By Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alex Penn This blogpost was originally published on CECAN We and our colleagues often talk a good game when it comes to complexity. We want to understand nuance and context, and we know things are messier than we realise. Yet, we still struggle to grapple with complex issues and can feel frustrated […]
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By Ranjana Das 29th April marks the start of the 2019 Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK. This is a “week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental illness during pregnancy or after having a baby and signposting to support for all mums. The focus is on advocating for mums affected by maternal mental […]
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By Peter Barbrook-Johnson This blogpost was originally published on Fast Track Impact We know research impact unfolds in complex and unpredictable ways, so how on earth do we learn from and evaluate it? In this blog, I will take a look at some of the approaches we have been developing and using in CECAN – […]
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By Ranjana Das This Sunday 31st March, the UK celebrates Mothers’ Day. Mothering Sunday, with various religious roots as the BBC tells us. In contemporary Britain, cards, flowers, pub-lunches, warm walks in the woods amidst the spring sunshine, and images – of being, celebrating and even performing ‘mother’ on social media – are all parts […]
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By Ranjana Das (with contributions from Kate Burningham, Jane Fielding, Nigel Fielding, Nigel Gilbert, Christine Hine, Paul Hodkinson and colleagues) As the Worldwide Web turned 30 this month, I delved into the history of Surrey Sociology’s sustained engagement with it, extending more broadly into research on technologies and society. Colleagues sent in information about […]
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By Ranjana Das & Paul Hodkinson I’m not a steady rock…. Some things just don’t have an outlet. I lay at night and thoughts that I don’t want .. come up, I … trick my mind into making them go away…I want to portray a picture of managing…. David* Over the course of 2018, we […]
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