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Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life

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Date of visit	Visitor details
Feb 2012	Betina Hollstein University of Hamburg, Germany (Simon Visiting Professorship) Betina's research interests include the sociology of the lifecourse, with a focus on how qualitative social network analysis can be used to explore relationships at different stages. Betina's staff page (link opens in new window)
Nov 2011 - Jan 2012	Luana Cunha Ferreira University of Lisbon and University of Coimbra, Portugal Luana is working on a PhD thesis on the topic of intimacy, sexual desire and differentiation in long-term couple relationships. She will be working with Vanessa May and Sue Heath. Intimacy and Desire project website (opens in new window)
Sept- Dec 2011	Eija Sevon University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Eija's research interests are everyday family life, family relationships and parenting. Currently she is conducting her postdoctoral research project 'Young children's daily family life and positive parenting', funded by the Academy of Finland. During her visit she will be working with Vanessa May on a research project titled 'Children's socio-emotional wellbeing and daily family life in a 24-h economy' in which three countries: Finland, UK and the Netherlands will be studied. Eija's page on the University of Jyvaskyla website (opens in new window)
2011	Estibaliz de Miguel PhD student, University of the Basque Country (Spain). Estibaliz has a degree in Social Work (1996) and graduated in Sociology in 2004. Her PhD Dissertation was titled "Life trajectories of condemned female from a gender perspective", so her main research fields are exlusion, inequalities and feminism. She has also been engaged in social activism related to prison and the links between spirituality and politics.
Mar - May 2010	Estibaliz de Miguel (see above for details) Estibaliz is presenting an informal seminar on 12 May 2010. Update August 2010: We're pleased to report that Estibaliz won 3rd prize in the 2010 Fermin Cabellero Essay Prize with her essay, 'Emotions and social inequalities: the case of fear'. The photo above shows Esti collecting her prize. Congratulations Esti!
May 2009	Rosalina Pisco Costa Assistant Lecturer, University of Evora, Portugal, and PhD candidate, Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. During her visit Rosalina developed her research on family rituals, giving an informal seminar entitled '(Un)knitting family rituals. Catching time, space and emotion in family and personal lives'
March 2009	Maggie Walter Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania, Australia. Maggie's research interests are indigenous policy, retirement and population ageing, workers compensation and labour market issues, social policy discourse and development, inequality. Maggie's University of Tasmania web page [opens in new window]
May 2008	Karin Widerberg Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research fields are theory of science and methodology, understandings of gender (in general) and time, work and body but also sexual violence and law in a gender perspective. Her recent major research project was on ‘The Sociality of Tiredness’ and she is currently involved in an EU funded project on ‘Changing Knowledge and Disciplinary Boundaries through Integrative Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Humanities’. During her visit, Karin will be giving a seminar titled: Embodying Modern Times: Investigating tiredness on 14 May. Karin's University of Oslo web page [new window]
Feb-March 2007	Liv Syltevik Associate Professor, University of Bergen. Liv's research interests include the sociology of the family, welfare state, gender, social policy and qualitative research methodology. During her visit , Liv gave a seminar on Family, class and gender in late modernity. Liv's research projects and publications [opens in new window]

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