Asking 'Who is the Prime Minister?' used to be good as a test of people's memory. It now seems it works better as a test of people's occupation. If they reply 'I think it's Nigel Farage' you know they work in journalism.

New paper out on 'Relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems among people experiencing social marginalisation: a scoping review' with @drcconnell.bsky.social @kjellgren.bsky.social & Jessica Greenhalgh 1/4 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...

Pleased our paper is out today: relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use among marginalised people bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e090349.full We present follow on research with justice-involved ppl @ DRNS conference later @drnscot.bsky.social Team ⬇️ #JusticeHealth

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐧 "𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬" Do you use a classroom activity to help students understand networks? Share it with others in Connections! Submit your abstract (up to 300 words) to [email protected] by 15 September 2025

And secondly, Research Fellow in Evidence Review and Synthesis of Community Interventions my.corehr.com/pls/shurecru...

A coupe of exciting research jobs being advertised for the Centre for Collaboration on Community Connectedness I'm involved in, first off Researcher in Evidence Review and synthesis of community interventions: my.corehr.com/pls/shurecru...

JOB: Research Fellow post in our #Sociology, #SocialPolicy, and #Criminology Division at the University of Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 Working in the ESRC-funded Centre in Community Participation and Connectedness. Quantitative social research skills needed. #postdoc #academia www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ445/r...

Thread giving a chapter-by-chapter overview of Social Inequalities and Occupational Stratification (co-authored with Paul Lambert) #CAMSIS #SNA #SocialInequality

"Integration of Dementia Systems in Central America: A Social Network Approach" by Nereide A Curreri, Dave Griffiths, Louise McCabe. Explores the connectiveness of dementia services in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama. ijic.org/articles/10.... 1/2

"Microclass immobility during industrialisation in the USA and Norway" by Dave Griffiths, Paul S Lambert, Richard L Zijdeman, Marco HD van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas. Creates a microclass scheme for late 19th/early 20th century. Argues microclass immobility was important during industrialisation.

"Preparing Versus Persuading: Inequalities between Scottish State schools in University Application Guidance Practices" Jennifer Ferguson and Dave Griffiths - argues that guidance teachers give different provision depending on the socio-economic background of the school cohort. 1/2

I'm prepared to give this a try, but hate having an empty profile. So will post some of my papers to give a taste of my research.

I'm just lookin' to see what I'm missing