🚨 Thrilled to share my new paper with @yueqiansoc.bsky.social just out in @europeansocreview.bsky.social Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, we examine how online banking shapes who holds the purse strings among UK couples: doi.org/10.1093/esr/... @sriucl.bsky.social

Congratulations to @academicdiary.bsky.social on the @britsoci.bsky.social presidency! We are so thrilled to have such a caring and visionary leader in our community at a time when we need Sociology more than ever! 🎉 es.britsoc.co.uk/professor-le...

Congratulations to @ioe.bsky.social SRI member @melbond.bsky.social on her recent article, drawing on the lived experience of 998 #PhDMums from over 100 countries. 📖 doi.org/10.1080/0729... ℹ️ phdmums.weebly.com #HigherEd #PhD #PhDLife #HigherEducation #Motherhood

USN member @ktwamley.bsky.social's latest monograph reviewed in Gender, Work and Organization. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @sriucl.bsky.social @tcru-ucl.bsky.social

🚨 Our @sriucl.bsky.social 2026 Open Days are landing next week! ⭐️ Feb 4, Wednesday, 12:00-13:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Sociology ⭐️ Feb 5, Thursday, 13:00-14:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Social Policy and in Social Research Methods ➡️ Sign up here and join us: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/graduate...

Media interest in my work with @JennyvanHoof on the 'relationship recession' continues unabated. This was a really interesting interview with Lily. One thing is for sure: Something is shifting, but how, why and for whom needs further research.

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

In the Telegraph, @ktwamley.bsky.social reflects on how Covid lockdowns disrupted young people’s transition into intimacy - with anxiety and missed social experiences shaping longer-term changes in relationships. bit.ly/3ZcVh1Q #intimacyAndCare @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

In the latest episode of Climate Extinction Politics, Dr Fergus Green and Professor Philip Schofield unpack the politics of climate action and who bears the greatest responsibility of transitioning away from fossil fuels. Listen now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/clim...

We’re starting 2026 with a big question: why has truth lost its grip? Our first seminar (15 Jan) explores how finance shapes misinformation, credibility, political narratives & democratic life. 12:00-13:00, Gordon Sq. bit.ly/4qPmsf6 #Sociology #SocialResearch @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

Oh, this looks good. Michael Billig, Sivamohan Valluvan & Kojo Kyerewaa on Flags & Performative Nationalism: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flags-and-...

I co-authored a short opinion piece with Dr Victoria Redclift on citizenship stripping and used some of our research on it following the publication of Runnymede Trust’s report, Stripped: The Citizenship Divide. Read here: www.newarab.com/opinion/labo...

One month to go… UCL turns 200! 🎉 On 11 February, we kick off #UCL200 – a year of celebrations marking our radical founding in 1826 as London’s first university, open to all. Expect parties, exhibitions, student festivals, art, books, performances, and more. Get ready! @uclspeccoll.bsky.social#UCL200

📢 The first episode of Climate Extinction Politics, the new season of UCL Press Play, has just been released! Join Dr Andrew Seaton and Prof Philip Schofield as they uncover coal’s deep ties to industry, health, inequality, and the climate. Listen now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/clim...

🚨🚨The next sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study is coming!🚨🚨 The Age 23 wave includes UK Gen Z data on: mental health, new families, substance use, higher ed, jobs, political beliefs etc. Join us for an online webinar on the data. When ⏰: 12 Feb, 1pm (UK) Sign up 📝: cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/mcs-a...

As well as being our 10th anniversary, 2025 was a huge year for our department's continued commitment to research, policy and social change. Read just a little bit of what we got up to in SRI's first ever Impact Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/sites/io...

'#Sport celebrities and #cosmopolitan imaginaries' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Max Mauro Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co...#Sport#cosmopolitan#IdentitiesBlog,nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Are all NEETs (young people Not in Education, Employment or Training) claiming benefits? Is the UK’s NEET problem due to AI replacing graduate jobs? Louise Murphy of @resfoundation.bsky.social looks at myths around NEETs in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/JEwzZLc

Congratulations once again to this year’s SRO Sage Prize winners, Susie Scott and Nina Lockwood, for their article, Nested Narratives: Biographical Accounts of Unlived Experience Across Three Narrative Orders. Read the full article Open Access below if you missed it! doi.org/10.1177/1360...

Have you listened to the latest episode of The #Identities Podcast? Episode 8: Beyond the Border: Poetics of Refuge and Critical Classroom Praxis With @hyabyohannes.bsky.social, @teresap.bsky.social & @nasarmeer.bsky.social open.spotify.com/epi...#Identities @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

This is horrifying and cannot be allowed to become normal. "A surge in death and rape threats and harassment has created a 'culture of fear' at charities serving women and refugees, and at mosques, churches and synagogues." https://bit.ly/44irJTE

We failed Gen Z on social media – we cannot fail them on AI, too. UCL Policy Lab Hon Prof @noreenahertz.bsky.social on the need to understand the impact of AI on young people. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...

🚀 Just launched! UCL's Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality Impact Report Celebrating the work of researchers & partners from UCL & beyond to address inequality in all its forms, locally, nationally & globally. 🔗 Find out more & read the report: https://bit.ly/3Ma61e9

How can researchers engage more effectively with African Union (AU) policymakers? Join our masterclass on policy engagement with Africa on Wed 10 Dec, 9.00–12.30, Malet Street (UCL). Open to Early Career Researchers and senior academics from across disciplines. www.ucl.ac.uk/global/event...

UCL Sociology PhDs: Join our PhD Coordinating Group The group will play a significant and important role in the development of the network’s cross-UCL activities at the doctoral level tinyurl.com/mrm9s22j

Really looking forward to this lecture with @academicdiary.bsky.social. Register now before all the tickets are gone!

Annual Lecture: The Paradox of Home by Les Back (11.12.25) Home is a knife-edge word. Competing forces balance on its edge that either control or open the terms of belonging. It is why home is paradoxical tinyurl.com/3493r8e6

🚨ABSTRACT PORTAL OPEN🚨Submit your #QHRNConf26 abstracts now at qhrn2026.exordo.com Theme: ‘The Transformative Power of Qualitative Research: Insights, Impact and Innovation’. Our 5 streams and info on keynotes can be found at tinyurl.com/yhr8ez7r 🗓️Deadline: 1 Dec 2025

Deadline extended to 13 November:

Join us for the launch of the BSA Mid-Career Forum, a collective conversation on making academic life more sustainable, inclusive & connected. Fri 28 Nov, 4-5.15pm, Online (free, registration req) Register: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/mid-career-forum-manifesto-a-collective-conversation/

The Journal of Work, Employment and Society is inviting research submissions for a special issue co-edited by Prof. Kim Allen. Open for: 📖 Research articles 📚 Book Reviews 🎓 PhD showcases 📰 On the Front Line articles ⏱️ Submission Deadline: 27 February 2026 @ 17:00 https://ow.ly/muVl50XkflV

Applications open: Inequalities ECR Catalyst Grant 2025/26 Funding of up to £5,000 available for interdisciplinary projects led by early career researchers tackling inequalities in practice. 🗓 Deadline: Friday 28 Nov, 17.00 🔗 https://bit.ly/4oiv1yg

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Our next #IdentitiesEvent is open for registration! 'Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender Racialization among Polish Migrants and Returnees' www.eventbrite.co.uk...#IdentitiesEvent @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social

Major study exposes huge global #inequalities in women’s #cancer care In @gavi.org Claudia Allemani explains proportion of women diagnosed at early stage for breast, cervical & ovarian cancers still too low, especially in low- and middle-income countries. www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

✊ This is what student power looks like! Students just forced Edge Hill University to take a stand against some of the world’s most destructive corporations - massive oil, coal and gas companies + companies profiting from the detention, deportation and misery of migrants. Share the huge news!

💨 New research by @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social and Colm O’Shea shows that wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010. Wind isn’t just clean, it’s saving consumers billions. 🌍⚡ Read via @theguardian.com #UCLGeography #RenewableEnergy #WindPower #ClimateAction

I have a very bad feeling about this...

“Our findings show that most of Colombia’s wealth, political power and social prestige – across a country with a population of 53 million – is concentrated on just 932 individuals” – Jenny Pearce & Juan David Velasco on “elite constellations" #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗 buff.ly/YldrN40

Oh hey, little update. Indiana University Department of Sociology is hiring this fall. Keeping you on your toes deadline is 11/16. We’re looking for an assistant professor specializing in sociology of medicine, health, and/or well-being broadly defined. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30984

Our ECR Showcase (hosted by UCL Anthropocene and UCL Health Mind & Society) is at the www.artworkersguild.org on Wednesday! There'll be networking, a light lunch, presentations on last year's projects and an announcement of this year's ECR funding! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecr-showca...

📘 Book Launch: Governing the End Join us on 5 Nov, 6:30pm @ UCL Bloomsbury for the launch of Prof Lisa Vanhala’s new book on climate change loss & damage. 🎤 Panel experts: UCL, SOAS, LSE, Johns Hopkins & The Loss and Damage Collaboration. 🔗 Register: https://shorturl.at/tUwzL

🎙️ New podcast: Intersectionality at UCL – Lived Experience and Institutional Change In this episode, host Ethne speaks with Prof Sara Mole, Noël Caliste & Dr Sinead Murphy about how UCL is advancing inclusion & equity through intersectional approaches. https://bit.ly/4ogWW0P

Our 10th anniversary celebrations have been highlighted on LSE's Shaping The World website, showcasing a decade of impact in inequality research 🎉 Read about how the III has established itself as one of the world's leading institutes for understanding and fighting inequalities. ⬇️ buff.ly/FabLtG4

Building Careers by Overcoming Barriers 🚫 ‘Generation Delta’ by the University of Leeds empowers Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic students with training & career support. Proud to see our PhD student Iman Federico-Awi featured in this spotlight article! 🔗 Read more: https://ow.ly/Pj3450X8YG9

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum: "Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

'Being anti-racist as ceremonial journey: from and within reflective learning stories' From #Identities' latest issue 32.5, by Jebunnessa Chapola @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1070...#Identities' #antiracist #racism #SystemicRacism

Do you undertake qualitative or mixed methods research at UCL? Complete this short questionnaire about the use of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) and the use of AI in qualitative analysis tinyurl.com/2kwzunnr @ktwamley.bsky.social