Within the United Kingdom (UK), the education system has always been centred on a dominant White Eurocentric curriculum which has often omitted the contribution of Black and ethnic minorities historically….

Strike action by UCU members is about to begin again in 74 universities across the UK (47 universities will participate in disputes covering pensions and pay and conditions, 22 will…

In 2016, I joined the University of Leicester’s Department of Health Sciences to undertake a funded PhD exploring barriers to and facilitators of the implementation of national clinical guidelines for…

Few of us will have escaped the trials and tribulations of IT system installations, either at work or in our online interactions with service and goods providers outside of work….

Over the past year UKRI has been developing its new policy on open access for journal articles and books that result from research that they support. This new policy is…

University of Glasgow PhD candidates Molly Gilmour and Jessica Penney organized a British Sociological Association Postgraduate Event on Friday, 24 January from 9am to 5pm. Entitled ‘Facilitating Holistic Wellbeing in the…

My colleague Nicholas Van Hear and I have developed a ‘solution’ (an inflated word, but we wanted to think big) to the rise in mass displacement across the world. We…

This month we have five copies of Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home by Vicki Harman, Benedetta Cappellini and Charlotte Faircloth to give away. This cross-disciplinary volume brings together…

The BSA Postgraduate Student Regional Event on ‘Reproduction and Risk’ took place at the University of Leicester on 20 November 2019, hosted by PhD student and midwife Julia Clark. The aim…