London book launch for ‘Walking: a sociological field guide’ LSE Sociology, 14th May6pm. Register here! www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

Manchester University Press - Walking Walking - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Walking by Charlotte Bates

Greetings attendees of #britsoc26! Please join us on Thurs at 4pm in Room 4.206 to launch our book 'Walking: A sociological field guide'. The book is also available at 40% discount ( £14.99 - a bargain!) at the Manchester University Press stall. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526184917/

Textile banners with tbe text 'Girls say no to the bombs' with images of dives and peace and womens symbols

Banner by UK peace activist Thalia Campbell, a founder of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1981. She produced over 250 textile banners in activism for disarmament of nuclear weapons #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

For London Rivers Week this year, Louise Rondel and I are heading upstream to Petts Wood to lead a walk with local historians on experiences of living with the Kyd Brook, and the river's relationship to the development of the suburb. 28th May 6-8pm. Booking at:
www.thames21.org.uk/event/london...

Reform UK plans to scrap Renters' Rights Act spark fury Reform UK has pledged to scrap the Renters' Rights Act if the party secures power. It has angered renters waiting for no-fault eviction ban.

Many examples we can give folk on streets as to why Reform are purely a party for big businesses & the wealthiest, this is one of the clearest: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

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My new article out today! 🎉 Walking Sociologically, Teaching on the Move: Thinking with London’s Streets. It is part of a special issue of Sociology on teaching sociology in Higher Education.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great few days w @emmakjackson.bsky.social and PhD & staff researchers at @uniofgalway.bsky.social Researcher Development Centre.

Research topics included immortal jellyfish, online abuse of female academics and bovine methane emissions (only 5% from rear end! 😳). Really really enjoyable week!😁

The UK has become one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world.

In this set of discussion papers, funded researchers discuss examples and approaches to deepen our understanding of place-sensitive nature recovery, exploring the links between people and nature.

New policy discussion paper in this @britishacademy.bsky.social series by me and Louise Rondel on the need for policy makers to learn from place-based knowledges about urban rivers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

How To Do Social Research With...

This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter

www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Huge congrats to Dr Phung And supervisors!

New audio paper by Konstantinos Damianakis, Louise Rondel and me. It brings to life a discussion across sound studies and urban sociology about listening, rivers and … mermaids. seismograf.org/node/20849?f...

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

“Live Methods made an important intervention into how sociological research methods are practised, understood & written about.”

@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ introduce a journal Special Section on @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods.

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How football chants became the folk music of today

Les Back on how football can inspire songs of celebration, defiance, protest or calls to action – which sounds like folk music to us.

More than a rough sleeper: Framing and examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - More than a rough sleeper: Framing and examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation!
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thank you to all of our contributing authors and to @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar for their powerful and often moving conversation with me and fellow editor @emmakjackson.bsky.social on the making and legacy of Live Methods

Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever

A pleasure, Brenda. Thank you for contributing such a brilliant article!

This has been a long time in the making, but I’m delighted to share this special issue of @thesociologicalreview.org edited by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & I.

Research Associate - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE):Manchester

📢JOB: Research Associate @ethnicityuk.bsky.social

New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿

@britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

If you're watching the London Marathon tomorrow, look out for my @adey70.bsky.social and give him a cheer.

What a beautiful baby. It’s so desperately unfair. Sending love to you and your family. X

Next week in Manchester. The Sociological Review inaugural quiz. I’m at the helm. Come on down!

Blondie - Dreaming YouTube video by BlondieVEVO

Clem Burke was one helluva drummer and the coolest of cats. RIP.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-...

London Rivers Week 2025: Tales from the Kyd Brook - A story-sharing workshop in Petts Wood - Thames21 Get involved in Thames21's clean up work and training across London

We are heading upstream for this year’s London Rivers Week. Tell your friends in Petts Wood! www.thames21.org.uk/event/london...

Home A conference for post-graduate and early career researchers Sheffield, UK - June 26th and 27th, 2025

Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

A niche but nonetheless very cool (and permanent!) soil sociology job going at Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Manchester University Press - The return of the housewife The return of the housewife - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The return of the housewife by Emma Casey

Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social