complexityfactoryJun 263 minAdolescent mothers and breastfeedingPost by Kimberly Jamie In 2014, I was awarded a grant from Cancer Research UK as part of their scheme focused on cancer prevention in ‘ha...
complexityfactoryApr 233 minCOVID-19: comparisons and knowledgePost 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 ...
complexityfactoryApr 14 minPolicy-making and possibilities amid coronavirus: a few brief reflectionsPost by Benjamin Rigby Much has been said and written about SARS-CoV-2 (novel coronavirus) and its associated disease COVID-19. Like many...
complexityfactoryMar 2711 minBring 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 yea...
complexityfactoryMar 203 minFundamental questions posed for Medical HumanitiesPost by Andrew Fletcher ‘Form’ – in its broadest sense – was addressed at Newcastle University’s recent Medical Humanities Network worksh...
complexityfactoryFeb 285 min"Levelling up health is the most important levelling up of all": so says he at the TOP of GovernmentPost by Jonathan Wistow On 25th February Professor Sir Michael Marmot and his team at the Institute of Health Equity produced a detailed ...
complexityfactoryFeb 145 minWhose 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 art...
complexityfactoryJan 319 minIn defiance of our defiance; hacking our primal selves: Research to aid humanity get out of its funkPost by Anton Botha #Longreads With the Brexit vote now out of the way and the US presidential elections ahead of us this November, the q...
complexityfactoryJan 242 minLaidlaw Scholarship: Women's 'Fat' Bodies in Everyday LifePost by Dr Kimberly Jamie Over the last 2 years I’ve been fortunate enough to collaborate with, and supervise, an undergraduate student, ...
complexityfactoryNov 19, 20192 minSocial 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 resea...
complexityfactoryOct 21, 20194 minHealth & Social Theory Seminar: 11 November (2-3PM) Rm113 in 32 Old Elvet, Durham UniversityPost by Hester Hockin-Boyers On the 11th of November, my colleague (and wonderful supervisor) Kim Jamie and I will each be presenting pap...
complexityfactoryJun 22, 20192 minThe Value of Early Career WorkshopsPost by Kimberly Jamie On Tuesday 18th June, I went to an event for early career researchers (ECRs) organised by the British Sociological...
complexityfactoryJun 12, 20192 minPlaces, spaces and territories: socio-spatial issues on home-based mental health care in FranceThis post is by Tiago Moreira The Health and Social Theory group hosted a presentation by Marcos Azevedo, of the Ecoles des hautes Etudes...
complexityfactoryJun 7, 20196 minLoneliness in Japan: Observations and reflections on an academic tripThis post is by Keming Yang. During the past twelve years, I have been interested in cross-national comparative studies on loneliness and...
complexityfactoryJun 1, 20192 minSecond Workshop on Social Interpretations and Reactions to Air PollutionPost by Keming Yang With the support of Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) and Department of Sociology, our research group o...
complexityfactoryMay 22, 20192 minTeenage Motherhood on the BBCOn Wednesday 22nd May 2019, Kimberly Jamie was on BBC Look North and the Emma Barnett show on BBC Radio 5 Live sharing thoughts and findi...
complexityfactoryMay 10, 20191 minDurham Sociology Workshop on Social Interpretations and Reactions to Air PollutionThe Health and Social Theory research group at Department of Sociology will organize a workshop on the social aspects of air pollution ...
complexityfactoryMay 2, 20191 minThe 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 Soci...
complexityfactoryMar 22, 20192 minAntibacterial Clay TherapiesPOST BY KIMBERLY JAMIE For the academic year 2019-20, I will be Co-PI (along with Gary Sharples from Biosciences) on an interdisciplinary...
complexityfactoryMar 22, 20192 minThe sociology of air pollutionThe health and social theory group held the first of two seminars on the sociology of air pollution. As we have seen recently in the medi...
