An aerial view of Glasgow Green's Christmas fair and market, looking across the Clyde to the south of the city in the distance. #Glasgow #christmas

Two PhD student funded opportunities on international LGBTIQ+ issues in relation to humanitarian actions, at Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) in Germany. Share! www.ifhv.de

Here's a new special issue of Journalism Studies, edited by @dr-hm-mabweazara.bsky.social and @catherinehapper.bsky.social and dedicated to our former colleague Greg Philo. It revisits the core concerns of media sociology - power, ideology, bias - but broadens the focus beyond Europe and America.

Attending book launch for ‘Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems’ by Nicola Burns and colleagues from universities of Lancaster and Sussex, at the ARC at University of Glasgow 🙌 @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgarc.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgpolicy.bsky.social

Bad news of job cuts from Strathclyde, solidarity to folks there.

Keep fighting!

This will be of interest to many in our community - @uofgsociology.bsky.social @ucuglasgow.bsky.social ky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social - December 10, 15:30-17:00.

Call for Papers for interesting two day workshop on autonomist organising in West Asia and North Africa, organised by Jade Saab in Sociology here at University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgarc.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/committees...

Two forthcoming events which might be of interest including a talk about her new book on Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left, by a former member of our PhD community - @scarletharris.bsky.social

Terrible www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨 New article: "LGBTQI+ People and the ‘Triple Nexus’ of Development Cooperation, Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding", co-authored with Morgane Rosier and Dennis Dijkzeul, available via open access at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌍 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTQResearch

I have just learned that Paul Mepschen passed away on 6 November. He worked at Utrecht University. My thoughts and love to family, friends & colleagues. He was a prize winning teacher and leaves publications that challenged racist sexual nationalisms; what a wonderful guy. www.uu.nl/staff/PJHMep...

Exciting news! We have transitioned off Substack and Wordpress and onto Ghost for both our website and newsletter. We're delighted to be on an open platform for our newsletter, which comes out every other Wednesday. You can check out our shiny new site via the same URL: ucucommons.org

Our statement on yesterday’s #UKHE ballot result is now on our website. #UCU ucucommons.org/industrial-b...

Looking forward to welcoming Shahram Khosravi for The Sociological Review Annual Lecture. There’s still time to register for a ticket before Thursday’s event!

We’re now live on Bluesky! And we're back online and preparing for a full re-launch next week! We’re the companion blog to the SPA's journals — Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy. Follow us here and at socialpolicyblog.co.uk

#CallForPapers Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2026 The 2026 conference will be held in Manchester on June 15-17, 2026. More details: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

Citizenship and Migration Research Network PhD Conference 2026: Call for Abstracts (PhD students in Scotland) Deadline 19 December Unbordering Futures: Migration Studies in Urgent Times CMRN / GRAMNet PhD Conference 4-5th March 2026, University of Edinburgh forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Time to take a moment - with Jonathan Bailey and Elmo 💜🩷 #SesameStreet youtu.be/x0eyhjOXxK4?...

The next round of the Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship is now open. Details are below; deadline is 8th January 2026. The fellowship offers 6 months support for an early career researcher whose work is informed by progressive and radical traditions of critical investigation. Please do share.

We Can't Keep Waiting takes place this Saturday, 22nd November at the Pyramid at Anderston in Glasgow! The event is for trans and nonbinary people only - sign up for your ticket here: www.outsavvy.com/event/30917/...

Masters scholarships of £10,000 at Sussex: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship - a postdoctoral fellowship to join us, deadline 8 January @UofGSociology.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

📢 How does gender become a battleground in Türkiye? Bezirgan-Tanış shows how the Big Family Platform and allies cast gender and LGBTQ+ rights as Western threats to family and nation, while activists resist through legal and digital action. 🔗 Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Who protects transgender rights in Congress? Angevine and Mendez Garcia analyze who sponsors gender identity inclusive legislation in the US House and find that LGB, liberal, and minority lawmakers lead efforts to advance equality and inclusion. Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just when you think it can't get worse, it does....

Empire of Officials: Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Bureaucracy | @hakirmizi.bsky.social ➡️ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/empire-of...

My new book, “The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law,” uses emotion as a critical lens to navigate how conflicts over LGBT rights structure/limit the potential of law reform to improve our lives. You can download the book (for free!) here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

Sign up here for 'Connecting Global Migration Struggles', a free event with activists and researchers from AlarmPhone, MORE (Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment), @maryhill-in.bsky.social and the University of Glasgow followed by a film screening of “Tori and Lokita”. Nov 11th, 4-7 pm.

Join us on 25 Nov at 5pm (42 Bute Gdns) for a special joint event with the Scottish Peace Platform to mark nine years of the Colombian peace process. @andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social will share reflections on conflict and peacebuilding from his excellent new memoir, We Are Not Made of Sugar.

Join us for our next SCS seminar, Wed 19th November, from 15.30 in Rm 432, St Andrews Bldg. Dr. Yotam Gidron's talk ('Pentecostalism, Christian Zionism, and regime survival in Uganda') will explore the political role of Christian Zionism in Uganda and in Africa more broadly.

Sign up to receive our Sociological and Cultural Studies Blog! Receive our monthly blogs into your inbox that share recent research and insights from our academic network. Stay tuned for our next piece which will be published on Monday 3 November ... www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Concerns are growing that social media emphasises negative experiences of hormonal contraception – but using social media does not necessarily mean a rejection of medical information, say @kristina-s.bsky.social and Lily Roberts @uofgsociology.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/mr2v8aa3

1/ Richard Gott died this week. Amongst many other critical interventions he was the author of ‘Britain’s Empire’ a sweeping, counter-history of British imperialism which foregrounded the persistent violence of the imperial project, and the equally persistent resistance of the colonised. He wrote…

Sign up below to hear @juliango.bsky.social giving the next Racial Justice lecture on January 21st, 2026. Prof. Go will be asking 'How and why have the police in liberal democracies become militarized?'. The answer, he will argue, is to be found in imperialism past and present.

Come and work with us in #Sociology at University of Glasgow! #Lecturer in the Sociology of Social Justice and Inequalities, LTS 2 year post. Teach to change societies! #SocialJustice #Inequalities @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Thoughts with Mr Samir Zitouni, a train staff member who heroically defended passengers and remains critically ill. How lucky we are to have such brave people in our society. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - and Sheffield Hallam University management stifled research by its own professor about crimes against Uyghur people, in a deal to recruit Chinese students. www.bbc.com/news/article...

@uofgpolicy.bsky.social Please share this Lectureship opportunity in Sociology

@socialpolicyuk.bsky.social Please share this Lecturer job opportunity at University of Glasgow

Job opportunity in Glasgow! There's a vacancy in the Sociology department with a focus on social justice and inequalities.

Dagmar Herzog, The New Fascist Body - @wirklichkeitbooks.bsky.social, September 2025 wirklichkeitbooks.com/the-new-fasc... Der neue faschistische Körper, trans. Lisa Jay Jeschke, wirklichkeitbooks.com/der-neue-fas...

@britsoci.bsky.social Please share this Lectureship in Sociology opportunity, to join @uofgsociology.bsky.social

Come and work with us in #Sociology at University of Glasgow! #Lecturer in the Sociology of Social Justice and Inequalities, LTS 2 year post. Teach to change societies! #SocialJustice #Inequalities @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

📣 UWS HAS RULED OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES After 8 days of strike action from EIS, and a further 12 days planned from Monday which UCU were due to join, management has today announced that CR has been taken off the table 🎉