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University of Manchester Sociology Department
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Researching and teaching sociology at The University of Manchester since 1964.
Links: https://linktr.ee/UoMSociology
Web: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/sociology
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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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'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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November 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025

Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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VACANCY: Research Associate - Uncovering Hidden Inequality: New ways of doing death admin

Apply by 9 Oct, 3yr post (full time), £37-39k

Please do apply or help us share this job 🙏
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September 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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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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 🤗🎓
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View through tree branches of University of Manchester John Owens Building
September 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🎉 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!
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animation reads 'congratulations to all our students graduating this week' with graduation caps
July 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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🗣Racial health equity & the question of Black (non?)being: Exploring the uses of Afropessimism in approaches to anti-racist health promotion - Tanisha Spratt (KCL)
📆1-2.30pm, Thurs 15 May 2025 (hybrid)
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April 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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📢 Call for Papers: Alternative Futures & Popular Protest 2025
🗓️ 16–18 June, Manchester
📝 Abstracts due: 18 Dec 2024
Join us to explore social movements, protests & change. 🌍
#CFP #SocialMovements
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November 22, 2024 at 2:38 PM