A new collective volume (in open access) that could be of interest to people working on #tenant activism and #housing struggles: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... #RentStrike

2/ …’Focussing on resistance is a way of challenging not just the traditional, self-indulgent view of empire, but also the customary depiction of the colonised as victims, lacking in agency or political will’.

1/ Richard Gott died this week. Amongst many other critical interventions he was the author of ‘Britain’s Empire’ a sweeping, counter-history of British imperialism which foregrounded the persistent violence of the imperial project, and the equally persistent resistance of the colonised. He wrote…

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

Concerns are growing that social media emphasises negative experiences of hormonal contraception – but using social media does not necessarily mean a rejection of medical information, say @kristina-s.bsky.social and Lily Roberts @uofgsociology.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/mr2v8aa3

Sign up below to hear @juliango.bsky.social giving the next Racial Justice lecture on January 21st, 2026. Prof. Go will be asking 'How and why have the police in liberal democracies become militarized?'. The answer, he will argue, is to be found in imperialism past and present.

We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology. 📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025. ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

OUT NOW: Issue 73.6 of The Sociological Review journal Eighteen new papers and review articles (including 15 #openaccess) on academic hierarchies, UK class politics, Brexit biographies, citizenship in Norway, Islamophobia, cross-class interaction, nursing pathways, and more. ➡️ buff.ly/cC8wYtN

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

In our latest blog piece, Gareth Mulvey argues that it is British elites who most stubbornly refuse to integrate. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Sign up to receive our Sociological and Cultural Studies Blog! Receive our monthly blogs into your inbox that share recent research and insights from our academic network. Stay tuned for our next piece which will be published on Monday 3 November ... www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

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

Look out for @erdemavsar.bsky.social's contribution to this innovative new collection (Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices) which explores forms of restorative research methodology, prioritising collaboration, care and a holistic approach to humans and their experiences.

2/ @profkarenboyle.bsky.social's paper ‘To warn or not to warn? Gender-based violence, safety work and the trigger warnings debate in Higher Education’ will address questions of pedagogy, teaching practice, and institutional responsibility, drawing on research with staff and student survivors.

1/ We're delighted to be welcoming @profkarenboyle.bsky.social for our next SCS seminar, taking place on Wednesday, 5th November, from 3.30 to 5.00pm in Room 432, St Andrews Building. Please do join us if you can...

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

Come and work with us in #Sociology at University of Glasgow! #Lecturer in the Sociology of Social Justice and Inequalities, LTS 2 year post. Teach to change societies! #SocialJustice #Inequalities @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, Identities presents a curated selection of articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic. Read the collection with #FreeAccess: www.tandfonline.com/...#BlackHistoryMonth,#FreeAccess:@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Go see @dominicmhinde.bsky.social:

Great afternoon on campus with our fortnightly seminar listening to very insightful and generous fourth year PhD presentations, followed by a school-wide PGR social & quiz organised by the reps to welcome our new School of Social and Political Science PhD cohort!

A definite date for diaries....

📢 Applications are open for the Sociology (SOC) and Work, Employment and Society (WES) Editorial Boards! Both welcome ECRs, with Sociology offering mentoring for those newer to reviewing. 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Oct 2025, 17:00 GMT 👉 Apply or nominate: www.mi-nomination.com/britsoc

We are thrilled to introduce the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network this #AceWeek! The network is based at @clsrleeds.bsky.social in the UK and brings together researchers who are working on #asexuality and #aromanticism. 🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com

Join us on 30 Jan 2026 (2–3 pm GMT) for the BSA webinar on applying for postdoctoral research funding with Dr Fei Huang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) & Prof Katherine Twamley (Professor of Sociology). Get tips on proposals, applications, mentors & more! Book now: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Hey! Check out the vid of @drpauliancampbell.bsky.social , Anika Leslie-Walker and me talk about our work on sports video games and their construction of Black women footballers ❤️

A reminder that our next S&CS seminar is taking place today! (22nd October, 3.30–5.00) in Room 432, St Andrews Bldg. We’re really pleased to be welcoming @kateherrity.bsky.social She will be exploring the sensory aspects of the ways in which time is experienced in the context of imprisonment.

If you happen to be in London at the start of next month this would be worth putting in your diary....

Our next S&CS seminar is taking place tomorrow (22nd October, 3.30–5.00) in Room 432, St Andrews Bldg. We’re really pleased to be welcoming @kateherrity.bsky.social. She will be exploring the sensory aspects of the ways in which time is experienced in the context of imprisonment.

Thrilling book launch yesterday for Onlife Criminology by Janos Szakolczai @UofGSociology.bsky.social illustrating creative blending here of media and digital research with criminology, sociology and critical theory, glowing comments from the panel bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/onlife-crimi...

Doing migration studies in dark times? There’s no time like the present to reflect on this issue. Join us in Glasgow on 27 November as Shahram Khosravi delivers The Sociological Review Annual Lecture, with @carinrunciman.bsky.social, Karolína Augustová and Tawona Sitholé. Tickets: buff.ly/4LDmx13

Submit an abstract for the BJS Conference - April 23 and 24 2026 at LSE. Deadline this Monday! www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

24 October in London at 6:30pm I'll be at the After Collective event on capitalism and its alternatives with Panos Theodoropoulos @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @intrrgum.bsky.social Join us for an inspiring discussion, antii-capitalist solidarity & pizza! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/4nv7s7rb

'#Migrant nurses in times of crisis' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Ester Gallo Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co...#Migrant#IdentitiesBlog, @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

A reminder about this seminar, taking place today: please come along if you're about, and spread the word....

Want to get a sense of the way social inequalities structure access to culture and cultural production? Here's a good place to start.

Join us for this seminar on Queer and Trans Worldmaking in the Global South at University of Glasgow on Weds 15th October @uofgsociology.bsky.social All welcome, please share! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...

Join GLARN for a Thinking Cinema, Thinking Latin America workshop and film screening with Dr Charlotte Gleghorn this Thursday 16 October exploring textual film analysis and cinema as collaboration. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-c...

It was brilliant to have @raulperez.bsky.social with us last week and to hear him talk so compellingly about this book 'Souls of White Jokes'. Thanks to @identitiesjournal.bsky.social for their support of this event.

If you're in Glasgow this time next week, join us for the launch on ‘Onlife Criminology: Virtual Crimes and Real Harms’ by our colleague Dr Janos Mark Szakolczai, with @catherinehapper.bsky.social @gemmamilne.bsky.social, Prof Mike Nellis and Dr Johnny Ilan.

Congratulations to @fabiolacreed.bsky.social on her book The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain. Some of the questions it answers are: 🌧️ Why are sunbeds more prevalent in North(-West) Britain? 🚭 Is the sunbed industry similar to the tobacco, nicotine and alcohol industry?

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026) Closing date: 20 Oct 2025 Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’. @britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Today! Come along to our co-organised colloquium with @uofgsps.bsky.social Politics & International Relations & @uofgsociology.bsky.social 'The Souls of White Jokes' Dr Raúl Pérez 10 Oct, 11-12.30 Room 257, Wolfson Medical Bldg, University of Glasgow @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @raulperez.bsky.social

A reminder about our first Sociological & Cultural Studies seminar of the year, taking place tomorrow, with @raulperez.bsky.social - hosted jointly with colleagues in Politics & IR, and with the journal @identitiesjournal.bsky.social

This special session, with @sriprateekraj.bsky.social and @dramylind.bsky.social, and chaired by our colleague @matthewwaites.bsky.social, is coming up on the 15th October.

Our next #IdentitiesEvent! 'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness' @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Join us for The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 'How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times', Thursday 27 November, Tickets available: www.tickettailor.com/events/theso... @thesociologicalreview.org

Join our upcoming event, co-organised with @uofgsps.bsky.social Politics & International Relations & @uofgsociology.bsky.social 'The Souls of White Jokes' with Dr Raúl Pérez 11.00am-12.30pm, In person: Hugh Fraser Room 257, Wolfson Medical Bldg, University of Glasgow @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to @sachahilhorst.bsky.social! ”‘Corruption talk’ and the politics of class in 21st century Britain”, a co-authored paper drawing on Dr Hilhorst’s award-winning doctoral thesis, is out now #openaccess in The Sociological Review journal. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....