Written by Dr Rachel Crossdale Image Credit: unsplash Age discrimination is one of several issues tackled in the internationally comparative Exclusion and Inequality in Late Working Life (EIWO) project funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare. When reading through transcripts of in-depth interviews with older workers collected in the UK… Continue reading The persistence of age discrimination in shaping late working lives
Written by Dr Stephanie Ejegi-Memeh In October 2023, I visited with mental health and wellbeing researchers from the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class (RGC), University of Johannesburg. In their own words, RGC “offers a home in the Southern Hemisphere for engaged scholarship around intellectual, creative, spiritual and everyday practices that both… Continue reading Exploring Black mental health and wellbeing with South African healers and scholars
Written by Lucy Mayblin, Hannah Lewis, Rebecca Murray, Tom Nunn With special thanks to Rivka Shaw, Jo Wilding, Brian Dikoff, Kate Wisbach and Amanda Spalding. Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels On 20th April, at a collaborative event between South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice, and the University of Sheffield, participants discussed the woeful state… Continue reading Immigration legal aid: change needs to come from a meaningful commitment to equality of access to justice
Written by Hannah Lewis, Muetesim Abdel, Chloe Tuck, Asma Kabadeh University of Sheffield Image Credit: Smart Banda, Stand & Be Counted Theatre If there is one thing that researchers of all types can agree on, it is the principle of ‘do no harm’. But is this, and should this, be enough in our ethical commitments… Continue reading The world needs more of us! Creative knowledge exchange through arts for youth inclusion and leadership
Siblings are the subject of much media fascination. From the big plot twist in Disney’s Frozen, where the act of ‘true love’ on which the story hinges is one of sisterly
Written by Dr Briony Hannell, University of Sheffield This post is published to mark the beginning of LGBT+ History Month. Photo by Cecilie Johnsen on Unsplash Over the past decade, few social media platforms have been as hypervisible in their ability to attract young queer (i.e. those broadly aligned under the LGBT+ umbrella) users as… Continue reading The queerest place on the internet?: Queer belonging on Tumblr
This post was written by Chris Schimkowsky, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield in August 2019. For their recent event on the 21st of June, the Everyday Life and Critical Diversities research cluster tried out something a little different: a sociological walk around Kelham Island. Organised by Lauren White and Dr Katherine Davies, the… Continue reading A Sociological Walk: Kelham Island
By Maria Teresa Ferazzoli and Julie Walsh In the early days of the pandemic, many countries closed their borders to stop the spread of COVID-19. International travel has continued to be restricted, but with changing caveats, including ‘essential’ travel only, restrictions on travellers from particular countries, and the introduction of vaccination ‘passports’. Most recently, borders… Continue reading Migrant families, Covid-19 travel restrictions, and everyday bordering
By Sally Hines According to the UK’s media, academia is currently plagued by ‘silencing’, ‘no-platforming’, and ‘cancel culture’ amidst the Nation’s ‘gender wars’. Over the last year, barely a week has gone by without a broadsheet newspaper article, radio discussion programme, or TV report suggesting that UK Higher Education (HE) has reached crisis point in… Continue reading Beyond Gender Wars and Institutional Panics: Recognising Gender Diversity in UK Higher Education
By Maria Teresa Ferazzoli Campaigns like Let's talk have worked to reduce the stigma around mental health issues and helped to raise awareness about the importance of asking for help. However, there is still limited attention given to the experiences of people affected by severe and chronic mental illness. Present western mental health care systems… Continue reading Is it still relevant to talk about deinstitutionalisation on World Mental Health Day?
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