @uomsoss.bsky.social

Important @ethnicityuk.bsky.social research project exploring the presence and impact of police in schools across England. Find out more via the link: www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/pro...

🧘🏾‍♀️Somatics, Yoga & Working Lunch - CoDE Network Event 9.45-2pm Weds 23 July 2025, Manchester Care, community & wellbeing event for early career researchers who are racially minoritised or working on 'race'/racism. Lunch provided @uomsoss.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/somatics-y...

A new project from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social‬ is collecting testimonies on experiences of policing in school. They want to hear from students, parents, carers, teachers, staff and others. Share your thoughts via WhatsApp, email, or online, using the link below 👇 www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/pro...

We’re collecting testimonies on policing in schools across England. Students, parents, carers, teachers, youth workers & others — if you’ve got a perspective, we want to hear from you. WhatsApp, email, or online form 👇🏿. Pls share 🙏🏿 #PoliceInSchools www.ethnicity.ac.uk/school-policing/

New article by @roaa-ali.bsky.social and me - coming out of @ethnicityuk.bsky.social research on how agendas of inclusivity and diversity played out in a museum setting. We make the case that a focus on anti-racism would have produced more critical change.

“There was an investment on being inclusive – but in a way which tended not to involve a clear sense of what might need to change.” @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social @roaa-ali.bsky.social‬ @uomsociology.bsky.social‬ on the challenges that museums face in decolonisation. #OpenAccess buff.ly/NtDEu6L

In this article in the New Political Economy, I discuss the extractive & disciplinary power of household debt over Roma workers in Czechia. Drawing on ethnography, I show how the unpayable debt becomes a mechanism to discipline labour as a whole. shorturl.at/VOQrB @uomsociology.bsky.social

Hugely important research on #racialdiscrimination and #mentalhealth from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social #healthinequalities

REPORT: The impact of racial discrimination on mental health 📌 'dose-response' relationship (more experiences of racism -> worse mental health) 📌 impact is cumulative & recency counts 📌 impact is direct & indirect (racism -> poorer housing -> worse mental health) www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this. @ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

“There’s been minimal, if any, anti-racist structural change in policing... Families are still dealing with the horror of losing loved ones to police violence.” Remi Joseph Salisbury comments in this article by @orlabarry.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social theworld.org/stories/2025...

📚 New monthly book recs coming your way! This month’s pick is from Hafsah Aneela Bashir, our brilliant Community Producer Expect gems from our collections & beyond. 👀 Stay tuned for next month’s rec! #BookRecommendation #MonthlyReads

📢 Giving a talk soon! The making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women’s cultural productions 🗓️ Thurs 19 June 2025 🕐 1–2.30pm (UK) 📍 Manchester/online Hosted by @ethnicityuk.bsky.social events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... 👀 Join if you're into #ArabAmerican #Feminism #Theatre #CCIs

New article by Mauricio Rentería which uses 'Don't know' responses on opinion surveys to investigate the link between class and a willingness to state a political opinion (& perhaps feel entitled to participate in politics) in Peru. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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:...

📉 Christianity in England is changing fast. A new report from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social details the changing Christian population, with migration and younger generations have key impacts on the faith landscape. 🔗Read our article to find out more #SoSSResearch #UKCensus #FaithAndDiversity

'There are those moments...when the media and politicians...discover race and racism a bit like a teenager discovering sex' Gary Younge reflecting on the reaction to the murder of George Floyd 5 years on. Listen to his full interview - starts at 49:12 mins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...