📺Watch our new video series introducing key concepts in the sociology of families & personal life. Please share if you know anybody teaching or studying these topics! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

How can speculative fiction become a research method? This new article explores four approaches: close reading existing sci-fi, analysing how stories influence real policies, inviting participants to write their own futures, and researchers creating speculative narratives. doi.org/10.1332/3050...

Yay for #JCRM journal launch and cupcakes, with @edwina-thorn.bsky.social Sophie Woodward Harriet Shortt and @drhelenkara.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social

Unbelievably thrilled to see the launch issue of this amazing journal which I am a co-editor of - Journal of Creative Research Methods. Open access until 31/12/25. Please share and consider contributing to future issues!

This has been a long time in the making (understatement!). Massive thanks to @academicdiary.bsky.social @saranahmed.bsky.social, Alice Bloch, Tia DeNora, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and @amychandler.bsky.social for guiding our thinking. Thank you also to @rosedwards.bsky.social for the support.

Over the past five years, NCRM has trained thousands of researchers across many sectors, with 20 per cent of course participants working outside the social sciences. To find out how NCRM is building the UK's #research capability, read our impact report: buff.ly/RisFFv4

📣 Coming soon: The Journal of Creative Research Methods📣 We’re a home for researchers who are thinking, questioning, or approaching research in a creative way 💡 Learn more bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #RGS2025 #RGS25

Upcoming FREE @ncrm.ac.uk 2 day in-person innovation forum: Improvising Methods: Experiencing Collaborative, Inventive, Apposite &Original Methods! on 15-16 October at Uni Manchester. Explores what happens when skilled researchers & practitioners are methodologically responsive to their field sites

“Attentiveness is a way to retrain the ‘sociological gaze’ away from the unusual to the unnoticed elements of everyday lives and objects.” @sophierwoodward.bsky.social‬ reflects in a new Special Section on the legacy of Live Methods by ‪@academicdiary.bsky.social‬ & Nirmal Puwar. buff.ly/UvuBDtU

Deadline to register your participation in the Research Methods Rendezvous is weds 2nd of July.

Looking forward to this!

Curious about how ideas become doable research projects? Register to participate now!

Delighted to have an article included in the special issue on ‘attentiveness’ and why this matters in developing a vital sociology

Well this is exciting. Delighted to be made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Permanent teaching and research lectureship in sociology at the university of Manchester. Linked to the Morgan centre. For researchers in areas of everyday lives, personal life and relationships. Please share! Deadline April 7th

The Journal of #CreativeResearchMethods is live! Looking for submissions that centre creativity at all stages of the research: questions you ask, methods you use, how you analyse or how you write. Curious and playful thinkers welcome! Check out the website

Interested in our @methodsmcr.bsky.social Creative Qualitative Methods summer school course? Join our free online taster session to hear from the course leaders about creative ways to design, carry out & share your research 12.30-1.30pm Weds 19 Mar 2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...

Does it matter if we use the term artefacts or belongings? Can belongings be more inclusive of the multiple investments people have in things? Discussed in this article I coauthored with wonderful archaeologists (Bonnie Pitblado, Suzie Thomas and Anna Wessman) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join the @morgancentre.bsky.social's upcoming summer school taster session on 19 March, where you'll learn more about their upcoming two-day summer school course on creative approaches to qualitative research

Only one more week to get your ‘I wonder’ in. Get involved in this fab event on research ideation and turning ideas into projects.

This will be amazing: NCRM event which centres research curiosity, ideation and how we turn these into doable research. Please submit!!

Join me online/in person 29th Jan 2-4pm UK time for a talk from the iconic Angela McRobbie! I’ll be responding + sharing insights from my arts-based research w/ disabled, girls celebrating Angela’s work + the legacy of the CCCS sign up ⬇️ www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci... @uofglasgow.bsky.social

NCRM is running a free online workshop on creative writing and #SocialResearch. The event, on 21 January 2025, will explore issues that emerge when working with participants to produce creative writing. Learn more and register:

51 Guilty Verdicts, One Global Icon: The Legacy of Gisèle Pelicot’s Courage. My latest Substack explores not just Gisèle's bravery, but the ordinary men behind the crime, and the systems that excuse male violence. Available to read now ⬇️

Register to attend our NCRM event that explores the ethics and possibilities of creative writing and social research at ‘whose words are they anyway?’ Please register here: forms.office.com/e/bUxN0686p2

This looks like a great initiative

Details of our Air Space research project: www.creative.manchester.ac.uk/research/cre...

What is Creative about Creative writing? NCRM innovation forum in Manchester (and hybrid) 25 January 2024, 09:30- 17:30. 1 day event brings together fiction writers, poets, academic and community groups. Full info and register here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.ph...

Jobs! @ University of Manchester Lecturer jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... and a senior lecturer jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... in cultural and creative industries and a lecturer in Museology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... I’m happy to answer questions about the roles too!

Literary endings and beginnings. Finishing 2023 in Ethiopia with The Shadow King. An incredible book. Epic but also intimate. Even the most brutal people and acts are also troubled and vulnerable. Will be starting 2024 in 1970s Belfast with Trespasses…

Thinking with affinities: call for expressions of interest to participate in this Morgan centre event on May 22nd. Looking for anyone inspired by affinities charges socio atmospherics and more tinyurl.com/y9wn6x7d

What Sociologists Learn From Music: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-socio...

My friend from Gaza suggests donating to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). www.map.org.uk

New blog post: International Creative Research Methods Conference 2023! Feat. @carolinelenette.bsky.social Pam Burnard and Dawn Wink. Includes links to both keynotes which are now on YouTube. Enjoy! helenkara.com/2023/10/10/i... #ICRMC #keynote #CreativeResearchMethods #CRMethods #AntiColonial

Are you into creative methods? Fantastic opportunity to be involved in new methods journal on the editorial board