Decolonial research in the Social Sciences IJSRM special issue. This collection stands out because of the range of thought brought to bear. If you’re interested in challenging discussions of #decolonising research, I recommend. www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsrm20/2...

Decolonial research in the Social Sciences IJSRM special issue. This collection stands out because of the range of thought brought to bear. If you’re interested in challenging discussions of #decolonising research, I recommend. www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsrm20/2...

On autosociobiography and social mobility: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social

Hey, it's Michael, Toby, Dora, David, and Josh. For the past week, we've been documenting our protective presence work in the West Bank on TikTok @naamod1 and on Instagram @naamoduk .

Wow!

Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

For the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to claim that only one kind of Jew with one position on Israel can work for an organisation set up to commemorate over 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust is utterly disgraceful. www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...

We are gravely concerned for the wellbeing of the 8 Palestine Action-linked prisoners currently on hunger strike in the UK. (1/6)

Brave/foolhardy rose buds 🫣

A rather beautiful and heart wrenching piece by the wonderful Sapphire Allard, who also writes telling poetry

Was also pleased to join a panel today launching the Don't Buy Into Occupation coalition's 2025 report - the most ambitious look so far at corporate & financial involvement in Israel's violations of international law in the OPT. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQr...

I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI? I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research

83% of the public agree that no child should be living in poverty in the UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0

I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI? I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research

How have maternal ways of knowing been sidelined and devalued? What’s the harm in sociology’s fixation on its “founding fathers”? And why must we de-gender motherhood and see how all of us must care? Babalwa Magoqwana joins us from South Africa. buff.ly/ttlsfhZ

How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult? 🔓 Chris Renwick’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...

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

From hashtag to history The story of Thanks for Typing began with the viral #ThanksForTyping hashtag-a call to recognise wives’ invisible labour in academic life. From typing manuscripts to conducting fieldwork, these women made crucial but uncredited contributions to their husbands’ research.

An insighful and timely piece by Diane Reay on the purposes of education journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...

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 😴