Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods @McrSociology. Projects @DatingAppRes @austerityalters. https://xitter.cf/t.co/4SKQLyFOH5
University of Manchester
Joined July 2010
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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!
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📝Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration
@ltowers728 & Kate Reed in @BJSociology on the sociology of bereavement admin
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New article:
✨Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception & DNA testing
@NordqvistPetra @Leahgilman84 Caroline Redhead, Marie Fox, Nicky Hudson, Fiona MacCallum, @lucy_frith from @ConnecteDNA
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We really enjoyed teaching our 'Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research' course at the @methodsMcr summer school - thanks to our great students!
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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, Jaime Garcia Iglesias & Qian Xiong
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The making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women cultural productions - @roaaali_
1-2.30pm Thur 19 June 2025 (Manchester/online)
@UoMCreativeMCR @ManchesterUP @MCRSociology
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Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research (Morgan Centre summer school)
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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New from @ashleylcollar on the changing symbolism of the Manchester bee in the 8 years since the bombing of Manchester arena.
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WORKSHOP: Working with Qualitative Interview Data: Themes & Beyond
2-5pm, Thur 29 May 2025
@methodsMcr workshop led by @AndyBalmer on how to analyse qualitative data in creative, curious ways.
@MCRSociology
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📌Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy
🗣 @DrSuriyah - Cardiff University
📆 4.30-6pm, Monday 19 May (hybrid)
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🖋Fiction and Research
📆2.30-4pm Weds 14 May (online)
How can fiction and social science research work together? With @Leahgilman84 Becky Tipper & Sudip Sen. Register for free ticket.
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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 @britsoci #britsoc25
@uomsoss @morgancentre
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✍🏿Austere life-courses and foreclosed futures: A relational geographical approach to work, housing & family across austerity Europe
@MCRSociology @uomsoss @UoMSALC
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We’re off! Welcome to the BSA 2025 Annual Conference at the University of Manchester. Hashtag is #britsoc25 Registration is now open at the Drum, University Place
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The NEW @britsoci Global Histories & Sociology Study Group is organisiing their 1st event:
📌1885 & its Long Shadow: Sexual Offences in Historical Context
📆11 July 2025
✍🏾cfp by 16 May - see below
@DrWaiLau
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Over 50 job opportunities on our Sociology
Vacancies Board! See tinyurl.com/nyeswn2h for the latest fellowships, lectureships, professorships and other posts in sociology and allied disciplines #sociology
ALT Over 50 job opportunities on our Sociology Vacancies board! See https://tinyurl.com/nyeswn2h for the latest fellowships, lectureships, professorships and other posts in sociology and allied disciplines #sociology
📝The body as a canvas: Memory, tattoos and the Holocaust
Alice Bloch on children and grandchildren of Auschwitz survivors who choose to replicate concentrate camp numbers in their own tattoos, in The Sociological Review.
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🎉Congratulations to @sophierwoodward - newly minted @BritishAcademy_ Fellow in recognition of her research on material culture, consumption & everyday life.
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One week left to apply for our Lecturer in Sociology vacancy 👇🏾
JOB: Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre
Seeking a new colleague with research expertise in personal life, relationships & everyday lives to teach and research with us. Pls share! 🙏🏾
Closing date: 7 April. @britsoci @BSAPGForum
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📝Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’ - Kate Reed & Anna Balazs
@uomsoss @morgancentre
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