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04
Aug
2025

Love Across Class

Seminar

What does it mean to partner across class difference? Based on 38 in-depth interviews with people from a range of class and cultural backgrounds, the 2024 book Love Across Class brings to life the role of class in shaping people’s childhoods, as well as the adult lives cross-class couples have…

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18
Aug
2025

Urban ecology: Biodiversity at home, in the neighbourhood and community

Lecture/seminar

Urban ecology is often thought of as a human-nature relationship occurring in the urban setting: Mostly in city parks, botanic gardens and nature reserves, surrounded by a built environment. In this seminar, Dr Peerson will discuss other ways of viewing urban ecology. By considering diverse…

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13
Oct
2025

Masculinity, migration and care: Men working in the adult social care sector in England

Lecture/seminar

Like many other countries, the adult social care sector in England relies on a predominantly female workforce, with men accounting for 21% of workers as of 2024. As a result, some commentators have suggested that recruiting more men could be one solution to the staffing crisis, which has long…

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20
Oct
2025

Everyday intoxications: A qualitative analysis of young people’s alcohol and other drug consumption

Lecture/seminar

This seminar will present research by Adrian Farrugia, Helen Keane, Mats Ekendahl and Mary Lou Rasmussen.Much sociological research on young people’s drug consumption seeks to push past the narrow public health focus on risk and harm by centring pleasure as a key dynamic shaping the motivations and…

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