The third International Pandisciplinary Symposium on Solitude in Community Alone Together took place online on the 31st of March and 1st of April 2022.  The event was organized by the ISRS: the International Society for Research on Solitude together with the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Szczecin (Poland) and Bishop Grosseteste University (UK) under auspices of  The Reverend Canon Professor Peter […]

Loneliness, labelled a ‘pandemic’ in the 1990s, ‘The Leprosy’ of the 21st Century in 2018 and described increasingly as a public health problem, has captured the popular and academic attention. It is now considered so widespread that a billion-dollar industry has been developed to meet the needs of those who do not know what to do about […]

Call for book chapter contribution – The lonely life of ethnic minority academics in the West (part of loneliness and solitude book series) Introduction: Ethnic minority academics constitute an important part of academic communities, and also play an irreplaceable role in promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in higher education. Even though minority ethnic academics are […]