“Classroom teachers are no longer just educators; we’re therapists, crisis responders and case managers, all while trying to meet academic benchmarks.” In the February issue of the Magazine, former teacher Iza Munir Hamdani shares her experience of burnout. buff.ly/B76M3Xa

The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing & Community www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-asian-...

The latest episode of The #Identities Podcast is now live! Episode 9: Researching Extremism and Risky Material With Shereen Fernandez, Dr Rizwaan Sabir and Aaron Winter open.spotify.com/epi... @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social Taylor & Francis Research

Our @sgsss.bsky.social Advanced Training is here! Help me and @drfigtree.bsky.social reach the PhD researchers looking for creative tools, supportive practices, and new ways of imagining scholarly life. Apply by 10/03/26: forms.gle/GD7ixJ4JDvpx... @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

Our next Sociological & Cultural Studies seminar takes place online, this afternoon, from 15.30. Natalia Buitron (Anthropology, Cambridge), will be discussing hostage-taking and hospitality as modes of Indigenous political action in response to repressive and extractive regimes. Link below.

New Issue from #Identities! Vol 32 No 1 (February 2026) Including a Symposium on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism Explore the issue: www.tandfonline.com/... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

Jennifer Fleetwood, City St George's, University of London, will be @glasgow.ac.uk on 25 March to give a talk on 'From private concerns to public narratives: tracing the rise of personal stories about crime'. It's in-person, no need to register, all welcome. www.sccjr.ac.uk/event/from-p...

Good article in the Guardian today (with interactive graphics if you are looking online!) on post-growth economics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The February 2026 issue of The Sociological Review features Karl von Holdt on activism and the anti-apartheid struggle, plus we look at teachers under pressure, gender perceptions in past societies, copywriters facing the threat of AI and more. Read it here: buff.ly/tyue9Zd

Register now for this online discussion of 'Pirate Care', with the authors and contributors to a recent symposium including our own @cerasellachis.bsky.social

SRO journal is accepting applications for Editorial Board members! We are looking for expertise in a number of areas – including quantitative methodology, race and ethnicity, and digital sociology. Applications close 26 February at 17:00 GMT. Find how to apply below. www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

Season Adviser for the Age of Self?, @tomshakespeare.bsky.social FBA, was interviewed on BBC Radio London yesterday, discussing the upcoming events and the ideas behind the season. 🎧 Listen from 3:12:45 → www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The BSA is pleased to announce that members have elected @imogentyler.bsky.social as our next Vice President. Imogen is internationally renowned for her contributions to social theory and the sociology of inequalities. tinyurl.com/53fpf9z7

Kate Gooch and I discussed our work on #prisons, #sound and #violence with Laurie Taylor for "Thinking allowed" - aired tomorrow: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... The wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social very kindly made a 50% off code (HRR50) to mark it: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...

SAVE THE DATE: science writer and broadcaster Angela Saini will deliver The Sociological Review Foundation Public Lecture on 2 September 2026 at the SOAS Gallery Lecture Theatre in London. ➡️ Sign up to the first be notified when early bird tickets go on sale:

Wonderful to see @academicdiary.bsky.social taking up his new role as President of @britsoci.bsky.social for the coming year!

Today! Do join us for the latest in our S&CS seminar series. Leon Freude (Pompeu Fabra University) will be speaking. His topic is: 'Exploring Homonationalism as a Measurable Value Pattern: Quantitative Insights from Europe, Latin America and Africa'. Starts 15.00 in 248, Wolfson Medical Building.

Join us, Friday 27th February, 17-18.30, in the James McCune Smith Building, Room 507, for the launch of Journalism in the Anthropocene with our own @dominicmhinde.bsky.social and climate journalist Diego Arguedas Ortiz.

There’s more time to submit a proposal! New deadline: 20th Feb #Disability #Marxism

Just out: this symposium on Graziano, Mars & Medak's 'Pirate Care', coordinated and led by @cerasellachis.bsky.social for @pdse.bsky.social

Seminar I'm looking forward to chairing @uofgsociology.bsky.social, all welcome: Leon Freude (Pompeu Fabra University) 'Exploring Homonationalism as a Measurable Value Pattern: Quantitative Insights from Europe, Latin America and Africa'. Weds 4th Feb 3.00-4.30, Room 248, Wolfson Medical Building.

Joshua Page, University of Minnesota, will be @glasgow.ac.uk on 11 March to discuss his latest co-authored book, Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice. This is an in-person event, no need to register. All welcome. www.sccjr.ac.uk/event/legal-...

We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Teaching Migration Otherwise' @teresap.bsky.social shares critical lessons for how we might teach migration in the classroom.

We're absolutely delighted to share the news that our dear colleague Prof. Bridget Fowler is this year's recipient of the @britsoci.bsky.social Distinguished Service Award. The very definition of a worthy winner...

Just finished writing a feature on Laurie Taylor @ 90 for a Sociological Review Magazine… what a life Laurie has led. Should be out in May. He is recording a new season of Thinking Allowed at the moment for BBC Radio 4. 28 years of putting socioligy on the airwaves. 👏👏👏

WATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025 Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant Karolína Augustová, poet Tawona Sitholé. buff.ly/742ITKk @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Do join us today, if you're around Glasgow, for this seminar with Dr. Elisa Belle.

'Narratives of "Home" and "Homeland": The Symbolic Construction and Appropriation of the Sudeten German Heimat' by Maruska Svasek From Identities' #HolocaustMemorialDay Special Collection: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

In honour of #HolocaustMemorialDay, #Identities shares its Special Collection inviting reflection on the enduring legacies of the Holocaust for those affected, the wider world, and our understanding of race, nation, identity and otherness: #FreeAccess during Jan and Feb: www.tandfonline.com/...

A reminder about this seminar, taking place on Wednesday. Please do circulate and share...

Social scientists 📣 Are you interested in how flagship data sets can be used for policy impact? There’s only a month to go to apply for funding from ESRC for the ADR UK Research Fellowships 2025. ⏰Closes 26 Feb. Find out more➡️

Still time to register for this week's #IdentitiesEvent! Investigating Social Change: Migratory Stratifications as a Fresh Analytical Tool 28 Jan, Online www.eventbrite.co.uk... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

NEW SURVEY FINDINGS‼️ 81% of women musicians in the Scottish folk music scene, who participated in a new survey, have been sexually assaulted or harassed. Full report here: sccjr.ac.uk/publication/... @uofgsociology.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk 🔊Video of findings.

Why do we sometimes keep gifts that we don’t want, or can’t easily use? @sophierwoodward.bsky.social joins us to reflect on “dormant” #GIFTS – their role in our relationships with each other, ourselves and with time. On connection, obligation, objects and more…

“Race places”: Changing locations of Jewish identities' From our Special Collection commemorating #HolocaustMemorialDay: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #HMD @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

Our next Sociological & Cultural Studies seminar takes place on Wednesday 28th January, from 15.30 in the Clarice Pears Building, Room 103B. Dr. Elisa Belle will be talking about the work of the ERRANT project; a comparative ethnography of radical right wing political movements in France and Italy.

Delighted that this article I wrote with @saraheanderson.bsky.social has now been published. We argue that the Western criminal legal system's individualist and dichotomous lens means it is not an effective response to harm. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New Special Issue from #Identities: Vol 32 No 6 Special Issue: Investigating Social Change: 'Migratory Stratifications' as a Fresh Analytical Tool Explore the issue: www.tandfonline.com/... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

I’m looking forward to this new Conversations event, getting to talk and think through the tumult of 2025 sociologically. Never have we needed a critical sociology lens more. Come join us as we try and make sense of where we are now.

📢 We’re looking for an Impact and Improvement Manager to lead our Data and Impact team. In this role, you’ll ensure we measure our impact, learn from it, and continuously build on the difference we make for the people and communities we serve. 👉 Find out more and apply: scottishrefugeecounc...

'This is no rose-tinted view of Scotland, rather a clear-eyed and searching investigation [...] Fantastic stuff.' Doug Johnstone reviews 'Drifting north' by @dominicmhinde.bsky.social for the @bigissue.com here: www.bigissue.com/culture/book... 'Drifting north' is out now. #booksky #Scotland

Sharing here this new important piece from our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social

Sharing word of this critical reflection and intervention, offered by our own @shalininair.bsky.social together with colleagues Molly Ackhurst and @tanyaserisier.bsky.social, and out now in @flsjournal.bsky.social

Out now, from our own @duncanjane.bsky.social and Allen Munoriyarwa, this new study with @scotunipress.bsky.social explores the need for public oversight of intelligence driven surveillance in Southern Africa.

Hoping to get the words out for Linton tonight… wonderful to be reminded of the depth of his contribution.

Only one week left to go until the Notes From Below and Marxism & Disability Network Worker Writing Workshop (in preparation for a NfB issue on Disability & Work)! luma.com/spnoc68z?pk=... #Marxism #Disability

Here's some salient reading for the start of 2026.

Out now! This new essay from Prof Matt Dawson asks what it means to read or re-read classical sociology in the wake of the decolonial and feminist critiques.

Wednesday, 21 January 2026 University of Glasgow Racial Justice Lecture Series Policing #Race: #Militarization and the Imperial Boomerang in #Britain and the United States. By @juliango.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/vi... cc @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Announcing this new seminar series from @thesccjr.bsky.social, with the first session taking place Feb 24th - details below.