1st results from #RELEASE: a population-level study into health on release from prison
People released have more contact with all services for mental health and substance use than similar people who haven't been in prison, especially acute/emergency
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Looking for a postdoc to collect and analyse policy network data in coastal communities in the east of England as part of the £3m ARISE project. Apply until 1 Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ781/ #sna #networkanalysis #acjobs #polisky #polisci #publicpolicy #policyanalysis #netsci #ergm #network #postdoc
The results from a school-based gambling-related harms intervention (PRoGRAM-A) are published in Addiction. With Fiona Dobbie, Martine Miller, Angela Niven, Heather Wardle, Chris Weir, Hannah Ensor, Andrew Stoddart, Leon Noble, Richard Purves & James White
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In a class today I asked social science students (probably aged around 19) what their favourite protest song was. They didn't seem to understand the concept. I'd struggle to name any in the last 20 years, but hadn't realised it's no longer a thing.
Postdoc in Social Stratification, Education, and Genetics with @astabreinholt.bsky.social at Roskilde University, Denmark. The position is for 2 years, starting from May 1st, 2026.
Apply by Dec 12th
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Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?
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Asking 'Who is the Prime Minister?' used to be good as a test of people's memory. It now seems it works better as a test of people's occupation. If they reply 'I think it's Nigel Farage' you know they work in journalism.
Social capital, interconnected with the tight-knit bonds within marginalised groups, could deter help-seeking. Knowledge and attitudes towards help and help-seeking, shaped by past experiences and network cultures, influenced help-seeking and contributed to a cautious and selective approach.
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Social/relational influences identified included: fear of losing social capital, the risks of high bonding capital, service providers as social capital, selective help-seeking, trust and network culture.
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Paper reviews the 27 papers around mental health/substance use help-seeking by adults experiencing (non-demographic) marginalisation and used social capital or social network analysis (#SNA)
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New paper out on 'Relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems among people experiencing social marginalisation: a scoping review' with @drcconnell.bsky.social @kjellgren.bsky.social & Jessica Greenhalgh
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Pleased our paper is out today: relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use among marginalised people bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e090349.full
We present follow on research with justice-involved ppl @ DRNS conference later @drnscot.bsky.social
Team ⬇️
#JusticeHealth
Congratulations. Well done.
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And secondly, Research Fellow in Evidence Review and Synthesis of Community Interventions
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A coupe of exciting research jobs being advertised for the Centre for Collaboration on Community Connectedness I'm involved in, first off Researcher in Evidence Review and synthesis of community interventions:
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Here's a good one from Danielle Pillet-Shore.
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They are great to use in teaching. Students like hearing the author discuss the paper and it improves the flow of a lecture as well.
JOB: Research Fellow post in our #Sociology, #SocialPolicy, and #Criminology Division at the University of Stirling 🏴 🇬🇧
Working in the ESRC-funded Centre in Community Participation and Connectedness. Quantitative social research skills needed.
#postdoc #academia
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Overall, the book brings together ideas from social stratification, social network analysis and social inequalities to argue that looking at the occupations of pairs of individuals (such as partners, or friends) can aid our understanding of important social processes. (14/14)
(12) Conclusion argues that effects of homophily around social stratification position are important in the reproduction of inequality (13/14)
(11) Exploiting Non-standard Dimension Scores and Network Structures in the Analysis of Social Interactions Between Occupations looks at other forms of homophily in people's connections and breaks down the analysis to explore differences between subgroups (12/14)
(10) Social Interactions and Educational Inequality provides an intersectional approach to examing the role of education in occupational stratification (11/14)
(9) Occupational-Level Residuals and Distributional Parameters explores other meaningful approaches using pairs of occupations, including random effects modelling (10/14)
(8) Social Network Analysis of Occupational Connections converts those occupations which are commonly linked into a network to explore how stratification patterns can be observed and meaningfully compared (9/14)
(7) Networked Occupations looks at which occupations tend to connect more often than we would imagine if randomly distributed - this shows the effect of stratification in a slightly different way to Social Interaction Distance approaches (8/14)
(6) Constructing CAMSIS Scales provides the recipe (and #Stata syntax) for creating a scheme from data on pairs of occupations, managing the data and dealing with pseudo-diagonals (pairings which do not reflect the stratification structure) (7/14)
(5) Evaluating CAMSIS scales explores the characteristics of #CAMSIS (and #HISCAM) schemes between countries, drawing on consistencies we commonly see, and how differences often uncover important contours of that society (6/14)
(4) #CAMSIS and the Analysis of Social Interaction Distance provides the theoretical underpinning of how studying combinations of occupations can produce a valid and nuanced stratification scheme of the position of each individual occupation (5/14)
(3) Measures of Social Stratification provides an overview of ways of measuring stratification, exploring the different forms of occupational, social class, geographical, income and #GBCS style approaches (4/14)
