New CIGS seminar recordings available
We are pleased to announce that recordings from two recent seminars are now available for viewing. Please click on the seminar titles to access the...
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We are pleased to announce that recordings from two recent seminars are now available for viewing. Please click on the seminar titles to access the...
Karen Throsby will be giving a paper as part of the SSP research seminar series on Wednesday 2 December, 12.00 - 1.30pm. The paper will...
We are excited to announce our first reading group session for this academic year on Wednesday 25th November, 4-5pm. We will be reading a...
During lockdown, we began holding afternoon 'Writing Together' sessions once a week. It began as an experiment, but as time went on, we accumulated over...
We are delighted to announce that the book, Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism (2019, Manchester University Press) has been awarded the 2020 Foundation for the Sociology...
Rosemary Lucy Hill discusses sexual harassment, assault and groping at live music events, and what can be done about it. Pauli[i], aged 15, was watching...
Professor Ruth Holliday has been writing about 'designer vagina's. Her chapter 'Vagina dialogues: theorizing the "designer vagina"' is published in Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries: Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World (Routledge).
Greg Hollin discusses how we need to think about kinship more broadly if we to understand the implications of animal cloning for medical purposes.
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.
Faiza Tayyab, PhD candidate, School of Sociology and Social Policy, discusses the need to consider the different contexts of women's lives if we are to understand the shape of gendered violence in Pakistan.