New article:
📝The Limits of Signposting: Financial Capacity and Responsibility in Later Life Social Care
Hall, @gerontologyuk.bsky.social Straub & Glover-Thomas
How “signposting” can deflect responsibility for financial wellbeing in later life social care.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026
In ‘Siblings and the Bereaved Self’, Laura Towers questions how the death and subsequent loss of a brother or sister affects the way that surviving siblings (continue to) construct their sense of self.
Read the full article below.
doi.org/10.1177/0038...
VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (focus on race, ethnicity, intersecting inequalities) @uomsociology.bsky.social
4 years from 1 Oct 2026, £42,254 p.a., full time
Closing date: Weds 17 June 2026
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Legal Frameworks and Personal Experiences: Egg Donation in Japan and Taiwan - HYBRID
Prof Chiaki Shirai (Shizuoka Uni, Japan)
📅 4-5.30pm (BST) Wed 24 June 2026
📍Arthur Lewis Building, G.019 (tea/coffee from 3.30pm)
🌐Teams Meeting ID:358 860 694 729 220; Passcode:RF6pM7Ch
@uomsociology.bsky.social
Especially lovely to see our @liangge11.bsky.social & Pippa Winship winning prizes for their research engagement! 😍 @muarg.bsky.social
This new book features writing from @helenholmes.bsky.social on the waste crisis; @briony.bsky.social on gender; & Vanessa May on migration (& editing duties!). All welcome to the book launch!
📢Major new UKRI-funded research project:
'Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air' involves researchers from across UoM & community partners to explore air pollution inequalities
Builds on a great pilot project. So excited to see where this research takes us! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...
📝 New article from Petra Nordqvist and @lucyfrith.bsky.social on how legislation on egg & sperm donation should adapt to the changing donation landscape created by at-home DNA testing.
@uomlaw.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2026/0...
SEMINAR: Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne & @saraelden.bsky.social)
📅1-3pm 21 April 2026
📌Room 5.205 Uni Place
☕Tea/coffee from 1pm
Special double seminar from two visiting researchers - all welcome! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Sociology Impact and Engagement Prize, recognising outstanding work that shares sociological research far beyond academia.
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w...
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