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University of Manchester Sociology Department
@uomsociology.bsky.social
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Researching and teaching sociology at The University of Manchester since 1964.
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · Nov 22
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🎉'Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics' written by Simin Fadaee, has been selected as one of CHOICE’s outstanding academic titles for 2025
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Manchester University Press - Global Marxism
Global Marxism - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Global Marxism by Simin Fadaee
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December 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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The next seminar from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social is from Dhiraj Murthy, on racial inequalities in GenAI 👇🏾
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CoDE SEMINAR: 'I’m Just a Large Language Model, Please Excuse Me for Being Racist: Racial Inequalities Manifested in Generative Artificial Intelligence'

🗣️Dhiraj Murthy
📅12.30-2pm [UPDATED START TIME], 11 Dec 2025
📍Uni of Manchester & online
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December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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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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New report by the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism, with Prof. Hilary Pilkington @uomsociology.bsky.social, calls for urgent reforms to make the UK’s counter-terrorism laws fairer, focused & more accountable

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#SoSSResearch #Research @manchester.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Why do upwardly mobile individuals use merit-based stories to distinguish themselves from their more privileged colleagues?

Mauricio Rentería @uomsociology.bsky.social on self-validation, symbolic boundaries and the difference between talent and privilege.

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Mauricio Rentería Telling an exceptional story: Meritocratic accounts of upwardly mobile Limeños https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251396456 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🚨 Just over 1 week to go until this year's annual Sociology Symposium!
📅 3 Dec 12.30-4pm
📍 Williamson Bldg 4.08, UoM
☕ Refreshments provided

Join us for an afternoon of discussion, debate, and discovery!
Event poster with list of speakers and titles: Alice Swift: Transformatory Experiences of Success and Failure in the Diffusion of the Climate Camp Tactic Across Europe. Lidia Yáñez Lagos: From Project to Process: Tracing a Recursive Inquiry into Memory, and resistance to Repression in Chile’s Social Uprising. Jan Mueller: The Perceived Feasibility of Working Time Transformation and the Ideal Worker Norm: 
Insights on Barriers to Supporting the Four Day 
Week from Organisational Vignettes. Shirley Zhang: The Paradox of AI Intimacy: Dreaming Girls 
and the Emotional Agency of AI in China. Elle Shea: From Structure to Sentiment: 
Rethinking Class through Intimacy.
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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📢 SCI Annual Lecture 2025🚗 with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore

Join us on Tue 2nd December at AMBS for an inspiring lecture on the hidden costs of car culture, drawn from her new book Roadkill.

🎤 Includes panel discussion + Q&A
📍 AMBS Theatre 2.008 | 🕓 4:00–5:30
👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...
Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture: Prof. Henrietta L. Moore
Join us for an inspiring talk by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture!
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November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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 👇🏾
ethnicityuk.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · Oct 27
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
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November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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#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

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November 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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'Many of the young people referred to Prevent need support from healthcare or social care services, not a counter-terrorism intervention.' Hilary Pilkington comments as final report of Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy & Practice published
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Close up of police officer armed with gun and taser
November 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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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
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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1 WEEK: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions

📅 17 Nov, 5pm
📍Sam Alex Building

Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX

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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 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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@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
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Muslim war memorial: ministers’ delay leaves trust to find £1m - Hyphen
Long-awaited project could help counter far-right myths about Muslims not being part of Britain’s history, argue supporters
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November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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🏠 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.
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Decent homes for all
Come along to learn what you can do to make sure Manchester provides good quality, safe, secure and affordable homes for those who live here
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November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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✍ What happens when writing itself becomes dangerous? When the stories we read, research, & share carry the potential to harm?

Two new blog reflections from postgraduate researchers at @manchester.ac.uk offer powerful insights into the ethical and emotional weight of engaging with 'risky' texts.

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October 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Congratulations to Patty Doran 🥳for winning the Outstanding Contribution to Research Impact at the Research Staff Excellence Awards 👇🏾
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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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
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October 27, 2025 at 3:50 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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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.
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🎓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
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PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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💬 What does sociology teach us about life and death?
Join Prof. Kate Reed of @uomsociology.bsky.social for her inaugural lecture on reproductive loss, post-mortem, and bereavement.

🗓️ 28 Oct | 4–6pm
📍 Humanities Bridgeford Street
🎟️ Get your ticket below👇

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Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement
Eventbrite - University of Manchester School of Social Sciences presents Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement - Tuesday, 28 October 2025 at Humanities Bridgeford ...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM