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Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
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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
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 ...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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...
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
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December 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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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
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Student voices in the archives
The online Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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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...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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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
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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
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October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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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
October 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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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
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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.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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

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Portrait of Gary Younge and Faber members logo and 10th anniversary badge
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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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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September 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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📝'Theorising Ageing in Place During Urban Regeneration: A Spatial Approach'
New article by Pippa Winship, @tinebuffel.bsky.social & Vanessa May
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September 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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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
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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....
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September 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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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

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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…
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July 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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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!
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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...
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July 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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
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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...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Check out the work of #Austerity and Altered Life Courses project here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...

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Austerity and Altered Life-Courses - School of Social Sciences - The University of Manchester
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July 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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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! 🍽🖍
A photograph of a paper plate with colourful annotated drawings. It includes an ear (listening), football pitch (left-field ideas) and a heart (compassion). Photograph of a tablecloth featuring our co-designed Anti-Poverty research framework, a colourful image with 11 values designed into a jigsaw. The image is surrounded by pens, pencils and coffee cups. An accessible version of the framework can be found on our website.
June 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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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...
June 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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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)

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June 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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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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May 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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New from @ashleycollar.bsky.social on the changing symbolism of the Manchester bee in the 8 years since the bombing of Manchester arena.
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May 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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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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May 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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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
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May 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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🖋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
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May 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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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.
Sarah's hand holding a copy of the co-edited book 'Contemporary Economic Geographies' in paperback. With Jennifer Johns.
May 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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 #britsoc25
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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...
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May 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM