Ros Edwards

Home Welcome to Academics’ Wives Welcome to Academics’ Wives Academics’ Wives is a British Academy / Leverhulme funded research project exploring the contribution made by wives of social investiga...

On International Women’s Day let’s recognise how the wives of social investigators helped shape the foundations of social knowledge #IWD2026
#womenshistorymonth
academicswives.co.uk

We’ve just been finalising the programme - register to come along on the 11th and hear about WPR and * decoloniality, * artefacts as policy, and * the spatial.
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Online seminar - researcher trauma in quali research - use QR code to register

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

But Harriet Zuckerman wrote that she didn’t mind her erasure 🤷🏼‍♀️

Chap 2 of the book we’re writing

Insane solar halo recorded over Great Pyramid of Giza.

A 4,500-year-old monument. A 4.6-billion-year-old star. For one fleeting second, human geometry and cosmic physics align perfectly to break the sky.

Angel Edmonton

Just like Islington, Edmonton's Angel takes its name from a former pub, the Angel Tavern which was demolished in 1968.

Interestingly, Edmonton bus station has canopy covers that resemble angel wings with a bus roundel halo on top

Here's Andreya as a bus Angel!

Online book launch if our edited collection - please register - speakers address WPR and decolonising policy analysis, material objects as policy, and extending WPR spatially

And I opened Leicester’s Sociology Lab (ahem, see plaque). It’s a wonderful and unique concept. An awesome resource. Hands-on playing with new methods, reanimating older data. Doing sociology as sensibility and practice. Kudos to Leicester Sociology.

Still time to register for online viewing …

I’m honoured to be giving the Neudstadt Lecture in Leicester tonight. I’ll be talking about: How wives helped to shape the foundations for knowledge about society
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Eventbrite Find tickets to your next unforgettable experience. Browse concerts, workshops, yoga classes, charity events, food and music festivals, and more things to do.

Whether you’re curious about starting a podcast or ready to publish your first episode, these workshops provide the tools, confidence, and community to make it happen.

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Podcasting isn’t about simplifying research - it’s about opening it up.

For many researchers, it becomes a space to think aloud, explore ideas, and share the thinking behind their work.

Online book launch if our edited collection - please register - speakers address WPR and decolonising policy analysis, material objects as policy, and extending WPR spatially

Many social problems are blamed on 'fatherlessness'. But if fathers aren't present, where are they? @profatarrant.bsky.social explains how our social structures - such as inadequate housing, jobs, social security & parenting support - are obstructing engaged fatherhood: nowandmen.net/episode/anna...

Have you read The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists? Here’s the graphic novel version - the whole story told in cartoons.

You can still enjoy the story without reading the 255,000 word original text

And there are lots of horses and bicycles to look at

Blog by Sarah Gorin who is researching effective engagement of children, young people and parent/carers in how their personal information is used in public services

VACANCY (2 of 2...)

Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’.

Please share - thanks!
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VACANCY (1 of 2...)

Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with a qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class.

Please share - thanks!
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So proud of all the activists involved in disrupting the shanda Reform Jewish Alliance

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Barrister or barista equipment?

Video still of Professor Shahram Khosravi delivering The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025. A middle-aged man with a white beard, looking down while speaking into a microphone, in front of a computer screen.

WATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025

Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant Karolína Augustová, poet Tawona Sitholé.

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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day - the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Poverty is deepening.

🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning.

People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people.

This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

Manchester University Press - Walking Walking - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Walking by Charlotte Bates

So chuffed to be in this new book edited by Charlotte Bates and Emma Jackson, and my chapter is my first attempt at writing about life in Glasgow manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526184900/

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

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Just published #decolonising:
- Explores trusting & discomfort for non-Indigenous researchers working with Indigenous researchers
- Highlights processes of relational accountability & trusting
- Argues discomfort is necessary given colonial relations
doi.org/10.1177/1077...