New article - Using Zemiology to explore the potential social harms of a lifelong learning entitlement www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What can a better understanding of teachers engagement with masculinity, mental health and the manosphere in the school classroom offer to widening access? Hear from @edudetective.bsky.social and I on this weeks NEON blog www.educationopportunities.co.uk/neon-blog/wh...

A great evening launching our report and Boys Impact at the House of Commons

New report published today from @edudetective.bsky.social and I today: The Problem with Boys? is the first of three reports which explore educators perceptions of young working-class men in the classroom. www.boysimpact.com/s/boysreport...

The Journal of Creative Research Methods is a space for the #CreativeResearchMethods community; it publishes critical and engaged work on creative research methods and welcomes contributions. Sign up to our newsletter to learn more: buff.ly/byPirsy

This new blog by @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, Dr Mark Taylor and Dr Ruoxi Wang, highlights the relationship between subjects studied before university and graduates who go on to work in arts, culture and heritage (ACH) jobs. Read more: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...

Are you doing a part time doctorate? Or maybe you support part time doctoral researchers? Recently I ran a workshop for go-gn based on the book I wrote with @kayguccione.bsky.social and as if by magic they have produced an edited version on YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?si=Uw8...

It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek so here's a plug for my friendly, practical book. It came out just after the pandemic started and has helped, reassured and challenged since. Please share, buy, or get it in your library - I do free talks for any uni that stocks it www.routledge.com/Being-Well-i...

Is ADHD a superpower? Or is it harmful to think that way? Fresh from his work on our co-pro of Inside Our Minds, OU expert @jonrainford.bsky.social shares his thoughts: youtu.be/gf2BaJFxE1A?... For more ADHD guidance, visit: connect.open.ac.uk/health-wellb... #InsideOurADHDMinds

Looking forward to hosting @kayguccione.bsky.social and @jonrainford.bsky.social for their (online and publicly accessible) workshop on the 27th of May. Details/registration here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

A new hidden curriculum post by Clare Matysova who offers us her personal reflections to start a conversation about how and where assumptions the PT PhD alongside other professional roles can create a culture of exclusion. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/w...

A quick plug for this book (currently on sale at £16.99) where @jonrainford.bsky.social and I wrote about a PT doctorate as a positive experience providing deeper access to the hidden curriculum www.routledge.com/Thriving-in-...

Inside Our ADHD Minds review – Chris Packham’s revelatory show couldn’t be more crucial

If you've been watching inside our ADHD minds and need some more support or resources, do check out the @openuniversity.bsky.social connect interactive I authored to support the series. connect.open.ac.uk/health-wellb...

Starting now. It has been an honour to play a small part in this at the OUs academic consultant www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/a...

Excited that Inside Our Minds (ADHD) will be on BBC 2 today (and iPlayer) - I saw it during production & cried each time! Props to @jonrainford.bsky.social for his work as the OU academic supporting this episode & next week's one (dyslexia-focused). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We’re delighted to introduce you to our latest journal! The Journal of #CreativeResearchMethods Edited by @sumingkhoo.bsky.social, Harriet Shortt, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and consulting editor @drhelenkara.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #ResearchMethods #Creativity

Look!! The Pelican paperback of my book is here and it looks beautiful!!

Being Well In Academia - the book to get you through hard times - is currently on offer at £16.99 www.routledge.com/Being-Well-i... Better still, get your library to stock it so all can have access. Or, if you want the free, shorter version, that's here: theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...

Today, I’ve published a new paper on ethnicity, school attainment and access to HE in England 🧵[1/8] doi.org/10.1080/0267...

📣 Event Klaxon! 📣 Campus Geographies of the Student Experience at SRHE - 29th of April - looking at how the physical elements of universities feature in students' lives in different ways. 🎓🏫 Registration and details below: it's in person, with online attendance possible. srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ...

These two poems at the Being a boy project event really hit me tonight

Sociologists of education - just over a week left to submit your abstract for this event that I’m organising with the @britsoci.bsky.social Education Study Group Come and join us in London in June to discuss the future of the sociology of education - lots of different presentation formats possible!

Calling current/future part-time PGRs! Online CHERE Workshop: Thriving In Part-Time Doctoral Study with @kayguccione.bsky.social and @jonrainford.bsky.social, 27th of May. This event is for @edreslancaster.bsky.social doctoral researchers but all are welcome. www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

I’m starting a little series about writing post PhD. The first is about gift authorship. That’s when someone gets credit for writing without doing any work patthomson.net/2025/01/12/a...

Please do get your abstracts in for this. As it's about the future of the Sociology of Education please also encourage and doctoral researchers and ECRs to submit too.

Does anyone have any recommendations on good critical papers I could reference on university rankings @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social - any thoughts? This feels like something you might have some leads on...

It maybe a cliche but I really am 'thrilled to announce'! Looking forward to working with @poppygibsonuk.bsky.social and the team to bring this project that intersects all of my interests in terms of widening access, young people and neurodivergence to life! www.bera.ac.uk/bera-in-the-...

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now: Checkout staff Scuba diving instructor Mail centre data entry Personal trainer IT sales Yoga teacher Secondary school teacher University outreach

Lots of highlights this week but this sunrise was certainly one of them

🔊 Call for papers! Join us for the @britsoci.bsky.social Presidential Event, in collaboration with the BSA Education Study Group. ⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2025 💬 Theme: The Future of the Sociology of Education 📅 Date: 6 June 2025 📍 Place: BSA Meeting Room, London 🔗 britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

First of 3 days with @edudetective.bsky.social talking to some really amazing young men about teachers perceptions of them. As always leaves me musing why there can't be more space to just talk to boys and listen to what they have to say in every school rather than assume what they need. #BoysImpact

Having two papers accepted to the BSA conference in 2025 isn't a bad way to start the week 🎉

I'm sceptical about AI but it said something nice about my posts on Bluesky - maybe I can be won over 😂

I am particularly excited to be chairing Wednesday's Pedagogies of Hope session for the British Sociological Association Education study group. Both papers should be fascinating as they are centred around marketisation and precarity. Come join us - it's free and online! britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Cake and coffee make thematically analysis more effective. It's a proven fact @edudetective.bsky.social 😂

Being a doctoral researcher is tough. You are expected to commit *everything* to the role, sacrificing all else. Being a mother is tough. You are expected to commit *everything* to the role, sacrificing all else. What happens when you do both? ⇩ doi.org/10.1080/0309... (Contact me for access)

I'm available for an array of Workshops, talks and training. I cover: -Diversity and Inclusion (LGBTQ & Neurodiversity) -LBGTQ+ history and culture. -Theatre, musicals and more. emilygarside.com/workshops-an...

🔊 All welcome to the @britsoci.bsky.social Education Study Group's 'Pedagogies of Hope: Education as a Practice of Freedom' Seminar Series! 📅 Our future events (online, 1-2 PM) are on: 27 Nov; 4, 11 and 18 December 2024. 🔗 For more information and registration link: britsoc.co.uk/groups/study...

A superb pedagogies of hope session today from @jumana-w.bsky.social thinking about the idea of pedagogical love in the context of refugee education. You can read the full paper here www.norrag.org/launch-nsi-1...

I've made a starter pack of people working in and writing about researcher development in the UK. Please share, and let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/S3ea8oN

Great to see my #ThrivingPartTime partner in crime here on Bluesky! Give her a follow too @kayguccione.bsky.social

Are you an educator, parent or young person interested or practicing home education? Head over to Open Learn Elective Home Education HUB: www.open.edu/openlearn/ed... free articles, short courses and resources 1/3 #homeeducation #alternativeeducation

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Too early to mention that a copy of Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD might make a nice Christmas gift for a PhD student in your life? link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

Another fantastic Pedagogies of Hope session in our British Sociological Association Education study group series featuring Roberto Catello and Sharon Davidson

Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research... I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)

Our paper looking critically at digital access in primary care, just out in print issue of SHI: 'The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice' #medsky #academicsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...