By Karen Bullock and Melissa Pepper Karen Bullock and Melissa Pepper have a long history of working independently and together to understand how volunteers and volunteering may be used to reduce crime and improve community safety. We have recently been awarded funding from the Road Safety Trust to conduct research looking at the role of […]
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By Paul Hodkinson and Matt Hall Head-hair is often regarded by men as key to their body image and identity, with a full head of hair often associated with ideals of masculine success. As a consequence, the experience of going bald can be a turbulent and sometimes even distressing life transition for men, with implications […]
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By Matthew W. Hughey I owe thanks to the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. They served as host for my six-month Fulbright Scholar Fellowship from May to November 2022. Now back home across the pond, I am analyzing the data from a multi-year ethnographic study of majority-White British organizations in the larger […]
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By Emily Setty At a time when we are more aware than ever of the problem of sexual violence, abuse and harassment (‘sexual harm’) among young people—and in society more generally—it may seem obvious that we need to be educating them about consent. After all, the idea is that sexual harm is, by definition, non-consensual—hence, […]
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By Ranjana Das As I write, Twitter (whose biography is grasped brilliantly here), is now owned by Elon Musk. Twitter is immersed in mass firing, massive uncertainties around what dramatic shifts in policy and ensuing public discourse on Twitter might look like, and indeed, valid doubts on the future of Twitter itself, as dangerous new […]
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By Tyler Dadge On the 22nd of June 2022, I presented at the University of Surrey Doctoral College Conference, discussing my PhD research on the police’s use of facial recognition, and its relationship with citizens’ human and data protection rights. I was delighted to be awarded the prize for the best afternoon parallel session oral […]
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