Do Refugees have Periods? Sociology’s Campaign to Provide Sanitary Products to Calais’ Refugees.

Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:04:00 BST

Dr Philippa Wiseman and Dr Lucy Pickering ask why do we hear so little about enforced (rather than 'free') bleeding of female refugees and of displaced women at camps and across the world more generally.

Drowning at sea, washed up bodies, body bags and coffins: The new normal

Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:27:00 GMT

Dr Teresa Piacentini discusses refugees and how the humanitarian crisis unravelling in Europe has become the 'new normal'. How do we fight compassion fatigue and navigate the many difficult and traumatic issues?

Glocal Understanding for Forced Migration

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:31:00 BST

Rachel-Louise Devoy, a Sociology Senior Honours student, reports back from the Erasmus Intensive Program of Glocal Understanding for Forced Migration held at Gediz University in Izmir, Turkey.

Intercultural Communication in Health Care Settings

Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:37:00 GMT

An overview of Dr Teresa Piacentini's talk on intercultural communication in health care settings.

The State and the control of refugees

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 10:50:00 BST

Dr Gareth Mulvey considers states' search for control regarding refugees. In this post Gareth discusses Syrian refugees in particular.

Social Citizenship and Refugee Rights – Divergence between Westminster and Holyrood?

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:32:22 GMT

Dr Gareth Mulvey looks at views on welfare and social citizenship in Westminster and Holyrood.