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Watch our 2024 Annual Debate
Growing up Digital: How Today's Youth Navigate Life on Screens and at School
6 November 2024
Professor Jessica Ringrose, Professor of the Sociology of Gender and Education, Education, Practice & Society, IOE, UCL
Ten years ago, danah boyd introduced the concept of ‘networked teens’ to explain how social media expanded youth connectivity. In this talk, Professor Jessica Ringrose introduces the idea of ‘postdigital’ teens, offering a lens to understand how teens’ digital networks intersect with their offline school-based peer dynamics
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Watch our 2023 Annual Debate
The fragile worker: stigma, illness and disability in the contemporary [western] workplace
4 July 2023
Dr.Jennifer Remnant, Work, Employment And Organisation, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde
Why do some disabled people opt not to disclose their diagnoses or symptoms to their employers and choose not to access workplace support? What lies beneath these choices and what are the workplace implications?
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Watch our 2022 Annual Lecture
Cross-disciplinary Conversations: Sites for Decolonising Conceptual Frames and Methodologies
16 June 2022
Professor Vineeta Sinha, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
An eclectic mix of disciplines and research methodologies is crucial for theorising socio-economic, political, cultural, and religious domains. However, in a refreshed take on an old problematic, in a commitment to ‘post-colonial’ and ‘de-colonial’ frames, this lecture proposed that these border crossings create opportunities for focusing a critical lens on existing disciplinary conceptual frameworks and methodologies.
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