Latest issue 3(2) now out! Read, download, share with your colleagues - and please do make sure they all know that JCPH is THE diamond #OA community owned-critical #publicheatlh journal.
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Had a declined paper 'referred' to a 'sister' journal recently? Kirsten Bell reflects on 'bait & switch' in a new editorial
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Doing urban citizenship with (broken) digital data from an air pollution sensor osf.io/preprints/so...
Essay: Unawareness, or What We Do Not (Want to) Know
An open access chapter in the book “Epidemiological Obfuscation”
It asks the question: “Why do researchers do empirical social research that they have reason to know not to do?”
Please download and read it: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
After YouGov retracted their poll on young people going to church more, I wrote about why polling young people, especially young men, has become increasingly challenging.
It's a growing problem, and the market research industry needs to respond.
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Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci
How risk information generated by new technology is changing the GP consultation: my latest piece with Dr Alex Burns.
@cphjournal.bsky.social @judegreen.bsky.social
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Oh, sad. I've so often found Habermas's writing super useful for thinking with (and against).
New paper! Published online first from @tamar-antin.bsky.social and colleagues: on drivers of inequalities in rural tobacco use journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?
<once again holding up a tiny sign that says we actually have good evidence about the complex reasons people don't vaccinate, and how to talk to them about it, and, believe it or not, yelling about how stupid/irresponsible they are, while possibly cathartic, has the opposite of the desired effect>
Mate, it was 1066. Move on.
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SRO journal is accepting applications for Editorial Board members!
We are looking for expertise in a number of areas – including quantitative methodology, race and ethnicity, and digital sociology.
Applications close 26 February at 17:00 GMT. Find how to apply below.
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UK based sociologist of health? @fshi.bsky.social funding round for grant development, workshops, postgrad conference travel and post docs now open - closes 27th march www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/
Congratulations to Sociology.
This launch last week was fantastic news for the future of scholarly publishing, with hundreds of #diamondopenaccess journals listed - check them out at www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/
@cphjournal.bsky.social is proud to be included.
Permanent post vacancy for a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at St Andrews @standrewsanthro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social - Application deadline: 6th March 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQG970/l...
Interesting post - 'ghost'citations have always existed, but GenAI is accelerating the slop. As editor, super tedious having to check refs of all incoming papers
Congrats to @ojcollective.bsky.social on launch! A massive step towards a sustainable infrastructure for sustainable academic publishing
UK has lost its measles elimination status. #publichealth
I have a paper on the post-politics of multistakeholder partnerships in a new special issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social on 'narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health'
great to be involved in an SI with so many brilliant colleagues and all papers are open access
The open access 'Journal of Critical Public Health' just releases it's third issue is now out: Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems -
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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
Now out! Special Issue 'Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems', guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Justin Waring & Mark Bevir, and PACKED with great papers from leading authors applying decentred theory to key issues in #publichealth
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New online 1st publication! Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva & Klasien Horstman explore biopolitics in late/post-Soviet #publichealth policy docs
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Ah, thank you!! Came in late to this episode, and spent rest of day thinking 'how come i never heard that Who track before?'
Can bibliotherapy in schools improve children's #mental health? Our review found promise, but better research needed, esp on poss negative effects.
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This study was part of collaboration with @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
Can bibliotherapy in schools improve children's #mental health? Our review found promise, but better research needed, esp on poss negative effects.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....