CRFR are very sad to announce the death of Dr Sarah Nelson on the 29th March, a longstanding associate of CRFR at the universities of Edinburgh and Dundee, and an honorary fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and Social Work at the University of Dundee.

In this event, we welcome four researchers from our CRFR network at advanced stages of their doctoral research to deliver a series of presentations that attend to how dominant cultural norms impinge upon various forms of coupledom.

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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.