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Great to see our MCYS colleague @HannahLSmithson excellent research featured in The BSA Network Magazine!

Register to attend our NCRM event that explores the ethics and possibilities of creative writing and social research at ‘whose words are they anyway?’ Please register here: forms.office.com/e/bUxN0686p2

A bit of sociological listening for the break - bonus episode @TheSocReview Uncommon Sense, ft. me in conversation with Claire Alexander (Uni of Manchester), Dan McCulloch (OU) and Belinda Scarlett (Working Class Movements Library) on Voice thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/uncom…

**Book now for ‘Caring is Sharing? Couples navigating parental leave at the transition to parenthood’, a free online BSA FAR Study Group Group webinar, THIS FRIDAY 10th January tinyurl.com/339k8y24 #sociology #parentaleave Katherine Twamley UCL Social Research Institute (SRI)

Really happy to share a new article. With the ConnecteDNA team, we explore how parents through DC navigate DNA testing and what this tells us about kinship and childhood. Nicky Hudson Lucy Frith Petra Nordqvist CSEP Manchester Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social SocStudiesShef Sociology and Criminology at Man Met

We are looking forward to presenting 'Earning while learning: student employment, gender and higher education' at the SRHE online seminar next Monday 27 January, 12.30pm. More info and registration details here: srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civiw…

Professor Alison Pilnick Alison Pilnick at Manchester Metropolitan University is seeking a PhD Student to undertake "Too much touch? Enabling a better understanding of the use of touch in dementia care." dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/phd-enabli…

Published a piece today with James Hodgson Helen Holmes @VanessaLKMay Kirsty Pattrick at Mass Observation in Sociological Research Online about the material culture of mass observation, and its focus on personal life, family, objects and methodology. Celebrates the 30th anniversary of SRO!

Register now for our Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social conversations and ConnecteDNA workshop. Third party assisted reproduction: Making connections across borders. Monday 28 April. UoM School of Social Sciences

We've got two wonderful PhD studentships going at the moment. Here is our collaborative award to collaborate with Supported Loving to support less risk-averse approaches to supporting intimate lives mmu.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

There are still some places now for this workshop. Register for free via the eventbrite

📌Third party assisted reproduction: Making connections across borders 📆 12-5pm 28 April 2025 (Manchester) Discussion of global debates around assisted reproduction, the multi£££ fertility industry & DNA testing Leah Gilman Lucy Frith UoM School of Social Sciences eventbrite.co.uk/e/third-party-…

"Taking care of the grandchildren? No, thanks: 'I love my obligation-free life'" adrienne matei with comment from Vanessa May on the convenient cultural norm of the the grandparents ready to fill childcare gaps. UoM School of Social Sciences theguardian.com/wellness/2025/…

Just 5% of eligible parents take shared parental leave in the UK: @Ktwamley explains why reform is 'sorely needed', and how to achieve it tinyurl.com/5n8xe5mz #sociology

Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you President Donald J. Trump, Congress, and the American people. Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.

Call for papers by 25 March for ‘Doing Research Differently: Methodological Creativity and Innovation in the Sociology of Families and Relationships’ a BSA FAR Study Group event, 12 June, University of the West of England, Bristol tinyurl.com/2t7sp5a9

JOB: Lecturer in Sociology Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Seeking a new colleague with research expertise in personal life, relationships & everyday lives to teach and research with us. Pls share! 🙏🏾 Closing date: 7 April. The BSA BSA PG Forum jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

No woman should ever have to go through this again. Members of Parliament have a moral duty to decriminalise abortion and end the threat of police, prosecutions, and imprisonment once and for all. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…

Whoever at the Crown Prosecution Service made or upheld the decision to prosecute this woman should resign. This whole process was unforgiveable. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…