Sociology Public Engagement Prize winners are announced

Researchers working to reduce the risk of social exclusion for older people in Greater Manchester, and to reduce the stigma of assisted reproduction in Iran have won the Sociology Public Engagement Prize. Winner - staff Chris Phillipson, with Luciana Lang, Sophie Yarker, Camilla Lewis, Tine Buffel, Patty Doran and Mhorag Goff won the staff prize for their work to reduce the risk of social exclusion for older people during the pandemic. When Covid 19 hit, the team used their existing community links to investigate the differing impacts on older people in Greater Manchester. Knowing that their findings would be useful for local authorities, practitioners, and policymakers, they produced a report and launched it with local authority and third sector partners. The report has been downloaded nearly 7,500 times. They then shared their research via an extensive programme of blogs and online presentations, to national and international third and public sector groups. Read the report: COVID-19 and Social Exclusion: Experiences of older people living in areas of multiple deprivation https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx'DocID=56003 - Winner - PhD candidate.