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Making the Precariat
This poster was created for the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Event in London earlier this month (#SDAI). The poster features our projects key objectives, research design and the data we are using. The headlines at the top of the poster represent part of the media discourse on this subject. These headlines are from the…
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Gender, Youth, Community, Methodology and More: A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott College Court Conference Centre University of Leicester July 9th 2015 Pearl Jephcott (1900-1980), in a research career spanning some forty years, made an outstanding contribution to British social science research. Her key works, including Girls Growing Up (1942), Rising…
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Alan Felstead – Pay and Job Quality: Is the Grass Greener in the Public Sector?
A really interesting discussion by Alan Flestead
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Gender, Youth, Community, Methodology and More: A Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Pearl Jephcott
Pearl Jephcott (1900-1980), in a research career spanning some forty years, made an outstanding contribution to British social science research. Her key works, including Girls Growing Up (1942), Rising Twenty (1948), Some Young People (1954), Married Women Working (1962), A Troubled Area: Notes on Notting Hill (1964), Time of One’s Own (1967) and Homes in…
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Corah of Leicester
http://www.corah-leicester.co.uk/www.corah-leicester.co.uk/Home.html Great website by local photographer Matt Allen
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“Just another dad on his cellphone”: Evernote as Field Notebook
Really good idea for fieldnotes.
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Social Worlds in 100 Objects
See the world through fresh eyes with Social Worlds in 100 objects. Looking at everyday items, University of Leicester Social Scientists bring you their thought-provoking perspectives in this series of short articles. http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/social-worlds John Goodwin contributed an article to this initiative The cotton bobbin: symbolic of a lost heritage? http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/social-worlds/all-articles/management/cotton-bobbin
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Second Hand Books – Jephcott
For anyone interested in marginalia the secondhand/used book market has to be an untapped source of material. The joy of buying used books is often more than just being able to get hold of an obscure text, a now deleted classic or whatever, its about the annotations, markings and notes that others add to the…
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Revisiting Norbert Elias’s Sociology of Community
We have a longstanding interest in Elias’s sociology of community. Here are a couple of links to papers that we have contribution to/written on this subject. The first is Angela Perulli’s Italian translation of Towards a Theory of Communities (1974) that contains some introductory notes on the original essay by John Goodwin. The second is paper by Henrietta O’Connor…
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Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes in Restudies of Youth Unemployment, Insecurity and Work