The Sociological Review Journal Vol 74 Issue 1
with contributions from
Yasmin Gunaratnam Esperança Bielsa
Rin Ushiyama Nathan Manning Jacob Lypp
Emma Dowling Sara Eldén Zuzana Uhde
Kate Reed and Anna Balazs
Gareth M. Thomas Giulia Giorgi
Emma Jackson and Agata Lisiak
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/74/1
OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal.
Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.
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A hand holdint the book "bigfooters and scientific inquiry" by Jamie Lewis and Andy Bartlett.
Delighted to receive this in the post - 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry' by @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett. This book is in the finest STS tradition of showing how an apparently marginal or obscure scientific practice opens up an entire epistemological world.
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Recalibrating Stigma
Recalibrating Stigma - Sociologies of Health and Illness; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Featuring original analyses from emerging leaders in medical sociology, this book r...
Thanks @the-polyphony.bsky.social for sharing your platform with us to give people a sense of what's in the new edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' Available as a free e-book or relatively inexpensive paperback 5/5
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
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Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
2 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5
thepolyphony.org/2023/09/11/r...
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😍What a pleasure it’s been share the floor with @gmthomas.bsky.social
@oliwilliams.bsky.social
@amychandler.bsky.social and Jen Remnant talking about stigma at @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social
Check out the book Recalibrating Stigma: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
11.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A copy of the book 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler. The front cover of the book depicts a person out at night, lit by the light from a lamppost and looking at posters pasted onto a brick wall that are in the style of the 'WANTED' posters famously associated with the Wild West era of American history. The word 'UNWANTED' has replaced the word 'WANTED'.
We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection.
It is available as a free e-book and in paperback:
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
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26th June: we are excited to host an FSHI funded symposium at U of Edinburgh based around the forthcoming edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness'
More details below!
03.04.2025 04:57 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
@amychandler.bsky.social @oliwilliams.bsky.social
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Recalibrating Stigma - Symposium.pdf
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Free symposium, 'Recalibrating Stigma', on 26.06.25 at at University of Edinburgh. Funded by SHI Foundation. Speakers: Katharine Cheston, Harriet Cooper, Fay Dennis, Janice McLaughlin, Jennifer Remnant, and more! Details: jumpshare.com/v/bzZYybtCP9.... Register by 30/04. Email at thomasg23@cf.ac.uk.
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Academic @ School of Social Sciences Lancaster, PI Keeping Mothers in Mind. Interested in Hope, Motherhood, Mental Health, Futures, Ghosts, Archives, Loss, Tattoos
Postdoc @VUAmsterdam @Cambridge_Uni
| sociologist researching culture, care, and motherhood | previously PhD @Cambridge_Uni | she/her | cover art by Barbara Swan
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Medical Sociology & Health Services Research. Professor at CU Denver. Substacking “I’m Not Gaslighting You!” https://open.substack.com/pub/spencerk
Sociologist interested in health policy and inclusive involvement...and cycling. Current associate editor of Journal of Critical Public Health, a diamond open access publication https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/index
Lecturer, UEA Medical School, #DisabilityStudies, #MedHums
Associate Editor, @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal
Research/writing on:
the figure of the disabled child, shame and stigma in health and illness, lived experience and memoir culture.
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The official Bluesky account for the American Sociological Association Section on Medical Sociology.
https://www.asanet.org/asa_sections/medical-sociology/
Researching “the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century”. Infection-Associated Chronic Illness, activism, stigma, medical humanities. Postdoctoral fellow in Sociology.
Sociologist/prof and former journalist @forbes and @billboard writing about gender, disability, stress, and mental health. Also: sailing enthusiast, angsty tween wrangler, and lover of good fiction and dogs.
Social scientist | Critical public health | Communities
Edinburgh | Cambridge | Moomin Valley
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The American Journal of Sociology, founded in 1895 as the first journal in its discipline, is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews.
Director, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD). Ethnographer, historian(ish). STS, Genomics, research regulation (RECs/IRBs)
Dad, activist, politics, sewist, music and NFFC obsessive
Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her.
@d-liveability.bsky.social
#suicidecultures
Research Fellow, Sapphire, University of Leicester.
Sociologist, Qualitative health researcher interested in maternity and neonatal care, visual culture of reproduction, PPIE, qualitative research methods
Associate Professor @ Uni of Soton working on improving hospital care & research inclusion for people with a #LearningDisability, including people with profound learning disabilities; missed care & care inequalities. Funded by @NIHRresearch
