Analysing entertainment documentaries with discursive psychology incorporating Goffman’s concept of frames Discursive approaches have established how entertainment documentaries about the super-rich can be analysed as a form of political communication to explore how positions on wealth inequality are le...

Our* new paper explores how highly edited documentaries can be analysed with Discursive Psychology and Goffman's concept of frames.

@drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social and Jackie Abell

@ree-uwe.bsky.social

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🔋 A universal discounted block of energy would distribute support more efficiently and progressively than the EPG.

Read the full Comment piece here: www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...

Social Media and Secondary Data in Psychological and Educational Research: Confronting Key Ethical and Methodological Issues | BPS This one day online event aims to raise and discuss methodological and ethical issues involved in working with secondary data from social media and public datasets.

Great event by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social and @bps-dartp.bsky.social on secondary data and social media!

It's online and free 🙂

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Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.

📣 Submission deadline extended to 30 April 2026 for Special Issue on “Making Others Misconduct Matter In The Public Sphere”.
We hope this extension offers additional time for authors to refine and submit their parts.
Please share with colleagues and networks.
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Tonight on LBC, @drjogrady.bsky.social said it like it is.

FE lecturers are not paid enough for an incredibly hard job.

Tomorrow, they take strike action.

✊ Stand with FE staff.

Today is your LAST chance to register for our upcoming Qualitative Research Symposium at the University of Bath later this month! We have two days of discussion planned, all around the theme of *Boundaries in Qualitative Research*. Find out more & register here: www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...

Oh, this looks good. Michael Billig, Sivamohan Valluvan & Kojo Kyerewaa on Flags & Performative Nationalism:

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Our* special issue on economic inequality is available in Qualitative Research in Psychology! Thank you to our contributors

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* @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social Jackie Abell and Mirko Demasi

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2 days left.

2 days left to protect jobs.
2 days left to defend our agreements.
2 days left to make your vote count.
Vote YES today and check your colleagues have too.
#WeAreTheUniversity

Don't forget to nominate an excellent student for the @qmip.bsky.social postgraduate award!

We're getting closer to the @qmip.bsky.social deadline for the postgraduate award. If you've seen an outstanding postgraduate dissertation using qualitative methods in psychology, take a look at the link below 👇

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Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency | BPS Dr Selin Tekin reflects on the first event in the Rising Together series, hosted by the BPS Social Psychology Section.

Thanks to @bps-social-psych.bsky.social for bringing my notes together from the event that @merveozturkey.bsky.social & I organized.

Reflections came from the responses of: @profjohndrury.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social Dr Rim Saab and Dr Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir

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Research Fellow in Psychology:City Campus 4.5 year Research Fellowship investigating Social Identity and Loneliness - join the Groups, Identities and Health team at NTU to understand and enhance community-based approaches to loneliness reduct...

The Groups, Identities & Health research group at NTU are recruiting a Research Fellow to investigate the relationships between social identities and loneliness in community settings

Fantastic opportunity to work with the country's leading 'social cure' group!

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If you need a small amount of funding to kick off a project or disseminate findings, check out @qmip.bsky.social qualitative research pump priming and dissemination fund!

Deadline: 1 December 2025

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🎤 Proposals for our Centre for Qualitative Research, University of Bath Qualitative Research Symposium at University of Bath School of Management are open until November 7th!
Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here:
www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...
#qualitative

Do you want to be an Associate Editor for @qmip.bsky.social Bulletin? We're looking for volunteers for the event reviews and the student spot.

Get in touch with questions and to find out more via qmipbulletin@outlook.com

I was very fortunate to benefit from @bps-social-psych.bsky.social pump priming fund last year. Great opportunity to kick start your research or host an event.

Deadline 31 October

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Great series of events planned by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social on collective action and emergencies. It's free to attend and online!

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Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
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a stuffed animal is wearing a chef 's hat and apron and playing a flute ALT: a stuffed animal is wearing a chef 's hat and apron and playing a flute

I learnt that they don't recognise the fabulousness of Sinitta's 'So Macho' last year so I had to swap it to Hey Duggee's Enid song. This year we'll explore how you can analyse Tiny Chef doing Billie Eilish (fingers crossed I don't say eyelash). I might need your list 😂

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Hello, we invite you to join the E-Agora tomorrow.

The ‘Manosphere’ with Cecilia Rollano, (National University of Distance Education, Spain).

Tuesday the 16th of September 2025. At 17.00-18.30 Central European Time (16.00 West European Time/UK; 18.00 East European Time).

Link: shorturl.at/tSGdb

Great hybrid event this week exploring the development of our understanding of mental health as part of #heritageopendays in #Lichfield

There's also an open letter from social psychologists to the Presidents of the European Council, the European Commission, and of the European Parliament that is available to sign: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.

Dr Sue Widdicombe and I are inviting submissions for a Special Issue on "Making Others Misconduct Matter In The Public Sphere". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
For questions, feel free to get in touch with us.
Looking forward to your contributions! ✨

Our posting is now up for a Lecturer (Asst prof) in Social Psych at the University of Auckland

Please apply! Portal closes 20 Oct NZT. That's the 19th stateside bc here in New Zealand we live in the future

I'm not on the committee so am unconflicted and happy to chat with interested folks

@qmip.bsky.social Postgraduate awards are now open for nominations. If you come across an excellent masters dissertation while marking, you have until 30 November to apply.

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Planet Patriarchy: Global Feminism with Rahila Gupta & Beatrix Campbell A UWE Bristol Public Sociology event — Dr Finn Mackay This in-conversation event will cover how patriarchy fluxes and changes around the world, and how feminism resists and triumphs. Covering case studies from the women's revolution in Rojava, in North E...

Bristol Feminists! Very limited places available to hear from Beatrix Campbell & Rahila Gupta speaking at the Watershed on publication of their new book. Spread the word www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/new-events/p...

🚨 Why are the numbers of people on Universal Credit higher?

Here’s a thread to explain...

🔊 Climate change is a social justice issue 🔊

Recent analysis from @carbonbrief.org found that neighbourhoods in England where half or more of the population are people of colour are 15 TIMES more likely to face extreme heat than neighbourhoods where almost everyone is white

@gndrising.bsky.social

Volunteer role: Chair for Environmental Psychology Section (Role ID: 213) | BPS The deadline for applications is 12 noon on 16 September 2025.

Are you a leader interested in advancing environmental psychology in the UK? Are you a member of @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social?

Applications are now open for the next Chair or Co-Chair BPS Environmental Psychology Section

Further details here: www.bps.org.uk/news/volunte...