News, Events and Blog Posts
Monday 16th March : LHRI Gender, Race, Peace reading group launch
The new LHRI Gender, Race, Peace reading group will be launched on Monday 16th March, 12-13.30 (lunch provided). You can...
Research Seminar with Professor Alison Phipps: “Me, Not You”
Wednesday 19th February Drinks and snacks from 12.30, Seminar from 1-2pm (Social Sciences Building, 12.21 / 25) All...
CIGS Reading Group – “Anger”
This semester, CIGS is organising two reading groups around the theme of “Anger”. The dates and readings are listed below....
CIGS Christmas period poverty campaign
In the run up to the Christmas break, CIGS ran a campaign on period poverty, inviting members to donate sanitary...
Convivial Encounters in Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
By Ruth Holliday – Professor of Gender and Culture. (This post was originally published by the Sociological Review ) Cosmetic...
Sexual violence at gigs
Rosemary Lucy Hill discusses sexual harassment, assault and groping at live music events, and what can be done about it....
Caring for the clone, kinship and control
Greg Hollin discusses how we need to think about kinship more broadly if we to understand the implications of animal cloning for medical purposes.
What does the vote mean to you? 100 years of votes for women
100 years on from women gaining the right to vote in the UK what does having vote mean to women in Britain? Rosemary Lucy Hill spoke to colleagues in the School of Sociology and Social Policy about their personal feelings regarding the vote. Their responses reveal a mixture of valuing the right to vote, frustration with the current political system, noting the distance still to travel and a strong sense of pride in our great grandmothers’ arguments, organisation and determination.