Penny Tinkler, writing about life for teenage girls in 60s Britain. It was an exciting time, but family responsibilities, class & fate meant not all girls had the same possibilities.

Our exhib #TeenageKicks explores these stories
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*New event*

Creative Health Research Symposium
27 June 2024 - University of Manchester

This one-day symposium aims to bring together people interested in creative health research and its broader intersection with practice and policy.

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Just a few places left on this free workshop researching young ppl's everyday lives in the post-war decades. Please share!

📆17 May 2024 John Rylands Research Institute and Library

NWSSDTP MethodsNW Methods@Manchester UoM School of Social Sciences History Department UoM SoSS PhD
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EVENT:

📌Thinking with Affinities
📆 11-4pm, Weds 22 May 2024

A creative, curious, conversational event based around Jennifer Mason's concept of 'affinities'.

UoM School of Social Sciences prof sophie woodward Leah Gilman Stephen R Hicks James Hodgson Helen Holmes
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Great to hear our researcher Luciana Lang talking about her research on faith spaces and age friendly communities on BBC Manchester this morning!
The Leverhulme Trust UoM School of Social Sciences

Advice needed from qualitative researchers: Can anyone recommend QDA software for collaborative data analysis among teams across different institutions?

Any suggestions welcome!

Very generous review by Sivamohan Valluvan (Warwick Sociology) of Fighting Identity for Identities Journal

'Fighting identity and enchanting culture: reflections on working-class conviviality'

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There's some amazing data hidden away in ONS's user requested data section.

Last year they quietly published death data by age, deprivation decile and cause, which means we can look at age patterns in alcohol deaths by IMD, with sadly predictably grim results:

Myth 1 busted by Peter Rice is that our alcohol culture and consumption is immutable and unchanging. This graph shows how alcohol liver disease leapt up in the 1990s driving by home drinking fed by cheaper alcohol available in supermarkets.

This week Santiago Leyva del Rio & I had the pleasure of visiting Kathrin Hörschelmann & team in the Cultural Geography Research Group Department of Geography Bonn to speak about Austerity + Altered Lifecourses & discuss all things research methods w/ a great group of PhD students. geographie.uni-bonn.de/en/research/re…

Join our #TeenageKicks workshop at Glasgow Glasgow Women's Library and hear stories from the exhibition plus share your own teenage experiences using collage/zine-making. Free, all ages welcome.
📆4.30pm Thurs 18 April 2024
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My methods article on scavenging is out! Some notes questioning how we can think about conducting sociological inquiry, rejecting discipline and properly engaging with what’s already there! Thanks to the great editorial team and my two reviewers 😊

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In response to my experience Manchester Airport #dwarfism is a #disability not a novelty. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

It has been a very long time in the making, but I have pressed send on the final manuscript for Growing Up and Going Out.

It's a book about youth culture, leisure, and the remaking of the post-war city. Coming to a library shelf near you soon!

👀What are imposter methods? Come along to our workshop to find out: tinyurl.com/yc7w4553

We ask how imposter methods – attending to imposter positions as generative locations of knowledge production – can enable more survivable ways of knowing and being in academia.

Super interested in this article by Dr Sadie Parr tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thrilled to have a new publication in Leisure Sciences - exploring no/low alcohol craft beer consumption as a form of classed 'serious' leisure drawing on my IAS funded research

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#noandlowalcohol #alcoholstudies #craftbeer

This ⤵️ Wow. Beautiful and heartbreaking in equal measure.

📢 Coming up on 11 April - the next Poverty, Inequality and the Welfare State - 'Work in Progress' seminar - chaired by Prof Ruth Patrick

Our fantastic speakers include: Kat Chzhen, Dr Kate Haddow, Antonios Roumpakis and Aniela Wenham.

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Dr @PeterRicev2 speaks to Nicola McEwen about why an alcohol strategy was so needed in Scotland.

He discusses why it took so long to implement minimum unit pricing, what its aim was, and what the final evaluation has found. Centre for Public Policy

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