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

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...

An academic from The University of Manchester has been recognised as one of the nation’s leading female data science professionals, after being named as one of Women in Data UK’s ‘20 in 20’. ...

Two researchers from the University of Manchester (David Buil-Gil from Criminology and Alexandru Cernat from Social Statistics), alongside Ian Brunton-Smith from Surrey and Jose Pina-Sánchez from Leeds, have secured funding from the Secondary Data An...

Gary Younge explores stories of racial passing through the prism of one of his favourite books, Passing, by Nella Larsen. The 1929 novella tells the story of two friends; both African-American though one 'passes' for white.Passing is a term that orig...

Older people who are clinically vulnerable to COVID-19 are at greater risk of deterioration in health and social well-being during the pandemic, according to a new study. ...

She says that 'one of the lessons of the pandemic is that racism and racial inequality kill' but that we are now at a pivotal point where we can choose, together, to make real changes. The experience of the past year has forced policymakers, politici...

Professor of Political Science, Maria Sobolewksa and Politics PhD graduate, Dr Anna Sanders have both been recognised as the Political Studies Association (PSA) announces its academic prizes for 2020-21.Prof Sobolewska has been awarded the Joni Loven...

Congratulations to the Manchester University Law Society (MULS) and the Manchester University Pro Bono Society for taking home three awards, out of five nominations, at the prestigious LawCareers.Net Student Law Society Awards!The Student Law Society...

An independent commission involving two experts from The University of Manchester has set out a range of measures for tackling inequality and transforming public policy across Greater Manchester. ...

The Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) is calling on the Government to urgently tackle the ethnicity data gap amid spiralling inequalities during Covid-19 as the ONS Inclusive Data Review nears its deadline. ...

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