Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
Hilary Pilkington joined the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester in 2012. She was previously Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick (2005-2012) and Director of the Centre of Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham (2002-2005).
She has a long standing research interest in youth and youth cultural practices, post-socialist societies and qualitative, especially, ethnographic research methods. She has been coordinator of a number of large, collaborative research projects including the FP7 MYPLACE project (http://www.fp7-myplace.eu/)
Manchester attack: now is the time to properly talk about 'radicalisation'
May 25, 2017 11:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
It can be hard to know what to say at a time like this. In these hours when the same words terrorism, security, threat, radicalisation will be repeated over and over again, it can often feel like its better to just keep...
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