📝'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/...

It's that time of year again! Welcome to all of our students joining us to start a new course...and welcome back to all our returning students 🤗🎓 @uomsoss.bsky.social

Big news from @officialuom.bsky.social The @ukdataservice.bsky.social is shaping the future of health data in England Led by Prof @vanessahiggins.bsky.social & Prof @gerontologyuk.bsky.social, researchers are now being heard by DHSC & ONS 📊 Advocacy, consultation & impact 🔗 bit.ly/UKDS-healthd...

🎧Listen to Simin Fadaee discussing her book 'Global Marxism' with Gabriel Rockhill on the Critical Theory Workshop channel. @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jpS...

Register to explore a pioneering technique to successfully retrieve &analyse the text of tightly restricted social media context at a large scale: tinyurl.com/bd4xhs3x 📅3rd Oct ⏰4-5PM @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomscieng.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social

📝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...

📝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/...

🔗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...

“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:...

Can you really make money from rubbish? This new article by Dan Welch and Pawan Srikanth explores the potential of mining landfill sites. @uomsoss.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2025/0...

🎧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 👇🏾

“My disappointment is the closure of churches. What they’ve forgotten is there was a social aspect to churches. It’s an anchor.” – Doris, 86 years old @lucilang.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social on the impact of lockdown on older people's faith-based routines. #OpenAccess buff.ly/wCcSnD1

From the 1890s tobacco boycott to the 1953 coup and 1979 revolution, Iranians have long resisted external control. Now, with Israel and U.S. involvement, Dr. Simin Fadaee, @uomsociology.bsky.social, explores what history can teach us about sovereignty and struggle. 🔗 Linked below: #SoSSResearch

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...

...If you aren't part of our network but are an early career scholar of race, racism and ethnicity then you can join us here for online meetups, in person events and our email list. All welcome! www.ethnicity.ac.uk/connect/earl...

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_...

🎉 Sending congratulations to all our students graduating this week. We hope you get to take time to appreciate your achievement and wish you lots of success in whatever you do next! @uomsoss.bsky.social

New article: Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities Nick Crossley in @actasociologica.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔗 Learn more about MUARG’s work: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/muarg/ 📬 Sign up for the newsletter: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/muarg/connec...

“I was very close to my mother and I couldn’t meet her in her last days; this regret is going to be with me forever.” – Soraya, 54 years old, Manchester @lucilang.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social on COVID-19 restrictions, grief and the ideas of Marcel Mauss . #OpenAccess buff.ly/wCcSnD1

Great news for the Consumption & Society team (inc our drdjwelch.bsky.social) who are celebrating their young journal's third birthday with a brilliant impact factor...also of 3.0 @uomsoss.bsky.social @sustainableuom.bsky.social @manchestersci.bsky.social

Congrats to our colleagues Andreja Zevnik, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @meghanetinsley.bsky.social for winning the BISA 2025 EDI Prize Their Decolonial Praxis project is transforming how we think about equity, knowledge & collaboration in international studies 🔗Read more below:

📢 We're hiring a new Research Associate! 📅16 July 2025 Join our team and contribute to Creative Manchester's strategy through research and activities that have a demonstrable positive impact on society through creative research and practice. 🔗 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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

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...

✨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...

Mitchell Centre M Summer School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences here at Manchester in September 2025. Register until 14 July here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen.... We have introductory, R-based, and statistical network analysis courses. #sna #NetworkAnalysis #socsky

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

“All of this can seem intimidating. You feel like an imposter.” – Racially minoritised museum staff member @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social @roaa-ali.bsky.social‬ @uomsociology.bsky.social‬ on the heritage industry, institutional whiteness and the limits of inclusion. #OpenAccess buff.ly/NtDEu6L

Booking is open for the @mitchellsna.bsky.social Summer School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences! 📅15–26 Sept 2025 @manchester.ac.uk 3 hands-on courses, no prior experience needed 👉 Book by 30th June: estore.manchester.ac.uk/short-course... @socialstats.bsky.social @ukdataservice.bsky.social

🧘🏾‍♀️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...

Take part in our new research project on police in schools - please share 👇🏿

New report shows a ‘dose response’ relationship between racism and poor mental health The study, partnering with @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, exposes how racism harms mental health through systemic factors like financial strain, health risks & social exclusion.⤵️ www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

“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

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 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/...

🎵 Music Worlds and Event Networks: An Exposition Nick Crossley introducing the idea of 'event networks' such as sequences of gigs to social network analysis of 'music worlds' @mitchellsna.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1749...

Resending the free PDF of my book ‘Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens’, now with a link that works (scroll to ‘Access this doc’) research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati... @glenkerrycoop.bsky.social

'Does Manchester use the bee too much?' this article in the MEN draws on research by @ashleycollar.bsky.social with people affected by the bombing of Manchester Arena in 2017. @uomsoss.bsky.social www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

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...

Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conf Celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2025. Share your AFPP memories or book a place 16-18 June: @uomsoss.bsky.social @socmovstudies.bsky.social www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/2025/05/29/a...

👏Huge congratulations to Prof Claire Alexander, Head of the School of Social Sciences – newly appointed Chair of the Sociology sub-panel for #REF2029! A proud moment for @officialuom.bsky.social & a big step for UK research excellence www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m... @uomsociology.bsky.social

🐝 The Manchester bee: symbol of unity or a commercialised memory? @uomsociology.bsky.social PhD researcher @ashleycollar.bsky.social explores how the bee’s meaning has shifted since the 2017 Arena attack—and why some Mancunians now feel uneasy. 🔗 Read the full story below. #SoSSResearch #MancBee

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:...

'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/...