Amit Singh

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might be of interest @jameskneale.bsky.social ?!

A hierarchical cluster analysis on principal components showing five clusters of points, coloured by cluster, on a graph.

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out.

We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools.

doi.org/10.1002/berj...

(PDF) Sociology 1 -18 Resisting Neoliberalism's War on the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on PhD Work as Anti-Racist Practice PDF | This article reflects on undertaking PhD work as a form of anti-racist practice from an angle with significant promise for sociology and the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

My new article for Sociology on how PhD work, in resisting the neoliberalism of HE, may salvage an insurgent sociology. The piece reflects on my time completing a PhD committed to anti-racism, prompted by Mark Duggan's killing, the anniversary of which is today.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Another plug for my open-access paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social on how working-class college students in London, Rochdale and Morecambe perceive of university.

28/60 aspired to university, including just 2/26 in Morecambe, reflecting spatial divisions of labour (+ other stuff!).

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Job in the Sociology Department here at Durham.

Opportunity to work on a really important project looking at the history of a classic study in British sociology and how it ignored/obscured issues of race and gender.

durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

AntiSocial - Racism and prejudice - BBC Sounds Is it useful to talk about a hierarchy of racism?

🎧Dharmi Kapadia contributes to this episode of #AntiSocial on racism & prejudice. Dharmi discusses our research on the many complex, overlapping & accumulating impacts of racism.
(Dharmi's section starts around 22:40mins) @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New article from @amit-singh.bsky.social on how young working-class people balance potential risk and reward in decisions on whether to go to university 👇🏾

Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? The long read: Given his career as a human rights barrister, it was hoped Keir Starmer would be the PM to restore the UK’s commitment to international law. The reality tells a different story

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The paper derives from my wider @leverhulme.ac.uk project that will become a book with @princetonupress.bsky.social probably in 2027....

Might be of interest @ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social

Managing Risk & Seeking Dignity: Working‐Class Perceptions of University in London, Rochdale & Morecambe This paper examines how working-class young people enroled at college in London, Rochdale and Morecambe perceive of university. It argues that university represents a great risk, associated with high...

New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Calling trade unionists and tenant union members with a story to tell!
This workshop provides basic oral history training aimed at trade and tenant union members interested gathering oral testimonies of working class struggles, 23 July Glasgow Zine Library www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/events/2025/...

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Are you part of our early career scholar network? We are collecting feedback on our activities - if you can help us out by filling in our short & sweet form we'd appreciate it 🙏🏾
www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Negotiating the boundaries of Blackness and naming whiteness: the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent This article explores the racialisation and identity formation process of French citizens of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France. To do so, it centres the voices of two groups with conn...

My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this.
@ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

New article by @roaa-ali.bsky.social and me - coming out of @ethnicityuk.bsky.social research on how agendas of inclusivity and diversity played out in a museum setting. We make the case that a focus on anti-racism would have produced more critical change.

Repeats text in post plus 'have you seen police in and around a school? have you had experiences with police at or near school?'

We’re collecting testimonies on policing in schools across England.

Students, parents, carers, teachers, youth workers & others — if you’ve got a perspective, we want to hear from you. WhatsApp, email, or online form 👇🏿. Pls share 🙏🏿
#PoliceInSchools www.ethnicity.ac.uk/school-policing/

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

This is great!

Real Ale Warwick Students' Union - creating a better experience for students at Warwick.

Warwick does - www.warwicksu.com/societies-sp...

Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football For the children of the Nigerian diaspora, displaced by war and split between two worlds, footballers from John Fashanu to Jay-Jay Okocha were a first glimpse of themselves in Britain’s mainstream

I wrote an essay for The Guardian Longread about the Super Eagles and the history that brought the Nigerian diaspora to London. 🖤 🇳🇬 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Sign the Petition Save BSix

BSix is such an amazing educational institution that offers a lot to young people in the area

please sign/share the petition to resist the current changes, which include wiping out the whole enrichment programme (which doesn't even cost the college money!)

www.change.org/p/save-bsix

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This has been a long time in the making, but I’m delighted to share this special issue of @thesociologicalreview.org edited by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & I.

Research Associate - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE):Manchester

📢JOB: Research Associate @ethnicityuk.bsky.social

New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿

@britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I spoke to @jordanklepper.bsky.social of @thedailyshow.com about the role MMA plays in shaping the rightward turn of young people, especially young men. Have a gander!

A fantastic project on ex-industrial towns in the UK which challenges the notion of 'left behind' by focusing on new forms of economic exploitation and political expropriation two-towns.common-wealth.org

A multimedia article based on my PhD research in east London has just been published by the open-access journal Roadsides. It's part of a collection on 'infrastructural anxieties'.

roadsides.net/deakin-012/

The first article from our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project 'After Last Orders?: A biographical exploration of the impact of UK pub closures' is now published in British Journal of Sociology. Open access via the link below.

🔥 One more week to apply for this postdoc position in Zurich (flexible start date)

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions

If you'd like to hear from someone who has been working closely with me, @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social and @retobuergisser.bsky.social are happy to share insights