The UK has become one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. In this set of discussion papers, funded researchers discuss examples and approaches to deepen our understanding of place-sensitive nature recovery, exploring the links between people and nature.

New policy discussion paper in this @britishacademy.bsky.social series by me and Louise Rondel on the need for policy makers to learn from place-based knowledges about urban rivers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

New audio paper by Konstantinos Damianakis, Louise Rondel and me. It brings to life a discussion across sound studies and urban sociology about listening, rivers and … mermaids. seismograf.org/node/20849?f...

Great to see the Live Methods special section in issue form!

“Live Methods made an important intervention into how sociological research methods are practised, understood & written about.” @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ introduce a journal Special Section on @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods. buff.ly/S2TR4F2

Les Back on how football can inspire songs of celebration, defiance, protest or calls to action – which sounds like folk music to us.

🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation! More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation. Deadline: July 1 | Start: October UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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...

Thank you to all of our contributing authors and to @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar for their powerful and often moving conversation with me and fellow editor @emmakjackson.bsky.social on the making and legacy of Live Methods

Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever

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...

If you're watching the London Marathon tomorrow, look out for my @adey70.bsky.social and give him a cheer.

Next week in Manchester. The Sociological Review inaugural quiz. I’m at the helm. Come on down!

Clem Burke was one helluva drummer and the coolest of cats. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-...

We are heading upstream for this year’s London Rivers Week. Tell your friends in Petts Wood! www.thames21.org.uk/event/london...

Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

A niche but nonetheless very cool (and permanent!) soil sociology job going at Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social

OUT NOW: in the new issue of The Sociological Review journal, we reassess Bev Skeggs' acclaimed Formations of Class and Gender. journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/ @jolittler.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @simov.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Come and join us at LSE! Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

upcoming bsa ecr event! Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’? 21 March 2025 (10am–3.30pm) Newcastle University (Department of Sociology, Henry Daysh Building) www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Two PhD positions at Leiden University: “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change" (Tokyo and Louisiana) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

CLOSING TODAY: the Sociological Review Foundation is hiring an Editorial Officer to manage the journal’s review process and support the Editor-in-Chief and team of editors. Applicants must be based in, and eligible to work in, the UK. Today, 17 February, is the final day to apply. buff.ly/4hw5BJq

"Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage. Perhaps it is time to stand apart from these passions to see how they work, but also to find passions of our own." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“For us, walking is never a solitary activity, it always happens together with others.” @emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak on the geographer Doreen Massey, conviviality and “engaged walking”. #OnlineFirst https://buff.ly/3Wvdp6p 👂 Emma & Agata on Spatial Delight: https://buff.ly/3WW0M1I

What can Kilburn High Road & @liverpoolfc1.bsky.social tell us about the relationality of walking? @emmakjackson.bsky.social & Agata Lisiak revisit Doreen Massey’s canonical essay “A Global Sense of Place”. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/3Wvdp6p 🎙️Listen to Emma & Agata #SpatialDelight: buff.ly/3WW0M1I

New article🎉 at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social 'You'll never walk alone: Theorizing Engaged Walking with Doreen Massey by Agata Lisiak and I. ://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HUPIBYQSFD5T2JEVIIIA/full

🔔 Deadline approaching! Apply now for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards! 📚✨ Submit your proposals by 17th February 2025. Don't miss out—visit the USF website for more details! 👉 ow.ly/8xU650UoJOJ #USFSeminarSeriesAwards #UrbanStudies

I’ve spent the last 5 days with my mum at the RVI and Freeman hospitals in Newcastle. As well as being massively grateful for those who are caring for her, I am once again bowled over by how anyone can have contact with the NHS and still buy anti-migration rhetoric.

Don't forget, your friendly neighbourhood Museum of Homelessness is hiring for 2025! Come join our crew! museumofhomelessness.org/news/mohjobs

As promised, here is our new starter pack of scholars working on London from a range of different perspectives. If you've any recommendations as to anyone else who should be in here (including yourself), do let us know!

We're looking to put together a starter pack of scholars working on London from different disciplinary perspectives - history, literature, geography, film, politics etc. If you work on London and would like to be added, or know of someone else who should be, please do let us know!

'We invite papers that carefully engage with the genocide in Gaza and other places experiencing war and genocide, and examine how we can learn through them to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures.' deadline for EoI 13/1/25. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

This conversation about ‘Medical misogyny’ and gynaecological pain is long overdue and an open secret among among most women I know 1/ www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

tis the season. there’s A LOT of snooker on TV. but what, i hear you ask, can snooker tell us about gender, class and urban space in britain? well… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dennis Bovell is on fine form on 6 Music right now.

Overheard on the train home from Charing Cross. ‘She’ll be getting out her pan flute, then doing her Cher impression.’ Tis the season?

**Black UK PhD students** This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care. **Tell everyone**

'Plant companionship can generate liberatory ways of relating to the present and provide a steadfast commitment to keeping our futures open.' A beautiful new paper by Agata Lisiak on thinking from Rosa Luxemburg’s herbarium. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/8JC4F...

This is a blog on the programme on football chants as a form of folk music Off to Newcastle soon and tomorrow am interview the great Glasgow based musician and Hibs fanatic Louis Abbott thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/aug...

New academic home! I’m now at LSE Sociology as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow. Thanks to the wonderful professional services staff here for making the process so smooth.

Any (Greater) Manchester-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent enrichment to v nice sixth-formers in Rochdale on Wed afternoons Jan - April? Broadly on race, class, inequality w/ focus on issues relevant to young people... can pay in coffee + travel @uomsociology.bsky.social

I loved hanging out with Jackie Kay and Ash Watson in Salford - her lecture and out discussion is available on YouTube now www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVCX...

Where have we heard this before? I am so sorry to see colleagues at UEA being put through this. Solidarity.

#JobAlert: we’re hiring! The Foundation is seeking two new Sociological Review magazine editors to build on the excellent work of our outgoing editors @asiyaislam.bsky.social and @idleethnographer.bsky.social Don’t delay! 19 December is the deadline to apply. buff.ly/3B99lBe

Loads of time left to apply for this really exciting PhD opportunity and to become part of the collective team working on the 'Stories-so-far: Doreen Massey Archives project'

This Wednesday (27) I’m doing a talk about walking and refugee history, looking at how walking appears in oral history testimonies & refugee creative writing as well as discussing my work translating academic history into walking tours. 12-13:30 in 305, 7 Lilybank Gdns or DM me for the Zoom link!