Department of Sociology, University of York

The Department of Sociology 20 November, 20 December, Disability History month, 2025 Poster Display 2nd Floor, Law and Sociology Building The background of the picture has faded pictures of various disabled activists and scholars, and tiles of different colours with different Disabled events through history.

We are marking Disability History Month with a display highlighting the work of disabled scholars and activists who have made significant contributions to the social sciences, on the 2nd floor of the Law and Sociology building, 20 Nov - 20 Dec

#Sociology #UniversityofYork #DisabilityHistoryMonth

This 3-year research project explored the realities, challenges, and opportunities of disabled young people. This workshop is for practitioners, policy makers, disabled young people, and their families. It’s about what we’ve discovered and working together to shape what comes next.

@annastrhan.bsky.social will be holding a talk about the book, Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England, on the 4th December at York Humanists. More info🔗
www.yorkhumanists.org.uk/news.html

#Sociology #Humanist #Research #Religion #England #UniversityofYork

Mental Illness: A Critical Synthesis of Sociological Explanations Sociological approaches offer essential tools through which to make sense of mental health issues. This entry provides a critical synthesis and introduction to four core approaches within sociology t...

Finally, Baptiste Brossard has co-authored and published a review article on sociological explanations of mental illness in the ‘Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society’

#Health #Illness #Behaviour #Society #MentalHealth

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@annastrhan.bsky.social and @joannamalone.bsky.social have co-authored and published an article exploring therapeutic and emotion-based initiatives in primary schools in the UK in the Sociological Review as part of their Leverhulme-funded project ‘Becoming Citizens of Post-secular Britain’

#Citizen

“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain - Critical Criminology This article contributes to understanding violence in deportation. Drawing on data from eight months of fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, ...

@monish.bsky.social published an article on air-deportations and liberal violence in the UK in Critical Criminology

#Deportation #Violence #UK #Criminology

@bnjacobsen.bsky.social and colleagues at @geogdurham.bsky.social have published an article examining how prompting in machine learning is reshaping political power, expertise, and governmental decision-making in Economy and Society.

#Prompting #MachineLearning #PoliticalPower #Decision #Government

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@emmahcasey.bsky.social has had her conversation with Ann Oakley on ‘Unappreciated Labour’ published in Cultural Sociology ( @culsoc.bsky.social )

#CulturalSociology #Labour #Women

@yenerbayramoglu.bsky.social has also co-authored an article entitled ‘Safe/r spaces: A critical view of socio-political space’ for the journal GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft

#SafeSpace #Gender #Politic #German #Education

Diversität, Intersektionalität und Geschlecht im Journalismus: zur Einführung in das Themenheft - Nomos eLibrary Der vorliegende Beitrag eröffnet das Themenheft „Diversität, Intersektionalität und Geschlecht im Journalismus“ und verortet es im Kontext bisheriger Fors…

@yenerbayramoglu.bsky.social has co-edited a special issue on diversity, intersectionality, and gender in journalism for M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft

#Gender #Journalism #German #Diversity

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Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Silvia Falcetta, @patriciahamilton.bsky.social, @drfuturity.bsky.social , Rodrigo Campos, Jade Gilbourne, @rossolb.bsky.social & Phoebe Murphy have published an article reflecting on trialing problem-based learning in sociology in ‘Sociology’ ( @britsoci.bsky.social )

In Search of the Real Max Weber This book critiques traditional action theories, redefining agency as effort, emotion, and imagination while exploring agency’s role in social structures.

Professor Emeritus, Colin Campbell, published the book ‘In Search of the Real Max Weber: A Dynamic Interpretive Approach to Action and Agency’ with springernature.com.

#MaxWeber #ActionTheory #SocialStructure

Take a look at what our academic and research staff published in October!👇

#Sociology #UniversityofYork #Research #Academic #Criminology #Society #HigherEducation

The symposium features a range of academic speakers, artists and representatives from the museum and heritage sector.

Click on the link below for more information about the event.

#Research #Philadelphia #UrbanStudies #InnerCity

Gareth Millington's Archiving the Inner City project, funded by Leverhulme Trust is hosting a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on Friday 14 November.

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More info below 👇

#UniversityYork #Sociology #Race #Politics #UrbanHistory #BlackHistory

What's in a Voice? With Dr Jennifer Chubb & Dr Peter Harrison - The Last Human Voice Podcast The use of AI to enhance actors' accents in the film The Brutalist  has made headlines and drawn considerable negatve backlash.Away from sensationalist takes and knee-jerk reactions, the response may…

Dr Jenn Chubb from Sociology, Uni of York and Dr Peter Harrison from York Law School, Uni of York, discuss the implications of voice cloning in law and in life on the podcast The Last Human Voice.

Link here: buff.ly/a2ouitb
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social
#Law #UniversityofYork

The use of AI to enhance actors' accents has made headlines and drawn considerable negative backlash. Away from sensationalist takes, the response may be less about the use of AI and more about the transparency of where and how it is used.

#Sociology #AI #VoiceCloning

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...a powerful and moving film exposing how GPS tracking extends the reach of the prison, racialises punishment, and revealing the different treatment of migrants within the UK criminal justice system.

#Sociology #Research #FilmScreening #Prison #Race #Migrants #CriminalJusticeSystem

3 picture collage. At the top is a cinema screen with a shot of someones feet in white trainers, grey trousers and an electronic ankle tag. On the bottom left is a picture of 2 people by a podium, one is wearing a blue shirt, is bald and has a black beard, the other has a red and grey short, short dark hair and a beard who is facing the other person and gesturing with their hand. On the bottom right is the picture of a bald man with a black beard, blue shirt, jeans and white shoes leaning against a podium.

Yesterday, the Gender, Sexuality & Inequalities Research Cluster screened "No Release" with @monish.bsky.social...

#Sociology #Research #FilmScreening #Prison #Race #Migrants #CriminalJusticeSystem

'No Release: Immigration, location control and tracking' with Monish Bhatia The film 'No Release' is based on research and interviews conducted by Dr Bhatia as part of his project 'Immigration, Location Tracking and Control', funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

Join Dr Monish Bhatia for a screening of No Release on 22 Oct.

No Release tells the story of two migrant men who, after their release from prison, face a new form of punishment: continuous GPS surveillance enforced by the UK immigration system.

#UniversityofYork #Sociology #Immigration #Film

The Religion & Spirituality in Society & Culture Lab explores religion, spirituality, and secularity in society and culture, across spaces and scales, as well as how these intersect.

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With growing numbers of staff and PGRs in the dept researching religion and spirituality, we've launched a new working group: the Religion & Spirituality in Society & Culture Lab.

Keep reading below 👇

#UniversityofYork #UoY #Sociology #Religious #Culture #Spirituality #Research

How much do you know about parental leave policies? How would you make them better? Bring your under 5s on 25th Oct along for story time by Mud Pie Arts while you do a fun quiz and maybe win prizes, including a £30 York Gift Card!

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Photo: Mahmud Ahsan

#Sociology #ParentalLeave

Finally, Clare Jackson has published an article examining how midwives routinely conduct and communicate risk assessments during labour in midwife-led care in ‘Patient Education and Counseling’.

#Midwives #Risk #Patient

Feminisms, women’s histories and heritage in ‘inner city’ London and Paris - Miranda Armstrong, Ayshka Sené, Gareth Millington, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, 2025 Despite being stigmatised and racialised during the latter half of the twentieth century, the ‘inner city’ in London and quartier populaire in Paris also became...

Gareth Millington has co-authored and published an article exploring feminist heritages and curatorial activism in the inner cities of London and Paris, as part of their Leverhume-funded project Archiving the Inner City, in ‘The Sociological Review’ ( @thesociologicalreview.org ).

#Feminism

Les goûts musicaux des Français.es – Le Bord de l'Eau Aucun produit dans le panier.

Raphael Nowak ( @raphahead.bsky.social ) has co-authored and published a book titled “Music Tastes of French People: Preferences, Use Values, and Competence” with ‘Le Bord de l’Eau’.

#France #French #Music

The Everyday of Epistemic Tensions in U.S. Psychiatry Click on the article title to read more.

Baptiste Brossard ( @baptzo-8-5.bsky.social ) has also published a book review of “The Everyday of Epistemic Tensions in U.S. Psychiatry” in ‘Symbolic Interaction’.

#UnitedStates #Psychiatry

What is mental pain? A systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative research on the lived experience of mental pain Abstract. Introduction: Mental pain—a pain not primarily felt in the body—is a predictor of suicide and is often described as one of the most distressing aspects of depression. However, the absence…

Baptiste Brossard ( @baptzo-8-5.bsky.social ) has co-authored and published a systematic review exploring the lived experience of mental pain and its implications for research and clinical practice in ‘Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics’.

#MentalHealth #MentalPain #Psychotherapy #Psychosomatics

Reporting and measuring English school qualifications: a case study of General Certificate of Secondary Education results in survey and linked administrative data in the UK Millennium Cohort Study Data on educational qualifications is essential in many research domains. The UK Millennium Cohort Study collected self-reported General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) data in sweep 7 (c...

Sarah Stopforth has co-authored and published an article examining the consistency of GCSE reporting in survey and administrative data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study in the ‘Cambridge Journal of Education’.

#GCSE #Education #Cambridge #Schools

Tom O’Brien ( @tomob-nz.bsky.social ) has published an article exploring patterns of environmental protest in Sydney between 1997 and 2018 in the ‘Journal of Australian Studies’ ( @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social ).

#Protest #Australia