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6 November 2024 (6.30pm to 7.45pm)
UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain Annual Debate 2024
Growing up Digital: How Today's Youth Navigate Life on Screens and at School
Ten years ago,   introduced the concept of ‘networked teens’ to explain how social media expanded youth connectivity. In this talk, ±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌý introduces the idea of ‘postdigital’ teens, offering a lens to understand how teens’ digital networks intersect with their offline school-based peer dynamics 
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The fragile worker: stigma, illness and disability in the contemporary [western] workplace
Dr, Work, Employment And Organisation, Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde

Why do some disabled people opt not to disclose their diagnoses or symptoms to their employers and choose not to access workplace support? What lies beneath these choices and what are the workplace implications? 
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Cross-disciplinary Conversations: Sites for Decolonising Conceptual Frames and Methodologies
±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ùÌý, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.
An eclectic mix of disciplines and research methodologies is crucial for theorising socio-economic, political, cultural, and religious domains. However, in a refreshed take on an old problematic, in a commitment to ‘post-colonial’ and ‘de-colonial’ frames, this lecture proposed that these border crossings create opportunities for focusing a critical lens on existing disciplinary conceptual frameworks and methodologies.
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