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Registration open: Relating to Death conference
16 May 2008, Manchester
Full programme and registration >
Date added: 21 January 2008
Registration open: Thinking Through Relationality conference
Registration is now open for our one-day conference: 'Thinking Through Relationality: Relationships, connectedness and social distance' on 19 September in Manchester.
The theme of ‘relationality’ is becoming more important in thinking about how people connect with each other and in how they construct meaning in everyday exchanges and decisions. Relationality has connectedness as its starting point and so takes a different approach to that adopted by individualisation theorists.
Places are limited and early booking is advised.
Full programme and registration >
Date added: 23 May 2007
Forthcoming Office Move
The Morgan Centre will be moving offices on 17 July 2007. Due to this move the team may well be unavailable for much of that week (16-20 July).
The new offices will be based in the Arthur Lewis Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. It is still being built and therefore does not yet appear on the campus map, however it will be located between numbers 36 and 36 (Bridgeford Street).
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/numerical/
If you require further information on the news or are planning a visit, please contact Victoria Higham.
Date added: 8 May 2007
Visit and seminar from Liv Syltevik
We are pleased that Liv Syltevik from University of Bergen is visiting us during February and March 2007. During her stay, Liv will be giving a seminar on Family, class and gender in late modernity as part of the Morgan Centre seminar series.
Date added: 15 February 2007
Morgan Centre seminar series: Autumn 2006
Our seminars for this semester will be:
- Baby boomers: Personal relationships and consumption patterns (Rebecca Leach, University of Keele)
- 'It brought us together': Sensory socialities in a Slow City (Sarah Pink, Loughborough University)
Date added: 1 November 2006
Friends, Acquaintances and Social Networks seminar, 30 November 2006
Registration is now open for this seminar. The morning session consists of papers exploring friendship and acquaintanceship. The afternoon session will look at different methodological approaches to research into social networks. More information >
Date added: 24 August 2006
Children's Kinship seminar, 3 November 2006
Samantha Punch (University of Stirling) will give a paper on her work about siblings and Jennifer Mason and Becky Tipper will present research findings from the Children Creating Kinship project. More information.
Date added: 7 August 2006
'Children, creativity and kinship' - paper added
This working paper explores how children define and create their kin relationships. The paper looks at how children understand genealogical kinship conventions, creatively deployed or interpreted kin terms, and defined some unrelated others as ‘like family’.
Date added: 4 August 2006
Gay and lesbian 'marriage' project findings available
The ESRC-funded project on the significance of recognition of same-sex relationships has come to an end. Core research findings are available, plus press articles and radio interview about the project.
More information
Date added: 2 August 2006
ESRC PhD studentships
Becky Tipper and Kirsty Finn have both been successful in their applications for ESRC funding to complete their PhDs. Becky's title is ‘Children’s relationships with companion animals’ and Kirsty's is ‘Young women’s negotiations of class, selfhood and gender within the changing contexts of 'home' and 'university' ’.
Date added: 23 June 2006