Sarah Perry One of Dr Michaela Benson’s priorities as Managing Editor of The Sociological Review is to identify and support new ways to [...]
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Please can we stop talking about ‘mixed-race’ identity (on its own)?
Chantelle Lewis In response to recent mainstream media outlets featuring and celebrating ‘mixed-race’ populations as a symptom of progress in [...]
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From Buttigieg to Macron, why is national service trending?
Sarah Mills This month another country and election campaign debated the merits of ‘national service’ for young people. Democratic candidate Pete [...]
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Rapid Response: How the UK Parliament broke democracy… and then blamed the people
Katherine Jewell Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament has created furore across the UK and inspired over a million people to sign [...]
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FOCUS: Inequalities in the Academy: Cogs in search of a new wheel
Sue Scott Four of the papers in this issue of Discover Society arose out of a day conference that I organised, [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Am I an Asian Woman or a Woman Who is Asian?
Shan-Jan Sarah Liu In 2007, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, published an article, “Am I a Black Woman or a Woman Who is [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Women in social science: the personal and the statistical
Jil Matheson In celebrating women’s contribution to social science (and I include statistics) over the last 50 years we should acknowledge [...]
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POLICY AND POLITICS: How citizens adapt their political demands to austerity
Pau Alarcón, Carol Galais, Joan Font and Graham Smith This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy [...]
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Making Waves or Drowned Out? The impact of women in/on political science.
Fiona Mackay While there has been a steady and long-term increase in numbers, political science in the UK remains a [...]
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On the need for collective action and sustained attention
Katherine Twamley I have benefited enormously from the work of women in social science who have come before me. Feminist social [...]
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