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

With projects on preventing cuckooing, disrupting domestic abuse, recording honour based violence, and identifying victims of coercive control, all four projects have the potential to reduce harm to some of the most vulnerable people in the UK.The N8...

DARE UK (Data and Analytics Research Environments UK) is a programme initiated by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).Data has been fundamental to the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the UK moves out of the critical phase and into recovery, ...

This group entered the pandemic at a disadvantage due to pre-existing inequalities in housing, health, employment and income. Some older ethnic minority people were also particularly hard hit by lockdown and restrictions on social mixing.The ‘digital...

Two academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their field, by being conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. ...

We are delighted to invite you to apply to the ARC Accelerator - a comprehensive entrepreneurial skills training programme. Launching on 1 February 2022, this unique opportunity is specifically designed to help turn your bright idea into a business o...

We are delighted to once again be a part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. From 1 – 21 November, we will be showcasing some of the spectacular research conducted across the social sciences here at The University of Manchester.The ESRC Festival ...

In a collaboration between the University's Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and The Runnymede Trust, a new briefing has highlighted how the pandemic has impacted the UK’s ethnically diverse high streets. ...

To mark International School Library Month, new research has been released which highlights that the diversity of the UK’s population is not currently reflected by school library books, which leaves BAME children feeling underrepresented and can affe...

A new report published today by a panel including an expert from The University of Manchester has highlighted that life expectancy at birth fell by 1.3 years for men and 0.9 years for women in 2020, linked to the excess mortality caused by the corona...

A new report, The COVID-19 Pandemic, published today by the Longevity Science Panel (LSP) (with contributions by MICRA's Professor Debbie Price), highlights that life expectancy at birth fell by 1.3 years for men and 0.9 years for women in 2020, link...

David Olusoga OBE, Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester, is chairing a special panel discussion on the debate around statues and public memorials in Manchester and Bristol as part of Black History Month. ...

Congratulations to Dr Jen O’Brien, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), who has been awarded first place in the category for the most innovative approach to developing employability skills in the HE Innovate Awards.Jen won this ca...

After the recent announcement by Sport Ground Safety Authority on the return of standing areas to top-flight football grounds, The University of Manchester's Professor Geoff Pearson - who led the study which informed the decision - has provided the f...

Britain’s birth rates are plunging. The number of babies being born has been in steep decline since 2017. Now, researchers are investigating early signs that the pandemic may have caused rates to drop even further. ...

Schools and youth organisations across Greater Manchester will take part today in the first ever #BeeWell Day, with a series of creative, active and online events celebrating young people’s wellbeing. ...

Abigail McGourlay, 21, was the winner of the national Isolation Artwork competition with a painting of herself in the bath, called Brewing.Ms McGourlay has recently finished a fine art degree at the University of Leeds and rediscovered a love of pain...

A report by an expert from The University of Manchester has found that low-income drivers are effectively being charged more than double (212%) per mile to subsidise more wealthy road users. ...

Older people in the poorest sector of the population were more than twice as likely to feel isolated and lonely during the first lockdown than the richest, according to a new study led by researchers from The University of Manchester and UCL. ...

A new report launched today by The University of Manchester’s Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has revealed the challenged faced during the coronavirus pandemic by people aged 50 and over, especially those living in deprived are...

A new project has been launched which aims to help Greater Manchester’s authorities to combat the problem of modern slavery, human trafficking and exploitation. ...

Gary has been awarded his fellowship in recognition of his books: Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives and The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream. Commenting on the fellowship, Gary said, ‘[Literature] ...

A new briefing paper on cultural activism, which challenges the government’s ‘punitive’ response to contesting statutes in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, has been published by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) in partnershi...

Supported by the Attorney General, the LawWorks Student Pro Bono awards celebrate the best pro bono activities undertaken by law students and law schools and the positive impact on those assisted.Whilst law schools and students across the country hav...

Students in the School of Social Sciences have the opportunity to work with qualified legal practitioners and academic staff to provide pro bono legal advice to members of the public, who are not able to access free legal aid elsewhere. In summer 202...

Marion Vannier’s new book, Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment: the case of life without parole in California, has just been published in the Clarendon Special Series by Oxford University press. Using the development of life without parole (LWOP) in the...

New British Election Study research from experts based at The University of Manchester and Royal Holloway shows that while Boris Johnson’s scepticism about coronavirus lockdowns was out of step with the views of the wider British public, it was large...

The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute and Library holds the entire archive of the Manchester Guardian. In a series of livestreamed talks to mark the paper’s bicentenary, panels of special guests and experts have been invited ...

Award-winning author, broadcaster and columnist turned Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, has been shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Journalism 2021.The Orwell Prizes are awarded every year to the writing and reporting which best meets the spiri...

Paying tribute to Gary’s work at the awarding ceremony, Simon Hattenstone, Guardian reporter, said he was ‘fiery, inspirational, motivational’. Alan Rusbridger, former Guardian editor said Gary was ‘tough but fair always on the side of the troops and...

The Manchester China Institute is delighted to announce the recruitment of two new student interns through the Q-Step Program to join a study of how gendered stereotypes shape patterns of racial prejudice, discrimination, and aggression against Asian...