"The challenges are immense but it is within our power to take action to achieve racial justice." Great to see research by @nasarmeer.bsky.social represented at this recent @nuffieldfoundation.org event on building a racially just and inclusive society.

Out now, in the @thesociologicalreview.org magazine, this new reflection by @crmnlgy.bsky.social on sociologists-as-podcasters.

SAVE THE DATE: science writer and broadcaster Angela Saini will deliver The Sociological Review Foundation Public Lecture on 2 September 2026 at the Brunei Lecture Theatre, SOAS in London. ➡️ Sign up for early bird ticket notification: buff.ly/AI1mRdv

Out now, with our excellent colleague @teresap.bsky.social and others...

The recording of our November #IdentitiesEvent is now available: 'Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender #Racialization among Polish #Migrants and Returnees' youtu.be/JhLgRjJCdfM#IdentitiesEvent#Racialization#Migrantsuofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

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

The latest entry in our Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In ‘Populism, anti-populism, and the politics of the ‘left behinds’, Salomé Ietter reflects on a forgotten history of progressive populism and its significance today. Please do share and circulate.

Attending book launch for ‘Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems’ by Nicola Burns and colleagues from universities of Lancaster and Sussex, at the ARC at University of Glasgow 🙌 @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgarc.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgpolicy.bsky.social

CALL: seminar funding for 2026 The Foundation is inviting submissions for its 2026 Undisciplining Seminar Series exploring who and what sociology is for. Submit your proposal by 31 January for public events focusing on the transformative potential of sociological thinking. ➡️

Here's a new special issue of Journalism Studies, edited by @dr-hm-mabweazara.bsky.social and @catherinehapper.bsky.social and dedicated to our former colleague Greg Philo. It revisits the core concerns of media sociology - power, ideology, bias - but broadens the focus beyond Europe and America.

@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @docmediacentre.bsky.social

A reminder of this book launch, taking place today, Thursday 11th December.

“A simple request – to access information that is mine by birth – was locked behind a process and a price tag.” In the December issue of The Sociological Review magazine, Annalisa Toccara-Jones reveals how difficult it is for adoptees to research their origins and medical history. buff.ly/p0TepKR

'#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

There's still time to register for this @thesccjr.bsky.social online symposium: 'International Perspectives on Parole's Present and Possible Futures', taking place Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM. You can register to attend at the link below.

Tomorrow sees the launch, with GRAMNET, of 'Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems: Challenging (Im)mobilities in Healthcare', edited by our own @nickyburns.bsky.social with Luca Follis and Karolina Follis. 14.00-16.00 in the ARC, Studio 2, or online at the link below.

Hey #Criminology See below. 2nd blog in the series introducing the new Routledge International Handbook on #SensoryCriminology It explores the #sensory components of #politics, #violence, and #war (and other things). The blog is a useful #teaching resource. Check out archive. Please reshare

The recording of our November #IdentitiesEvent is now available: 'Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender #Racialization among Polish #Migrants and Returnees' youtu.be/JhLgRjJCdfM#IdentitiesEvent#Racialization#Migrantsuofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Call for Papers for interesting two day workshop on autonomist organising in West Asia and North Africa, organised by Jade Saab in Sociology here at University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgarc.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/committees...

We are excited to share this new publication based upon ethnography of care homes: Debelt, J and Norberg, I (2025) The bureaucracy of interpretation: care and communication in Sweden and Germany. ALTER:European Journal of Disability Research. 19(4).93-113. journals.openedition.org/alterjdr/15038

So here is my first post: my latest open access article ‘The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion…’ in International Politics journal, discussing my experiences participating in a project to work in five African countries link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md

So glad to see this open access article on Indonesian parrot trade finally in print! Great last publication to (almost) round off the year #GCRF #parrots #wildlifetrade #IWT #COVID #openaccess @thesccjr.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social - link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Two forthcoming events which might be of interest including a talk about her new book on Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left, by a former member of our PhD community - @scarletharris.bsky.social

The inaugural Stuart Hall Award lecture is next week December 10th 2025, 6pm UK time and given Dr. Ben Carrington (University of Southern California), the first winner of the award. Please register and attend the meeting via this zoom link: emory.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us for the next PEFF Seminar where Yu Sun, our colleague within the Division, examines how the public use of environmental data in China transforms public advocacy and contentious politics. Discussant: Kat Fradera (Law). Friday, 12 December, 11:30am–12:30pm, ARC 225.

The latest episode of The #Identities Podcast is now live! Episode 8: Beyond the Border: Poetics of Refuge and Critical Classroom Praxis With @hyabyohannes.bsky.social & @teresap.bsky.social, Chaired by @nasarmeer.bsky.social open.spotify.com/epi...#Identities @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

Brilliant open-access collection of essays on 'The Cultural Location of Fascism' here including by @gavant.bsky.social @charlottefraser.bsky.social + many more I couldn't find on here! reframe.sussex.ac.uk/statesofcult...

Proud to say this book will be out in the next two weeks @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Caste aside? Researcher Madhuri Kamtam hears from female workers in India’s multimillion-dollar tobacco industry who remain exploited, excluded and ignored owing to their caste and gender – and who are claiming their rights. Out now in The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/rEZ9QY4

2/ ...a related blog for @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social explores those same questions and asks what a socially just response to climate change might mean.

1/ This new article by @nasarmeer.bsky.social in Social Policy & Society challenges a failure to consider the extent to which the consequences of climate change are profoundly shaped by racialised inequalities both within and between nations...

This will be of interest to many in our community - @uofgsociology.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social ky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.

1/2 Check out Lluis de Nadal's new article on social media's role in the growing backlash against climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social was one of a number of speakers at this launch of the @nuffieldfoundation.org Racial Diversity UK programme, aimed at supporting research that will contribute to a deeper understanding of the barriers and pathways to a racially just and inclusive society.

Here's a new piece by our own Jane Duncan, in the @dailymaverick.co.za, about the increasingly unaccountable use of AI by national security agencies.

Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson. RSVP at the link below!

Enjoyed writing this for Everything Jazz - my album of the year Jon Batiste’s Big Money www.everythingjazz.com/the-14-best-...

Our own @crmnlgy.bsky.social was on Radio 4's Free Thinking recently discussing, amongst other things, gang rituals, Durkheim and the magic of tattie scones.

What do we know about why people do or don't trust media sources in the digital age? @catherinehapper.bsky.social explores what the research tells us in this new contribution to @uk.theconversation.com

in this blog, published yesterday in the Scotland on Sunday, @pauljreilly.bsky.social calls for critical caution in how we engage with, and interpret, social media debates over immigration.

This year’s Cultural Sociology Sage Prize winner discusses how ways of conceptualizing national belonging and geopolitical ideologies shape how cultural products are inserted into global art and literary worlds. Read the full article, now for free. doi.org/10.1177/1749...

'#Migrant farm workers and stratification' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Giuliana Sanò Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co...#Migrant#IdentitiesBlog,@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

If you're around Glasgow this Friday, there are still a few spaces left for this talk by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social organised by the Socialist Theory & Movements Research Network. Starting 15.00 in LT 412, Boyd Orr Building. Register below.

Have you subscribed to our Sociological and Cultural Studies Blog? 📮📄 Receive our monthly blogs into your inbox that share recent research and insights from our academic network. Subscribe below: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Today! There's still time to register for a space at this wonderful event to mark nine years of the Colombian peace process.

Looking forward to welcoming Shahram Khosravi for The Sociological Review Annual Lecture. There’s still time to register for a ticket before Thursday’s event!

Citizenship and Migration Research Network PhD Conference 2026: Call for Abstracts (PhD students in Scotland) Deadline 19 December Unbordering Futures: Migration Studies in Urgent Times CMRN / GRAMNet PhD Conference 4-5th March 2026, University of Edinburgh forms.office.com/pages/respon...

With the start of the latest round of the Ashes, Andy Smith reflects on the extent to which English cricket has become a game for the elite. 👉 Read our latest Sociological and Cultural Studies blog piece here: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

#OtD 19 Nov 1915 Joe Hill, Swedish-American @IWW union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder he did not commit. In his final letter he wrote: "don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...