Articles tagged with 'social-science' | University of Ƶ

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2025
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June
2025
| 14:50 Europe/London
On Monday, 16 June, the House of Commons hosted a groundbreaking event titled “Prisoner Leadership, Meaning, Value, and Role in Justice Reform,” co-organised by Marion Vannier (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Ƶ), Paula
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19
June
2025
| 11:00 Europe/London
Megan Hadfield, a PhD student in Criminology, was honoured for her work with the Booth Centre, a Ƶ-based organisation supporting people experiencing homelessness. Megan has been volunteering at the Centre since 2019, and her long-standing
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19
June
2025
| 10:26 Europe/London
We are delighted to announce that Professor Sir Cary Cooper CBE from The University of Ƶ’s Alliance Ƶ Business School has been appointed one of the first Honorary Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences, in recognition of their
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13
June
2025
| 17:30 Europe/London
A new report titled The impact of racial discrimination on mental health investigates how experiencing racial discrimination affects mental health, both directly and indirectly.It finds a ‘dose-response relationship’ between racial discrimination
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13
June
2025
| 14:30 Europe/London
The award-nominated student app, Clarify, assists those aged 16-24 in navigating essential life skills including financial literacy, legal awareness, career readiness and day-to-day adult responsibilities.
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12
June
2025
| 15:27 Europe/London
Ever painted your interview data?Me neither, but that’s where we ended up in this recent innovative and energising session with Dr Andy Balmer, a Sociologist of Everyday Life and a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.We
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10
June
2025
| 11:30 Europe/London
Policy subsystems are comprised of competing advocacy coalitions, in which public and private political actors with shared belief systems learn from each other and coordinate their strategies in the pursuit of influencing policy making in their
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09
June
2025
| 09:00 Europe/London
The School of Social Sciences would like to extend heartful condolences to the family, friends and colleagues on the passing of Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Ngũgĩ was an esteemed Kenyan author and academic who has been described as East Africa’s
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04
June
2025
| 14:52 Europe/London
As part of this collaboration Creative Ƶ are curating the programme of the afternoon and evening on 20 June, to take place at Jodrell Bank. After a morning in Ƶ, conference attendees travel to Jodrell Bank in the idyllic Chesire
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28
May
2025
| 12:49 Europe/London
Two Ƶ researchers have been appointed to lead REF 2029 sub-panels.Claire Alexander will chair the Sociology panel and Kate Dorney has been appointed deputy chair of the Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen
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27
May
2025
| 15:52 Europe/London
We are delighted to congratulate Rob Rinder, University of Ƶ alumnus, on winning the 2025 BAFTA Television Award for Factual Entertainment for his BBC series Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour, co-hosted with Rylan Clark.The award-winning series
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23
May
2025
| 14:36 Europe/London
Our colleagues, Eduardo Fé & Mario Pezzino, have published a study in Decisions in Economics and Finance. Read the paper: “The long term implications of co-creation in economics education”.Co-creation - where students help design teaching
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22
May
2025
| 15:44 Europe/London
Claire Alexander, Head of SoSS and Professor of Social Sciences, received the annual Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award from the BSA at its annual conference held at the University on 23-25 April 2025.The prestigious award is judged on
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22
May
2025
| 14:53 Europe/London
If you visit Ƶ, one of the first things you’ll notice is the great number of bee images throughout the city. Born in the Industrial Revolution, the “worker bee” symbol captured the city’s tireless spirit and its legacy as a buzzing hive of
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21
May
2025
| 15:38 Europe/London
Ongoing research at The University of Ƶ into the long-term poverty faced by many older people has contributed to the Government announcing changes to the Winter Fuel Payment today.
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21
May
2025
| 15:09 Europe/London
By Meghan Rose Donnelly (University of Ƶ) and Pete Carruthers (University of Central Lancashire)Affect Theatre is an interdisciplinary method of research analysis and curation that decentres text and engages directly with the material
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21
May
2025
| 10:35 Europe/London
Ƶ has been officially recognised as one of the UK’s new Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (PACE) as part of a national initiative to embed world-class research into frontline policing and community safety.
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20
May
2025
| 15:38 Europe/London
The Terminally Ill (End of Life) Adults Bill, a proposed law that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults in the UK, returned to the House of Commons on Friday 16th May for a five-hour debate on its proposed amendments. If
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20
May
2025
| 11:53 Europe/London
As part of the church’s work to ensure diversity and inclusivity in their work, they asked us to  use 2021 census data to profile the demographic changes in the population in England, with a special focus on religion and ethnicity.Download the
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15
May
2025
| 16:04 Europe/London
Tiny Human Dramas returns to Ƶ’s Contact Theatre on Saturday 31 May with a daring, moving and utterly unique night of theatre. 
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15
May
2025
| 16:02 Europe/London
The paper “Goodbye human annotators? Content analysis of social policy debates using ChatGPT” can be read online.Content analysis is a valuable tool for analysing policy discourse, but annotation by humans is costly and time consuming. ChatGPT is a
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14
May
2025
| 15:00 Europe/London
The paper “When does discursive change happen? Detecting phase transitions in discourse networks of sustainability transitions” can be found on ScienceDirect.Sustainability Transitions Research (STR) confronts complex societal challenges by
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12
May
2025
| 17:01 Europe/London
You can read the paper, “Multiregional Population Forecasting: A Unifying Probabilistic Approach for Modelling the Components of Change”, on Springer.Regional population forecasts are important for planning and understanding how populations are
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09
May
2025
| 11:15 Europe/London
For the upcoming 2025 presidential elections, more than 800 Chilean citizens living in Ƶ and across Northern England will again have the opportunity to vote locally, thanks to a successful grassroots campaign that began in Ƶ a few
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07
May
2025
| 12:00 Europe/London
This year’s prize was judged by Philip Drake (Former Director of Social Responsibility, School of Social Sciences) and Hilary Pilkington (Research Director, Sociology) who commented on the variety of audiences engaged: from local sixth form students
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02
May
2025
| 09:40 Europe/London
First year undergraduate students from across the School of Social Sciences have undertaken voluntary work, during a six-week period, to assist Ƶ-based charities. The shortlisted Charities were Afrocats, Booth Centre, Revive UK and The
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24
April
2025
| 12:04 Europe/London
Four in five women surveyed in Northern Ireland said their first experience of sexist behaviour or harassment by men happened when they were children, according to a new study.
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09
April
2025
| 15:41 Europe/London
On Wednesday, 26 March, the Department of Economics at The University of Ƶ hosted a career event, Inspiring Careers in Economics: Exploring Opportunities Across Sectors, in collaboration with the Royal Economic Society’s UK Women in
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04
April
2025
| 09:41 Europe/London
In a remarkable stride towards enhancing the lives of those affected by MND, the Wellcome Trust has awarded a £2.66 million Wellcome Discovery Award to a pioneering project led by Professor Andrew Irving, Dr Michael Atkins (aka Cheddar Gorgeous),
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02
April
2025
| 10:28 Europe/London
Dr David Buil-Gil, Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology and Open Research Lead in the Department of Criminology, has been appointed Director of CrimRxiv, the global open access hub and repository for criminology research.CrimRxiv is an
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