CRFR and our partners are delighted to announce our programme of events for Semester One 2024-2025, welcoming guest speakers to talk on a range of topics. You are invited to join these events, which are a mix of in-person and hybrid, by registering at the links below.

Wednesday 25th September: 4pm – 5:30pm, Hybrid 

Young people making a life in the new era of fintech – Steven Threadgold (University of Newcastle, Australia) 

The ‘Sociology Speaker Series’ and CRFR welcome Associate Professor Steven Threadgold to present on why policy makers and the youth sector need to consider the ‘everydayness’ of fintech beyond moral panics.

Young people are experiencing their transition to adulthood in an era of rising inequality, unprecedented new risks and the ubiquitous saturation but ever-evolving role of digital technologies in their lives. Forms of debt and fintech have become a normalised feature of young people’s lives that they need to reflexively navigate. The intersection between the frontstage consumption of credit and the backstage data-fied processes of algorithmic evaluation and sorting of access to financial instruments is where inequalities will be shaped in the future 

Register: Sociology Speaker Series – Steven Threadgold (Eventbrite) 

Thursday 3rd October: 1pm-2:30pm, Hybrid 

We were all in the same storm, but not the same boat: experiences of working parents during Covid-19 social restrictions in Scotland – Fiona McQueen and Sharani Osborn (Edinburgh Napier University) 

CRFR is delighted to welcome our Associate Director Fiona McQueen, along with Sharani Osborn, to deliver this CRFR Seminar. 

All working parents were impacted by social restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the flexibility of employers, their socioeconomic situation and the amount of space in their home environment being particularly influential. However, the impact of social restrictions was greater for lone parents due to the inability to share childcare with another adult in the home and for parents in low-income households who were impacted in different ways due to pre-existing inequalities of resources. 

Register: We were all in the same storm, but not the same boat (Eventbrite) 

Tuesday 29th October: 3pm – 5pm, Hybrid 

Book Launch: Gender in South Asia and Beyond 

Gender.Ed, in partnership with CRFR, Centre for South Asian Studies, and Sociology invite you to join us to celebrate the launch of this essay collection celebrating the scholarship of Professor Patricia Jeffery who, for over 40 years, carried out pioneering research on a range of subjects including gender and development.  

Register: Book Launch: Gender in South Asia and Beyond 

Tuesday 5th November: 12pm – 1:30pm, Hybrid 

LGBTIQ+ Breakups 

CRFR welcomes colleagues from the University of Eastern Finland to deliver a series of presentations based on the project ‘Where the rainbow ends: the becoming of LGBTIQ+ separations.’  

Annuka Lahti – Intersectional LGBTIQ+ Breakup Assemblages: vulnerabilities, privileges and therapy in the support systems of separated LGBTIQ+ people. 

Anna Heinonen – Orchestrated affects and unruly becomings of a queer breakup in a separation support group for LGBTIQ+ people. 

Maiju Parviainen – “It’s Not Enough That Your Cousin is a Lesbian”: Finnish Relationship Experts’ Perceptions Regarding the Special Issues to be Considered in LGBTIAQ+ Breakup Therapy. 

Register: LGBTIQ+ Breakups (Eventbrite) 

Monday 18th November: 1pm – 2:30pm, Online 

Positive shifts in stigma, shame and deservedness in cash experiments and welfare 

CRFR welcomes colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania to present on positive shifts in stigma, shame and deservedness in cash experiments and social welfare. 

Register: Positive shifts in stigma, shame and deservedness (Eventbrite)