Have you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK

Caste aside? Researcher Madhuri Kamtam hears from female workers in India’s multimillion-dollar tobacco industry who remain exploited, excluded and ignored owing to their caste and gender – and who are claiming their rights. Out now in The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/rEZ9QY4

“A fertility-treatment friendly room would be clean & comfortable to administer injections and have a refrigerator for medication.” In The Sociological Review magazine’s new issue, academic Samantha Wilkinson calls for a more open, supportive workplace culture for those having IVF. buff.ly/XCFH310

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

Can we overcome the crisis of democracy by teaching people to be better citizens? @jacoblypp.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social reflects on civic pedagogies, Foucault and how the focus on self-transformation obscures power relations. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/LAbwX3I

“I’m not fat in my house. I build my home in a way that it does not produce fatphobic experiences.” Fady Shanouda, podcast guest. Our flagship #podcast: sometimes surprising or provocative, but always Uncommon Sense. Producer Alice Bloch writes in the Magazine’s September issue. buff.ly/4MK0lI4

“The backbone of our academic community”: in the September issue of the Magazine, journal editors @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sweta Rajan-Rankin @silkeroth.bsky.social and Maud Perrier celebrate the institution of #peerreview and demystify the editorial decision-making process. buff.ly/fekw1xq

Ordinary lives, overlooked voices... and outer space: editors Iris Pissaride and @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce The Sociological Review magazine’s September issue, which ranges from Jeff Bezos’ space mission and infertility stigma to insights on chicken shops & beauty salons. buff.ly/THdKz4P

Beyond Du Bois: taking a closer look at the sociological concepts that have arisen from social movements, activism and anticolonial resistance. @alimeghji.bsky.social in conversation with editor Iris Pissaride in The Sociological Review magazine’s September issue. buff.ly/BWdBY33

“Ray & Quincy would play pop from 7-10pm in the white tennis clubs, then go to the black clubs and play rhythm & blues. At 2am they’d meet at the Elks Club, tear off their ties & play bebop for nothing.” @academicdiary.bsky.social on the genius of Ray Charles www.everythingjazz.com/story/ray-ch...

TODAY online @18:30: Why did “lifestyle migration” capture so many social scientists’ imagination? How has it travelled in the 25 years since The British on the Costa del Sol? Join author @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Matthew Hayes & Graham Crow. buff.ly/fHs6cNK

More than skin deep? Louise Rondel explains the motivation behind her research into beauty treatments, and the methods she used to connect with salon customers. Find out more in our latest Sociology at Work feature tailored for #Alevel #sociology study. buff.ly/ksKM49Z

How does the emotional and caring work we do for each other reproduce #capitalist life? And why is the answer not to stop caring, but to reform the world in which we do it? Alva Gotby joins #UncommonSense – Hear the full conversation on LOVE & REPRODUCTION buff.ly/28v0z1D

“A deeply personal yet analytically rigorous exploration, weaving lived experiences into broader sociological conceptualisations of gender, institutionalisation, social movements and reproductive justice.” – Charlotte Waltz reviews Aideen O'Shaughnessy @brisunipress.bsky.social buff.ly/yd2EJtS

We’re teaming up with @thesociologicalreview.org to deliver our Introduction to Podcasting workshop on Monday 17 November. 🎙️ Hear from: - Krissie Brighty-Glover - Our Director of Training - Alice Bloch - podcasting expert & producer - Prof Agata Lisiak - writer, host & producer of Spatial Delight

“Using music as a time machine, the authors transport the reader from their personal experiences as Black neurodivergent students to their present academic careers.” @alexamacdermot.bsky.social on Chantelle Jessica Lewis and @profjasonarday.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social buff.ly/0Q9fglU

Brilliant resources for teaching and thinking on a huge range of topics from the Uncommon Sense Podacast and @thesociologicalreview.org. With contributions from our own @academicdiary.bsky.social and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social

“By asking ordinary people to engage with and share their 'loneliness rooms' – real or imagined – Redmond challenges the medicalisation and problematisation of #loneliness today.“ Leah Kennedy reviews Sean Redmond @manchesterup.bsky.social in our September issue. buff.ly/CWo1OCX

How does the emotional and caring work we do for each other play a role in reproducing our unjust capitalist society? Alva Gotby joins #UncommonSense to discuss #love and her theory of emotional reproduction. Plus: hate, the commodification of hugs, and the “trad wife”. buff.ly/28v0z1D

We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Do you want to use audio to communicate your research and ideas? Are you eager to reach new audiences? We have just a few tickets remaining for our Introduction to Podcasting workshop, held online on 17 November with Research Podcasts. Sign up and learn more here! buff.ly/wVLA6Gy

“Kennedy-Kollar uncovers how #manosphere groups are organised to target insecure, emasculated and often young men through the guise of providing safe spaces intended to foster compassionate belonging.” Leon Taylor reviews Deneise Kennedy-Kollar in our September issue. buff.ly/j4uUQKA

Key takeaways: “Morley’s functions as an essential ‘third space’: an informal, community-driven place existing between home and work, offering a kind of urban intimacy.” In our new issue, Safia Banharally looks beyond a London chicken shop’s menu to its underexamined social role. buff.ly/u7edt4y

NEXT WEDS @18:30: Why did “lifestyle migration” capture so many social scientists’ imagination? How has it travelled in the 25 years since The British on the Costa del Sol? Join author @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Matthew Hayes & Graham Crow online. buff.ly/fHs6cNK

”Moon shows how civic organisations navigate challenges posed by neoliberal frameworks through cooperation, partnerships and networking. Yet these engagements often undermine their autonomy.” – Dale Mineshima-Lowe reviews Seungsook Moon @columbiaup.bsky.social in our latest issue. buff.ly/7L4581E

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

Our latest Magazine is out now, featuring: Alice Bloch’s #UncommonSense revelations @alimeghji.bsky.social on W.E.B Du Bois Louise Rondel on nail bars and wheelie bins Samantha Wilkinson on fertility and the office Fiction & book reviews Girlbosses in space, in verse Read online buff.ly/5crknOP

📢NEW Vacancy📢 Assistant Professor in Sociology at @tcddublin.bsky.social Specialising in quantitative sociology ⏰Deadline: 6 October Maternity cover MORE INFO: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a... APPLY HERE: www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/

Have intimate relationships in China become individualised? Or do factors like class and gender still play a role? Jieyu Liu @soasuni.bsky.social takes a look at Ulrich Beck, life histories and non-linear representations of family change. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/uz73FwD

“Systematically explores the foundations of housework as an academic discipline, unpacking the gendered assumptions that underpin existing work, which is often led by male academics.“ – Ipsita Pradhan reviews Ann Oakley @brisunipress.bsky.social in our September Magazine. buff.ly/ldlt4Su

It is 25 years since Karen O’Reilly published The British on the Costa del Sol and we want to take this opportunity to celebrate its legacy. That book & the 2009 paper with Michaela Benson launched the field of ‘lifestyle migration’.

What does Kansas City’s Negro Leagues Baseball Museum say about the past – and the present? In J.E. Sumerau’s new short story, Kyle, a White man and baseball fan, walks through the museum and reflects on sport, race, memory and community. Out now in our September issue. buff.ly/9wJF0qf

Me on 'free speech' & the far right in #UncommonSense @thesociologicalreview.org Free speech has long been how the far right gets whitewashed & mainstreamed, something we're seeing play out in the response to the murder of Charlie Kirk & @ the 'Free Speech Rally' www.buzzsprout.com/1940580/epis...

How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain? @alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp

What did Jeff Bezos do for feminism when he sent an all-women celebrity crew into space? Jennifer Takhar has a poetic response to Blue Origin’s “retrograde display of elite privilege and postfeminist aesthetics”. Out now in the September issue of The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/qyNTb3r

Route to frustration: the late arrival of public transport means a traveller is caught in a rainstorm and must complete his journey soaking wet. Sebastian J. Moser’s sociological short story is a reflection on power, shame and self-control. Out now in our September magazine. buff.ly/jBVk2ZC

“We just want what is ours. We don’t want to beg.” Long excluded from labour protections and benefits owing to their caste and gender, female workers in India’s multimillion-dollar tobacco industry are demanding their rights. They talk to Madhuri Kamtam in our September magazine. buff.ly/rEZ9QY4

Grassroots encounters: @raquelfigueira.bsky.social is illustrator for our September magazine issue. Inspired by Ali Meghji’s “listening sociology”, her image suggests the way knowledge can flow in many directions, via listening, to social change. Raquel also leads Studio Fig: buff.ly/maCf8DK

From nail bars to wheelie bins: Louise Rondel’s research explores the beauty industry, its environmental impact, and the cultural expectations placed on women. Find out what she discovered in our latest Sociology at Work feature for #Alevelsociology, in our September Magazine. buff.ly/ksKM49Z

Abolitionist feminist researcher and activist Stephanie Guirand is our latest Image-Maker in Residence. Read her conversation with George Kalivis about housing injustice, incarceration structures and systemic racism, and her doctoral thesis and film, Where Do Black Men Live? buff.ly/bCC9eei

“I had both an academic self, competently working, and a private self, attending a PhD supervision immediately after finding out my #IVF cycle had failed.” Samantha Wilkinson writes in our September magazine about the invisibility of #infertility in the workplace. buff.ly/XCFH310

“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 September issue. buff.ly/BWdBY33

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Housework, loneliness, abortion, the manosphere, Korea, autism & more: reviews of books by Ann Oakley, Chantelle Lewis & @profjasonarday.bsky.social, Deneise Kennedy-Kollar, Sean Redmond, @aioshaug.bsky.social and Seungsook Moon in The Sociological Review magazine’s new issue. buff.ly/sP7uSiV

Cool recap of little-known facts that the brilliant team of the Uncommon Sense podcast unveils in dialogue with sociologists. Listen to the ones discussed here, but even better to all of them! Find mine, on Europe and its Caribbean borders, here: thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

“Europe’s borders extend to the Caribbean; chef Anthony Bourdain was a sociologist; and burnout did not arise from overwork.” Surprising things you learn from listening to our Uncommon Sense #podcast, revealed by producer Alice Bloch in The Sociological Review magazine's new issue. buff.ly/4MK0lI4

Who’s afraid of #Reviewer2? Journal editors @carinrunciman.bsky.social Sweta Rajan-Rankin @silkeroth.bsky.social and Maud Perrier demystify the much-maligned peer review process – and all the care, thought and reflection that goes into it – in the Magazine’s new September issue. buff.ly/fekw1xq

“As the harsh realities of neoliberal capitalism unfold, we must attend to the spaces where hope still takes root and grows.” Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce The Sociological Review magazine’s September issue. Illustration: @raquelfigueira.bsky.social buff.ly/5crknOP

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

Great to see the Live Methods special section in issue form!