If you're currently marking dissertations using qualitative methods in psychology, you may want to consider nominating one of your students for a @qmip.bsky.social award!

It is good to see the Education Select Committee’s report on Higher Education and Funding. The Committee recognises the severity of the financial situation facing institutions in England and the knock-on effects on subject provision. 🧵

The submission deadline for this year's @bps-social-psych.bsky.social conference has been extended til Monday! It's a £105 for 2 days for section members so great value 💰 www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

📖Interested in reviewing a book for us?📖 We have a long list of fantastic books we are looking to have reviewed! journals.sagepub.com/author-instr... For further info contact our editor @historydafydd.bsky.social: [email protected] @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

The submission deadline for this year's @bps-social-psych.bsky.social conference is 3 May! It's a great opportunity to present new research and this year's theme is social psychology for the public. www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

Our* new paper explores how highly edited documentaries can be analysed with Discursive Psychology and Goffman's concept of frames. @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social and Jackie Abell @ree-uwe.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔋 A universal discounted block of energy would distribute support more efficiently and progressively than the EPG. Read the full Comment piece here: www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...

Great event by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and @bps-dartp.bsky.social on secondary data and social media! It's online and free 🙂 www.bps.org.uk/event/social...

📣 Submission deadline extended to 30 April 2026 for Special Issue on “Making Others Misconduct Matter In The Public Sphere”. We hope this extension offers additional time for authors to refine and submit their parts. Please share with colleagues and networks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Tonight on LBC, @drjogrady.bsky.social said it like it is. FE lecturers are not paid enough for an incredibly hard job. Tomorrow, they take strike action. ✊ Stand with FE staff.

Today is your LAST chance to register for our upcoming Qualitative Research Symposium at the University of Bath later this month! We have two days of discussion planned, all around the theme of *Boundaries in Qualitative Research*. Find out more & register here: www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...

Oh, this looks good. Michael Billig, Sivamohan Valluvan & Kojo Kyerewaa on Flags & Performative Nationalism: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flags-and-...

Our* special issue on economic inequality is available in Qualitative Research in Psychology! Thank you to our contributors www.tandfonline.com/toc/uqrp20/2... * @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social Jackie Abell and Mirko Demasi @ree-uwe.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

2 days left to protect jobs. 2 days left to defend our agreements. 2 days left to make your vote count. Vote YES today and check your colleagues have too. #WeAreTheUniversity

Don't forget to nominate an excellent student for the @qmip.bsky.social postgraduate award!

We're getting closer to the @qmip.bsky.social deadline for the postgraduate award. If you've seen an outstanding postgraduate dissertation using qualitative methods in psychology, take a look at the link below 👇 www.bps.org.uk/member-netwo...

Thanks to @bps-social-psych.bsky.social for bringing my notes together from the event that @merveozturkey.bsky.social & I organized. Reflections came from the responses of: @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social Dr Rim Saab and Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir www.bps.org.uk/news/rising-...

The Groups, Identities & Health research group at NTU are recruiting a Research Fellow to investigate the relationships between social identities and loneliness in community settings Fantastic opportunity to work with the country's leading 'social cure' group! vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

If you need a small amount of funding to kick off a project or disseminate findings, check out @qmip.bsky.social qualitative research pump priming and dissemination fund! Deadline: 1 December 2025 www.bps.org.uk/member-netwo...

🎤 Proposals for our Centre for Qualitative Research, University of Bath Qualitative Research Symposium at University of Bath School of Management are open until November 7th! Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here: www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali... #qualitative

Do you want to be an Associate Editor for @qmip.bsky.social Bulletin? We're looking for volunteers for the event reviews and the student spot. Get in touch with questions and to find out more via [email protected]

I was very fortunate to benefit from @bps-social-psych.bsky.social pump priming fund last year. Great opportunity to kick start your research or host an event. Deadline 31 October www.bps.org.uk/member-netwo...

Great series of events planned by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social on collective action and emergencies. It's free to attend and online! www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...

#1 Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵 👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...

Hello, we invite you to join the E-Agora tomorrow. The ‘Manosphere’ with Cecilia Rollano, (National University of Distance Education, Spain). Tuesday the 16th of September 2025. At 17.00-18.30 Central European Time (16.00 West European Time/UK; 18.00 East European Time). Link: shorturl.at/tSGdb

Great hybrid event this week exploring the development of our understanding of mental health as part of #heritageopendays in #Lichfield

There's also an open letter from social psychologists to the Presidents of the European Council, the European Commission, and of the European Parliament that is available to sign: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Dr Sue Widdicombe and I are inviting submissions for a Special Issue on "Making Others Misconduct Matter In The Public Sphere". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... For questions, feel free to get in touch with us. Looking forward to your contributions! ✨

Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

@qmip.bsky.social Postgraduate awards are now open for nominations. If you come across an excellent masters dissertation while marking, you have until 30 November to apply. www.bps.org.uk/member-netwo...

Bristol Feminists! Very limited places available to hear from Beatrix Campbell & Rahila Gupta speaking at the Watershed on publication of their new book. Spread the word www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/new-events/p...

🚨 Why are the numbers of people on Universal Credit higher? Here’s a thread to explain...

🔊 Climate change is a social justice issue 🔊 Recent analysis from @carbonbrief.org found that neighbourhoods in England where half or more of the population are people of colour are 15 TIMES more likely to face extreme heat than neighbourhoods where almost everyone is white @gndrising.bsky.social

Are you a leader interested in advancing environmental psychology in the UK? Are you a member of @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social? Applications are now open for the next Chair or Co-Chair BPS Environmental Psychology Section Further details here: www.bps.org.uk/news/volunte...

The full report showing who the highest earners are and our proposed solutions to extreme pay inequality is now published here. highpaycentre.org/ceo-pay-in-t...

Nice start to the week with a publication co-authored with @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social alumni Dan Johnson! We explored how Monégasque citizens are constructed in super-rich TV programming about Monaco doi.org/10.1177/0957... @ree-uwe.bsky.social

Labour won’t defend migration. Too scared of Reform, too terrified to lead. While they play dog whistle politics, inequality is the real problem. Not small boats. But private jets.

In our analysis, it's not that more people are angry about migrants in temporary housing, it's rather that the people who are angry are now also empowered... blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidenti...

Watch this powerful documentary. In 1945 two atomic bombs killed over 200,000 in #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki. Today just one US bomb now stationed in Britain could kill over 600,000. Help us stop the new nuclear war drive. Join CND today. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...

Great opportunity to volunteer on the @qmip.bsky.social committee! You can find out more here: www.bps.org.uk/news/volunte...

Prof Matt Perry, UCU Newcastle branch chair: “The fact that they can pay £1.7m out to students shows the measure of the impact of our actions plus that the university had the money to cut compulsory redundancies in the first place." #AcademicSky #UKHE

“Are institutions really letting students down - or is the expectation placed on them part of the issue? And to what extent should the responsibility fall on universities in the first place?” #AcademicSky #StudentMentalHealth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UWE Bristol is offering community, voluntary, and social enterprise organisations the opportunity to receive free consultancy through the Community Action and Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) Scheme. Find out more about the topics for consultancy, past projects and how to apply here: go.uwe.ac.uk/skuty

Published a paper exploring talk about wokeness and heritage in UK newspapers with @heritagejohn.bsky.social, Mirko Demasi and Shani Burke. Heritage is presented as apolitical and a refuge from the world raising questions about inclusivity @ree-uwe.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the @qmip.bsky.social 20th anniversary conference! It was a pleasure to meet old and new faces plus to hear about all the fabulous research going on! Thanks to everyone who got involved and helped us to celebrate in style with cake 😄 #qmip2025

Finally we have Evangelia Vergouli discussing why we need to rethink political influence. Do we all have the potential to become an extremist? @oppattune.bsky.social @qmip.bsky.social #qmip2025

Next up Elana Payne presents their work on how women in high profile occupational roles overcome adversity using grounded theory. Theory of embracing feminine authenticity to overcome adversity @qmip.bsky.social #qmip2025

Mujde Koca-Atabey discusses their research examining the educational experiences of Deaf adults in Turkey. #qmip2025 @qmip.bsky.social