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“Joining the dots”? The role of research in the ‘troubled families’ agenda

“Joining the dots”? The role of research in the ‘troubled families’ agenda

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Stephen Crossley, Durham University When Boris Johnson eventually cut short his holiday to return to London to deal with the fallout [...]

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Framing Integration – the new assimilation

Framing Integration – the new assimilation

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Naaz Rashid, University of Manchester  As Trevor Phillips writes, ‘few topics inspire more heat and less light than integration’.  Many readers [...]

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The Two Iron Ladies of 1984: Remembering the Postcoloniality of Operation Blue Star Thirty Years On

The Two Iron Ladies of 1984: Remembering the Postcoloniality of Operation Blue Star Thirty Years On

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Navtej Purewal, SOAS University of London June 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Blue Star, the code name for the [...]

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Mother/ Daughter relationships: Cultural difference and modernity

Mother/ Daughter relationships: Cultural difference and modernity

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Stevi Jackson, University of York Over the last two decades there has been considerable sociological debate about the extent to which [...]

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Conscious uncoupling: Reassessing agency and desire in couple relationships

Conscious uncoupling: Reassessing agency and desire in couple relationships

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Jenny van Hooff, Manchester Metropolitan University The recent separation of celebrity couple Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin after over a decade [...]

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Freeze frame? Resisting the relevance of films about slavery

Freeze frame? Resisting the relevance of films about slavery

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Steve Garner, Open University The current vogue for slavery movies such as Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave and their [...]

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The SLOW University –work, time and well-being

The SLOW University –work, time and well-being

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Maggie O’Neill, Durham University Dialogues within and outwith the Higher Education sector are converging  around  the need for a socio-cultural shift towards [...]

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Asexual lives: social relationships and intimate encounters

Asexual lives: social relationships and intimate encounters

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Susie Scott, Liz McDonnell  and Matt Dawson, Universities of Sussex and Glasgow ‘Asexuality’ describes a lack or low level of sexual [...]

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Egypt: From Mubarak to Sisi

Egypt: From Mubarak to Sisi

  • By discoversociety
  • June 03, 2014

Image: Tahrir Square, 2011 Noor-ul-Ain Khawaja and Muhammad Hashsham Khan, University of Westminster         The former army chief, Abdel Fattah [...]

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FOCUS: RIGHTING HISTORICAL WRONGS, THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS

FOCUS: RIGHTING HISTORICAL WRONGS, THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS

  • By discoversociety
  • May 06, 2014

Cecily Jones, Independent Researcher Fourteen heads of Caribbean governments recently gathered at a summit in St. Vincent and the Grenadines to [...]

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