2/This is a Wellcome Trust funded project examining human-animal relations and health. If you want more information on the roles then check out this dedicated site where we explain how it all works and what we are looking for microsite sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/re...

Excited to see this article published in Sociology about Fieldwork Fables, a series of research films, using actors, that myself and Profs Les Back and Michaela Benson made. Used in over 100 universities for methods teaching! shorturl.at/a3WDC @morgancentre.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

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