📢📱Want to learn more about our research on dating apps and COVID19?

💕We have just published our mixed-methods protocol in IJQM and open access!

👉Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/160940…

#TeenageKicks tells the stories of 8 women who were all teenagers in the 1960s. See the whole exhibition:
1. At Glasgow Glasgow Women's Library until 18 May (plus you get to see all their other exhibitions - recommended)
2. Online

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Penny Tinkler, writing about life for teenage girls in 60s Britain. It was an exciting time, but family responsibilities, class & fate meant not all girls had the same possibilities.

Our exhib #TeenageKicks explores these stories
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UoM School of Social Sciences
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CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Manuela Latchoumaya who passed her PhD viva yesterday with no corrections with her thesis on lived experiences and identities of French citizens of Indian descent 🥳🎉 🎓
Bridget Byrne John Solomos UoM School of Social Sciences

NEW report #CompoundInjustice on use of rap & drill music as evidence to convict young ppl of violent crimes.
📌Between 2020-23 Rap music used as evidence in 68 cases of serious violent crime involving 252 defendants
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manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Just a few places left on this free workshop researching young ppl's everyday lives in the post-war decades. Please share!

📆17 May 2024 John Rylands Research Institute and Library

NWSSDTP MethodsNW Methods@Manchester UoM School of Social Sciences History Department UoM SoSS PhD
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❗TOMORROW, Keir Monteith KC talks about the unfair use of rap music in criminal trials for UoM Law inaugural lecture!

Join UoM School of Social Sciences, CoDE (Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity) and Creative Manchester
for a conversation on stereotypes and reform!

Book your ticket now: bit.ly/3VrniCa 👉

Adventures in Multi-Species Ethnography
10-12 June 2024

Exploring how Manchester’s green spaces and more-than-human residents co-shape our social & political life, led by Maisie Tomlinson
NWSSDTP UoM SoSS PhD Hums Researchers
eventbrite.co.uk/e/adventures-i…

EVENT:

📌Thinking with Affinities
📆 11-4pm, Weds 22 May 2024

A creative, curious, conversational event based around Jennifer Mason's concept of 'affinities'.

UoM School of Social Sciences prof sophie woodward Leah Gilman Stephen R Hicks James Hodgson Helen Holmes
eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-wit…

And we’re off! The conference on Utopia and the Return of History is under way. Looking forward to two days of imagining other ways of being, and learning about projects that are already enacting them.

Sivamohan Valluvan's review

'Culture is studied here for those glimmers of already commonplace instances of transgressive life beyond the delimitations of race and nation and the delimitations of individualized self-regard'

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Daniel Burdsey's review asks what conditions make fighting sports ripe for convivial connections & at the politics and practices of ethnographic research

Boxing clever: exercising with ethnicity, ethics and embodied ethnography

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tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks to editors at Identities Journal for organising a symposium on Fighting Identity & to generous respondents

In my response, I talked about embodied ethnography, the importance of seeking out convivial possibilities and anti-racist horizons

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Very generous review by Sivamohan Valluvan (Warwick Sociology) of Fighting Identity for Identities Journal

'Fighting identity and enchanting culture: reflections on working-class conviviality'

tandfonline.com/eprint/GG4YYND…

Last chance to register for:

Class, cultural knowledge & barriers to mobility
Visiting The Leverhulme Trust Prof, Annette Lareau (UPenn)

📆2.30pm, 29 April 2024, Manchester (in person only)

Followed at 4pm by drinks reception for our 60th anniversary 🎉
…au-barriers-mobility.eventbrite.co.uk

VACANCIES: 2 X lecturer and 1 X Senior Lecturer University of Manchester Sociology department. Last few days to send us an application (deadline 29 April).

📢CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Global social challenges: New research for navigating chaos and finding hope in the 21st C

📆10-5pm, Weds 12 June, Manchester
➡ Send an abstract (by 7 May) forms.gle/WwFqejRR4vyr9F…

UoM School of Social Sciences UoM SoSS PhD NWSSDTP MethodsNW

Every Cook Can Plan: Utopian Ideas for Economic Democracy

Dr Troy Vettese (European University Institute)
Drew Pendergrass (Harvard University)

Tues 30 April, 1.30-3pm
Chemistry Building G.54

Part of Utopia and the Return of History Conf. All welcome, no need to register 4/5

Caretakers, Compradors and Captive Maternals as 'Vanguard'

Professor Joy James (Williams College)
Mon 29 April, 6-7.30pm
University Place, Theatre A

Part of the Utopia and the Return of History Conference. All welcome, no need to register. 3/5

Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Socialist Revolution
Ken McLeod, award-winning science fiction author

Mon 29 April, 1.30-3pm
Simon Building, Theatre B, University of Manchester

Part of the Utopia and the Return of History Conference. All welcome, no need to register.
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