This morning I sat having my breakfast listening to someone argue on the radio that transwomen should be excluded from the inclusive, friendly weekly park run. As I stood waiting for my train, where I’m sat writing this, I saw a wonderful advert for the new Trans+ charity Not a Phase. On this trans day
In the UK, February is LGBT+ history month, where we bring attention to the positive, and more difficult, aspects of queer history. I – the author of this blog post, Dr Peter Matthews – actually did my first degree in History, and have always been extremely interested in what is termed “social history” (i.e. the
This research project is big because nothing like this has been done before. A goal for the project was to interview 90 people who identify as LGBTQ+ who had accessed the welfare benefits system. And we’ve hit this goal! Looking across who we have interviewed so far there are some really obvious gaps that we
Today, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published their UK Poverty 2023: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK report. I was fortunate enough to be able to join the excellent webinar for its launch. I have not yet had time to read the report in detail, but I did want to reflect on two
In a post last month we considered LGB people’s housing situation, suggesting that the high proportion of LGB people living in private rented housing will mean they might be particularly affected by welfare reform, especially due to reduced Housing Benefit rates for younger people. Since then, in the Autumn Statement, the UK Government has announced
Today is the global Trans Day of Remembrance, marked since 1999 to commemorate the disproportionate number of trans people who are victims of violence, stigma and prejudice. Around the world trans activists and allies will be holding vigils, or other commemorative events, and keeping in-mind those we have lost. This project is trans-inclusive – we
In our last blog post we covered some of the issues we face in the project just using statistical data to understand LGB lives in the UK. In the first of two blog posts, we now want to present some initial findings from our project where we have analysed data from Understanding Society, the UK
We have had quite a busy summer on the project advancing our statistical analysis of people who identify as lesbian, gay and bisexual, so this is the first of three posts that present these initial findings. This blog post is being written just after an actor was forced to disclose his bisexuality due to online
June is Pride month! This links to the famous Stonewall riots which began in June 1969 in response to police brutality in New York City. London’s first pride march, 50 years ago, was chosen to be the nearest Saturday to this date. And we’re a proud bunch in the research team, with PI Peter Matthews,
We hoped to get these blog posts written and posted early-on in the project, but one thing led to another, and here’s the final post! Hi, I’m Paul Lambert, I’m a Professor of Sociology at the University of Stirling. I do research work on topics related to social stratification and inequality, and on methodology in
