How can Bristol communities support migrant families better? The Find Your Village project shows how peer support in the first 1,001 days boosts wellbeing, trust & child development. 📖 theconversation.com/focusing-on-... ✒️ @profdebw.bsky.social and Tom Allport #CommunityHealth #PeerSupport

Reserve your webinar place now! Charisse Louw, researcher at Stellenbosch University who visited us in the summer, will be hosting two webinars this autumn with @britsoci.bsky.social British Sociological Association: 📍 6 October seminar: 👉 bit.ly/3JjQpDI 📍 27 October workshop: 👉 bit.ly/3HxInGL

Prof Debbie Watson @profdebw.bsky.social teams up with Baroness Anne Longfield, Executive Chair of Centre for Young Lives, on #BBCWomansHour to promote the creation of more outdoor spaces for children to play and grow!🌳✨ @cfyounglives.bsky.social Listen again at 49.06 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I am excited to announce that the first International Child and Family Conference is now open for registration to all delegates. Join us 17-19 June at the University of Bristol.

Children's encounters with nature through art-making in the city- read our new paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... thanks @hellobrigstow.bsky.social

Are you a social worker working with foster carers and adoptive parents about difficult conversations they need to have with their child/ren? Free training films and resources available here: difficultconversations.info

Call for papers! Materiality, society and the more-than-human conference takes place in London this June. Innovative presentation styles welcome! Deadline 7 April. @sociodigfutures.bsky.social More details- www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Looking forward to speaking at this event - do register if you are interested - it is hybrid!

Wishing you all a restful and fun filled festive break!

One of my year highlights was working on this project. We explored how to make sense of the Anthropocene and its casting backwards and forwards in time, the long lives of some materials, and how wasting generates meaning and value. You can view the zine we made at the link.

New to the Centre for Sociodigital Futures? We're an interdisciplinary research centre exploring sociodigital futures in the making. We're funded by the ESRC & based @bristoluni.bsky.social in collaboration with 12 other universities. Read more about the Centre at www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen...

This paper involved the great team of Carolina Valladares Celis @arathings.bsky.social Jess Pykett and @kerifacer.bsky.social as part of our work @sociodigfutures.bsky.social

Hear our Co-directors @susanjhalford.bsky.social and Dale Southerton discuss how sociodigital futures are shaping the world today and ways the Centre’s research aims to make a difference in the present. youtu.be/3axk3L5xUxo