News
Professor Dame Janet Finch to join the Morgan Centre
Professor Dame Janet Finch will join the Morgan Centre in August from Keele University where she is currently Vice Chancellor. Professor Finch has recently been appointed chair designate of Panel C of the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework review.
REF panel chair announcement on HEFCE website (new window)
Date added: 15 July 2010
Professor Sue Heath to join the Morgan Centre
We are please to announce that Professor Sue Heath will be joining us in September 2010 from the University of Southampton. Sue's research interests are in the sociology of youth, education and transitions to adulthood. She is co-director of the National Centre for Research Methods and the Centre for Population Change.
Go to Sue's staff page at the University of Southampton >
Date added: 1 June 2010
Vacancy for Professor in Sociology based at the Morgan Centre
The sociology team at Manchester are looking to appoint a Professor in Sociology with a track record of research and expertise in the area of intimacy and personal life. The successful applicant will take an active role in the management of The Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life as well as engaging with the innovative methodological work of the ESRC Realities Centre currently directed by Jennifer Mason. Closing date: 19 Febuary 2010.
More information and application details > (new window)
Date added: 14 January 2010
Carol Smart contribution to Open University course on Family Meanings
Listen to an audio recording produced as part of the Open University's Family Meanings module. Carol is part of a panel discussion on the pros and cons of different ways of conceptualising families and relationships; it is chaired by Dr Megan Doolittle and participants also include Professors David Morgan, Rosalind Edwards and Lynn Jamieson.
Listen to the recording [new window]
Date added: 15 November 2010
Call for abstracts: Vital Signs 2, 7-9 September 2010
How can we engage our research imaginations and rise to the challenge of generating knowledge that is vital and resonates with complex and multi-dimensional lived realities? Vital Signs 2 will provide a major forum for lively and engaged discussion of these issues.
Date added: 15 November 2009
Realities events and training programme 2009/2010
We have now updated the Realities training and events programme with details of all our Methods in Dialogue workshops, training workshops and other events for next academic year.
Date added: 14 September 2009
Registration open: Turning Personal conference, 16-17 September 2009
Turning Personal will provide an exciting forum for the discussion how social research can incorporate more complex and multi-layered accounts of personal lives into academic writings and analyses.
Keynote Speakers
- Carol Smart (Morgan Centre, University of Manchester) "Hauntings: Living with other people's lives"
- Tia DeNora (University of Exeter) "Musical Selves in Musical Spaces"
- Ann Phoenix (Institute of Education) "Complexities of lived and liveable lives: Reconceptualising 'non-normative' childhoods"
Date added: 11 July 2009
New project: Just Like Marriage
This project, led by Brian Heaphy and Carol Smart, explores the experiences of 'young' same sex couples (where both partners are aged under 35) who have entered into civil partnership.
Just Like Marriage project page >
Date added: 1 November 2008
New ESRC grant: Realities, part of the National Centre for Research Methods
Realities is a "node" of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, based in the Morgan Centre, led by Jennifer Mason. Realities is investigating qualitatively-driven methods for researching real life and also provides training, an events programme and online resources for researchers working in this area.
Date added: 1 October 2008