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Uncommon Sense

Our world, through the eyes of sociologists. Brought to you by The Sociological Review Foundation.


The podcast that casts a sociological lens on our lives, our world, our crises. Each month, we sit down with an expert guest and grab hold of a commonplace notion – Anxiety! Privilege! Burnout! Fat! – and flip it around to see it differently, more critically, more sociologically. A jargon-free space, led by hosts Rosie Hancock and Alexis Hieu Truong, to question tropes and assumptions – and to imagine better ways of living together. Because sociology is for everybody – and you certainly don’t have to be a sociologist to think like one!

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Rosie Hancock

I am a Lecturer and Co-convener of the Religion and Global Ethics programme in the Institute for Ethics & Society at The University of Notre Dame Australia. As a sociologist of religion, I research the engagement of religious actors in grassroots politics, specialising in environmental politics. I tweet @rosiejhancock.

https://www.notredame.edu.au/research/institute-for-ethics-and-society/staff/Rosie-Hancock
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