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Find out what's been happening in the School of Social Sciences.
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Frank Boons appointed as Defra Fellow
10 May 2019
The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has appointed six senior academic Fellows from universities across the UK to focus on ...
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Manchester rising stars honoured with Future Leaders Fellowships
7 May 2019
Three Manchester researchers have been selected among the very best researchers and innovators promising to deliver global impact.
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Greater Manchester's Mayor marks end of major youth research project
17 Apr 2019
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, has attended an event to mark the end of a major project which has researched the experiences of ...
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Racism is still a huge problem in UK’s workplaces, finds report
15 Apr 2019
A shocking report has found that the majority of ethnic minority workers have experienced racial harassment at work in the last five years, and have ...
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Manchester academic wins Guardian award for migration project
11 Apr 2019
An academic from The University of Manchester has won a 2019 Guardian University Award - which recognise the inspiring and groundbreaking projects ...
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MICRA and SENSE-Cog host Greater Manchester Symposium on hearing and vision support for people with dementia
10 Apr 2019
Over the past two years, Manchester has been leading an EU wide programme to investigate aspects of concurrent hearing, vision and cognitive ...
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Participants sought for Alzheimer's prevention study
10 Apr 2019
Those researching dementia now recognize that our best chance of beating this condition is to identify it early and intervene before significant brain...
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Brexit Q+A: what are indicative votes and how do they work?
26 Mar 2019
The House of Commons has voted to hold a series of indicative votes on Brexit. But what does that mean and will it solve the problem? What are ...
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Manchester to lead new digital security network
26 Mar 2019
A consortium led by The University of Manchester has been awarded £1.36 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to ...
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Five academics recognised as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
22 Mar 2019
The School of Social Sciences welcomes five academics recognised as Fellows of the Academy of Social Scienes (ACSS) The Academy of Social ...
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A new home for the SCI
22 Mar 2019
The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has moved from its two buildings in Waterloo Place to the Alliance Manchester Business School. As of ...
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Academic Claire Alexander has been nominated for a Guardian Higher Education award
21 Mar 2019
The nomination recognises her website which explores the untold history of migration to Britain The School of Social Sciences academic, Claire ...
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SCI signs the Greater Manchester Plastics Free Pledge
28 Feb 2019
The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) has signed up to the Greater Manchester Plastics Free Pledge (PlasticFreeGM). With the establishment of...
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New Director appointed for SCI
25 Feb 2019
Professor Frank Boons takes up the role. Congratulations to Professor Frank Boons who has been appointed Director of the Sustainable ...
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University of Manchester-led report highlights post-Brexit challenges in UN
21 Feb 2019
A project co-led by the University of Manchester’s Dr Jess Gifkins, Lecturer in International Relations, has found that once the UK exits the ...
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Leeds Neighbourhood Networks evaluation up for discussion at Ageing Better event
20 Feb 2019
An evaluation of the ageing population will be up for discussion at a special event hosted by the Centre for Ageing Better in Leeds next month. The...
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UK may struggle to maintain influence at the UN after Brexit, study finds
20 Feb 2019
The UK needs to demonstrate its added value to the United Nations and adopt a principled and values-driven foreign policy if it is to maintain its ...
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Victims, saviours or villains? Children in popular climate imaginaries
19 Feb 2019
With the school children’s #ClimateStrike movement reaching the UK, Catherine Walker explores how children are framed in climate change ...
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‘Hostile Environment’ NHS policies are failing refugees and asylum seekers
12 Feb 2019
There is mounting concern that these changes will make vulnerable migrants’ access to these services more difficult, but no research had ...
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Community, inequality and everyday life workshop
7 Feb 2019
MICRA collaborates with the Morgan Centre for the Study of Everyday Lives A workshop bringing together early career researchers and staff from the ...
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Neighbourhoods and dementia study host their end of study conference
7 Feb 2019
The ESRC/NIHR neighbourhoods and dementia study was co-ordinated by The University of Manchester and aimed to explore how people living with dementia ...
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PhD Case studentship - ESRC fully funded PhD opportunity
7 Feb 2019
Precarious employment and pension planning studentship offered by MICRA and NEST. Studentship: 3 year, full time, fully funded PhD studentship ...
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Manchester contributes to major WHO report into age-friendly cities
4 Feb 2019
Case studies from 11 cities working to make their environments better places in which to grow older have been included in a major new report from the ...
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PhD Studentship: How are digital platform innovations re-configuring urban mobility systems?
4 Feb 2019
SCI’s Mike Hodson and Andy McMeekin have recently been awarded an AMBS PhD Studentship that addresses the question: how are digital platform ...
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Biggest ever map of human Alzheimer’s brain published
4 Feb 2019
A study of the differences between healthy brains and those with Alzheimer’s Disease has produced largest dataset of its type ever.
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Workshop opportunity for individuals with lived experience of dementia or MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment) as either patients or carers
30 Jan 2019
A project co-developed between The University of Manchester and GMMH foundation trust, is looking at how technology can be used in early ...
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World Health Organisation publishes report on Age Friendly Cities and Communities featuring major contributions from MICRA researchers
29 Jan 2019
The World Health Organisation report aims to provide a global overview of the progress that cities and communities have made over the last decade ...
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Working mothers up to 40% more stressed, study finds
28 Jan 2019
Biomarkers for chronic stress are 40% higher in women bringing up two children while working full-time, new research has found.
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Involving older people in the design of cities
19 Jan 2019
Staff in Sociology and MICRA (Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing) have published a new book, Age-Friendly Cities and ...
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Brexit: what do the latest developments in parliament mean for Theresa May?
10 Jan 2019
A cross-parliamentary group of MPs has struck again, landing another major blow against the government ahead of the vote on Theresa May’s Brexit...
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Sociology Public Engagement Prize 2018
20 Dec 2018
Dr Helen Holmes and Hayley James from the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) have been announced as the winners of the 2018 Sociology Public Engagement ...
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Should we engineer the climate? A social scientist and natural scientist discuss
19 Dec 2018
This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates. Rob Bellamy: 2018 has...
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How to understand Corbyn’s confusing no-confidence vote against Theresa May
19 Dec 2018
Not for the first time in the Brexit process, confusion reigned in the UK parliament on December 17, when opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, proposed a...
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The Journal of Vactional behaviour publishes research by Sheena Johnson on "Career Plateau"
11 Dec 2018
Dr Sheena Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at The University of Manchester has had two publications accepted by The Journal of ...
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Congratulations to MICRA PhD Researcher Hayley James - winner of the Sociology Public Engagement Prize
11 Dec 2018
MICRA is delighted to congratulate our PhD Researcher, Hayley James on winning the award for the UoM Sociology Public Engagement Prize (PhD). ...
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Antarctic researchers enter a state of ‘psychological hibernation’, study finds
4 Dec 2018
Antarctic researchers enter a state of ‘psychological hibernation’ to cope with the stresses of constant darkness, isolation and ...
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MICRA Presence at Gerontological Association of America Annual Meeting
22 Nov 2018
A number of academics from MICRA presented at the Gerontological Association of America Annual Meeting, held in Boston November 14-18. Tine Buffel ...
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Manchester professor hosts dialogue between Chinese & US diplomats
19 Nov 2018
A group of Chinese and American diplomats have met in Washington, DC to discuss US-China relations, security challenges, overseas development and a ...
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University celebrates 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
19 Nov 2018
It is exactly 70 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in December 1948, and to kick off a month of ...
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Geras is essential reading for politics students – not a subversive threat
16 Nov 2018
Politics students at the University of Reading were reportedly told to “take care” when reading an essay by the late political theorist, ...
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Professor Ruth Itzhaki speaks on her research into the potential links between Alzheimer's and herpes
16 Nov 2018
Over 30 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and unfortunately, this figure will rise as longevity increases, so the need ...
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Professor Debbie Price speaks on state pension age, work, retirement, and the outlook for younger people
13 Nov 2018
October saw a historic week in the United Kingdom, with, for the first time in history, men and women reaching state pension age at the same time ...
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Event: Exploring Lost Property
12 Nov 2018
Are you a serial loser of keys? Do you always leave your umbrella on the train? Perhaps you once lost something really important to you and have never...
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Professor Debbie Price gives expert commentary on ageing population in the Mirror
6 Nov 2018
The Mirror writes about findings from the Office for National Statistics on the rising population. Of specific concern is a rising ageing ...
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Manchester expert joins national commission for countering extremism
30 Oct 2018
Professor of Sociology Hilary Pilkington has joined the expert group of the independent national Commission for Countering Extremism, which advises ...
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Rave On - people of Manchester invited to recall their clubbing memories
29 Oct 2018
The final event of an 18-month project by researchers to gather the thoughts of the city’s ‘lapsed clubbers’ – those who were ...
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What makes a good life in late life?
23 Oct 2018
MICRA's Professor Chris Phillipson and Hallsworth Visiting Professor Amanda Grenier contribute to a new report from the Hastings Center. The ...
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Equality frees women to follow traditional gender choices – or does it?
23 Oct 2018
If you want gender equality, get rich. Research shows that men and women tend to be more equal in more developed countries. You might expect that the ...
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Do some people really want to get HIV?
18 Oct 2018
Why would anybody want to get infected with HIV? That is what most people ask when they first hear about “bug chasing”. In fact, a number ...
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Older people who self-harm at highest risk of suicide, finds study
17 Oct 2018
‘Self-harm not just a problem in young people’ People over 65 who harm themselves are more likely to die by suicide than other age ...
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