Category Archives: Social Positions

These posts highlight the ways that people or groups of people are positioned in society such that some are advantaged, while others are not. Social justice seeks to even this playing field.

Eating Sparrow: Tales from the Ivory Tower (video)

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As part of the Festival of the Mind activities hosted by the University of Sheffield I participated in a session called Tales from the Ivory Tower. The aim was to talk about research in a story telling format.  Here is the video of my storytelling, which focuses on social inequality and eating sparrow in Hong Kong.

Presentation…Decent Helpings

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The following is the text for my talk opening the panel discussion at the Decent Helpings event held on 7 November 2014.

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News Coverage of the Festival of Social Science Decent Helpings, 7 November 2014

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Mapping Sheffield Exhibit: Student engagement and the power of maps

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(Reblogged from shefgeographylives.wordpress.com)

From now until mid-August 2014 there is an exhibit in the Western Bank Library at the University of Sheffield. The exhibit is intended to showcase the historic maps held within the library’s map collection, which it does by engaging with everyday cartographies. Continue reading →