How does the therapeutic ethos manifest itself in Britain’s primary schools? @drpeterjhemming.bsky.social and co-authors take a closer look at the post-COVID mental health crisis, religion and unrecognised complexities. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com @leverhulme.ac.uk buff.ly/gIv2osH

In the #Cairngorms for an autumn break - had a visitor this morning 🐿️

Please repost: We're looking for an excellent writer/editor with strong data journalism skills to join the religion team at @pewresearch.org. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

Assistant prof position in sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...

The Religion & Spirituality in Society & Culture Lab explores religion, spirituality, and secularity in society and culture, across spaces and scales, as well as how these intersect. Want to know more? buff.ly/uZxFfR3 @annastrhan.bsky.social @adagiomminor.bsky.social @joannamalone.bsky.social

With growing numbers of staff and PGRs in the dept researching religion and spirituality, we've launched a new working group: the Religion & Spirituality in Society & Culture Lab. Keep reading below 👇 #UniversityofYork #UoY #Sociology #Religious #Culture #Spirituality #Research

Todays begins SPEP online conference @speporg.bsky.social! While we are not attending, we're highlighting some of our #Philosophy titles, including some #OpenAccess that you can browse here: bit.ly/3J8R370 includes @annastrhan.bsky.social

SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social

one of the astonishing things about working in a UK uni in the last decade is complete DISCONNECT between (on one hand) hostile media stories, ill informed govt policy, end of unis as we know them and (on the other) the joyful work of actually talking w/students and discovering new things together

Luna enjoying her #caturday

Luna has obviously been watching this Sesame Street classic for inspiration... youtu.be/oRRe5GkBPjs?...

Happy #Caturday from Luna who has claimed this house as her own #catsofbluesky

I’m sorry to learn that Jonathan Lear has died. His book Radical Hope is one of the deepest and wisest books I’ve read this decade. If you’ve not read it, I’d recommend it. It’s a book for the dark times we’re in.

Some great events coming up in our Social Studies of Ethics, Morality, and Values Network exploring affirmative action and the judging of cat shows, the possibility of political depolarization, and values at the end of life. All are warmly welcome! Details and link to register:

Enjoyed chatting with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about how and why children are growing up nonreligious, and the beliefs, feelings, and values interwoven in this for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social #humanism #nonreligion #atheism #sociology

Enjoyed chatting with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about how and why children are growing up nonreligious, and the beliefs, feelings, and values interwoven in this for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social #humanism #nonreligion #atheism #sociology

Some great events coming up in our Social Studies of Ethics, Morality, and Values Network exploring affirmative action and the judging of cat shows, the possibility of political depolarization, and values at the end of life. All are warmly welcome! Details and link to register:

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Listen! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talks to @annastrhan.bsky.social & Rachael Shillitoe about the fascinating "Growing Up Godless Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England" newbooksnetwork.com/growing-up-g...

Our #Sociology department is looking for an #AssistantProfessor in the field of Social Inequality (with the possibility for a permanent contract). www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3546... @sociologytiu.bsky.social @tilburg-university.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicjobs

SEPT 15 JOB DEADLINE: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY). jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...

'Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you' - Ford Madox Ford Marshal Zeringue asked us to put Growing Up Godless to the Page 99 test @princetonupress.bsky.social page99test.blogspot.com/2025/08/anna...

'Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you' - Ford Madox Ford Marshal Zeringue asked us to put Growing Up Godless to the Page 99 test @princetonupress.bsky.social page99test.blogspot.com/2025/08/anna...

This research reinforces what we’ve long known to be true: that children can grow up to be kind, ethical, and fulfilled without religion playing any part in their lives. Wonderful to read about children's natural curiosity for science, capacity for compassion, and awe in the natural world.

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Enjoyed doing this 3 questions interview about Growing Up Godless with @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social for @ccfamilies.bsky.social on @thesocietypages.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social #atheism #humanism thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/07/...

And it’s off! A Puffling experiencing the power of flight for the first time as it fledges off the Isle of May

Enjoyed doing this 3 questions interview about Growing Up Godless with @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social for @ccfamilies.bsky.social on @thesocietypages.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social #atheism #humanism thesocietypages.org/ccf/2025/07/...

Huge congrats, Lucy - really looking forward to working with you on this!

Makes herself at home here without fail whenever I am packing #CatsofBluesky

Remind me why universities, charities and governments are still using X as a platform for advertising their programmes and sharing their activities? With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3Ig3H3l

I’m struggling to work out why house price fluctuations are of any concern to the head of Ofsted, other than that the marketisation of everything has softened his and our brains. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Difficult to express how I feel about those in our politics and media who are more concerned about what some rapper said at Glastonbury than fact that, as a matter of deliberate policy, the Israeli government is paying mercenaries to murder starving civilians for fun. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As MPs vote on massive cuts to Universal Credit & PIP today, they should bear in mind: - This does not have public support - This is not the change the public voted for - The public don't believe the only way to meet fiscal challenges is to make disabled people poorer and iller

Webb Keane will be talking about his new book - Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination - in our next Social Studies of Ethics, Morality and Values meeting, on 2nd July (online). All are very welcome! Details and link to register below #anthropology #sociology #morality #ethics

How children’s non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday life. Growing Up Godless is out now. Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Enjoying her #caturday

Webb Keane will be talking about his new book - Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination - in our next Social Studies of Ethics, Morality and Values meeting, on 2nd July (online). All are very welcome! Details and link to register below #anthropology #sociology #morality #ethics

Looking forward to this next week - I'll be speaking about our @leverhulme.ac.uk project about (non)religion and citizenship in everyday school life

Are we experiencing a crisis of meaning and purpose in the west? In the first edition of our new Voices section, we asked six people for their perspectives. Hear from @andrewcopson.bsky.social, @domipalmer.bsky.social, @loielee.bsky.social and more

Dr @joannamalone.bsky.social's project investigates how changing religious landscapes impact the spiritual, emotional and pastoral needs of older adults who are non-religious and how ideas around flourishing and living and dying ‘well’ are shifting. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @york.ac.uk

🎉Congrats to our PhD student, Ruth Vassilas, on being selected as one of 10 finalists with her talk "Spiritually Awakened...Now What? The Aftermath of Life-Changing Spiritual Experiences" in York's 3 Minute Thesis Competition. Want to see the final? buff.ly/SmvHRlG #UoY #Sociology #Thesis

For this long & commemorative holiday weekend, my super-sized 226th #ScholarSunday thread is full of thoughtful public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

"Universities are magnets for global talent, so why is this government so determined to undermine that? Financial catastrophe, collapsed recruitment, and a reckless visa plan. We jeopardise it at our peril” alpinkerton.bsky.social on the government’s attack on international students.

Publication day! So happy that this is finally out in the world. Thanks so much to the team @princetonupress.bsky.social and everyone else who has helped it and us along the way!

Publication day! So happy that this is finally out in the world. Thanks so much to the team @princetonupress.bsky.social and everyone else who has helped it and us along the way!

Register now for @thensrn.bsky.social's annual virtual lecture, Growing Up Godless: Childhood and the Formation of Non-Religion, featuring @annastrhan.bsky.social and Rachael Shillitoe May 22, 12:30pm ET Register here: ut-ee.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

How children’s non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday life. Growing Up Godless publishes May 20. Learn more and preorder your copy of this pioneering account: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP Deadline: 9 June Please repost- thanks! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

On Thurs 22nd May @annastrhan.bsky.social and Rachael Shillitoe will be giving the NSRN Annual Lecture, where they will be talking about the research behind their new book. The lecture is open, online, and everyone is welcome. Details and registration link 🔗 buff.ly/hkmYG8C #Sociology #Lecture