Spare hour over half-term? Join Chata the golden retriever on Thurs 30th October for a family-friendly foray into what ‘work’ looks like from a dog’s perspective at the PMH in Manchester, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences @morgancentre.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @ukri.org

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

Happy to have this short piece published in So-Fi-Zine, on the politics of treading the line between fact and fiction in "What a Mouse Knows", a play based on my research with lab mouse welfare scientists sofizine.com/extra-conten... @uomsociology.bsky.social @morgancentre.bsky.social

  What can a snoozing assessor tell us about situated knowledge and embodied attention in laboratory animal welfare assessment? My latest paper on Qualitative Behaviour Assessment (QBA) doi.org/10.1177/0162... @nicolecnelson.bsky.social @evahaifa.bsky.social @gailfdavies.bsky.social

Reflecting on the Adventures in Multi-Species Ethnography workshop that I ran last week at UoM. Such a warm, inquiring, committed group of attendees from across disciplinary backgrounds. As always, I learn a huge amount from our experiments and discussions together! shorturl.at/U5cF8