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Research Live!

This series showcases the Department's research strengths and interests, featuring invited guest speakers, staff members, and includes events that focus on research impact and knowledge exchange.

It is organised by the Department's research leadership team. If you have any questions about an event, please contact the event organiser.

Upcoming events

Event

Wednesday 10 December 2025 12pm

Professor Campbell will undertake a forensic analysis of Max Weber’s account of the subject-matter of sociology and the manner in which it should be studied.

Past events

Wednesday 12 November 2025 12pm

Join us in person or online for a presentation and discussion with Dr Emily Hoyle who will talk about her ongoing work examining transhumanism.

Wednesday 22 October 2025 2pm

The film 'No Release' is based on research and interviews conducted by Dr Bhatia as part of his project 'Immigration, Location Tracking and Control', funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

Monday 29 September 2025 4pm

A presentation and discussion of Billy Holzberg’s monograph ''Affective Bordering: Race, Deservingness and the Emotional Politics of Migration Control''.

Wednesday 16 July 2025 2.30pm

This talk draws on three studies to provide further insight into the overlaps between autism and kink, with a particular focus on a particular kink subculture – pup play.

Wednesday 9 July 2025 12.30pm

We will explore different dimensions of the data gaze where the classificatory logics of algorithmic and machinic gazes intersect with (and sometimes cross over) with young people’s own capacities to see and know themselves.

Wednesday 21 May 2025 3.30pm

This presentation revisits and revises the secularization paradigm in light of late-stage secularization.

Wednesday 14 May 2025 3.30pm

Cripping Breath explores the lived experiences of people who use ventilators. This talk discusses co-production and the power of centring disability expertise.

Wednesday 23 April 2025 3.30pm

In this talk, Lydia Dixon will discuss her long-term ethnographic research with midwives in Mexico, which culminated in her 2020 book, Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico.

Wednesday 26 March 2025 3.30pm

Squatting London is an account of the real lives of London's squatters: their ambitions and struggles. This talk presents an alternative, underground and rebellious ethnography of a city you thought you already knew.

Wednesday 19 March 2025 3.30pm

This talk will discuss the development of the Anti-Racist research Toolkit and explore how we can apply anti-racist principles in our research.

Wednesday 5 March 2025 5.30pm

How do we reconcile the meat paradox i.e. the fact that most people both love animals and care for the environment, but surprisingly still eat meat? Explore this question and dive into research on the role of plant-based meat substitutes.

Wednesday 19 February 2025 3.30pm

Building on Ahmed's work (Complaint!; 2021), this presentation analyses how gender “gets into” formal reporting processes for sexual harassment within organizations.

Wednesday 15 January 2025 3.30pm

In Violent Intimacies, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence.

Wednesday 13 November 2024 3.30pm

Listen to Jaime Kucinskas as they explore how the federal civil service conducted themselves under the Trump Administration.

Wednesday 6 November 2024 3.30pm

Join us as Yanhong Zhang discusses parent-child interaction involving children aged 3-6 years.