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. 🧵

Our paper on clusters of schools across the UK is out. We find five clusters: multi-racial & super-diverse middle & working-class schools of towns & cities, suburban white middle class schools, established elite schools & (post-)industrial white working class schools. doi.org/10.1002/berj...

New study on elite tax migration. Using IRS data, we show that while tax rates matter, embeddedness matters more. Millionaires don’t flee high-tax states unless their networks are disrupted. Embeddedness > incentives. States can still tax the rich. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Currently on pat leave (2 weeks plus taking 2 weeks annual leave). It is crap and reinforces gendered social reproduction. Taking ten weeks shared parental leave later (lucky) but that's still not great given that it comes out of my partner's leave. We should demand more through our unions.

Who are the international economic elite? What have they studied, and where? The World Elite Database provides comparative data from 16 countries that account for one-third of the world's population and over half of global GDP. Read the @bjsociology.bsky.social research note ➡️ buff.ly/aTWoCwW

Congrats to Dr Billy Holzberg of Kings College London - given this year’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize tinyurl.com/2zv23bm5 at our annual conference #britsoc25 for his book on Germany after the 2015 ‘summer of migration’ tinyurl.com/8fes47se