@rhordosy.bsky.social
Sociologist | Higher education | Research/teaching nexus | HE transitions and widening access | International comparative education | Associate Professor at UONottingham | Sheffield-based | Views my own https://www.rhordosy.com/
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* Mental health, wellbeing & identity formation
* Academic and professional staff careers & institutional change
* Methodological innovations, reflexive accounts & design challenges in longitudinal HE research
* Comparative or international longitudinal studies
📬Welcoming contributions on (but not limited to):
* Student trajectories, transitions and experiences across and beyond higher education
* Graduate outcomes and labour market pathways over time
* Social inequalities, mobility and cumulative advantage/disadvantage
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
Special Issue on Longitudinal and Lifecourse Approaches in Higher Education Research
We invite contributions that use longitudinal or lifecourse research designs to deepen understanding of how change unfolds within higher education.
Call: www.slls.org.uk/pages/llcs-j...
Hungarian is just a superior language and we need to accept that 🤷🏼♀️
There, I fixed it:
"We’re *paying* so much money *to* people *in leadership roles* who … are not really capable of *creating a collaborative and supportive university environment for students from a range of backgrounds*."
The *anger* I feel at the sector // HE policy after talking to some incredible ECRs/recent PhDs over the state of the academic labour market and short/medium term prospects... Just employ these enthusiastic, amazing scholars!! (Or don't turn my research funding apps down, so I can!)
Nottingham cuts ‘threaten status as research-intensive university’.
Move to reduce academics’ protected research time to 25 per cent brings union warning.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
💭 Join us for this exciting @srhe.bsky.social event by the #SAEN network to discuss how widening participation, fair access and student experiences have evolved in English higher education amid persistent inequalities - with speakers Rhiannon Jones, Kimberley Simms, Chris Millward and Neil Harrison
Where are we with widening participation and student experience?
✍ SIGN UP: srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ...
🗓️ WHEN: June 23rd 2026 11:00-15:45
🗺️ WHERE: in person at the SRHE offices in London (maps.app.goo.gl/9mR4pEyYo1yE...)
@mannymadriaga.bsky.social @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social @soniailie.bsky.social
...agree! Our summer ride by the Seine on hire bikes was fabulous! The map is somewhat bitty and confusing at times, but still. Here in the supposed "outdoor city" we'd be happy with half as much provision...
Our typology shows that choosing sociology as a degree is ranges from an explanation for personal experience; to gaining tools to understand society, politics and broader inequalities; to sociological studies being a general basis for a career; and to hope for changing others’ inequalities
📜 ...another paper assigned to an issue now in @edreview.bsky.social, jointly with Meryem Betül YASDIMAN and Jenny Norris doi.org/10.1080/0013...
Why sociology?– comparing the driving forces behind university degree choice in Norway, Hungary and England
📃Superb paper by Dr Zihao Liu using the possible selves framework to explore post-college transitions:
How Chinese Higher Vocational Education and Training (HVET) Students Determine Their Post-College Pathway in the Post-Covid 19 Era
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ij...
Share a photo of a mountain you have taken
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We all needed a break - and had some lovely time visiting family and seeing friends over the holidays in HU ❄️
...whilst celebrating Anto getting her thesis finalised and Biz's graduation, we got a notification that our paper out earlier this year has been assigned to an issue:
“How ‘International’ Are Sociology Journals? Analysis of Stated Aims and Editorial Board Networks” - lnkd.in/eiF2pSG5
My lovely colleague Charlie Davis @uonsoe.bsky.social talking about his experience of getting a Newer Researchers Award from @srhe.bsky.social, and the immense changes this prompted in his research career, networks and thinking. Awards are now open, deadline March 2026:
srhe.ac.uk/research/pri...
Looking forward to the @srhe.bsky.social conference from today and catching up with colleagues I rarely get to see. Come and say hi to @soniailie.bsky.social & @mannymadriaga.bsky.social, the Student Access and Experience network always looks for new ideas! (We'll miss @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social)
Register for the online Educational Review Article of the Year seminar! 🎉 Featuring our latest winners, expert discussants, and audience Q&A!
Plus #FreeAccess to the winning article via the events page 👇
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/educa...
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
A great discussion with amazing colleagues; catching up with @pallavibanerjee.bsky.social was the icing on the cake. We have superb seminars planned for @srhe.bsky.social #SAEN for 2026, watch this space!
Say hi at the SRHE conference in Nottingham next month! srhe.ac.uk/internationa...
Tru dat
@mannymadriaga.bsky.social is leading a #ESRC funded project drawing on Black, mad and disability studies to explore and enhance the mental health of Black students in four English universities.
Project details: bit.ly/3KZOBk4
Are you a graduate who started their university journey in the first years of the 9K fees? If so, please consider contributing to this important research project lead by my colleague Farhana Ghaffar
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
