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

Anyone over 18 is invited to take part in a short, anonymous, online international survey to help understand how people are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to learn about the issues you face and how you are managing with social distan...

The COVID-19 outbreak has caused world-wide disruption in community and social interactions. People over the age of 70, deemed as having a greater risk for severe illness, are expected to follow social distancing guidance particularly stringently and...

On 19th June, MICRA hosted the second title of the MICRA webinar series. Viewed by academics, policymakers, practitioners and the general public alike, we hosted three speakers from the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) and a Q&A session...

Concerns about the increase in police officers permanently stationed in UK schools have been raised by a new report into racism in secondary schools. ...

COVID-19 has forced us all to rethink how to maintain social connections in the neighbourhoods where we live and work. For the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE), this has meant a rapid rethink in how to provide services whilst ...

Evidence shows that participating in dance can offer both physical and non-physical benefits to older people and those with neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s.  In recent times, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has b...

A team of experts is investigating how the coronavirus lockdown has impacted on people’s relationships and routines. ...

The employment prospects of some ethnic minorities have improved since the 1970s but still lag behind the white majority because of “persistent racism”, a major new study says. ...

The author, Prof Paul Henley is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University.  The book was chosen for translation because it represents the only in-depth study of a film-maker whose influence extended far beyond anthropology. Rouch ...

Professor Chris Phillipson of MICRA along with MUARG Director Tine Buffel, Patty Doran, Sophie Yarker and Camilla Lewis have put together the latest Policy@Manchester blog on inequality, older people and COVID-19. They argue for a new community de...

Alan Warde is co-author of the newly published book: Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans, The Social Significance of Dining out: a study of continuity and change, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020). Dining out used to be...

New research by The University of Manchester has found that people are still willing to take part in protests in large numbers, despite the coronavirus crisis. ...

Young men in “individualistic” societies such as the USA or the UK are more likely to report feeling lonely than older women in collectivist societies such as China or Brazil, according to a new global study. ...

Professor Chris Phillipson of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has authored a blog concerning Covid-19 and residential and nursing care homes. Published by the British Society of Gerontology, the piece follows ...

A researcher from The University of Manchester is part of a new project documenting how ethnic minority people with lived experience of severe mental illness - and their carers - are coping during the Coronavirus pandemic. ...

Beatriz Buarque won the Luxembourg Peace Prize in the category ‘Outstanding Peace Organisation’ with her NGO ‘Words Heal the World’. Beatriz founded Words Heal the World as a website in 2017 whilst working as a Journalist in Brazil for Globo TV. A...

The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) secured one of 10 joint University of Manchester-University of Melbourne, Global Doctoral Research Network (GOLDEN) PhD Projects. The research contributes to the SCI’s developing programme on urban platf...

An evidence-based app has been developed at The University of Manchester and released for free to help reduce the high risk of falls and physical decline in older people self-isolating during the COVID-19 Lockdown. When used, the award-winning...

Mundane Methods, written by Helen Holmes and Sarah Marie Hall, is an innovative and original collection which will make a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Bringing together a range of interdiscipl...

As a contribution to the public debate on what the world will look like when we get through the COVID-19 pandemic, SCI members and associated researchers decided to collectively develop a report which aims to provide much-needed evidence for a possib...

At Digital Futures, we are seeking to identify the range of expertise within UoM that is relevant to the Citizens and Government theme that is led by Professor Rachel Gibson. If your research, teaching, or professional activity is in this area we ...

Sherilyn MacGregor, Catherine Walker & Tally Katz-Gerro received the grant from the Leverhulme Trust. The funding is for 39 months and will fund a full-time post for Catherine as well as a PhD student. Abstract This project will investigate how...

The conference: 'Ageing Population & Lifecourse Trajectories' aims to showcase the range of research among postgraduate and early career researchers from across disciplines taking ageing as its focus. It had been scheduled to take place on campus on ...

A major new study has found that systemic and persistent racial inequalities in employment, health, housing and education, continue to blight the lives of ethnic minority people in the UK – and worryingly, this puts them at greater risk from the impa...

Debbie Price, Professor of Social Gerontology and former MICRA Director,  explained the relationship between policy analysis, gender and later life in an article for Public Sector Focus. The article states that the current pandemic “has revealed t...

Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research. The aim of Digital Futures is to present a coherent overview of our digital research activity to external stakeholder...

Researchers from The University of Manchester are surveying young people about their mental health during the current crisis, in a bid to find out whether using social media helps them to minimise the negative effects of isolation. ...

Patty Doran, Chris Phillipson, Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker and Camilla Lewis of the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group discuss the negative impact of social distancing and suggest what needs to be done to better support those most vulnerable. ...

Haulage drivers are key workers during the pandemic, but there has been little discussion about how the crisis is affecting them, say Sheena Johnson and Lynn Holdsworth, who lead the Age, Health and Professional Drivers' (AHPD) network. Sheena Johnso...

Dr Johnson has been a key, highly valued member of the MICRA Management Board and close affiliate of the Institute for a number of years. An Occupational and Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at Alliance Manchester Business School, she has w...