While the world is still dealing with the global coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese government has stepped up its actions against opposition in Hong Kong in direct violation of international human…

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…

The UK has a multicultural and linguistically diverse population, with more than 300 languages spoken nationwide. For many, English is not the primary language, nor is it spoken at home….

As I write this (5 May 2020), I am living in Worcestershire, in the UK. We are still in lockdown. For us, we are now entering the seventh week. Lockdown…