As a woman living with endometriosis, I have personally navigated the physical and emotional challenges of a condition often intertwined with societal stigma surrounding menstruation. My experience has shaped my…

In December of last year, the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) launched a call for written evidence on paternity and shared parental leave (SPL) to examine options for reform. This…

The relationship between sociology and death is long-standing. Early foundational texts, such as Durkheim’s (1897) Suicide, shaped sociology as a discipline, helping to establish its broad ontological power and demonstrate…

What does it mean to press a like button regarding unpleasant content and images on social networks? When I click “like” on a painful or disturbing post, I often ponder…

There has been a “fluttering in the dovecotes” of academia in New Zealand. The Marsden panels for Humanities and the Social Sciences have been disbanded, and the remaining panels need…

On 29 July 2024, a devastating tragedy unfolded in the northern English town of Southport when a man wielding a knife attacked a Taylor Swift dance workshop. Three children were killed….

When last month the Labour government, and the prime minister himself, began to suffer from a significant drop in approval ratings, the explanation offered was: too much ‘doom and gloom’….

‘Roma Art’ – the self-described movement of modern day artists from a wide variety of Roma, Gypsy and Traveller heritages – is having a moment. Delaine Le Bas – a…

In my recently published book, The Great Decline, I present a reappraisal of how we understand the relationship between individual and society, drawing on emerging evidence from neuroscience and epigenetics…