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A chance to share dilemmas that researching with young people can bring up – book now for ‘Methodological and ethical dilemmas in research with young people’, a BSA Youth Study Group event, 16 September 2025, Manchester Metropolitan University https://tinyurl.com/4ey5y483

A chance to share dilemmas that researching with young people can bring up – book now for ‘Methodological and ethical dilemmas in research with young people’, a BSA Youth Study Group free event, 16 September 2025, Manchester Metropolitan University tinyurl.com/4ey5y483

The Identities Newsletter - Summer 2025 Edition Welcome to the Summer 2025 edition of The Identities Newsletter, spotlighting the latest activities from the journal, Identities.

Have you browsed the latest #Identities Newsletter?

Spotlighting activities including one year of our podcast, our most read & trending articles, & our latest events and blog posts.

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social‬ @uofgsps.bsky.social‬

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Search, browse or analyse Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) from UK governmental bodies. Where can research make a difference? See how your research could help solve problems and inform government policy.

Are you looking to make a real impact with your research? The Areas of Research Interest database, ari.org.uk, is a first step to seeing where research and expertise can be of value to UK government departments and agencies

#ICYMI: Writing About Activists, our recent Conversations series event chaired by @academicdiary.bsky.social and featuring scholars Hannah Ishmael, John Narayan and A.S. Francis.

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🎧 Listen to our new #podcast mini-series Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism buff.ly/EUCdEHZ

Take part in ‘75 Years of Sociology’ – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Abstract submissions are invited for the BSA's 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh, submission deadline: 3 October 2025 https://tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology

Take part in ‘75 Years of Sociology’ – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Abstract submissions are invited for the BSA's 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh. Submission deadline: 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology

We have an opening for a one-year Sociology Lectureship in Glasgow focused on teaching the sociology of class. Please share it with anyone interested. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Screenshot - Scotland - BBC Sounds Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look for the real Scotland on screen as Braveheart turns 30

Fabulous edition of BBC Radio 4’s Screenshot - Scotland on Film. Brian Cox is magnificent in it, I think. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

With my favourite actor and neighbour - Hannah Jarrett-Scott who was funking fantastic in Wild Rose in Edinburgh earlier this year.

ECR opportunity: 20 funded places on our Early Career Researchers Day.

Successful applicants will join us in Glasgow for workshops on migration studies & ethnographic practice led by Shahram Khosravi & @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social

Apply by 8 September. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

The Identities Newsletter - Summer 2025 Edition Welcome to the Summer 2025 edition of The Identities Newsletter, spotlighting the latest activities from the journal, Identities.

Have you browsed the latest #Identities Newsletter?

Spotlighting activities including one year of our podcast, our most read & trending articles, & our latest events and blog posts.

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social‬ @uofgsps.bsky.social‬

bit.ly/IdentitiesNew...

Professor Satnam Virdee FBA Satnam Virdee is Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences at University of Glasgow. He has held the position since 2005. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of ...

Congratulations Satnam www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/satn... @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Sugar Hill stories: @academicdiary.bsky.social
@uofgsociology.bsky.social on W.E.B. Du Bois and his chess defeats, Ralph Ellison’s reflections on nowhere, and the ”sweet life” past of a New York City neighbourhood seen through a darkening American present.

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The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025 92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

Warm congratulations to Satnam Virdee for being made a fellow of the British Academy - well done, Satnam.
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Enjoyed writing this piece about a great day in Harlem earlier this year for our new Sociology Blog at Glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Is it a trap to see sociology as a job?

As universities face a financial crisis and increasingly focus on quantifiable metrics, @academicdiary.bsky.social considers the support and structures needed to nurture a deep and rounded sociological life. Out now in our June magazine.

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Wonderful embodied learning with Anna Tudos - becoming asparagus. Serious play - wonderful and imaginative. 👏👏👏

So wonderful to be in Trento listening to Chiara Bassetti explaining the conference icon Giovanna Marini the folklorist and sing collectors and curator of the new Italian song book. Brilliant - songs of society.

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

From our new blog by academicdiary.bsky.social "She remembers W.E.B. Du Bois as a child, as a man who “loved people.” Paul Robeson visited to play chess with Du Bois. Although LeVerne remembers Du Bois was a terrible loser." www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Great Days in Harlem… something new from a trip to New York earlier this year. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Exciting news! Today sees the reinauguration of our collective blog, featuring research, reflections and critical interventions from staff and doctoral students in the Division of Sociological & Cultural Studies. More at the link below, including our first blog, from @academicdiary.bsky.social

Oh fabulous, David. Woudl have come and found you 👏👏👏 warm congrats x

Oh that’s great what are you up to David?

So proud that #York is a city of sanctuary, a human rights city & that it has one of the greatest MPs in the country in @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social who gave a barnstorming speech in the House of Commons just now in defence of her constituents with disabilities and long term illness. They matter!

I went to this last year and it was fantastic! If you are an ECR please consider applying. Great place, great people and you actually get writing done! 👇🏾

Live at Bronte Blues Club Earl Green & The Right Time · Album · 2011 · 12 songs

Earl Green was Black Britain’s first blues singer. I was in his touring band for ten years playing hundreds of gigs across thousands of miles often stopping at late night service stations on the way home. He died on 6th May 2020. We made one album open.spotify.com/album/0KFiR3...

If you're lucky enough to be in Trento in a couple of weeks time @academicdiary.bsky.social is one of the keynote speakers at the 10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference.

Our latest magazine is out now, featuring:

#Hollyoaks writer Jayshree Patel on sociology & soaps
@academicdiary.bsky.social on weighing your job's worth
@vapunkt.bsky.social on ski slopes & sustainability
@karimmurji.bsky.social on representing London
...& much more, too.

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Archive on 4 - Here We Go! The Art of the Football Chant - BBC Sounds Les Back charts the history of football chants and asks if they’re modern-day folk songs.

Finally listened to @academicdiary.bsky.social’s brilliant Archive on 4 documentary about football chants. Wonderful, lyrical stuff

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Oh thanks so much, Kieran. Was my first venture into presenting. I learned so much and am planning to include sone of this a material in a book I am developing of what we learn about society through music.