Prof Sophie Woodward
@sophierwoodward.bsky.social
Sociologist University of Manchester, co-Director Morgan Centre, Vice Director NCRM; co-editor Journal of Creative Research Methods, researches material culture, dormant things, fashion, wardrobes, gender and feminism.
Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: Irrepressible – celebrating 20 years of the Morgan Centre 📅 Until 2 September, open to the public 9am – 5pm, weekdays 📍 Glass Corridor, Samuel Alexander Building University of Manchester Sociology Department Faculty of Humanities
📢Major new UKRI-funded research project: 'Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air' involves researchers from across UoM & community partners to explore air pollution inequalities Builds on a great pilot project. So excited to see where this research takes us! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...
Manchester researchers launch major UKRI funded project to understand “air inequalities”
A team of researchers at The University of Manchester has been awarded UKRI funding for a pioneering interdisciplinary project examining how communities experience and understand air pollution in ever...
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📺WATCH - new videos added to our 20th anniversary key concepts series: 🐶Animals & Social Life 👥 Sibling relationships 👩🏽👧🏽👦🏽Family practices ♻️Consumption & everyday life 🦉What is ageing? Thanks to everybody who helped make these, and we hope you enjoy them! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Morgan Centre: Key concepts in creative methods and everyday lives research - YouTube
To mark 20 years of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester, we are pleased to present a new series of videos in w...
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VACANCY: Research Associate on interdisciplinary project exploring how ppl experience poor air quality, using community and creative qual approaches. £37-39k full time, 2 years, start 1 June 2026. @sophierwoodward.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Book publication day! We argue that because gender is multidimensional we need multiple disciplines to understand it. Using a facet methodology approach we explore how disciplines are gendered and how disciplines come to know about gender. Dream coauthoring team ❤️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gen...
Join us at The Making Room Fair – an evening celebrating upcycling, sustainable fashion, and creative community in Manchester. 📅 Thursday 6th November, 4–10pm 📍 The Yard, Manchester 🎟 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk... @ukri.org @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026) Closing date: 20 Oct 2025 Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’. @britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate - Uncovering Hidden Inequality:Oxford Road
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project, ‘uncovering hidden inequality: developing new ways of doing death administration’ directed by Professor Kate Reed in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester.
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📺Watch our new video series introducing key concepts in the sociology of families & personal life. Please share if you know anybody teaching or studying these topics! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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How can speculative fiction become a research method? This new article explores four approaches: close reading existing sci-fi, analysing how stories influence real policies, inviting participants to write their own futures, and researchers creating speculative narratives. doi.org/10.1332/3050...
Yay for #JCRM journal launch and cupcakes, with @edwina-thorn.bsky.social Sophie Woodward Harriet Shortt and @drhelenkara.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social
Unbelievably thrilled to see the launch issue of this amazing journal which I am a co-editor of - Journal of Creative Research Methods. Open access until 31/12/25. Please share and consider contributing to future issues!
Journal of Creative Research Methods@crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · last yr.The future of research is creative, collaborative, and boundary-breaking! From speculative fiction to visual data storytelling, this groundbreaking collection showcases how creative approaches are transforming research across disciplines! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
This has been a long time in the making (understatement!). Massive thanks to @academicdiary.bsky.social @saranahmed.bsky.social, Alice Bloch, Tia DeNora, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and @amychandler.bsky.social for guiding our thinking. Thank you also to @rosedwards.bsky.social for the support.
The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · last yr.How do mothers who have experienced child removal use tattooing to cope with their pain? @lisamorriss.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and Siobhan Beckwith @huddersfielduni.bsky.social on Sara Ahmed, maternal connections and grief. #OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/QrP2lD2
Over the past five years, NCRM has trained thousands of researchers across many sectors, with 20 per cent of course participants working outside the social sciences. To find out how NCRM is building the UK's #research capability, read our impact report: buff.ly/RisFFv4
📣 Coming soon: The Journal of Creative Research Methods📣 We’re a home for researchers who are thinking, questioning, or approaching research in a creative way 💡 Learn more bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #RGS2025 #RGS25
Upcoming FREE @ncrm.ac.uk 2 day in-person innovation forum: Improvising Methods: Experiencing Collaborative, Inventive, Apposite &Original Methods! on 15-16 October at Uni Manchester. Explores what happens when skilled researchers & practitioners are methodologically responsive to their field sites
NCRM Engagement | Innovation Fora | Improvising Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
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“Attentiveness is a way to retrain the ‘sociological gaze’ away from the unusual to the unnoticed elements of everyday lives and objects.” @sophierwoodward.bsky.social reflects in a new Special Section on the legacy of Live Methods by @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar. buff.ly/UvuBDtU
Deadline to register your participation in the Research Methods Rendezvous is weds 2nd of July.
National Centre for Research Methods@ncrm.ac.uk · last yr.NCRM has opened applications to participate in the Research Methods Rendezvous! This free event will explore the process of turning early-stage ideas into #research projects. #RMR2025 takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025. Apply: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/RMR...
Curious about how ideas become doable research projects? Register to participate now!
National Centre for Research Methods@ncrm.ac.uk · last yr.NCRM has opened applications to participate in the Research Methods Rendezvous! This free event will explore the process of turning early-stage ideas into #research projects. #RMR2025 takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025. Apply: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/RMR...
Delighted to have an article included in the special issue on ‘attentiveness’ and why this matters in developing a vital sociology
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
Well this is exciting. Delighted to be made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities@uomhums.bsky.social · last yr.Well done to @sophierwoodward.bsky.social! A distinguished sociologist, Sophie has authored of several books including Why Women Wear What They Wear (2007) as well as co-directs the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/f... 🧵6/6
Permanent teaching and research lectureship in sociology at the university of Manchester. Linked to the Morgan centre. For researchers in areas of everyday lives, personal life and relationships. Please share! Deadline April 7th
Morgan Centre@morgancentre.bsky.social · 2y agoJOB: Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre.bsky.social Looking for a new colleague with research expertise in personal life, relationships & everyday lives. Pls share! 🙏🏾 Closing date: 7 Apr @britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
The Journal of #CreativeResearchMethods is live! Looking for submissions that centre creativity at all stages of the research: questions you ask, methods you use, how you analyse or how you write. Curious and playful thinkers welcome! Check out the website
Bristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’re delighted to introduce you to our latest journal! The Journal of #CreativeResearchMethods Edited by @sumingkhoo.bsky.social, Harriet Shortt, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and consulting editor @drhelenkara.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #ResearchMethods #Creativity
Interested in our @methodsmcr.bsky.social Creative Qualitative Methods summer school course? Join our free online taster session to hear from the course leaders about creative ways to design, carry out & share your research 12.30-1.30pm Weds 19 Mar 2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...
Does it matter if we use the term artefacts or belongings? Can belongings be more inclusive of the multiple investments people have in things? Discussed in this article I coauthored with wonderful archaeologists (Bonnie Pitblado, Suzie Thomas and Anna Wessman) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Retheorizing Archaeological “Artefacts” as “Belongings” - Archaeologies
In this article, we suggest that archaeologists should recognise the limitations of the term “artefact”, because it does not capture the many ways that diverse groups think about and interact with suc...
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Join the @morgancentre.bsky.social's upcoming summer school taster session on 19 March, where you'll learn more about their upcoming two-day summer school course on creative approaches to qualitative research
Only one more week to get your ‘I wonder’ in. Get involved in this fab event on research ideation and turning ideas into projects.
National Centre for Research Methods@ncrm.ac.uk · 2y agoNCRM is inviting researchers to contribute to its unique new event, the Research Methods Rendezvous! The two-day, online event will provide attendees with the opportunity to present research ideas and develop them with other researchers. Read the call: https://buff.ly/3EnkrUs
This will be amazing: NCRM event which centres research curiosity, ideation and how we turn these into doable research. Please submit!!
National Centre for Research Methods@ncrm.ac.uk · 2y agoNCRM is inviting researchers to contribute to its unique new event, the Research Methods Rendezvous! The two-day, online event will provide attendees with the opportunity to present research ideas and develop them with other researchers. Read the call: https://buff.ly/3EnkrUs
Join me online/in person 29th Jan 2-4pm UK time for a talk from the iconic Angela McRobbie! I’ll be responding + sharing insights from my arts-based research w/ disabled, girls celebrating Angela’s work + the legacy of the CCCS sign up ⬇️ www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci... @uofglasgow.bsky.social
What is a Girl Today? Reflections on Young Women and the Politics of Popular Culture
Celebrating the publication of Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: The Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards (Goldsmiths Press/MIT)
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