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 👇🏾

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New paper for @bjsociology.bsky.social exploring how working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe associate university with risk due to debt (deterring some), but also potential reward in terms of grad premium, and crucially, dignity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Calling trade unionists and tenant union members with a story to tell! This workshop provides basic oral history training aimed at trade and tenant union members interested gathering oral testimonies of working class struggles, 23 July Glasgow Zine Library www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/events/2025/...

Are you part of our early career scholar network? We are collecting feedback on our activities - if you can help us out by filling in our short & sweet form we'd appreciate it 🙏🏾 www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

My piece for @ersjournal.com is out! I explore how French people of Indian descent, an invisible minority in France, are racialised through anti-Blackness + variations of Orientalism, and how my participants negotiate this. @ethnicityuk.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

New article by @roaa-ali.bsky.social and me - coming out of @ethnicityuk.bsky.social research on how agendas of inclusivity and diversity played out in a museum setting. We make the case that a focus on anti-racism would have produced more critical change.

We’re collecting testimonies on policing in schools across England. Students, parents, carers, teachers, youth workers & others — if you’ve got a perspective, we want to hear from you. WhatsApp, email, or online form 👇🏿. Pls share 🙏🏿 #PoliceInSchools www.ethnicity.ac.uk/school-policing/

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

I wrote an essay for The Guardian Longread about the Super Eagles and the history that brought the Nigerian diaspora to London. 🖤 🇳🇬 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

BSix is such an amazing educational institution that offers a lot to young people in the area please sign/share the petition to resist the current changes, which include wiping out the whole enrichment programme (which doesn't even cost the college money!) www.change.org/p/save-bsix

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This has been a long time in the making, but I’m delighted to share this special issue of @thesociologicalreview.org edited by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & I.

📢JOB: Research Associate @ethnicityuk.bsky.social New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿 @britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I spoke to @jordanklepper.bsky.social of @thedailyshow.com about the role MMA plays in shaping the rightward turn of young people, especially young men. Have a gander!

A fantastic project on ex-industrial towns in the UK which challenges the notion of 'left behind' by focusing on new forms of economic exploitation and political expropriation two-towns.common-wealth.org

A multimedia article based on my PhD research in east London has just been published by the open-access journal Roadsides. It's part of a collection on 'infrastructural anxieties'. roadsides.net/deakin-012/

The first article from our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project 'After Last Orders?: A biographical exploration of the impact of UK pub closures' is now published in British Journal of Sociology. Open access via the link below.

🔥 One more week to apply for this postdoc position in Zurich (flexible start date) Feel free to reach out if you have any questions If you'd like to hear from someone who has been working closely with me, @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social and @retobuergisser.bsky.social are happy to share insights

My union branch is looking for a last push on petition signatures against job cuts at Durham. Potential redundancies & de facto imposed voluntary severance through fear is a gendered attack on the local working class in county Durham. Please share, sign & support. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Lad, the EU are ignoring a genocide. I doubt they're gonna overturn a penalty.

Excellent @survivingsociety.bsky.social podcast on last year's dig where you stand exhibition in sheffield. The second episode on how the archive was explored/ confronted/subverted was class too. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sur...