SSPC at the University of Southampton

My research calls for a fundamental shift in how policymakers, practitioners, and scholars understand children's vulnerability to radicalisation—one that centres their protection while maintaining community safety. I welcome your thoughts and engagement with this work 🤓

I apply an #exploitation lens to children's recruitment and engagement in terrorism/violent extremism online, drawing from 30 interviews + 2 workshops with experts across #counterterrorism, #antislavery, #childprotection + #digitalsecurity.

Exploited for the Cause?: The Potential for a Cross-Harm Approach to Children’s Online Engagement in Terrorism Abstract. The traditional intersection of exploitation and terrorism lies within armed conflict, whereby individuals are subjected to physical abuses for f

🗣️ New year, new publication! ✍
I'm delighted to share my new article, "Exploited for the Cause?: The Potential for a Cross-Harm Approach to Children's Online Engagement in Terrorism," published #openaccess in the British Journal of Criminology: doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

The second of the two articles is by @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social, exploring disability, failure and UKHE. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... (now with a working link!)

Missing alt text: a screenshot showing the Sociological Review journal homepage with the three most recently published online first articles.

Elsewhere, @ashkingdon.bsky.social is published today in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism! doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2025.2575469

Two of the three most recently published articles on @thesociologicalreview.org are by academics from our department! Congratulations all.

You can read fascinating work from @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies on challenges of researching academic wives at doi.org/10.1177/00380261251375423

Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at gain@soton.ac.uk so that we can get an idea of numbers!

The Darkest Shade of Green: Climate Change, Terrorist Organizations, and the Battle for Environmental Legitimacy Climate change is fundamentally reshaping modern terrorism through “environmental governance competition”—strategic contests where terrorist organizations exploit climate vulnerabilities to outperf...

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Thrilled My Latest Article - The Darkest Shade of Green - Is Out In Studies In Conflict & Terrorism 🎉🍾🥳I Examine the Links Between #ClimateChange and #RebelGovernance among #IslamicState #AlQaeda #Hamas & #Hezbollah 👇👇👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies Hidden Traces: Writing sociologists' wives into existence https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251375423 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst

How have sociologists’ wives contributed to the discipline?

@rosedwards.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social and Val Gillies on post-war sociology, invisibility and the “great man narrative”.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/0VVrW9Y

Thanks for Typing #podcast buff.ly/dJZ97H1

Please help to spread the word! A chance to get your PhD funded through ESRC SCDTP to study @ Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth & Southampton

@unisouthampton.bsky.social @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @chiunipress.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social

Children at risk of identity theft and fraud from 'sharenting' Researchers at the University of Southampton are warning of the dangers of posting your children's photos online.

This article outlines key findings from our ESRC-funded research project which revealed digital harms that arise when parents disclose children’s information online. Awareness raising resources for parents & briefings for stakeholders including policy makers are available at: www.protechthem.org

Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use Academic says sample size was too small to claim new sensitivity guidelines have removed racial, gender or age bias

Important intervention from my departmental colleague, @petefussey.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social #facialrecognition #policing

We’re hiring in criminology, sociology, social policy
@sspcatsoton.bsky.social

1x Lecturer in Criminology: tinyurl.com/3ypv6ef3

1x 12 month Teaching Fellow in any area of Sociology, Social Policy or Criminology: tinyurl.com/37smc5as

Come join our collegiate & inclusive dept, ranked #4 in UK REF

🎓 Are you a PhD, ECR, or Teaching Fellow researching gender & inequalities at
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
? 💡 Apply for up to £150 to fund fieldwork or conferences! ✍️ Deadline: 2 Ma. For more on how to apply, please see:
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Fascinating and important work from Ros

On now at the Winchester Gallery, free exhibition curated by one of our lecturers: www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/winchest...

Had the Most AMAZING Time at Royal Holloway Last Night Discussing My New Book 'The World White Web' Such An Engaged Audience with Excellent Questions 😍 Thanks to @cvtrc.bsky.social For Hosting #AnthonyRichards for Chairing and @akilnawan.bsky.social for Organising ❤️

This week sees the start of Semester Two @unisouthampton.bsky.social and the launch of my new module on #ageing and #crime. Excited to bring together my #ForensicPsychology training with my #Gerontology experience and enthuse a new generation of undergraduate students! @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

Our research centre @crispsurv.bsky.social is hosting a major exhibition & series of events on Orwell. Starts with Hans K Clausen's 'The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth' at Stirling. Other events include a performance lecture by Bill Drummond (KLF), screenings, talks and more. All welcome

Book cover Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality - Elgar Handbooks on Inequality series

With new followers & first citations showing up it may seem to be a good time to introduce our "Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality" that @silkeroth.bsky.social, Bandana Purkayastha & @aidnography.de edited in a longer 🧵 (1/x)

Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

Q: Whose shoulders are today’s sociologists standing upon? 📚 🪜
A: Some of them are sociologists’ wives👩🏻‍💼✍️
Read about role of social researchers’ wives in post-war British studies, inc. Phyllis Willmott, Pat Marsden, Sheila Jackson/Abrams, Ruth Townsend, Kay Titmuss #openaccess

A university seminar room with a screen showing a fireplace. Fairy lights are inexpertly draped on the tables. It does not give grotto.

No fireplaces? No problem! We're about to open the doors to our annual student Christmas party. After a couple of proseccos we hope everyone will agree a bit of tinsel and fairy lights can make even Building 58 full of festive magic!

photo shows cover of book ‚Organising for Change‘ and proofs of ‚Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality‘

Publication day of Organising for Change co-authored with Clare Saunders bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/organizing-f... and checking final proof of Handbook co-edited with Bandana Purkayastha and @aidnography.de

Thanks for Typing: Acknowledging the contributions of sociologists’ wives The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. In this 6 episode podcast series, they explore how wi...

#ICYMI from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social: “Women's contributions to scholarship are consistently underrated; they’re still seen as wives & mothers.”

Historian Selina Todd joins Ros Edwards. & Val Gillies in Ep4 #ThanksforTyping, Questions of Class

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We also all did lots of important teaching and research in sociology, social policy and criminology, today. But that doesn't photograph as well

A view from a window showing snow falling. In the centre of the image an evergreen tree is dusted with snow, the grass beneath it is green, under the shelter of it's branches, resulting in a circle of snowy ground around it. Behind the tree are university buildings

A view from a window looking across the roof of another building. The is snow falling and a dusting of snow across the tops of the 4 buildings in shot

An unexpectedly snowy morning in Southampton today. Rather lovely, and prompting lots of excited chatter around campus. ☃️

A great starter pack from one of our colleagues, Ros.

Staff and PGRs in SSPC at Southampton Join the conversation

Where are our PGRs? We want to add you to our department starter pack! Give us a shout

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