Adolescent mothers and breastfeeding
Post by Kimberly Jamie In 2014, I was awarded a grant from Cancer Research UK as part of their scheme focused on cancer prevention in...
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COVID-19: comparisons and knowledge
Post by Tiago Moreira One of the defining images of the COVID-19 crisis has been the graphs that trace the number of cases or fatalities...
Policy-making and possibilities amid coronavirus: a few brief reflections
Post by Benjamin Rigby Much has been said and written about SARS-CoV-2 (novel coronavirus) and its associated disease COVID-19. Like many...
Bring back the Britain of 1939 - We need good governance to cope with Crisis
#LongRead Post by David Byrne Crisis is a very important word. Its origins are in Greek medicine so it has been around for some 2,500...
Fundamental questions posed for Medical Humanities
Post by Andrew Fletcher ‘Form’ – in its broadest sense – was addressed at Newcastle University’s recent Medical Humanities Network...
"Levelling up health is the most important levelling up of all": so says he at the TOP of Government
Post by Jonathan Wistow On 25th February Professor Sir Michael Marmot and his team at the Institute of Health Equity produced a detailed...
Whose Childhood is it Anyway? Giving Children a Voice.
Post by Carol Long “When in this society, do we truly become adult?” So asked the columnist Caitlin Moran in a recent Times newspaper...
In defiance of our defiance; hacking our primal selves: Research to aid humanity get out of its funk
Post by Anton Botha #Longreads With the Brexit vote now out of the way and the US presidential elections ahead of us this November, the...
Laidlaw Scholarship: Women's 'Fat' Bodies in Everyday Life
Post by Dr Kimberly Jamie Over the last 2 years I’ve been fortunate enough to collaborate with, and supervise, an undergraduate student,...
Social Theory and Antimicrobial Resistance at Durham Institute for Advanced Study
Post by Kimberly Jamie As part of my Institute of Advanced Studies grant, I organised a workshop in November 2019 bringing together...
Health & Social Theory Seminar: 11 November (2-3PM) Rm113 in 32 Old Elvet, Durham University
Post by Hester Hockin-Boyers On the 11th of November, my colleague (and wonderful supervisor) Kim Jamie and I will each be presenting...
The Value of Early Career Workshops
Post by Kimberly Jamie On Tuesday 18th June, I went to an event for early career researchers (ECRs) organised by the British Sociological...
Places, spaces and territories: socio-spatial issues on home-based mental health care in France
This post is by Tiago Moreira The Health and Social Theory group hosted a presentation by Marcos Azevedo, of the Ecoles des hautes Etudes...
Loneliness in Japan: Observations and reflections on an academic trip
This post is by Keming Yang. During the past twelve years, I have been interested in cross-national comparative studies on loneliness and...
Second Workshop on Social Interpretations and Reactions to Air Pollution
Post by Keming Yang With the support of Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) and Department of Sociology, our research group...
Teenage Motherhood on the BBC
On Wednesday 22nd May 2019, Kimberly Jamie was on BBC Look North and the Emma Barnett show on BBC Radio 5 Live sharing thoughts and...
Durham Sociology Workshop on Social Interpretations and Reactions to Air Pollution
The Health and Social Theory research group at Department of Sociology will organize a workshop on the social aspects of air pollution...
The complexities of post-industrial global life in North East England. An interview
Brian Castellani had a chance to sit down with David Byrne, Jonathan Warren and Jonathan Wistow -- three faculty in the Deparment of...
Antibacterial Clay Therapies
POST BY KIMBERLY JAMIE For the academic year 2019-20, I will be Co-PI (along with Gary Sharples from Biosciences) on an interdisciplinary...
The sociology of air pollution
The health and social theory group held the first of two seminars on the sociology of air pollution. As we have seen recently in the...