In this episode of Free Thinking, Michaela Benson joins Laurence Scott to discuss emigration stories. The episode also features Eliza Showell’s great niece Black Country poet Liz Berry, Leanne McCormick and Elaine Farrell presenters of the Bad Bridget podcast which tells the stories of crime poverty and survival experienced by the thousands of 19th-century Irish …
Who do we think we are? alumni, Nando Sigona, and host, Michaela Benson, recently co-authored a blog post explaining how Foreign policy determines why migrants from Hong Kong got a better deal than Syrians or Ukrainians. Read the blogpost Why some migrants are deemed more deserving than others in Global Britain. You can also listen …
Our very own Michaela Benson was featured as the International Sociological Association’s sociologist of the month in December 2022. Redirected to the ISA website and read the full piece.
Who do we think we are? alumni, Nando Sigona, and host, Michaela Benson, co-authored a blog for The Political Quarterly. Read The UK’s Refugee ‘Invasion’ is a Brexit-made Policy Failure or listen to Nando’s feature on Who do we think we are? What Can We Learn About What British And EU Citizenship From Brexit?.
Who do we think we are? alumni, Nando Sigona, Catherine Ruth Craven, and our very own, Michaela Benson, have co-authored a blog post for The Conversation. Read Brexit sparked greater attachment to the European Union in UK and EU citizens living abroad, survey suggests.
Home means something to everyone. More than just bricks and mortar, it’s about security and belonging, citizenship and exclusion. Michaela Benson has researched it all: from the UK’s self-build communities, to people seeking a new lifestyle abroad. She tells Alexis and Rosie about this and her own experience of home, including her mother’s relationship to her …
Professor Michaela Benson writes: Now that we are halfway through the first series of Uncommon Sense, the production team at The Sociological Review are asking colleagues to get in touch with examples of how they use podcasts in their teaching; the challenges that they have faced in doing this; as well as any reservations they have about …
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Who Do We Think We Are? Presenter, Michaela Benson joins the Surviving Society podcast to discuss the UK in the context of ‘Global Britain’, post-Brexit and what this means for nations like Hong Kong.
Who do we think we are? host, Michaela Benson, has written a blogpost on the changing status of British citizens in Portugal post-Brexit for the UK in a Changing Europe blog. Read The status of British citizens in Portugal post-Brexit.
Why does the world need a sociological podcast? Why now? And what does podcasting offer for a public and engaged sociology? These questions and more were explored in Podcasting the Sociological, the launch event for Uncommon Sense, the new podcast from The Sociological Review. The event, held on 10 May 2022, allowed viewers to find …
