Morgan Centre

Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement The inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, Department of Sociology.

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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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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📺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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📝'Theorising Ageing in Place During Urban Regeneration: A Spatial Approach'
New article by Pippa Winship, @tinebuffel.bsky.social & Vanessa May
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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....

📝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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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…

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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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...

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...

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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✨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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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.

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! 🍽🖍

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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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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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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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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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.

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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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🖋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's hand holding a copy of the co-edited book 'Contemporary Economic Geographies' in paperback. With Jennifer Johns.

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.

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...

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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We are looking forward to reading your submissions!

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.

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.

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.

If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’.

Do you conduct work on disability + austerity? Do you have lived/research/policy experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series focusing on ways austerity shapes + changes disabled people’s lives + futures, and we want to hear from you!

Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Call for blogs Series Three – How austerity alters disabled people’s lives and futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, and practice Do you work at the intersection of disability and austerity? Do you have lived and/or research/policy-based experience of how austerity alters disabled people’s lives? We are curating a blog series which focuses on the ways austerity shapes and changes disabled people’s lives and futures, and we want to hear from you! If you are interested in contributing to our blog series on the topic of austerity and disability, send us a short summary of your blog (200 words max) to austerityalters@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 30th May, with the subject line as ‘Disability and Austerity Blog’. If this date is not accessible for you, but you would still like to submit a summary, please let us know. We approach disability inclusively and broadly. Please see post thread for full text details.

📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'

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✍🏿Austere life-courses and foreclosed futures: A relational geographical approach to work, housing & family across austerity Europe
New article from the @austerityalters.bsky.social team in @dialogueshg.bsky.social
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Five Manchester experts become Academy of Social Sciences Fellows An unprecedented five academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their fields by being named as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. New Fellows are n...

🎉Congratulations to @sophierwoodward.bsky.social - newly minted @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow for her research on material culture, consumption & everyday life.
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