University of Manchester Sociology Department

🎥FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION: KHARTOUM
📅6-8pm Weds 25 Mar 2026
📌 Manchester Museum
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SEMINAR:

🗣️'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps
📅1-2.30pm, 23 April 2026
📌Hybrid (Manchester and online)

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The Morgan Centre: Key concepts in creative methods and everyday lives research - YouTube To mark 20 years of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester, we are pleased to present a new series of videos in w...

📺WATCH - new videos added to our 20th anniversary key concepts series:

🐶Animals & Social Life
👥 Sibling relationships
👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Family practices
♻️Consumption & everyday life
🦉What is ageing?

Thanks to everybody who helped make these, and we hope you enjoy them!
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Celebrating new research funding across our community 🎉

We’re delighted to share a wave of new research awards that are supporting work tackling some of today’s biggest social, political and ethical challenges.

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@bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social & Karen Sykes (Social Anthropology) have both been awarded prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Trust Major Research Fellowships, recognising the significance of their ongoing research and providing dedicated time to advance major scholarly projects.

What does the Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton mean for the future of British politics? Our panel responds Greens first, Reform second, Labour trailing – and the Tories losing their deposit. This felt like a rejection of the status quo

'The problems are real – but the solutions Reform offered were not. Its politics relies on fear and scapegoating, and the racism feels barely disguised'
Remi Joseph-Salisbury comments on the Gorton & Denton by-election
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VACANCY: 2 x Lecturer in Sociology with a focus on...

1. 'race' & anti-racism
2. political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class)

£42-58k, apply by 3 March.
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Also Research Associate post (2 years, same salary and closing date) on same project, based in Environmental Sciences:
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VACANCY: Research Associate on interdisciplinary project exploring how ppl experience poor air quality, using community and creative qual approaches.
£37-39k full time, 2 years, start 1 June 2026.
@sophierwoodward.bsky.social
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Still time to register for the next @ethnicityuk.bsky.social seminar this Thursday:

Anne Pollock: 'Denaturalisation & Modernity: Drugs & Racial Capitalism'👇🏾

Knowing Yesterday, Shaping Tomorrow: The Lou Kushnick Memorial Lecture Professor Alkalimat inaugurates the new annual lecture series commemorating our founder Professor Lou Kushnick.

‘Knowing Yesterday, Shaping Tomorrow: The Lou Kushnick Memorial Lecture’
🗣️Professor Abdul Alkalimat
📅4–7pm, Thursday 12 March 2026
📌Manchester Central Library
Organised by @aiucentre.bsky.social in partnership with The University of Manchester
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VACANCY (2 of 2...)

Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’.

Please share - thanks!
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VACANCY (1 of 2...)

Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with a qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class.

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Sean's article featured on the back cover of Anthropology today. Photo shows delivery driver and parked car outside the Brick Lane Islamic Shop and Mini mart

📝New article:

“‘They've got to make a living’: Alcohol, curry commerce & pragmatic piety on Brick Lane.”

- @seancarey.bsky.social latest article in Anthropology Today: how curry house owners balance their faith with commercial pressures to serve alcohol
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Still time to register for our annual lecture this Thursday: Bridget Anderson shares her research on migration and citizenship 👇🏾

📚In the latest issue of Race & Class, Siobhan O’Neill looks at an under-researched aspect of state violence: police pursuits.

According to the IOPC, in the last ten years there have been 299 police-related road traffic fatalities in England and Wales.
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Dharmi Kapadia

We have some CoDE family news! Dharmi Kapadia is our new Director (& our outgoing Director, @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social is our new Deputy Director)
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Methodological assumptions and limitations of life expectancy estimates for minoritised ethnic groups in the UK: implications for validity, practice, and policy Experimental life expectancy estimates calculated by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the period 2011 to 2014 show significantly longer li…

NEW ARTICLE

Methodological assumptions & limitations of life expectancy estimates for minoritised ethnic groups in the UK

By Taylor, Stopforth, Kapadia, Nazroo, White & Bécares

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Claudette Colvin’s life should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops | Gary Younge Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear, says professor of sociology Gary Younge

"An individual may resist, but resistance is collective" Gary Younge on what we can learn from the life of Colette Colvin
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Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception.

University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026:

‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration & Citizenship’
Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)

📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026 (followed by drinks reception)

All welcome!
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Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception.

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University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026:

‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship’
Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)

📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026

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SEMINAR:

Denaturalisation & Modernity: Drugs & Racial Capitalism
Anne Pollock (KCL)

📅1-2.30pm Thurs 19 Feb
📌Manchester/online

All welcome
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🎁New article by @sophierwoodward.bsky.social on the sociology of unwanted gifts:

Dormant Gifts: Animating the Imagined and Narrated Pasts and Futures of Gifts

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🎧Listen to @meghanetinsley.bsky.social discussing the ethics of researching the far right on the latest episode of the #EthicsUnboxed podcast
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Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: (In)Visibility: An exhibition of artwork and poetry on spatial justice by the Hulme community.

📅 Running until 14 January 2026
📍Glass Corridor, Samuel Alexander Building

Faculty of Humanities School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

'I didn't know where to turn': Why ethnic minorities with gambling addictions struggle to get help Research has shown that people from ethnic minorities are less likely to gamble than their white counterparts - but are more likely to suffer harm from gambling and less likely to seek help.

Dharmi Kapadia comments in this piece on the barriers faced by people from minority ethnic groups as they seek help for gambling addiction.

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Are you an early career researcher in the arts & humanities with bold ideas? Apply for the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship through @uomhums.bsky.social and join a world-class research community.

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