One of the most striking features of the current pandemic has been the centrality of scientific experts. At the daily Downing Street Corona Briefing the mantra ‘led by the science’…

There are numerous difficulties faced by disabled people, who are just not seen as quite disabled enough within society. This can include the lack of access to disability benefits to…

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare economic weakness around the world. Current practices, led by the airline industry and manufacturing companies, include measures such as downsizing the workforce, halting shareholder…

COVID-19, Higher Education and Disability – a series of four blogs on lessons to be learned from the current crisis, Disability Studies, and disabled people. Four:  Although these posts may…

COVID-19, Higher Education and Disability – a series of four blogs on lessons to be learned from the current crisis, Disability Studies, and disabled people. Three:  As suggested in the…

COVID-19, Higher Education and Disability – a series of four blogs on lessons to be learned from the current crisis, Disability Studies, and disabled people. Two: The yawning chasm between…

I am sure I am not alone in being asked quite often what it is that sociologists do. One way of answering this question is to refer to the work…

Professor Tim May has recorded (with permission from the publishers) a chapter – ‘Sustaining Our Lives’ – from Thinking Sociologically written with the late Zygmunt Bauman and published by Wiley in 2019. The…

COVID-19, Higher Education and Disability – a series of four blogs on lessons to be learned from the current crisis, Disability Studies, and disabled people. One: I start this discussion…