sociology

Researcher Alex Wood calls on new DWP Minister Stephen Crabb to acknowledge distinction between flexible scheduling controlled by managers to maximise...

Data from location-based social networks may be able to predict when a neighbourhood will go through the process of gentrification, by identifying...

Desislava Hristova (Computer Laboratory) discusses how data from location-based social networks can be used to predict when a neighbourhood will go...

The Beatles' song A Hard Day’s Night was released 50 years ago today. Its runaway success in the charts overlapped with a major sociological study of...

New report shows that zero-hours contracts are only one of a wide number of flexible employment practices that are abused by managers - leading to...

More and more of us live in cities where disparate communities jostle for space. Eminent sociologist Richard Sennett will give a public lecture on The...

As mobile phone cameras improve, emerging forms of social media are basing themselves in ‘iPhoneography’. While social media is often held up as an...

A new study reveals how drug reimbursement policy in Poland is leaving gaping loopholes for pharmaceutical firms to exploit, raising questions about...

The largest multidisciplinary research network of its kind in the UK is investigating why gender equality is still a pressing social issue in the 21st...