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In this lecture, Lynn Jamieson will consider whether the social research evidence suggests hope concerning friendships’ impacts on uncertain futures and point to how important it is for social scientists to systematically attend to friendships as both lived realities and ideals in the imagination.

This seminar will focus on the policy challenges that are faced by people who are estranged and explore how a lack of family capital can cause real-time disadvantage in the areas of Higher Education and Mental Health.

Jingyu Mao, author of ‘Intimacy as a Lens in Work and Migration’, along with a guest panel, will discuss her recent book, which demonstrates how rural/urban, ethnic, and gendered inequalities structure certain kinds of service work and migration trajectories, and how they are experienced through the intimate and emotional experiences of workers themselves.

In this seminar, Mini Kurian draws on the reflexive narratives of 12 ‘trailing spouses’ of Indian origin living in gated communities in Bangalore and considers the ways in which a trailing spouse negotiates structural constraints to create channels for self-growth.

Using and designing surveys with, for, and on children and young people.