Everyday Life and Critical Diversities, Uncategorized

The persistence of age discrimination in shaping late working lives

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

Everyday Life and Critical Diversities, Social Inequalities and Social Ordering

Beyond Gender Wars and Institutional Panics: Recognising Gender Diversity in UK Higher Education

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