Winner of the 1st Prize ENQUIRE Blog Post Competition – Online Interviews: Hearing Women’s Voices by Robyn Timothy
July 8, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic changed the way we research. We moved away from campus offices and towards our kitchen tables. Just as spaces changed, the way we communicated had to change too. Zoom and Microsoft Teams became our only option, the best chance we had to stay connected with those communities of fellow postgraduate researchers that …
Winner of the 2nd Prize of the ENQUIRE Blog Post Competition 2021 – How Does Your Garden Grow? Inequality of Green Space Access: An Exploration by Elizabeth Cox
I have not always been a gardener, nor always held a deep-rooted enthusiasm for botanicals. Following the unexpected death of my parent, it was in a grief-ridden state as a mid-twenties Northerner in London that I spontaneously bought a cheese plant and, inadvertently, discovered the pleasure of plants. I soon learnt that there is a …
Winner of the 3rd Prize of the ENQUIRE Blog Competition 2021 – Brahmin Cultures of Disregard and Discard by Suraj Harsha
Growing up with my family, until the age of 24, I never had to clean a toilet. We lived in a chawl in Mumbai where every room of 100sq.ft was supposedly one family’s house but we were privileged to have two rooms to ourselves – a family of four. Built during the British rule for …
Runner up of the ENQUIRE Blog Post Competition 2021 – Farmed animals in the context of climate action: towards a paradigm shift by Pablo Serra-Palao
It is widely documented that industrial animal agriculture is a major driver of climate change, deforestation, land degradation and biodiversity loss. Given that relying solely on technological measures is not enough for mitigating these environmental pressures (Springmann et al., 2018), the scientific community is calling for a shift towards more plant-based diets as a demand-side …
Interviewing during lockdowns for a mixed-method research on Covid-19 and Forced Marriage in the UK by Rumana Hasham
June 30, 2021
Covid-19 has impacted everyone’s life across the globe, and it has significant implications in particular for people with specific disabilities, elderly people, women, and members of Black and Asian Minority Ethnic communities. Data from the Health Survey for England and The Scottish Diabetes Survey reveals that levels of the Covid-19 “vulnerabilities of ethnic minority groups” …
Winner of the 1st Prize of the Enquire Blog Post Competition 2019: Ruth Tarlo-Challenging Stories about Work and Unemployment
July 25, 2019
“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.” This quote from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is from a TED talk in which she addresses “the danger of a single story”, exploring how a limited and negatively stereotyped view of a …
Winner of the 2nd Prize of the Enquire Blog Post Competition 2019: Renelle McGlacken-Having Conversations with the Past and the Present: Visiting an Archive
July 22, 2019
Near the end of 2018, I made the long trip down to Brighton from Nottingham. Was my visit borne from a longing for the sea after a year living in The Midlands? No, this was strictly business (and Storm ‘Diana’ made sure that any seaside fun I planned was at my own peril). I was …
Winner of the 3rd Prize of the Enquire Blog Post Competition 2019: Duncan Fisher-Recruiting for Care during Times of Austerity
July 18, 2019
From January to April 2019 the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) ran a media campaign aimed at increasing recruitment and retention levels in adult social care (ASC) employment in England. Action is undoubtedly necessary: with over 110,000 vacancies and staff turnover at 30% (DHSC, 2019: 4) the sector urgently needs a boost to …
Maayan Niezna-Labour, Law, Control: Migrant Workers and Unfree Labour
July 15, 2019
My research project interrogates different legal frameworks addressing ‘unfree labour’ of migrant workers; it asks whether a ‘labour approach’ can better explain, and then help us to resolve, this phenomenon of economic exploitation. I address two aspects of this question – the conceptual and the contextual. By ‘unfree labour’ I refer to practices of exploitative, …
Jana Kujundžić-Legal and Political Context of Marital Rape in Croatia
July 10, 2019
In my doctoral research, I am focusing on marital rape in Croatia and its legal and political implications. The way in which the public and the legal system understands and treats marital rape also shows a wider cultural and societal understanding of gender roles, criminal legal system and power dynamics. I am focusing on marital …