Department of Sociology

By Paul Hodkinson When the government’s white paper on the BBC was published yesterday, it was widely reported as a government climb-down and more notable for what was not changing than what was. The collective feeling seemed to be that the corporation had got away lightly, having retained its licence fee, avoided having the majority […]

By Rob Meadows If we are to begin to understand men’s mental health more fully, we need to move away from the idea that all men are the same. Different groups of men are at risk of different mental health problems at different points in the life-course. Older men, for example, are at greater risk […]

By Jon Garland The tragic case of the murder of Angela Wrightson in Hartlepool in 2014 generated a great deal of media coverage in the spring of 2016 when the trial of those accused of killing her finally came to court. Wrightson, a 39 year-old with alcohol dependency issues, was subject to a brutal and […]

By Pete Barbrook-Johnson (né Johnson) Members of the Sociology department, alongside colleagues from across the University, have been working on the ERIE project for the past six years. One of the main outputs of the project is the development of a suite of software tools designed to help anyone and everyone make decisions and think […]

By Victoria Redclift #1 in 5 Muslims….get asked if they shower with their hijab on #1 in 5 Muslims….pray that when they open a margarine tub, there will be margarine in there and not curry #1 in 5 Muslims….look like Zayn Malik, to their mums. The Sun’s controversial headline on the 23rd November, claiming that […]

By Karen Bullock As someone who makes little use of social media – and certainly never Tweets – it is perhaps somewhat ironic that I have recently found myself doing research on the police use of social media. This stems from a wider interest in the nature of police engagement with citizens and communities. In […]