Articles tagged with 'sociology' | University of Manchester

Tine Buffel, Christopher Phillipson and colleagues from the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) have won the Outstanding benefit to society through research – Emerging impact category of this year’s Making a Difference Awards.Their work hi...

Older people with mobility problems living without home adaptations have poorer health and higher levels of pain, according to researchers at The Universities of Manchester and Hong Kong....

The Russian theorist Alexander Arkhangelsky wrote of him then as “a man of action while being at the same time the brightest intellectual”. In Berkeley Michael Burawoy described him as “thunder and lightning”. All this was exemplified in a remarkable...

Older people who were shielding throughout the pandemic were nearly twice as likely to experience depressive symptoms compared to those who were not, even after accounting for loneliness and having fewer social contacts, according to researchers from...

The pandemic has worsened pre-existing inequalities in the creative and cultural industries by causing job insecurity and financial instability among ethnically diverse people employed in the sector, according to a new report. This is particularly co...

Researchers working to reduce the risk of social exclusion for older people in Greater Manchester, and to reduce the stigma of assisted reproduction in Iran have won the Sociology Public Engagement Prize.Winner - staff Chris Phillipson, with Luciana ...

A major new review into ethnic inequalities in healthcare has revealed vast inequalities across a range of health services in the UK....

Going on a retreat seems like the very definition of a solitary experience. You leave behind your friends, family, and colleagues, giving up everyday life, responsibilities, cares and frustrations, for some quality time on your own....

The activities of the network will be driven by the needs and concerns of the members. It will provide focused research workshops on substantive questions within race and ethnicity, as well as career development sessions such as on recruitment interv...

Former MICRA Director, and one of the lead authors of the report ‘A Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce: the Report of the Pension Advisory Group’ (July 2019), Professor Debora Price has spoken extensively in an interview with Legal & Gener...

With the adoption of the United Nation's (UN) Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030), countries have committed to 10 years of concerted and collaborative actions to improve the lives of older people (defined as age 60 years and over), their families an...

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...

Many anti-racist scholars have wrestled with the contradictions of working within a higher education system that often perpetuates social injustice. Anti-Racist Scholar Activism shows how students and academics can work within universities and other ...

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. ...

A new report has found that men within couples have substantially more private pension wealth than women, which poses particular challenges when they divorce. ...

A new report raises concerns about the policing of the pandemic and shows that racially minoritised communities have been most harshly affected - being more likely to be stopped by the police, threatened or subject to police violence and falsely accu...

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...

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...

Dharmi Kapadia has written a Race Equality Foundation briefing on the impact of COVID-19 on older people. Ethnic minority older people are one of the groups worst affected by the pandemic, with higher infection rates and mortality rates than their wh...

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...

The nationwide coronavirus lockdowns and enhancement of police powers have disproportionately harmed communities of colour, according to a new briefing paper by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) at The University of Manchester. ...

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...

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. ...

New research has found that online home rental marketplace Airbnb is funding deregulation campaigns in hundreds of cities around the world, as it uses so-called ‘grassroots lobbying’ - apparently independent social movements acting on their behalf - ...

The UK’s first and largest survey of its kind to document the impact of Covid-19, and the lockdowns, on the lives of 17,000 ethnic and religious minority people has been launched. ...

A new report from The Runnymede Trust and The University of Manchester’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity has addressed the possible causes of - and offers solutions to – the ethnic disparity of the effects of Coronavirus. ...

A project facilitated by the ESRC-funded Collaboration Labs programme at The University of Manchester has been recognised with an award. ...