Our events bring together researchers, practitioners, and communities to share knowledge, discuss key issues, and support meaningful engagement with young people and communities.

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Upcoming

The Socio-Technical Accomplishment of Expertise; What Can a Cycle Technicians’ Workshop Tell us about Knowing Stuff?

10th March 2027, 4-5pm

Room BR1.05, Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Professor Jonathan Tummons (Durham University, School of Education)

In this seminar, Jonathan will discuss aspects of a workplace ethnography of a cycle technicians’ workshop in order to explore ways of knowing and bodies of expertise that appear to be routinized and mundane, but are in fact redescribed as resting on configurations of people, objects, operating sequences and ways of knowing that all require constant maintenance. Drawing on the work of Bruno Latour and specifically his comparative anthropology an Inquiry into Modes of Existence, itself resting on Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies, Jonathan explores how the maintenance of cycles, as technological objects, relies on bodies of expertise and objectivised knowledge that in turn need to be maintained, which themselves are located relationally between and across the technicians and the specialist tools that the technicians use. Thus, the ongoing work of cycle maintenance echoes the ongoing maintenance of the socio-technological networks that bring into being the expertise of the technicians.

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Past Events

Research as an Intense and Inconvenient Gift: Participatory Youth Research and the Co-Productive Imagination

14^th October 2026 4-5pm 

Dr James Duggan (Health and Education, MMU) 

Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Sociology of Health and Illness with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities

June 25th 2026 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University