Coming up on 13 November, our walk with Clare Balding for BBC R4 Ramblings www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I haven’t heard anything that caught me up like this has for ages

🎧 Bring Your Research to Life Through Podcasting We’re excited to be teaming up with the @royalholloway.bsky.social Social Science Impact Accelerator for a dynamic, hands-on workshop exploring how podcasting can amplify your research story and reach new audiences.

November ladybird travelling by train.

Ellen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt

Embroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart

Can anyone help me out - what is this flimsy delight representing?

I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit. Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social largerfamilies.study/publications...

This week's Substack post tells the story of Brighton's interwar council housing. There's a new post every Thursday in your inbox if you subscribe. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...

This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.

Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk

🚨 New on Substack: Brighton built a lot of fine council housing between the wars but could it make it affordable to the working class? My post on Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Have you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK

New post out: "The worst social policy ever" Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP. Lots of data but also powerful testimony. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Free access

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

Israel has bombed Gaza again. 104 Palestinians are dead. Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.

Coming up... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The New York City Tree Alphabet is an alphabetical planting palette, inviting us to plant secret messages with real trees. You can also write/type with the NYC Trees font, find it here: www.katieholten.com/new-york-cit... #naturewriting #booksky #trees 🌿

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

It took me a while to find this. The instructions were hard to find. This will do it though.

Here we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review doi-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0038... #bipolar #Sociology

Two of the three most recently published articles on @thesociologicalreview.org are by academics from our department! Congratulations all. You can read fascinating work from @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies on challenges of researching academic wives at doi.org/10.1177/00380261251375423

Do people know what adverts are? They are for getting consumers to buy products. That’s their purpose.

Understanding ‘Gender Equality’ Earlier this year, @ktwamley.bsky.social & Charlotte Faircloth were nominated for the BSA & SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence. Their work reshapes thinking around caring responsibilities, work & equality post-parenthood. tinyurl.com/mpddkevn tinyurl.com/4hf5xkry

Nature is amazing....Dance at dusk ☺️ and goodnight 😴

Come with us to get a big swing on at Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire

How to explain Bourdieu - a masterclass

The Scottish gov identified 6 priority families to highlight children at greater risk of poverty 9 in 10 children in poverty live in 1 or more of these priority families Devastating stats tell us how important it is to invest in a better future for all 🚸 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NLTsFhPGgFU

We are deeply relieved to see Israeli and Palestinian families united today at the end of the horrendous ordeal they have gone through. While there is profound uncertainty about the future, these families’ indescribable pain is finally over. (1/4)

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Birds on the telegraph wires.

Such a helpful contribution (in the meaningful use of the term)

Autumn flowering bonus in the garden

As we came together this evening to mourn all the lives lost on and since the 7th of October, we share in the fragile hope of Palestinians and Israelis welcoming the announcement of a ceasefire and hostage deal that will see Israeli and Palestinian families reunite with their loved ones.

I’m honoured and excited to be talking about ‘How Wives Helped to Shape the Foundations for Knowledge About Society’ for the Neustadt Lecture on 29 October 2025, 17:00-18:00 If you’re in Leicester, come along in person. If you’re not, you can attend online.

I’m honoured and excited to be talking about ‘How Wives Helped to Shape the Foundations for Knowledge About Society’ for the Neustadt Lecture on 29 October 2025, 17:00-18:00 If you’re in Leicester, come along in person. If you’re not, you can attend online.

🎙️ Discover the Power of Podcasting for Research We’re thrilled to be working with Social Science Impact Accelerator to bring this brilliant hands-on workshop exploring how podcasts can be powerful tools for storytelling, engagement, and impact in research.

“research methods are a tool that you utilize and you need to know how to utilize it but not more than that”

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

EVERY LIFE, A UNIVERSE - Vigil and testimony readings ⏰October 9th, 6pm 📍Castlehaven Community Park, London NW1 8RU These 2 years have been marked by unimaginable loss: loved ones murdered/held captive, families driven from their homes, people cut off from their communities. (1/3)

First page of the East End Dwelling Company minutes. Look at that beautiful script. The material and moral problems of Katharine Buildings’ latrines and thieving lazy caretakers a recurrent theme into the 1950s.

On the eve of Sukkot and the 2nd anniversary of October 7th, we pause to mourn and share in the pain of the family and friends of those murdered and taken hostage two years ago in the Hamas-led attacks, some of whom have still not returned home.

Join us as we remember, reckon, and stand together in our struggle to resist the ongoing Nakba and fight for freedom, justice and equality for all between the river and the sea.

Awesome talent : Guillermo Galetti

Lost cities at Standing Hat Inclosure, New Forest. Photographs show a multitude of small fungi on a moss covered fallen tree trunk.