Banner by UK peace activist Thalia Campbell, a founder of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1981. She produced over 250 textile banners in activism for disarmament of nuclear weapons #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
For London Rivers Week this year, Louise Rondel and I are heading upstream to Petts Wood to lead a walk with local historians on experiences of living with the Kyd Brook, and the river's relationship to the development of the suburb. 28th May 6-8pm. Booking at:
www.thames21.org.uk/event/london...
Many examples we can give folk on streets as to why Reform are purely a party for big businesses & the wealthiest, this is one of the clearest: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
My new article out today! 🎉 Walking Sociologically, Teaching on the Move: Thinking with London’s Streets. It is part of a special issue of Sociology on teaching sociology in Higher Education.
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Great few days w @emmakjackson.bsky.social and PhD & staff researchers at @uniofgalway.bsky.social Researcher Development Centre.
Research topics included immortal jellyfish, online abuse of female academics and bovine methane emissions (only 5% from rear end! 😳). Really really enjoyable week!😁
The UK has become one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.
In this set of discussion papers, funded researchers discuss examples and approaches to deepen our understanding of place-sensitive nature recovery, exploring the links between people and nature.
New policy discussion paper in this @britishacademy.bsky.social series by me and Louise Rondel on the need for policy makers to learn from place-based knowledges about urban rivers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter
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Huge congrats to Dr Phung And supervisors!
New audio paper by Konstantinos Damianakis, Louise Rondel and me. It brings to life a discussion across sound studies and urban sociology about listening, rivers and … mermaids. seismograf.org/node/20849?f...
Great to see the Live Methods special section in issue form!
“Live Methods made an important intervention into how sociological research methods are practised, understood & written about.”
@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social @emmakjackson.bsky.social introduce a journal Special Section on @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods.
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Les Back on how football can inspire songs of celebration, defiance, protest or calls to action – which sounds like folk music to us.
🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation!
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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...
Thank you to all of our contributing authors and to @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar for their powerful and often moving conversation with me and fellow editor @emmakjackson.bsky.social on the making and legacy of Live Methods
Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever
A pleasure, Brenda. Thank you for contributing such a brilliant article!
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.
📢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...
If you're watching the London Marathon tomorrow, look out for my @adey70.bsky.social and give him a cheer.
What a beautiful baby. It’s so desperately unfair. Sending love to you and your family. X
Next week in Manchester. The Sociological Review inaugural quiz. I’m at the helm. Come on down!
Clem Burke was one helluva drummer and the coolest of cats. RIP.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-...
We are heading upstream for this year’s London Rivers Week. Tell your friends in Petts Wood! www.thames21.org.uk/event/london...
Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
A niche but nonetheless very cool (and permanent!) soil sociology job going at Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social
OUT NOW: in the new issue of The Sociological Review journal, we reassess Bev Skeggs' acclaimed Formations of Class and Gender.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/
@jolittler.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @simov.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social #OpenAccess
Come and join us at LSE!
Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
