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The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø's Professor Claire Alexander has been announced as this year’s winner of the Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award.

The report finds that one in four people from an ethnic minority experience unfair racist treatment in their job or education, and one in ten experienced recent unfair treatment in housing or from the police.Ten percent of ethnic minorities in …

The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø hosted a panel discussion comprised of academics and politicians to explore the causes and impact of the civil unrest that gripped swathes of UK towns and cities during the summer of 2024.

The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Judith Phillips as a Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the School of Social Sciences. Professor Phillips, a distinguished Social and Environmental …

A new book by Dr Luke Yates from The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø is calling for the government to take immediate action to regulate online platforms such as Airbnb and Uber. These platforms have transformed the way we work and live, but some of their …

Death, Dying and Bereavement: New Sociological Perspectives is a new book, edited by Sharon Mallon and Laura Towers. While death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are …

The School of Social Sciences has seen two of its departments rise in the latest Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Subject Rankings for 2024. Our Politics department is now ranked in the top 50 globally for universities …

Professor Brian Heaphy, Dr Jaime Garcia Iglesias and Dr Neta Yodovich from the Dating App Connections project have produced a series of free resources with the aim of supporting the healthy, safe, and fun use of dating apps. With as many as 1 …

Luke Yates' new book, Platform Politics: Corporate Power, Grassroots Movements and the Sharing Economy, investigates the ‘sharing economy’, powered by companies like Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo. This new model promised to revolutionise the way …

Written by Tetyana SoloveyAs a teenager in post-USSR Ukraine, I vividly remember visiting secondhand clothes shops. For the elderly, the biggest obstacle to accepting secondhand clothes wasn’t just the lingering smell of naphthalene – a potent …

Simin Fadaee’s new book Global Marxism: Decolonisation and revolutionary politics investigates how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl …

A series of new videos and an exhibition at the National Graphene Institute explore how teenage experiences and dreams shape our later lives. It is based on research with women in their seventies and eighties reflecting on their teenage experience …

In his new book, Everyday Eating: Food, Taste and Trends in Britain since the 1950s Alan Warde explores how eating habits have changed in recent decades and asks what it means for us to eat well.He traces the changing culinary landscape of food …

Dating apps are not just about finding love or hooking up. They are becoming increasingly important in the communication of public health messaging, particularly sexual health.In 2023, Harvard Public Health magazine suggested that dating apps could …

Research engagement comes in shapes and sizes, and this year judges of the annual Sociology Prize for Public Engagement, Philip Drake (Director of Social Responsibility, School of Social Sciences) and Hilary Pilkington (Research Director, Sociology) …

Gypsy and Traveller communities are among the more socially excluded groups in the UK. There is a long history of government failures in meeting these groups’ housing needs.

Dressed in a mini skirt and passionate about boys, music, dance and fashion, the 1960s teenage girl is a pop culture icon, the seeming beneficiary of the ascendancy of mass youth culture in the west and of unprecedented social and cultural changes.

A team of researchers from The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø has spent the last 18 months examining how faith spaces in Greater Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø support different groups of older people within their communities.

Teenage Kicks, a captivating new art exhibition based on University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø research, unveils the vibrant and dynamic lives of eight young women who navigated the turbulent cultural landscape of 1960s Britain.

An academic from The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø has been recognised as a leading expert in her field by being named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. 

An international collaborative led by The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø and the University of Leicester has published a new paper which outlines how to reduce COVID-19 health inequity among ethnic minority groups.

Claire Alexander’s new book, Revisiting the Asian Gang: Changing Muslim Masculinities is out now, published by Bloomsbury.In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim …

Hilary Pilkington has edited a new book on young people and radicalisation, Resisting Radicalisation: Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus. The book is available in print, or you can read the full version for free …

The Biopolitics of Dementia: A neurocritical perspective is a new book by James Fletcher. It is available in hardback or you can download or read it online for free.This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile …

Owen Abbott, Vanessa May, Sophie Woodward, Rob Meckin and Leah Gilman have written a new book exploring the sociology of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic.Almost overnight, face masks became one of the most visible, everyday symbols of the …

A new report from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) reveals that despite security staff being a common sight on university campuses, only one third (30.8%) of students surveyed agreed that they keep students safe on campus. The report …

A new postgraduate course addressing the global environmental crisis and the challenges of building sustainable societies has been launched by The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø.According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …

The University of Ò°ÀÇÉçÇø is one of five partner organisations who together have been awarded £37.5 million from The Economic and Social Research Council to fund the UK Data Service until 2030. Of this award £7 million is to support our team at …

Race & Ethnicity in Britain is a new podcast mini-series produced in collaboration between the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and Surviving Society.In the first episode, host Chantelle Lewis discusses the challenges of communicating …

Professor Vanessa May has written a new book, Families, which is published Polity Press.The book explores what is and has been understood by ‘family’ in different sociocultural contexts and how family life intersects with social spheres such as the …