This looks brilliant. I've been lucky enough to see see @jameskneale.bsky.social present on this research and its just fascinating. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Recommend wholeheartedly to @drinkingstudies.bsky.social and Victorianists among others....

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Just over a month until Temperance Lives comes out in print! Anyone interested in buying the hardback can use the discount code GLR AT8 to save 35% on the price - to do that and for more details, see bloomsbury.com/9781350529717 @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

This is appalling, devastating for the staff and students involved (and their families & communities) and shocking in its extent. This is jobs and lives - and a whole sub-discipline (and I know other disciplines are also at risk). We can not just stand by. Solidarity to Leicester's geographers.

New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

Join us for an exciting panel event - Visualising Migration: Art, Resistance & Wellbeing 📅 Tuesday 11th November, 4.30–6.30pm 📍 Leolin Price Lecture Theatre, 30 Guilford Street, UCL GOSICH Book your spot now: 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin... @tcru-ucl.bsky.social @uclhealthpublic.bsky.social

Looking to build back up my group of PhD students. Primarily interested in supervising in the area of drug policy but open to other areas, too. Drop me an email if you have an idea. For more information about me and my work, take a look here: tobyseddon.com

Piece on how the British right has managed to convince a significant minority that it would be in their interests to get rid of the European Convention on Human Rights. My suggestion: rather than capitulate, make human rights part of a wider politics of equality. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

Hurricane Melissa by Luke de Noronha for @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Some old photos of Glassy Junction from the 1990s, including a snap featuring Saeed Jaffrey pouring a pint

This by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on the need for "places to come together" for those interested in progressive politics is really great www.ippr.org/articles/pla...

Are you a high-school or college student working part-time while studying in Manchester? Learn about your rights, share experiences & connect with support at this free interactive session 📍 Manchester Central Library 🗓️ Wed 29 Oct, 1:30–3:30pm 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/help-i-did... #ESRCFestival

TODAY: Immigration, Policy & Protest – a sociological look at the UK’s politics of #immigration. 🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social 📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST ➡️ Tickets buff.ly/DGBy564

💥 Apps open for 2026/27 entry @sriucl.bsky.social! 📌Sociology MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology & Data Science MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology & Social Inequalities MSc www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 📌Sociology of Childhood & Children’s Rights MA www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

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

Beneath the snark, I’m actually looking for economics research on apprenticeships and informal knowledge transfer. Pointers anyone?

📣 OPPORTUNITY: the Stuart Hall Essay Prize competition invites young academics, journalists, students and other writers based in the UK to reflect on Stuart Hall's groundbreaking ideas in an original critique of contemporary society. 📅 Deadline 3 November. 👇 Details below!

This year's Claire Dwyer lecture @uclgeography.bsky.social is with Dr Shabna Begum (@runnymedetrust.bsky.social) – reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Race Relations Act of 1965 Tuesday 25 Nov, tickets below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-c...

Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social: 📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx 📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7 📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL 📌Chevening: www.chevening.org Applications open from October 13!

Dear hive: Does anyone have an idea on how to recruit *production workers in the Netherlands* for a qualitative study? Asking for a PhD colleague. Slim chance, but all hints would be welcome. Feel free to share as well! Thanks!

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! thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

So much talk about Reform voters, but I'm yet to read much about their lives beyond tropes and excuses ('legitimate concerns'). I've been back in the midlands to interview people and learn more. Here's my piece on them and Reform's attempts to present itself as a community-minded, pro-worker party:

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: cultural theorists Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh explore the place the pub in Nigel Farage's English nationalist imaginary renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

Short essay for @renewaljournal.bsky.social me and Vallu wrote on Farage, politics and pubs... a bit of a preview to the book we're working on about pubs, race and the nation to be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social in September 2026 renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2 Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

Only the memories of Mike Tyson at his most destructive in sparring can rival the vivid images I carry of the young Ricky Hatton training in an old hat factory. He was utterly lost in boxing. It all felt so pure. Ricky was unforgettable then – and remains so now www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor he was deputy prime minister at the time always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time www.ft.com/content/0723...

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology, bringing together over 200 academics to advance their research. Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

will be doing some more general columns for the guardian going forward. this one is on remigration and the evolution of a far-right pipe dream into mainstream discourse. I promise they won’t all be this depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Brilliant & important analysis from @kojokoram.bsky.social: why the populist right’s attack on history is integral to its attack on democracy & human rights: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m so excited to share that we’re getting ready for the next @bjsociology.bsky.social conference! Now accepting abstracts. Please submit, and encourage friends and colleagues to do the same! (And if previous attendees are wondering, yes, we plan to repeat the success of the boat party, IYKYK)

Also excited to launch & lead the new MSc/MA Sociology and welcome our first cohort of students into this one-of-its-kind programme, powered by the powerhouse of interdisciplinary social sciences that is @sriucl.bsky.social 🚨 Applications for 2026 entry opening soon 🔜 www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Thrilled to have started a new chapter in my career at @sriucl.bsky.social & Quantitative Social Science (QSS) centre @ucl.ac.uk this week. Absolutely love my supportive colleagues & the inspiring environment ❤️ We're hiring 2 new lecturers in QSS – come and join us ➡ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Multi-ethnic working class area where I live: no flags. V.white middle class area where I grew up: flags everywhere The latter unlike the former has not been "forgotten by Westminster" or "left behind by globalisation". These people are mostly just racists. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series. Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September. 🔎 buff.ly/Q5KZlcJ

My long read on Keir Starmer and human rights - for which a I spoke to dozens of current and former colleagues, campaigners and legal experts - is now a podcast. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Thinking about the possibility of setting up a sociologically informed podcast? Here's a chance to get some guidance about how best to go about doing that, thanks to @thesociologicalreview.org

Any London-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent interactive lectures/seminars to sixth-formers in South London on Wednesday afternoons (3-4 pm) as part of a "Race, Class & Society" enrichment curriculum from September-December? Can pay in coffee/snacks? @sriucl.bsky.social

Any London-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent interactive lectures/seminars to sixth-formers in South London on Wednesday afternoons (3-4 pm) as part of a "Race, Class & Society" enrichment curriculum from September-December? Can pay in coffee/snacks? @sriucl.bsky.social

WRITE FOR US: we’re inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for The Sociological Review magazine's Research Insights series. The editors are currently seeking proposals for our December issue, with a pitch deadline of 5 September. 🔎 Read more about contributing: buff.ly/Q5KZlcJ

Support our mission: we’re recruiting a new trustee to help guide our work advancing public education on sociology and related disciplines. In this volunteer role (approx 1hr/wk), you’ll share your skills in fundraising, partnerships, income generation or marketing. Find out more: buff.ly/yvCO6Vt

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...

My new article for Sociology on how PhD work, in resisting the neoliberalism of HE, may salvage an insurgent sociology. The piece reflects on my time completing a PhD committed to anti-racism, prompted by Mark Duggan's killing, the anniversary of which is today. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Another plug for my open-access paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social on how working-class college students in London, Rochdale and Morecambe perceive of university. 28/60 aspired to university, including just 2/26 in Morecambe, reflecting spatial divisions of labour (+ other stuff!).

Job in the Sociology Department here at Durham. Opportunity to work on a really important project looking at the history of a classic study in British sociology and how it ignored/obscured issues of race and gender. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

🎧Dharmi Kapadia contributes to this episode of #AntiSocial on racism & prejudice. Dharmi discusses our research on the many complex, overlapping & accumulating impacts of racism. (Dharmi's section starts around 22:40mins) @uomsoss.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New article from @amit-singh.bsky.social on how young working-class people balance potential risk and reward in decisions on whether to go to university 👇🏾