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The capacity to manage personal finances is fundamental to the autonomy and well-being of older adults, yet cognitive decline increasingly threatens this independence. This paper examines the chall...

The ability to manage money is crucial for independent living in later life, yet financial capacity often declines with age and cognitive impairment. This study explored how social care practitione...

A team of researchers at The University of Manchester has been awarded UKRI funding for a pioneering interdisciplinary project examining how communities experience and understand air pollution in ever...

To mark 20 years of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester, we are pleased to present a new series of videos in w...

The Department of Sociology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Sociology (Teaching & Research) with qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class.

The Department of Sociology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Sociology (Teaching & Research) with qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class.

Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception.

This article reflects our experiences of developing a more sociable approach to teaching qualitative methods. Through a set of examples drawn from our teaching ...

Using creative elicitation interviews, Laura Towers seeks to learn more about how, through narration, siblings bereaved by suicide come to make sense of their loss and grief over time

The online Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series.

‘This ambitious book offers the reader the opportunity to think about gender in a multidisciplinary way. Written in a clear and accessible style, the authors provide interesting case study examples to...

An exhibition of artwork by older women in Hulme, demonstrating the power of gentle methodologies working in pressured communities

The inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, Department of Sociology.

This paper uses Bourdieu's concepts of cultural and social capital to critically examine death administration in the UK. Death administration relates to a set of tasks that bereaved individuals (usua....

This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how…

The Methods@Manchester annual Summer School returned this week, giving researchers the exciting opportunity to meet and connect with their peers while gaining new social science and humanities methods...

This data snapshot presents findings from the study COVID Intimacies: Resilience and Viral Safety among LGBQ+ and Heterosexual People Using Dating Apps in the COVID-19 Era. Using mixed methods, includ...

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A story told with Adobe Express

Four in five women surveyed in Northern Ireland said their first experience of sexist behaviour or harassment by men happened when they were children, according to a new study.Kim McFalone, a PhD rese...