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Keynote

Dr Mark Carrigan, Digital Fellow, The Sociological Review @mark_carrigan

What does it mean to be a public sociologist in the era of @realDonaldTrump?
 

Film

Dr Michal Nahman, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, The University of the West of England, Bristol, @michalnahman

Atomised Mothers. Isolation, Austerity and the Politics of Parenting

Workshops

Dr Maria Berghs, Early Career Academic Fellow, Allied Health Science, De Montfort University

 Public Dilemmas of Engagement

Dr Sharon Hutchings, Dr Tom Vickers
Nottingham Trent University 
Exploring the values and practices of public sociology

Organisers

Dr Kylie Baldwin, Early Career Researcher, DMU

@DrKylieBaldwin

Paris Connolly, PhD researcher, DMU

@Paris_Connolly

Kriss Fearon, PhD researcher, DMU

@christabel6

Sasha Loyal, PhD Researcher,  DMU

@sashaloyal

Christina Weis, PhD researcher, DMU
@christina_weis

All the organisers belong to the Reproduction Research Centre, De Montfort University.

Speakers

Paris Connolly, Reproduction Research Group, De Montfort University
@Paris_Connolly

The non-active activist 

Mirjam Twigt, Department of Sociology/Media and Communication, University of Leicester
@MirjamTwigt
Reflections upon conducting research among Iraqi displaced people in Jordan: (Un)be(com)ing one of these western women who comes to Palestine because of an emptiness in the heart.

Periklis Papaloukas, De Montfort University, @PeriklisPa 

Incorporating participants' authentic 'voices' in critical health psychology research: Reflections from the LGBT living with MS study
 

Standup talks

There will be standup talks on the following topics, with a prize awarded by the audience:

  • Ethical Dilemmas: Participatory Research and Pornography

  • ‘In the ethical ‘closet’ of studying LBGT+ asylum seekers and refugees

  • Non-binary language: Collecting writing samples from non-binary people to inform about gender diversity

  • Femineast theory? Subaltern speaking from the post-socialist semi-periphery

  • Pro-recovery communities in Instagram: Everyday practices, lay expertise and medical knowledge in the recovery from an eating disorder

  • In a CAGE, in[taxi]cated, Pakistani taxi drivers in UK

  • Becoming public sociologists, not public sociologists: (Re)introducing public sociology as a civic endeavour

  • Voices from the Turkish academic and journalist diaspora

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