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Why We Sometimes Hate the Good Guy
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July 30, 2018

Why We Sometimes Hate the Good Guy

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Making Sense of Society: Ruben Schneider
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April 14, 2017

Making Sense of Society: Ruben Schneider

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Making Sense of Society: Ruth Puttick
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April 10, 2017

Making Sense of Society: Ruth Puttick

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Making Sense of Society: David Pollard
Career
April 7, 2017

Making Sense of Society: David Pollard

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Making Sense of Society: Siobhan Maderson

Making Sense of Society: Siobhan Maderson

In developing wise policy, we ignore local environmental knowledge at our peril, writes Siobhan Maderson in her essay about the interaction of bees, beekeepers, and government.

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Making Sense of Society: Vanessa Hughes

Making Sense of Society: Vanessa Hughes

Concepts of mobility, citizenship and belonging are morphing in a time of widespread immigration. In this essay, Vanessa Hughes uses the case of a specific London resident to explore these themes.

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Making Sense of Society: Sophie Hedges

Making Sense of Society: Sophie Hedges

In this short-listed essay from a competition sponsored by the ESRC, Sophie Hedges notes that norms about child labor are by no means universal.

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Making Sense of Society: Alison Harper

Making Sense of Society: Alison Harper

Social Science Space will publish the winning essays, runners-up and eight shortlisted pieces from the most recent ESRC writing competition in the next few weeks. Here we present “Better healthcare with deep data,” an essay from Alsion Harper detailing some of the concepts she’s observed with the use of endoscopy in a retirement hotspot.

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Making Sense of Society: Elo Luik

Making Sense of Society: Elo Luik

Social Science Space will publish the winning essays, runners-up and eight shortlisted pieces from the most recent ESRC writing competition in the next few weeks. Here we present “A meeting in New Delhi: An ethnography of a dangerous miracle,” an essay from Elo Luik at the University of Oxford.

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Making Sense of Society: Max Gallien

Making Sense of Society: Max Gallien

In the third of a series of essays from ESRC-funded researchers, a young academic explains why studying ‘informal cross-border trade’ is important to understanding society itself today.

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Making Sense of Society: Lauren White

Making Sense of Society: Lauren White

In the second of a series of essays from ESRC-funded researchers, a young academic describes her examinations of how places such as toilets can be reflective of our practices of privacy and containment of our bodily excretions.

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Making Sense of Society: Wilhelmiina Toivo

Making Sense of Society: Wilhelmiina Toivo

Social Science Space will publish the winning essays, runners-up and eight shortlisted pieces from the most recent ESRC writing competition in the next few weeks, starting with “Once more, with feeling: life as bilingual,” an essay from psychologist Wilhelmiina Toivo at the University of Glasgow.

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