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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 7d

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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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 14d

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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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 14d

@briony.bsky.social @ltowers728.bsky.social @sophierwoodward.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social

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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 14d

📺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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The Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives - YouTube

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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 16d

📝'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
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 28d

📝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
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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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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · Jul 15

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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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you didn't get a place this year you can fill in this form to get a message when the 2026 summer school opens for registration forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · Jul 8

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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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · Jul 4

✨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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Healthier Futures at the University of Manchester @healthierfutures.bsky.social · Jul 3

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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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Jun 24

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.

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Maisie Tomlinson @maisie-tom.bsky.social · Jun 5

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...

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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · Jun 2

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
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · May 23

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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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · May 22

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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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · May 19

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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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · May 9

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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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · May 8

🖋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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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · May 2

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.

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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · May 1

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
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @morgancentre.bsky.social
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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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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

We are looking forward to reading your submissions!

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

As an international project, we also welcome blogs that focus on various geographical locations. We encourage submissions from people at different career stages, and from academic, community, and policy backgrounds.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

We approach disability inclusively and broadly, welcoming reflections on and about experiences of physical impairment, chronic illness, mental illness, body size, neurodivergence and learning disabilities, in relation to austerity.

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Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social · Apr 15

If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know. If you have any questions, please get in contact using the email address above and one of our team will be able to help.

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