Charles M. Payne (University of Chicago) It was inevitable that the demonstrations following police killings around the country would draw constant [...]
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Policy Briefing: Citizenship, engagement and online civic conversations
Nick Ellison (University of York) Research into the use of social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter) by English local authorities undertaken [...]
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The changing shape of sharing: digital materiality and moral economies
Jörgen Skågeby (Stockholm University) The digital is expanding. More and more of our virtual world (e.g. emotions, sentiments, ideas, fears, beliefs, [...]
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Delhi election verdict and the political economy of ‘reforms’
Prakash Kashwan (University of Connecticut) The results of the recently concluded Delhi state assembly elections have been referred to as a [...]
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Happy and you know it? Understanding people’s experiences and perceptions of happiness
Laura Hyman (University of Portsmouth) Contemporary British and Western societies seem to have become increasingly preoccupied with happiness recently. Words and [...]
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Apocalypse when? (Not) thinking and talking about climate change
Matthew Adams (University of Brighton) Released in the autumn of 2014, the final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s [...]
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Not just Black and White? : Choosing the ethnicity of donor sperm amongst lesbian couples
Laura Griffith (University of Birmingham) and Annalise Weckesser (Birmingham City University) It has been widely reported that Jennifer Cramblett from Ohio [...]
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What’s the Difference? Lesbian and Gay Youth ‘after Equality’
Edmund Coleman-Fountain (University of York) Ten years ago whilst planning a PhD, I settled on the meaning of equality for lesbian [...]
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Race Talk: From Biology to Social Science and Back again
Karim Murji (Open University) The philosopher Joshua Glasgow once wrote that, ‘When I first mention to civilian friends and students that [...]
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Invisible names and visible privileges: the racialisation of names
Emily Wykes (University of Nottingham) “With a name like Patel, and her ethnic background, she won’t be working anywhere important where [...]
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