Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, Aspa Chalkidou, Alice Corble and Marina Apgar What is the role of social scientists (broadly defined) in [...]
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Category "2020"
Lessons from academic careers
Graham Crow A successful career can take many forms, and there are always lessons to be learned through studying people’s achievements. [...]
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‘Here comes the feminist’: Tackling gender inequality through sport in Brazil
Eva Soares Moura Sport, and particularly football, is a context in which specific ‘masculine’ attributes are valued and reproduced, but in [...]
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The fight against dementia: the role of the brain’s resilience
Amongst the chronic conditions that threaten the independence or successful ageing, dementia is positioned as one of the most significant [...]
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Don’t judge a book by its cover? The value of looking closely at anti-austerity activist culture
Emma Craddock The perennial cornflower is a violet rhizomatous plant with thistle-like flower-heads. Despite its delicate appearance, the flower is enduring, [...]
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Love Brighton, hate racism: Different understandings of ‘diversity’
Caterina Mazzilli Cities have what geographer Doreen Massey (1991) defines as “a character of their own”: a set of physical and [...]
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The virus is the police
James Trafford As Britain prepared for lockdown amidst a discourse underpinned by militarised nationalism, we witnessed calls for hugely expanded police [...]
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Time to end the silence – racism in prisons during COVID-19
Raheel Mohammed In ‘normal times’, the state sanctioned racism that exists in prisons has meant black and brown people’s basic rights [...]
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Coronavirus and Class Struggle, Education and Beyond: A Call to Action
Carli Rowell Much has been written about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic upon various facets of everyday social life [...]
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In the time of Covid – ‘April is the cruellest month’
David Clark TS Eliot’s chilling start to The Waste Land has deep resonance in the time of COVID-19. We seem to [...]
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