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...
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....
📝 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...
Especially lovely to see our @liangge11.bsky.social & Pippa Winship winning prizes for their research engagement! 😍 @muarg.bsky.social
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
📢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...
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...
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:...
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!