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Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life

About the Morgan Centre

We are a centre researching family life, contemporary relationships, parenting and partnering and childhood.

New book: Innovations in Youth Research

Imaginative and creative methods for researching youth, edited by Sue Heath and Charlie Walker. More information on Palgrave Macmillan website (Link opens in new window)

Relative Strangers video update

We have now finished all the research interviews for our project on families of donor-conceived children. Watch a video about our progress so far and what we are doing next.

Sociology of Personal Life book cover

New book: Sociology of Personal Life

Essential reading for students of personal life! Edited by Vanessa May with contributions from other Morgan Centre staff. How are familiar areas of our lives (relationships with family, friends, partners, pets, personal politics and buying behaviour) shaped by society? More details on the Palgrave Macmillan website (link opens in new window).

Using participatory visual methods toolkit

The latest in our series of Realities toolkits. How to, and why, use participatory visual methods. More details, and free download.

Knowing the in/tangible working paper

Creative approaches to researching the everyday and the ethereal (and what this adds to our research). More details, and free download.

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