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Find out what's been happening in the Sociology department.
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Making A Difference Award success for research on covid-19 and older people, and tackling cultural inequalities.
17 May 2022
Tine Buffel, Christopher Phillipson and colleagues from the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) have won the Outstanding benefit to ...
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Poorer health in disabled linked to lack of home adaptations
5 May 2022
Older people with mobility problems living without home adaptations have poorer health and higher levels of pain, according to researchers at The ...
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Obituary: Professor Teodor Shanin
21 Apr 2022
The Russian theorist Alexander Arkhangelsky wrote of him then as “a man of action while being at the same time the brightest intellectual”. In ...
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Pandemic ‘shielding’ led to two-fold rise in depressive symptoms in over 50s
4 Apr 2022
Older people who were shielding throughout the pandemic were nearly twice as likely to experience depressive symptoms compared to those who were not, ...
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Covid pandemic worsened pre-existing inequalities in the creative industries
15 Mar 2022
The pandemic has worsened pre-existing inequalities in the creative and cultural industries by causing job insecurity and financial instability among ...
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Sociology Public Engagement Prize winners are announced
21 Feb 2022
Researchers working to reduce the risk of social exclusion for older people in Greater Manchester, and to reduce the stigma of assisted reproduction ...
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Review highlights stark ethnic healthcare inequalities in the UK
14 Feb 2022
A major new review into ethnic inequalities in healthcare has revealed vast inequalities across a range of health services in the UK.
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‘I did not see them; I saw their soul’: retreats are more about magical encounters than self-exploration
9 Feb 2022
Going on a retreat seems like the very definition of a solitary experience. You leave behind your friends, family, and colleagues, giving up everyday ...
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Join our new early career race and ethnicity network
26 Jan 2022
The activities of the network will be driven by the needs and concerns of the members. It will provide focused research workshops on substantive ...
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Professor Debora Price gives candid interview to Legal and General on Pensions and Divorce
12 Jan 2022
Former MICRA Director, and one of the lead authors of the report ‘A Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce: the Report of the Pension ...
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Dr Tine Buffel elected as expert member of WHO advisory group for UN Decade of Healthy Ageing 2021-2030
6 Jan 2022
With the adoption of the United Nation's (UN) Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030), countries have committed to 10 years of concerted and ...
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Older people from ethnic minorities hard hit by pandemic and lockdown
7 Dec 2021
This group entered the pandemic at a disadvantage due to pre-existing inequalities in housing, health, employment and income. Some older ethnic ...
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New book: Anti-Racist Scholar Activism
25 Nov 2021
Many anti-racist scholars have wrestled with the contradictions of working within a higher education system that often perpetuates social injustice. ...
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New briefing highlights damaging impact of Covid-19 on high streets
18 Oct 2021
In a collaboration between the University's Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and The Runnymede Trust, a new briefing has highlighted how the...
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Pension inequality a major issue when couples divorce, research finds
15 Sep 2021
A new report has found that men within couples have substantially more private pension wealth than women, which poses particular challenges when they ...
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New report suggests pandemic policing undermines public health measures whilst disproportionately targeting Black and Minority Ethnic communities
13 Sep 2021
A new report raises concerns about the policing of the pandemic and shows that racially minoritised communities have been most harshly affected - ...
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New research reveals challenges faced by older people during pandemic
12 Jul 2021
A new report launched today by The University of Manchester’s Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has revealed the challenged ...
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Professor of Sociology shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2021
28 May 2021
Award-winning author, broadcaster and columnist turned Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, has been shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Journalism ...
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Gary Younge honoured by National Union of Journalists
27 May 2021
Paying tribute to Gary’s work at the awarding ceremony, Simon Hattenstone, Guardian reporter, said he was ‘fiery, inspirational, motivational’....
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Briefing on impact of COVID-19 on older ethnic minority people
25 May 2021
Dharmi Kapadia has written a Race Equality Foundation briefing on the impact of COVID-19 on older people. Ethnic minority older people are one of ...
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Gary Younge presents radio documentary on racial passing
12 May 2021
Gary Younge explores stories of racial passing through the prism of one of his favourite books, Passing, by Nella Larsen. The 1929 novella tells the ...
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COVID lockdowns exacerbated racist policing in the UK, say experts
11 May 2021
The nationwide coronavirus lockdowns and enhancement of police powers have disproportionately harmed communities of colour, according to a new ...
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Vulnerable older people at greater risk of depression and anxiety during pandemic
5 May 2021
Older people who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19 are at greater risk of deterioration in health and social well-being during the pandemic, ...
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Pandemic is a wake-up call on inequality
30 Apr 2021
She says that 'one of the lessons of the pandemic is that racism and racial inequality kill' but that we are now at a pivotal point where we can ...
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Call for Government to close ethnicity data gap exacerbated by Covid-19
26 Mar 2021
The Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) is calling on the Government to urgently tackle the ethnicity data gap amid spiralling inequalities ...
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Manchester experts conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
24 Mar 2021
Two academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their field, after they were conferred the award of Fellow ...
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Airbnb is funding deregulation campaigns in cities around the world
22 Mar 2021
New research has found that online home rental marketplace Airbnb is funding deregulation campaigns in hundreds of cities around the world, as it ...
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UK’s first survey of ethnic and religious minority people during Covid-19 launches
16 Feb 2021
The UK’s first and largest survey of its kind to document the impact of Covid-19, and the lockdowns, on the lives of 17,000 ethnic and religious ...
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New report outlines how government can address COVID-19 ethnic disparity
19 Jan 2021
A new report from The Runnymede Trust and The University of Manchester’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity has addressed the possible causes of - ...
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Research into LGBT+ sexual health services during Covid-19 wins award
1 Dec 2020
A project facilitated by the ESRC-funded Collaboration Labs programme at The University of Manchester has been recognised with an award.
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Manchester secures £1.5m for ‘One bin to rule them all’ project to revolutionise plastic waste streams
19 Nov 2020
A new £1.5M collaborative venture led by The University of Manchester has been awarded to enable simpler methods of recycling and eliminate plastic ...
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