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2024
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September
2024
| 14:59 Europe/London
Written by Tetyana SoloveyAs a teenager in post-USSR Ukraine, I vividly remember visiting secondhand clothes shops. For the elderly, the biggest obstacle to accepting secondhand clothes wasn’t just the lingering smell of naphthalene – a potent
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September
2024
| 14:14 Europe/London
Simin Fadaee’s new book Global Marxism: Decolonisation and revolutionary politics investigates how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl
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June
2024
| 18:41 Europe/London
A series of new videos and an exhibition at the National Graphene Institute explore how teenage experiences and dreams shape our later lives. It is based on research with women in their seventies and eighties reflecting on their teenage experience
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19
June
2024
| 11:30 Europe/London
In his new book, Everyday Eating: Food, Taste and Trends in Britain since the 1950s Alan Warde explores how eating habits have changed in recent decades and asks what it means for us to eat well.He traces the changing culinary landscape of food
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June
2024
| 17:38 Europe/London
Dating apps are not just about finding love or hooking up. They are becoming increasingly important in the communication of public health messaging, particularly sexual health.In 2023, Harvard Public Health magazine suggested that dating apps could
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May
2024
| 16:02 Europe/London
Research engagement comes in shapes and sizes, and this year judges of the annual Sociology Prize for Public Engagement, Philip Drake (Director of Social Responsibility, School of Social Sciences) and Hilary Pilkington (Research Director, Sociology)
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May
2024
| 13:35 Europe/London
Gypsy and Traveller communities are among the more socially excluded groups in the UK. There is a long history of government failures in meeting these groups’ housing needs.
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15
May
2024
| 13:26 Europe/London
Dressed in a mini skirt and passionate about boys, music, dance and fashion, the 1960s teenage girl is a pop culture icon, the seeming beneficiary of the ascendancy of mass youth culture in the west and of unprecedented social and cultural changes.
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April
2024
| 12:46 Europe/London
A team of researchers from The University of Manchester has spent the last 18 months examining how faith spaces in Greater 91Ö±²¥ support different groups of older people within their communities.
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March
2024
| 17:02 Europe/London
Teenage Kicks, a captivating new art exhibition based on University of Manchester research, unveils the vibrant and dynamic lives of eight young women who navigated the turbulent cultural landscape of 1960s Britain.
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04
March
2024
| 10:00 Europe/London
An academic from The University of Manchester has been recognised as a leading expert in her field by being named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. 
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January
2024
| 11:11 Europe/London
An international collaborative led by The University of Manchester and the University of Leicester has published a new paper which outlines how to reduce COVID-19 health inequity among ethnic minority groups.
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January
2024
| 11:44 Europe/London
Claire Alexander’s new book, Revisiting the Asian Gang: Changing Muslim Masculinities is out now, published by Bloomsbury.In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim
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2023
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December
2023
| 16:50 Europe/London
Hilary Pilkington has edited a new book on young people and radicalisation, Resisting Radicalisation: Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus. The book is available in print, or you can read the full version for free
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December
2023
| 16:34 Europe/London
The Biopolitics of Dementia: A neurocritical perspective is a new book by James Fletcher. It is available in hardback or you can download or read it online for free.This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile
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December
2023
| 11:02 Europe/London
Owen Abbott, Vanessa May, Sophie Woodward, Rob Meckin and Leah Gilman have written a new book exploring the sociology of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic.Almost overnight, face masks became one of the most visible, everyday symbols of the
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December
2023
| 18:55 Europe/London
A new report from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) reveals that despite security staff being a common sight on university campuses, only one third (30.8%) of students surveyed agreed that they keep students safe on campus. The report
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November
2023
| 16:18 Europe/London
A new postgraduate course addressing the global environmental crisis and the challenges of building sustainable societies has been launched by The University of Manchester.According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
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13
November
2023
| 10:26 Europe/London
The University of Manchester is one of five partner organisations who together have been awarded £37.5 million from The Economic and Social Research Council to fund the UK Data Service until 2030. Of this award £7 million is to support our team at
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07
November
2023
| 11:48 Europe/London
Race & Ethnicity in Britain is a new podcast mini-series produced in collaboration between the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and Surviving Society.In the first episode, host Chantelle Lewis discusses the challenges of communicating
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November
2023
| 18:13 Europe/London
Professor Vanessa May has written a new book, Families, which is published Polity Press.The book explores what is and has been understood by ‘family’ in different sociocultural contexts and how family life intersects with social spheres such as the
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October
2023
| 13:26 Europe/London
In March 2023, NHS midwife Olukemi Akinmeji won an employment tribunal case against the hospital in Kent where, as an employee, she had faced race discrimination and victimisation.
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September
2023
| 17:08 Europe/London
Fathers can give their children an educational advantage at primary school by reading, drawing and playing with them, according to a new report published today.
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September
2023
| 11:09 Europe/London
New data from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at The University of Manchester has revealed disturbing ethnic inequalities in rates of financial hardship in the UK. 
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August
2023
| 15:47 Europe/London
The 1953 coup d'etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each year on August 19, the anniversary of the coup, millions of Iranians
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June
2023
| 12:01 Europe/London
Every year, the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester honour exceptional individuals who have made significant contributions to the institution through the Distinguished Achievements Awards.In the latest ceremony held on June
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29
June
2023
| 09:51 Europe/London
Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, has won The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023. 
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06
June
2023
| 11:14 Europe/London
Maybe you have one bin or many boxes. You might even have a compost caddy. Whatever your recycling setup, chances are that at some point you’ve been left wondering what should go where and if a particular item is indeed recyclable or if it should
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May
2023
| 15:41 Europe/London
Gary Younge, award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, has been shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine and
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04
May
2023
| 12:00 Europe/London
New research led by experts from The University of Manchester, the University of St Andrews, the University of Essex and the University of Nottingham suggests that people from ethnic and religious minority groups are more likely to be interested in
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