There's an online launch for The Feminist Art of Walking Weds 28th Jan 6.30 on zoom. I'll be joined by some amazing artists and activists celebrated in the book so its gonna be special. More info TBC, sign up here for the link (free) tinyurl.com/FAoWONLINE @plutopress.bsky.social #NewBook #Feminist

Call for Abstracts: ‘Challenging Narratives: Creative Methodologies for Social Research” Deadline 31st January, see details below on how to submit an abstract ✨️ Please share, repost to your networks or get in touch with me www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-bo...

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

This is one of the most depressing, but important papers I've read in recent times. It's focus is Awaab Ishak, the 2 year old who died because of squalid housing, but brilliantly links this wider necropolitics enacted by neoliberalism. Please read. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here’s the details off Ben Carrington’s talk next week. Ben gave our Frisby Lecture at the University of Glasgow a couple of years ago. His award is really well deserved.

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...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Recent research by @hspandler.bsky.social (Professor of Mental Health), a leading historian of Psychiatry and LGBT+ health, suggests that [aversion therapy through electroshock] was far more widespread than previously documented

This also mentions your brilliant book @luciaoc.bsky.social observer.co.uk/style/featur...

Please come to our next seminar, online or in person. All welcome. 10th December 12-1pm 'Understanding Parent Blame' with Prof Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello. @learningmet.bsky.social @charhar.bsky.social @itsadele.bsky.social @suecaton.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

We're all over the moon about #LostMothers win at last night's @cjalliance.bsky.social awards! Driven throughout by women with experience of maternal imprisonment & separation, this research really was ground-breaking. What a privilege to be involved. @midwifeteacher.bsky.social@cleanbrk.bsky.social

We're delighted that the Birth Companions Institute has secured significant funding from @impurbanhealth.bsky.social and the Henry Smith Foundation, allowing us to deepen and expand our work to achieve better care, equity and justice over the next three years. Find out more: bit.ly/4p4xFrL

Really looking forward to this lecture with @academicdiary.bsky.social. Register now before all the tickets are gone!

One for you @mbherbert.bsky.social 🌸

Repost if you agree with Rachel

In Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now. 🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t... #ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth

This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We're hiring! Research Fellow role focused on institutional ethnography and helping us to develop the lived and living experience hub. Applications open until 17th November!

If you teach research methods, this is an amazing resource for inspiring approaches 🤩 www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...

💡Job Opportunity!💡 We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎 For more information, follow the link below:

It can't be underestimated how important this is. Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals. Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.

Both #ICRMC25 keynotes are now on YouTube – free to watch! 🎉 🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c) 🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk) #CreativeResearchMethods #ICRMC

Exciting #socialwork job with Social Workers Without Borders! Please take a look and share! @socialworkerswb.bsky.social socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/

The statement is also available as text on our website stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/l...

Following the Lampard Inquiry hearings on the 13th and 14th Oct related to Oxevision, here is a statement provided by Hat Porter on behalf of Stop Oxevision. youtu.be/bzugNOvOBWs?...

BOOK GIVEAWAY I have a spare author copy of my book ‘Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America’ and I’d love for it to find a home. I’m happy to send it anywhere so just add your name here (www.linkedin.com/posts/cordel...) and I’ll pick a name at random :)

I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs. Please share!

Recent blog post for BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health contextualising our birth doula project- with @annanelson95.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2025/...

This coming Monday and Tuesday the Lampard enquiry will be hearing Stop Oxevision's evidence and Lio/Oxehealth and EPUT will be questioned live on their use of Oxevision and the deaths of patients. You can watch along on a live YouTube streaming link. #StopOxevision

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...

I've run a peer support group around living with suicidal experiences for 18 months, we've had over 650 attendances in over 108+ hours of suicide themed conversation. Not one meeting has gone by where benefits don't crop up as the reason people feel like they may end their life.

I'm excited to share that I passed my PhD viva yesterday! ✨ Thank you to my brilliant examiners Prof Vanessa May and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, my viva chair Dr Paul Gray, and my Director of Studies Dr @jennyvanhooff.com. It was an honour to share such a special moment with you all!

Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.

We draw on concepts from crip technoscience together with abolitionist perspectives on technology to argue for the necessity of a Mad technoscience; an account of how Mad people – particularly those of us incarcerated – resist, repurpose, and (re)imagine technologies used on us against our will

Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The hearings will be held at Arundel House in London and livestreamed to Youtube. Following the hearings, transcripts and relevant evidence will be published online. More information is available here and on the Lampard Inquiry website: lampardinquiry.org.uk/all-hearings/

Lampard Inquiry update: the Oxevision hearings due to be held in May have been rescheduled for the 13th and 14th October. This includes pre-recorded oral evidence given by Stop Oxevision and live hearings with a member of Oxehealth / LIO, and EPUT head of strategy, and digital

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📢 Call for Contributions is open for #ICRMC 2026! Find out more here: creativeresearchmethods.com We're also excited to announce the ICRMC 2026 keynotes: Ranjita Dhital and Alastair Roy — ready to spark debate and inspire new ways of thinking. #ICRMC26 #CRMethods #creativeresearch

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

I have the honour of interviewing the fabulous @saranahmed.bsky.social about her new book, No Is Not A Lonely Utterance: The Art & Activism of Complaining next month (22nd October). Come join us at The Whitworth in Manchester for a critical discussion of refusals, community building, and solidarity.

On the theme of countering invisibility, I'm glad to support Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK 2025, led by The Motherhood Group (@TheMotherhoodGroup on Instagram/LinkedIn/TikTok). It’s time to #MakeBlackMothersVisible. #BlackMaternalMentalHealthWeek #BMMHW25 More: themotherhoodgroup.org/bmmhw25/

It’s great to have this collection as open access! #fathers #care The topics and global coverage are brilliant - selecting a few at random: practices of Chinese fathers in Spain, fathers’ repertoires of night time care, Somali fathers in diaspora …

Still time to register for this webinar/book launch! #AcademicSky

… A methodological addition to our academics’ wives material. How can we reconstruct the part played by wives of major disciplinary figures in their husbands' intellectual endeavours when evidence is patchy, concealed or missing? 6+1 doi.org/10.1177/0038...

How have sociologists’ wives contributed to the discipline? @rosedwards.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social and Val Gillies on post-war sociology, invisibility and the “great man narrative”. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/0VVrW9Y Thanks for Typing #podcast buff.ly/dJZ97H1

We have a FREE bundle of 147 zines from 63 creators (including us 🧡), and you can get it all through September 14th! itch.io/b/3247/free-...

The findings of this year's @npeu-oxford.bsky.social MBRRACE-UK report on maternal deaths are, more than ever, deeply challenging. They present a stark picture of unmet need, widening inequalities and rising inequity. Read Birth Companions' response here: www.birthcompanions.org.uk/articles/mbr...

I’m at Helmsley Literature Festival this weekend talking about walking, writing, mourning and the north with Wendy Pratt. Come! helmsleyarts.co.uk/whats-on/hel...