Great to share my research on the power of Call the Midwife and popular culture at this year’s RGS conference in Birmingham. So pleased to get a copy of ‘The Promise of Cultural Geography’ too 📚 #RGSIBG25
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@stjohnsox.bsky.social | @oxfordgeography.bsky.social | @ox.ac.uk | @socsci.ox.ac.uk | @ukri.org
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🚨📝 Delighted my latest article has been published online in Social & Cultural Geography today!
‘The power of representations to affect and effect: podcasting, popular culture, and audience stories behind Call the Midwife’.
It’s free to access and read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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A new co-produced video series from the BBC and Dr Alice Watson, from the School of Geography and the Environment, explores how the acclaimed television drama Call the Midwife inspires audiences to engage, create, and connect.
Read more: bit.ly/43gCrIO
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Contrary to being trivial or unworthy of academic interest, popular culture is revealed to be deeply meaningful to audiences who take ownership of Call the Midwife and through their own meticulous, uplifting, and identity-defining activities, breathe added life into it.
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Our co-produced video series features interviews with 6 devoted fans from across the UK. Collectively, it illustrates how audiences express their passion for media and popular culture in interesting, innovative, and obsessive ways and become creators, storytellers, and artists in their own right.
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Happy to share my latest project with the BBC exploring how audiences have been inspired by Call the Midwife to engage in a whole range of creative practices, from recording podcasts and collecting memorabilia to designing intricate cross-stitch patterns and knitting nuns and midwives! 🍰 🚲 🏥
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Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(2): Reporting on Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’ for BBC Radio 4: Journalists and the Geopolitics of Storytelling by Alice Watson @aliceewatson.bsky.social
Download and read for free:
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Research Fellow in Human Geography, Jesus College Oxford
Digital mediation, asylum systems, and post(human) thoughts
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-1326
Geography PhD student at University of Oxford researching digital mediations of rivers
Theories of affect, and this conjunctural crisis. New book co-written with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
Part-time Assistant Professor at @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @eui-stg.bsky.social European University Institute. Migration studies, asylum, citizenship.
Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Researching in, and across, geography education, children’s geographies, children’s citizenship and geographies of education.
PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
We are ranked within the top 5 geography departments in the UK, and in the top 3 for geography teaching (Times Good University Guide 2025). We offer degrees across Human and Physical Geography which give excellent career prospects to our graduates.
Sociology professor at University of California San Diego and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); and Culling the Masses (2014). I research policies and experiences around migration and asylum.
https://tinyurl.com/4snsdvzf
Executive Director @UWGlobalCollege Associate Professor #HumanRights @uwinnipeg | Lawyer | Scholar | Advocate | #Refugees #Resettlement #RefugeeSponsorship #Migration
Department Chair | Sociology & Anthropology | Saint Louis University | Work, Occupations, Economic Development, & Migration | Geographer in a Sociology World | Associate Professor, NTT | MBA@SLUChaifetzBiz | PhD@Cambridge_uni
Researching migration, borders, refugee camps, immigration detention, violence, trauma, death / Ethnography / Zemiology
📓 Author: Border Harms and Everyday Violence. A Prison Island in Europe (2023, Bristol University Press).
📍 UK & Greece
Historical geographer, University of Toronto; Affiliate, U of T's Centre for the Study of the US. Writing a book about climate labs, survival schools, and the 20th-c. US militarization of the planet. Distracted by AC Milan and ⚽️. Posts are personal.
Political scientist focusing on American politics, presidency, parties. San Diego Padres.
Semi-lapsed academic. Research interests in migration, gender, and development; mainly Southern Africa.
Lives in Ottawa, Canada. Previously Eswatini, Zambia, South Africa, UK.
Forced migration, SGBV, maternal health inequalities & Cultural Safety.
Research and Impact Fellow @irisbirmingham.bsky.social
Hands in clay or soil. She/her
When You Know- Childbirth in the UK Asylum System:
https://vimeo.com/1028359945/b9ee3abb4c
Immigration policy person for @thenyic.bsky.social at all three levels of government. Also the least useful kind of doctor
Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough & Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Studying international migration & membership politics, & school choice. Interested in the Montreal Canadiens, guitar, & fishing.
Assistant Prof @CEE, Sciences Po Paris. Researching & teaching 🇪🇺 and migration politics and policies.
Rechts- und Politikwissenschaftler, Hochschuldozent. Privater Account
Asylum and Migration Law//Critical Legal Theory
