“Quite often, big social theorists actually formed their ideas in social movements, or in radical or activist spaces – what sociologists call counter-public spheres.” @alimeghji.bsky.social talks to Iris Pissaride about W.E.B. Du Bois’ legacy in the Magazine’s most recent issue. buff.ly/BWdBY33

Can anyone point me to any public health campaigns (ideally video) from during Covid19 which in some way say "stay apart to stay safe" or similar messaging? I know the UK ones, but I want an example from further afield (reposts appreciated)

Food for thought: explore our Virtual Issue of The Sociological Review journal, a companion to our Annual Lecture 2025 with Shahram Khosravi. 📑 12 #openaccess #freetoview papers exploring migration, refugees and borders, introduced by Editor-in-Chief @carinrunciman.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/7KaED6U

A new collective volume (in open access) that could be of interest to people working on #tenant activism and #housing struggles: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... #RentStrike

Social protection. It’s isn’t just for protecting the poor. It’s for maintaining the social fabric.

1 Assistant Professor in Politics, Maynooth University, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG506/a...

Calling all Women in STEM! November's Southampton Science Comedy features women in STEM who rap, control AIs and electrocute men - because science! Come along and bring your friends!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...

🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky

The Sociological Review Foundation is a registered charity whose purpose is to advance the education of the public on the subject of sociology and related disciplines. ➡️ Read our recent Annual Reports to learn more about the work we do: buff.ly/za7JJDZ ➡️ Support our work: buff.ly/QLL2sQs

If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/

Join us for a virtual conversation with ASA Human Rights Section Book Award winners, Chana Teeger and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, on race, memory, and injustice. I’ll be moderating this discussion. 📅 November 19 (Wed) 10–11 AM CST / 4–5 PM GMT RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it? @lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6

What a beautifully written and breathtakingly honest paper. It's rare to see this level of honesty, reflexivity, and creativity in academia.

It’s a terrific article and will hopefully be widely read!

”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme. ➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo

Two of the three most recently published articles on @thesociologicalreview.org are by academics from our department! Congratulations all. You can read fascinating work from @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies on challenges of researching academic wives at doi.org/10.1177/00380261251375423

Here we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review doi-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0038... #bipolar #Sociology

Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...

Chapter 16, "Humanitarian organisations as gendered organisations" by Rianka Roy highlights that in their operations, directions, meanings, & identities, humanitarian organisations are gendered, embodying a structural distinction between men & women (16/x) aidnography.blogspot.com/2025/05/hand...

Chapter 15, "Race, racialisation & coloniality in the humanitarian aid sector" by Lata Narayanaswamy argues that the Global North has centred & invisibilised (aspirational) whiteness as integral to the racial hierarchies prevalent in humanitarian work (15/x) aidnography.blogspot.com/2025/04/hand...

Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at [email protected] so that we can get an idea of numbers!

JOIN US ONLINE on 22 October at 18:30 BST as we look at the shifting politics of #immigration in the UK, how policy is shaped and challenged, and the state of protest and public debate. With @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Fizza Qureshi @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social 🎟️ buff.ly/f5IH9pL

I’m honoured and excited to be talking about ‘How Wives Helped to Shape the Foundations for Knowledge About Society’ for the Neustadt Lecture on 29 October 2025, 17:00-18:00 If you’re in Leicester, come along in person. If you’re not, you can attend online.

Sounds amazing!

Pls join us in following the Global Sumud Flotilla as it attempts to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza. It will make more noise if more people are watching on YouTube. So far over 60,000 people are following live. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Sociological Theory (the journal) invites contributions to a special issue on "Sociological Theorizing in the Global South". Find out more: www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

I've been part of the movement to stop detentions and deportations since the early 2000s. I wrote a book about this movement, freely available here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026202820... Never ONCE have I ever heard any activist on the left say 'anti-ICE.' I'm not exaggerating.

@robinskyer.bsky.social @lizziereed.bsky.social

🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟 ecpr.eu/Events/Event... Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me @ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social

Stepped out of my wheelhouse to work on this with my dear friend to analyse the violence unleashed on our students demanding justice for Palestinians and an end to genocide.

SOLIDARITÄT — WAS HEISST DAS? morgen 18h in Neukölln: epiz-berlin.de/veranstaltun...

… A methodological addition to our academics’ wives material. How can we reconstruct the part played by wives of major disciplinary figures in their husbands' intellectual endeavours when evidence is patchy, concealed or missing? 6+1 doi.org/10.1177/0038...

What should humanitarian actors do to stop the genocide in Gaza? A powerful event held today by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social. So refreshing to hear such powerful, reflexive, and challenging demands that the humanitarian sector has to do better in the face of this genocide. youtu.be/N-H0vU64xp0

OUT TODAY: @alimeghji.bsky.social on social struggles & sociological perspectives, research insights on chicken shops & beedi-makers, Alice Bloch on podcasting, Journal editors on peer review, #Alevelsociology resources + much more. ➡️ The Sociological Review magazine Sept issue buff.ly/5crknOP

JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 15 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in February 2026. Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community. ➡️ Deadline 5 December buff.ly/wQQwoHU

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess). 💡 Includes a Special Section on the ideas and impact of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series. buff.ly/bJQXWs6 @journals.sagepub.com

auch etwas für @guesnet.bsky.social

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

Ein tagaktiver Igel 🦔 ist hilfsbedürftig, bitte bietet ihm Futter an - gerne Katzenfutter, KEINE Milch. Erstversorgung Igel wildtierrettung.de/erstversorgu... Igelfutter www.igel-in-bayern.de/igel-im-herb... Bauanleitung Igelhaus www.bund-naturschutz.de/oekologisch-...

‪ ‘Shaping for Mediocrity’ was published a year ago. Among other things, we are discussing the authoritarian turn in universities, financial issues, academic freedom and, last but not least, the expulsion of #CriticalManagementStudies at a Business School. www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

🚨 New Methods Papers 🚨 📱 Social media-based diary methods 📱 In January 2024 I produced a training resource for @ncrm.ac.uk exploring social media-based methods and offering a guide to develop your own project: www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/on... 1/5

Heya. I got a bit bored by people asking me how to navigate away from the cycles of exhaustion and exploitation that the academia seems exceptionally well inclined to produce. So I decided to run a workshop on it. An antiwork-antishop, in effect. Sign up below. janabacevic.net/against-acad...

Important intervention from my departmental colleague, @petefussey.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social #facialrecognition #policing

Organization Special Issue Call for Papers: Alternative organising and degrowth: Countering capitalist polycrisis and organising liveable worlds Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026 #OrgStudies #Degrowth Link to CfP: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Assessing the value of qualitative research Qualitative research should be guided and evaluated according to its methodological principles not by any false or imported ideas of how it should be. In my book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, Policy Press, 2025, I argue…

Home truths: Obligated to Care, our new Sociological Review Monograph, focuses on the family in today’s China. Edited by Xiaoying Qi & Jack Barbalet, its 11 chapters focus on subjects ranging from LBGTQ+ people’s intergenerational relations to da pei and modern childrearing. ➡️ buff.ly/BbE8crZ

WRITE FOR US: we’re inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for The Sociological Review magazine's Research Insights series. The editors are currently seeking proposals for our December issue, with a pitch deadline of 5 September. 🔎 Read more about contributing: buff.ly/Q5KZlcJ

@britishacademy.bsky.social will be running a webinar for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants on Monday 8 September at 12.00 U.K. time. Register to attend here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...