The oral history extracts from the SOMS project, make for interesting listening, the quiet determination, juggling of commitments, and often overlooked skills that helped women in the 80's -00's build their own businesses
#UoBresearch
#genderandwork
#UoBlibrary
Fascinating visit to the @britishlibrary #archives last week, looking through direct sales articles and adverts from newspapers in the 1970s and 1980s.
#directsalesvintageadverts
#archivalresearch
#uobresearch
#bristisharchives
#womensworkstories
#soms
#vintagepress
➡️LAUNCH WEEK!!
We launched the first SOMS newsletter this week!
Send us your email address if you would like to sign up to future editions (every few months) and keep up to date with all the SOMS project activities.
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➡️ Some participant feedback from our workshop last week. A great opportunity to get thoughts on subjects such as 'business and social good' and 'gender, work and enterprise' from such an interdisciplinary group.
#uobresearch
#genderinequalities
#entrepreneurialism
#inclusiveeconomy
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Workshop time! Looking forward to the next few days of talks, discussions, new ideas and connections...
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#uobworkshop
#ahrc
#ahrcfundedproject
#artsmatter
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Amy is attending the annual EWIB day today (Empowering Women in Business), a great chance to speak and make new connections with women involved in business and their own franchises from pre 2000 up until the present day.
#womenownedbusinessً
#uobresearch
#SOMSproject
💡 Ever wondered how tiny defects in crystals affect LED lights? PhD student Maryia is using computational modelling to decode defects in inorganic phosphors—key to brighter, more efficient LEDs! blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/06... #MaterialsScience #LED @unibirmingham.bsky.social #UoBResearch ^AKG
Great planning meeting with @blackbark.bsky.social films this morning. SOMS documentary shooting starts in July - exciting!
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#selfemployedwomen
#researchdocumentary
#womenandfilm
#womeninfilm
#womenmakingfilm
#womenbehindthecamera
#womeninbusiness
After a interesting podcast? Dr Amy Edwards recently featured on #bbcradio4 the #TheHistoryPodcast.
➡️Episode 3
➡️'Selling The Silver'
➡️Context is from 21 minutes
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Archives! Fascinating #Avon archival material from the 1970s. A fantastic addition to the #SOMS research project.
@hagleycenter.bsky.social
@uobrishistory.bsky.social
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
#SOMSproject
@ukri.org
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#archives
Weekend reading: Predictions for how we can use #GravitationalWaves to learn about the details of how stars evolve into black holes https://cplberry.com/2018/06/11/1711-06287/ Some cool astrostatistics led by @jimbarrett27 #UoBresearch
