Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3mhzyjf6a6s2z📢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! https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/manchester-researchers-launch-major-ukri-funded-project-to-understand-air-inequalities/27 Mar 2026 11:15 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhzyjf6a6s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3mht23nerjs2gSEMINAR: 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! https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:x1v2-mmz4bo3f-y8hzok24 Mar 2026 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mht23nerjs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3mhddzrb4kc27This 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! [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Mar 2026 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhddzrb4kc27https://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3mg36zuelyc2o📺WATCH - new videos added to our 20th anniversary key concepts series: 🐶Animals & Social Life 👥 Sibling relationships 👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Family practices ♻️Consumption & everyday life 🦉What is ageing? Thanks to everybody who helped make these, and we hope you enjoy them! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvRUyisSeWeCIGcEQPxLCfGBaK6Z3_PAn&si=ZG6tb5DaPn9eIwi202 Mar 2026 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg36zuelyc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3madkwibifs2o🎁New article by @sophierwoodward.bsky.social on the sociology of unwanted gifts: Dormant Gifts: Animating the Imagined and Narrated Pasts and Futures of Gifts @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.3167/ee.2025.550205 https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/ethnologia-europaea/55/2/ee550205.xml?ArticleBodyColorStyles=pdf-427819 Dec 2025 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3madkwibifs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3m5enxuas3k2xSEMINAR: Student Voices in the Archives 🗓️ 1-2pm, Thurs 11 Dec(Online) 🗣️Sue Heath & Grant Collier Explore student life through UoM archives Part of the @thejohnrylands.bsky.social lunchtime seminar series @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/student-voices-in-the-archives-tickets-192165905696911 Nov 2025 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5enxuas3k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3m525zrhsgk2f📖New book: Gender Studies: An interdisciplinary approach By @sophierwoodward.bsky.social & @kath070.bsky.social & published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gender-studies-9781800373945.html07 Nov 2025 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3m525zrhsgk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3m24ndhdkek2tINAUGURAL LECTURE: 🗣️ Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement - Kate Reed 📅4-5pm Tues 29 Oct 2025 📌In person (University of Manchester) or online 🎟️Free, register via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/start-or-end-of-life-advancing-the-sociology-of-life-death-bereavement-tickets-1650593883739?aff=oddtdtcreator01 Oct 2025 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3m24ndhdkek2thttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3lzjeigclwc2r📺Watch our new video series introducing key concepts in the sociology of families & personal life. Please share if you know anybody teaching or studying these topics! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvRUyisSeWeCIGcEQPxLCfGBaK6Z3_PAn23 Sep 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzjeigclwc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3lyhvbtxorc2c📝Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration @ltowers728.bsky.social & Kate Reed in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the sociology of bereavement admin @uomsoss.bsky.social https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.7002410 Sep 2025 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyhvbtxorc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3ltyyhyno5c2tNew article: ✨Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception & DNA testing Petra Nordqvist, Leah Gilman, Caroline Redhead, Marie Fox, Nicky Hudson @fimaccallum.bsky.social @lucyfrith.bsky.social from #ConnecteDNA https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625006859?via%3Dihub15 Jul 2025 13:18 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltyyhyno5c2thttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3lthpdy3nf22lWe really enjoyed teaching our 'Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research' course at the @methodsmcr.bsky.social summer school - thanks to our great students! https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/researchers-gain-new-skills-at-methodsmanchester-summer-school/08 Jul 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lthpdy3nf22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3lt5bpk6wx22g✨Resilience and viral safety among LGBQ+ and heterosexual people using dating apps in the COVID-19 era: Data snapshot Brian Heaphy, @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social & Qian Xiong https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Data_Snapshot_July_2025_from_COVID_Intimacies/29357213/1?file=5547627204 Jul 2025 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt5bpk6wx22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/morgancentre.bsky.social/post/3lptkj7vrwc2gCreative Approaches to Qualitative Research (Morgan Centre summer school @methodsmcr.bsky.social ) 30 Jun-2 Jul (Manchester) For qualitative researchers who want to explore more creative/curious ways of researching - see link for taster session & more info https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/p2UwsOcuBIRr723 May 2025 11:44 +0000at://did:plc:fbba4426ym6oolflevn5653q/app.bsky.feed.post/3lptkj7vrwc2g