VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (focus on race, ethnicity, intersecting inequalities) @uomsociology.bsky.social 4 years from 1 Oct 2026, £42,254 p.a., full time Closing date: Weds 17 June 2026 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

In this piece with @aaronreeves.bsky.social for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog we talk about the gap between Reform's populist rhetoric and the class backgrounds & pro-business orientation of its party elites. We argue this has important implications for how we think about class.

The King's Speech is next month but there's still time to prod and push the gov to include an Anti-SLAPP commitment - that will mean parliamentary time will be given to this issue that already benefits from cross-party support. Here is a letter you can send to your MP - antislapp.uk/solutions/ta...

SLAPPs are not abstract or technical legal measures they are abusive tactics that impact peoples' lives directly and aggressively. They need to be stopped and the Prime Minister has it in his power to take the first step antislapp.uk/2026/04/15/h... #StopSLAPPs

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social! Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes. doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

Stone Center Postdoctoral Scholar Naomi Crowther is the coauthor of a new WP on inheritance & gender disparities. In this interview, she discusses her findings, her current projects, and why she decided to earn a Ph.D. after working for international institutions.

New article out now with @clarestovell.bsky.social, which may be of interest to qualitative family researchers! 👇 We consider the idea of internal confidentiality in family research, and how we can protect participant confidentiality when interviewing more than one person in a couple or family.

The list of nominees for the 2026 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize has been announced. The prize is for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology tinyurl.com/4fw5bp5t #sociology

Registration for the summer school on "Elites, Power and Inequalities" is open until the 1st of April 2026!! See the program and all information here: www.unil.ch/unil/en/home...

While most people prefer equal inheritance, wealthy individuals are more willing to support unequal transfers when they help preserve wealth across generations ➡️ based on new experimental evidence now published with @natrinh.bsky.social and @dariatisch.bsky.social in @sfjournal.bsky.social

Looking forward to our upcoming Workshop - co-organized by the German and Polish sections for economic sociology. Thank you to Sascha Münnich and the European New School for the initiative and for hostings us!

Exciting news, join us in Cambridge as Caius & Homerton are hiring for yet another Assistant/Associate Prof in Sociology🎉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS875/a...

Scholars threatened with libel action over their research into the UK’s links with Russian oligarchs are calling for new “anti-SLAPP” laws to help uphold academic freedom, reports @jgro-the.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AcademicFreedom https://ow.ly/hxtw50YoEX8

📢🎉The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, @sarahkunz.bsky.social and I coordinated a letter signed by 103 academics calling for universal anti-SLAPP provisions in the next King's Speech to protect academic freedoms. More info below:

Out now: our paper on political elites *Governing Inequality* in Mexico, their tax perceptions & redistributive preferences 🤩💥 with brilliant Natalia Torres, Raymundo Campos and Aurora Ramírez 💖 you can read it here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TUSJ7...

VACANCY: 2 x Lecturer in Sociology with a focus on... 1. 'race' & anti-racism 2. political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class) £42-58k, apply by 3 March. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-un...

Poll (phone and online) in Gorton & Denton by Omnisis, British Polling Council member, sample 452, all within margin of error Green 22% Reform 20% Labour 18% Others 9% (Excl “will not vote”) omnisis.co.uk/poll-result/...

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

And for more on the work of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, which is co-chaired by FPC together with @indexoncensorship.org and @clidef.bsky.social see antislapp.uk and sign up to its newsletter for updates.

The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition was co-founded by our ED @skcoughtrie.bsky.social, in light of our 2020 research that pointed to the UK being the leading international source of legal threats against journalists investigating financial crime and corruption. For more info - fpc.org.uk/programmes/u...

📢 Update: More than 160 editors, lawyers, academics, journalists, publishers and civil society representatives, have now called on Keir Starmer to bring forward anti-SLAPP measures in the next Kings Speech. antislapp.uk/2026/02/13/s...

I am happy to share that my article: Family Feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families was among the five most read articles in Emotions and Society in 2025! @bupjournals.bsky.social Here you can access the collection:

New Swingometer! With nominations now closed, and a few surprises in candidate selection, here's my first update on the Gorton & Denton by election. Also featuring a polling spat, dodgy bar charts, and Jason Momoa swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...

These pieces by @robtoes.bsky.social are well worth reading

The paper on the class politics of Reform UK, which I've been working on with @aaronreeves.bsky.social for the last year and a half, is now available as a pre-print on SSRN. These are our main findings. Any feedback is more than welcome. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

❌ Wealth should not be able to be used to silence legitimate scrutiny. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) have been used to intimidate journalists and others for far too long. 👍 We strongly support calls for universal anti-SLAPP legislation. pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/an...

New Swingometer post now out - my look at the Gorton and Denton by-election, taking place down the road from me swingometer.substack.com/p/the-gorton...

Great new paper! A similar study in the U.K. is long overdue. A lot of elite employers in the U.K. have begun to take class background seriously, but universities remain woefully behind

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February

From June 14th to 19th 2026 the 3rd edition of the summer school on "Elites, Power and Inequality" will take place at the University of Lausanne. Program and registration here: www.unil.ch/unil/en/home... Deadline is 1st April 2026.

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

ASA member Cristobal Young (Cornell University) says data show that the rich generally stay put, countering warnings that millionaires would flee NYC if Mamdani were elected. @us.theconversation.com

Masters scholarships of £10,000 at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"It is important to emphasise that such groups ultimately lock in wealth, advantage and connections between their (predominantly male) class-advantaged members." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Absolutely fantastic new paper from @katiehiggins.bsky.social "CEO peer groups reveal without a doubt that therapy culture has reached the top tiers of the business class. In fact, their version of self-help is in many ways more cooperative and less individualistic than the mainstream" but... 1/2

📣 Trinity College Dublin is hiring 2 #tenuretrack Assistant Professors in Sociology. 👉 Environmental Sociology. Closing Dec 1 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a... 👉 Gender and Sexuality. Closing Dec 2 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI055/a... @tcdsociology.bsky.social @isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social

Drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with wealthy members of the business class living in and around Manchester, this paper explores how therapy culture has travelled upwards, to the executive and owning class, through CEO peer groups. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/3nhvM3M

My article on the tv hit Succession and its media reception finally out. Keywords Schadenfreude, fantasy, dynasties. My argument being that it is a fantasy-driven construct appealing to a middle class desire to see the rich as miserable people destined to fall. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out now 🚨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @sheffielduni.bsky.social While researching the wealthy business class in and around Manchester, I stumbled upon CEO peer advisory groups — little-known but powerful sites of elite cohesion. 🧵

Another excellent article on families and wealth, this time by @cassandracotton.bsky.social and Raphaël Charron-Chénier!

Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.

Highly recommend this fantastic article from @shayobrien.bsky.social!

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time? I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

First draft of a new book sent to the publisher. (And already noticed two typos in the table of contents!)

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource. @bupjournals.bsky.social

It was brilliant to present at the Institute of Sociology @tuberlin.bsky.social and to learn more about the important research happening there -thanks for the invitation @isabellstamm.bsky.social!