Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives

The Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives is home to a group of researchers whose work sheds light on the dynamics of the everyday, the mundane, and the relational. We do so by using methods and ways of writing that allow us to tune in to, explore, illustrate and explain social life without losing sight of its complexity, multi-layeredness and specificity. While members of the Morgan Centre research a variety of topics - air quality, van dwelling, the making of kinship through donor conception, secrecy, girlhood, housing, bereavement and death, among others - what unites us is a shared concern with the relational nature of social life as it is experienced in the everyday, and a commitment to seeking new ways of seeing and researching the ever-changing world around us. In practice, what characterises the work of members of the Morgan Centre is a creative and inventive openness to different disciplinary and methodological approaches. Our imagination and curiosity, mostly rooted in sociology, but also cognate disciplines, often takes us down new paths of thinking and into uncharted research territories, whether this be investigating long-standing research problems from new angles, or developing new methods for doing research.