This brief discussion uses Goffman’s (1963) concept of stigma to understand how people with a hidden feature that could incur prejudice become aware of this potential. People’s perception of their…

The attack on the US Capitol building on Wednesday, 6 January 2021 and the preparedness of the police in defending that building, has been compared unfavourably to police actions toward…

Editing a journal is more than just work in a transactional sense, it is a work of self and if fortunate enough, a work of the heart. I will begin…

Post-industrial towns and cities in Britain are facing a silent technological revolution. This revolution is changing every aspect of modern British daily life and is evident in areas such as…

Part technical skill, part judgemental practice, editing a journal is one of the most rewarding roles an academic can fulfil. We’ve been fortunate to have been at the editorial helm…

In his influential book ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics’ Stanley Cohen (1972) argued that a ‘moral panic’ emerges when a particular social issue is suddenly constructed by the media and…

This October marks Black History Month (BHM), a moment in the academic calendar where universities (hopefully) offer a series of events to celebrate and commemorate Black life. Whilst the offerings…

Introduction Is the Covid-19 pandemic a social ‘watershed moment’, or one that mainly accelerates existing trends, or one of temporary or even permanent trend reversal – or perhaps some combination…

Most of us have an opinion about cars. By and large, we don’t have a problem with them or we think they are, in a nutshell, one of the main…