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

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/

Manchester University Press - Walking

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

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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...

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...

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.

bigissue.com

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/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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...

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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.

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...

How To Do Social Research With...

gold.ac.uk

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!

The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · 11mo ago

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess). 💡 Includes a Special Section on the ideas and impact of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series. buff.ly/bJQXWs6 @journals.sagepub.com

“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. buff.ly/S2TR4F2

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

How football chants became the folk music of today

bigissue.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...

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

findaphd.com

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...

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...

lrb.co.uk

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

The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · last yr.

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3

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.

The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · last yr.

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3

📢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...

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

jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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

Big Issue@bigissue.com · last yr.

Our very own senior arts correspondent, Adrian Lobb, is swapping interviews for running shoes on Sunday, 27 April, taking on the biggest London Marathon to date, to raise money for the Big Issue. We're cheering him on, and you can too! Sponsor @adey70.bsky.social below. ⬇️ buff.ly/ygygZ6d

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

The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · last yr.

23 April: Join us in Manchester! Quizmaster @emmakjackson.bsky.social says: “We want this to be a fun event that brings people together. Most questions are multiple choice – and some rounds are downright silly. Bring your friends or come on your own and make some new ones!” – 🎟️ buff.ly/6AlTR7e

Clem Burke was one helluva drummer and the coolest of cats. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3-...

Blondie - Dreaming

YouTube video by BlondieVEVO

youtube.com

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

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

thames21.org.uk

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...

Home

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

sites.google.com

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

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

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

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

OUT NOW: in the new issue of The Sociological Review journal, we reassess Bev Skeggs' acclaimed Formations of Class and Gender. journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/ @jolittler.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @simov.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Come and join us at LSE! Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

upcoming bsa ecr event! Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’? 21 March 2025 (10am–3.30pm) Newcastle University (Department of Sociology, Henry Daysh Building) www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...