The second of the two articles is by @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social, exploring disability, failure and UKHE. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... (now with a working link!)

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

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!

🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Thrilled My Latest Article - The Darkest Shade of Green - Is Out In Studies In Conflict & Terrorism 🎉🍾🥳I Examine the Links Between #ClimateChange and #RebelGovernance among #IslamicState #AlQaeda #Hamas & #Hezbollah 👇👇👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How have sociologists’ wives contributed to the discipline? @rosedwards.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social and Val Gillies on post-war sociology, invisibility and the “great man narrative”. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/0VVrW9Y Thanks for Typing #podcast buff.ly/dJZ97H1

Please help to spread the word! A chance to get your PhD funded through ESRC SCDTP to study @ Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth & Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @chiunipress.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social

This article outlines key findings from our ESRC-funded research project which revealed digital harms that arise when parents disclose children’s information online. Awareness raising resources for parents & briefings for stakeholders including policy makers are available at: www.protechthem.org

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

We’re hiring in criminology, sociology, social policy @sspcatsoton.bsky.social 1x Lecturer in Criminology: tinyurl.com/3ypv6ef3 1x 12 month Teaching Fellow in any area of Sociology, Social Policy or Criminology: tinyurl.com/37smc5as Come join our collegiate & inclusive dept, ranked #4 in UK REF

🎓 Are you a PhD, ECR, or Teaching Fellow researching gender & inequalities at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ? 💡 Apply for up to £150 to fund fieldwork or conferences! ✍️ Deadline: 2 Ma. For more on how to apply, please see: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/researc... Email us 📩 [email protected]

Fascinating and important work from Ros

On now at the Winchester Gallery, free exhibition curated by one of our lecturers: www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/winchest...

Had the Most AMAZING Time at Royal Holloway Last Night Discussing My New Book 'The World White Web' Such An Engaged Audience with Excellent Questions 😍 Thanks to @cvtrc.bsky.social For Hosting #AnthonyRichards for Chairing and @akilnawan.bsky.social for Organising ❤️

This week sees the start of Semester Two @unisouthampton.bsky.social and the launch of my new module on #ageing and #crime. Excited to bring together my #ForensicPsychology training with my #Gerontology experience and enthuse a new generation of undergraduate students! @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

Our research centre @crispsurv.bsky.social is hosting a major exhibition & series of events on Orwell. Starts with Hans K Clausen's 'The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth' at Stirling. Other events include a performance lecture by Bill Drummond (KLF), screenings, talks and more. All welcome

With new followers & first citations showing up it may seem to be a good time to introduce our "Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality" that @silkeroth.bsky.social, Bandana Purkayastha & @aidnography.de edited in a longer 🧵 (1/x)

Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

Q: Whose shoulders are today’s sociologists standing upon? 📚 🪜 A: Some of them are sociologists’ wives👩🏻‍💼✍️ Read about role of social researchers’ wives in post-war British studies, inc. Phyllis Willmott, Pat Marsden, Sheila Jackson/Abrams, Ruth Townsend, Kay Titmuss #openaccess

No fireplaces? No problem! We're about to open the doors to our annual student Christmas party. After a couple of proseccos we hope everyone will agree a bit of tinsel and fairy lights can make even Building 58 full of festive magic!

Publication day of Organising for Change co-authored with Clare Saunders bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/organizing-f... and checking final proof of Handbook co-edited with Bandana Purkayastha and @aidnography.de

#ICYMI from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social: “Women's contributions to scholarship are consistently underrated; they’re still seen as wives & mothers.” Historian Selina Todd joins Ros Edwards. & Val Gillies in Ep4 #ThanksforTyping, Questions of Class buff.ly/48VptkF

We also all did lots of important teaching and research in sociology, social policy and criminology, today. But that doesn't photograph as well

An unexpectedly snowy morning in Southampton today. Rather lovely, and prompting lots of excited chatter around campus. ☃️

A great starter pack from one of our colleagues, Ros.

Where are our PGRs? We want to add you to our department starter pack! Give us a shout go.bsky.app/ADybLpB

We're recruiting a Teaching Fellow in Criminology / Sociology / Social Policy. The team is growing, come and join a fabulous group of Sociologists, Social Policy experts and Criminologists jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #academicSky

Hosted here in SSPC at Southampton this June:

Applications for fully funded PhD studentships on the SCDTP are open! Details on the process are here; southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply2324/ And you can review our staff who are welcoming PhD applications here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Charlie Walker, Associate Professor here in SSPC comments on the implications of Ex-Wagner fighters returning to Russia; "The Russian state has really little concern for the welfare of returning soldiers or wider Russian society" www.euronews.com/2023/10/10/t...

Just annouced: NCRM webinar series (free to attend!) Through the Looking Glass - how to incorporate visual material within research. Featuring a range of speakers, including many SSPC colleagues. Find out more and book here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...

Our friends on the floor below are hiring. If you are inclined in that way #academicsky #polisky