ICYMI!
"Making Family" in Rural Mongolia : Insights from a failed marriage, with Veronica Gruca
17 April, 11am – 12.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building
An exploration of the failed integration of a prospective wife into a herding family in rural Mongolia.
Register: edin.ac/4cXkx4g
Join us TOMORROW!
Book Talk - Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China
25 March, 11am-12.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building
More info and register: edin.ac/4b1hXaX
Read our latest CRFR Briefing:
Grandparents or free nannies? Grandparenting and intergenerational dynamics in rural-to-urban migrant families in China
By Dr Yingzi Shen, University of Sheffield
www.crfr.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
ICYMI
Book Talk - Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China
25 March, 11am-12.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building
More info and register: edin.ac/4b1hXaX
CRFR Blog Summary Post
Relationships, communities and investment: what our recent CRFR blogs tell us, by Emma Davidson
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Don't forget to register for
A Roof of One’s Own: Houses, hierarchies, and the fragilities of women’s access to property in Kerala, India
Tuesday 31 March 2026
12pm – 1.30pm
Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building
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Sign up for the next event in our seminar series!
Book Talk - Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China.
Wednesday 25 March 2026
11am – 12.30pm
Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building
edin.ac/4b1hXaX
New on the blog!
Alan Mackie explores one of the most pressing challenges for contemporary policing: how to repair and strengthen relationships between young people and the police in resource-deprived communities.
Read more: edin.ac/4kNLb1r
New on the blog!
Jean Lowe discusses how communities can support families through everyday challenges, and the reasons that can impact someone’s willingness to offer and/or receive a supportive action.
Read more: edin.ac/3OY27GA
Last chance to register!
'Afterlives of Retirement: Temporary migration, family and aging in the Gulf', supported by the Citizenship and Migration Research Network, with Dr İdil Akıncı-Pérez.
24 Feb, 12-1.30pm, Seminar Room 1, CMB
Join us! edin.ac/4biVUOD
One week to go!
Join Dr İdil Akıncı-Pérez for 'Afterlives of Retirement: Temporary migration, family and aging in the Gulf', supported by the Citizenship and Migration Research Network.
24 Feb, 12-1.30pm, Seminar Room 1, CMB
Join us! edin.ac/4biVUOD
ICYMI!
Join Dr İdil Akıncı-Pérez for 'Afterlives of Retirement: Temporary migration, family and aging in the Gulf', supported by the Citizenship and Migration Research Network.
24 Feb, 12-1.30pm, Seminar Room 1, CMB
Register: edin.ac/4biVUOD
This week! Book Forum: Janet Carsten’s Marriage and the Moral Imagination
Friday 13 Feb, 3pm-5pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.
Co-badged with @crfr.bsky.social, Social Anthropology, and the Kinship Hub.
Register here: edin.ac/4qnMKVW
New on the blog!
What Happens to Friendship When We Marry? Insights from Urban India, by Himalika Mohanty.
Read more here: edin.ac/4tegoPb
Next week! Book Forum: Janet Carsten’s Marriage and the Moral Imagination
Friday 13 Feb, 3pm-5pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.
Co-badged with @crfr.bsky.social, Social Anthropology, and the Kinship Hub.
Register here: edin.ac/4qnMKVW
We’re happy to share that Dr Brenda Herbert, Sociological Review Fellow 2024–25, is publishing her book The Everyday Lives of Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Abuse on 19 Feb 2026!
Book launch on 12 March at UCL: buff.ly/SOu9LnC
New book by Prof Julie Brownlie, Sociology
Drawing on empirical and theoretical research it seeks to interrogate the idea of kindness through bringing together sociological work on emotions and relationships with cultural sociology. edin.ac/49qXKvK
Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
We are delighted to be co-badging: Book Forum: Janet Carsten’s Marriage and the Moral Imagination
13 Feb, 3pm-5pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.
Organised by @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social, co-badged with Social Anthropology, and the Kinship Hub.
Register here: edin.ac/4qnMKVW
New on the blog
Beyond the Youth Worker: Why Families Are the Missing Link in Youth Work, by Olivia Darby
Read here: edin.ac/49SCiQg
Read our latest CRFR Briefing: South Asian Muslim Women’s Experiences of Divorce in Scotland.
By Nughmana Mirza and Rosemary Elliot, University of Glasgow.
edin.ac/450NJmk
📢Event announcement📢
Join Dr İdil Akıncı-Pérez for 'Afterlives of Retirement: Temporary migration, family and aging in the Gulf', supported by the Citizenship and Migration Research Network.
24 Feb, 12-1.30pm, Seminar Room 1, CMB
Register: edin.ac/4biVUOD
ICYMI!
Join Christina Cross for Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families, with Social Policy and GENDER.ED.
16 Jan, 1-3pm, Seminar Room 1, CMB
Register: edin.ac/4pwYrs9
Event announcement
Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families
With Christina Cross, Harvard University. Organised by Social Policy, co-badged with GENDER.ED and CRFR.
16 Jan, 1-3pm, Seminar Room 1, CMB
Visit: edin.ac/4rJs4ZB
ICYMI
Childism, Children’s Rights and the Challenge of Children’s Empowerment
Friday 28 November
5.30pm – 7pm
Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre
Part of the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture Series funded by the Robertson Endowment.
Register: edin.ac/46sfLs4
Data from the Brexit Couples Project shows that young, highly mobile couples often struggle to meet these requirements when applying for a partner visa.
Join Katharine Charsley and Jasmin El Shewy on
Wed, Nov 12th, 2pm - 3:30pm
Part of the CRFR Seminar Series
Book your place:
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New on the CRFR blog!
Read Yoshinori Kasai on how children build connections within their communities, drawing own his research on how a traditional folk event once provided an important opportunity for children to socialize.
www.crfr.ac.uk/thinking-of-...
📢ICYMI!📢
Evidencing Relationships: Young, mobile UK-EU couples and the UK immigration regime
12 Nov, 2pm - 3.30pm, G.05, 50 George Square
Part of the Sociology Seminar Series
With Katharine Charlesley and Jasmin El Shewy
More info and registration: edin.ac/4mgXWAL
Join us for: Evidencing Relationships: Young, mobile UK-EU couples and the UK immigration regime
12 Nov, 2-3.30pm, 50 George Square
Part of the Sociology Seminar Series
With Katharine Charlesley and Jasmin El Shewy
More info and registration: edin.ac/4mgXWAL
There is still time to register for our online event:
Introduction to HOPE: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences framework, with Dalia Avello-Vega
30 Sep, 1pm - 2.30pm, Online via Zoom
Visit: edin.ac/3UM73hD
