📚 This Thursday! Join the editors and authors of Reimagining Menopause for a conversation exploring menopause through research, artivism and performance. 📅 15 October, 5–6.30pm UK | Online Register now: buff.ly/wT4VPqa @lsemedia.bsky.social

Between the lines: Recently appointed Journal editors Sören Carlson and Vik Loveday discuss the pleasures and pressures of their roles, share advice and tips for authors, and reflect on what makes the Journal such a special publication. buff.ly/focgWiJ #AcademicSky #Sociology #AcademicPublishing

🌍 We have just published our Annual Report for 2025, reflecting on the progress the Foundation has made in promoting accessible sociological knowledge to drive action towards addressing inequalities. 📖 Download the Annual Report for 2025 buff.ly/eWWiV7i #Sociology #PublicSociology

“The sky around here is so heavy, you eventually get tired of looking up.” Michael, nine years old. What is a child’s lived reality of ‘safety’? Janine Ewen presents criminological research on the streets, using urban art to prompt dialogue with young people. buff.ly/FVRgcD8 #Criminology

Connect with contemporary public sociology, research and critical social thought! Get updates on our events, podcasts, magazine, book reviews, fiction and visual sociology, plus the latest research, open-access articles and opportunities from the journal. 👉 Subscribe buff.ly/jm0Tk4n #AcademicSky

Listen and learn: Season 5 of our Uncommon Sense #Podcast brings fresh thinking on issues as diverse as how psychoanalysis shapes listening in Buenos Aires, the reality of family life in China, and the power play of declaring an “ending”. buff.ly/VHzqnFR #AcademicSky #Sociology #GlobalStudies

How do working class students experience social mobility without betraying their origins? Fiorenzo Parziale on autoethnography, heretical identities and the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Stuart Hall. #OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zZohAWc

Book launch: Reimagining Menopause. Join the editors and authors of The Sociological Review Monograph Reimagining Menopause, a bold collection that moves beyond narrow debates. 📅 Thursday 15 October 2026 🕑 5pm – 6.30pm (UK) 📍 Online webinar Register now: buff.ly/wT4VPqa @lsemedia.bsky.social

“It’s like living in the middle stairwell – not reaching the next floor but not remaining on the one below.” Arab migrant women in Istanbul are no longer the people they were back home, yet not fully recognised in their new community, says Neveen Aboueldahab. buff.ly/EgDAnXS #Migration #Sociology

The drastic decline in local government spending from 2010 was associated with a 9% lower probability of giving birth among the poorest third of women in England. Laura Sochas and Jenny Chanfreau write about #reproductivejustice and #austerity in The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/lyJ7i4U

FINAL CALL: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 12 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in January 2027. Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community. ➡️ Deadline 16 October buff.ly/mPov5pd

“Novels and poems present #Menopause as a lived experience, not something to be treated by doctors.” In her poem, Jennifer Takhar @univcotedazur.bsky.social explores how “hot-flush lit” celebrates menopausal bodies and pushes for recognition rather than #Stigma. buff.ly/kQvWNPL #FeministLit

Climbing the ladder in #HigherEducation in the UK is harder if you’re “non-White”. Moé Suzuki, part of that group, sees “insider-outsider” status as a research benefit. In our September magazine, she describes how boosting interviews with drawing elicited in-depth responses. buff.ly/yvtVYMO #UKEd

Powerpose? Leanin? Or bare your vulnerability? @lsemedia.bsky.social #feminist Shani Orgad discusses the imperatives to be #confident and #vulnerable - their costs, stakes, and unequal distribution. #Tunein for more, including on #Foucault #Precarity and TV’s #TheBear buff.ly/2XooG9z

“Public sociology can redistribute expertise, create dialogue and change the very institutions it studies.” The winners of the Sociological Review Foundation’s 2026 Public Sociology Awards explain what inspires their work and why sociology belongs in the wider world. buff.ly/3NaI5GP #Sociology

“I tried giving up football and finding a pursuit that made me less miserable.” In The Sociological Review magazine, academic and lifelong Sheffield Wednesday supporter Michael Brennan makes the case for protecting the social and civic function of football clubs. buff.ly/Wfk7DXf @swfc.co.uk

Doors open easily for a select few, but for many they stay firmly closed, write Iris Pissaride and @juliettephd.bsky.social. Our September magazine explores the barriers people encounter and the collective ways they challenge, negotiate and push back. buff.ly/dSgSTpL #Sociology #PublicSociology

“This special issue is a reckoning for what the role of sociology is – in terms of theory, analysis and praxis.” Guest editors @galarexer.bsky.social, Karis Campion @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social introduce a journal Special Section, Sociology in the Times of Genocide. Out now: buff.ly/rg8TXRE

We’re pleased to spotlight an event from a friend of the Foundation. Join @amit-singh.bsky.social & Sivamohan Valluvan at Waterstones, Trafalgar Square on 22 October for the launch of Pubs for the People, a passionate defence of the English pub. Tickets: buff.ly/8vmF7Wy

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 74:5, featuring 16 new papers💡 Includes a Special Section, Sociology in the Times of Genocide, guest edited by @galarexer.bsky.social, Karis Campion and @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social buff.ly/KuDpTMf @journals.sagepub.com

“I could see how, with the right resource and the right kind of evidence base, it would be possible to really max out on social change.” Labour MP for Colchester and University of Essex professor Pam Cox is in conversation with Michaela Benson in our September magazine. buff.ly/2AkuTts #Sociology

Our latest #OpenAccess book reviews, by Olga Doletskaya, Panos Theodoropoulos, Brooklyn Donnelly, Benjamin Schwarz, Xue Yu and Öykü İnal, explore topics including attitudes towards poetry, surrogacy and debt. #Skybrarian #AcademicSky #Sociology #BookReviews buff.ly/VSDWzaW

Mathematics education in England and Wales puts pupils who lack social and cultural capital at a disadvantage, even closing off paths to future success. In September’s magazine issue, Sophie Harris shares her research into the inequality of the GCSE maths qualification. buff.ly/dHEgmgX #UKEd

Book launch tomorrow! Come down and hear @amit-singh.bsky.social discuss his new @princetonupress.bsky.social book Cancelled Futures at UCL. Discounted copies may be available for purchase, if you are quick... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...

Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain

Join us in person to discuss the launch of Amit Singh's new book, Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain.

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Amit Singh@amit-singh.bsky.social · last mo.

Cancelled Futures is officially out today w/ @princetonupress.bsky.social Launch next Wednesday hosted by @sprc-ucl.bsky.social & @uclsociology.bsky.social at UCL I'll be chatting to @lukedenoronha.bsky.social and @alexkelbert.bsky.social about the book Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...

🌟 The September 2026 issue of the Magazine is out now! Pam Cox MP connects sociology to social policy; how football mismanagement affects fans’ mental health; meet our award winners; is the GCSE maths exam fit for purpose? Plus, fiction, image-maker and book reviews. #Sociology buff.ly/IhJZTSh

Our friends @conwayhall.bsky.social are hosting Fighting Social Atrophy, with researcher and writer @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social Exploring what the latest neuroscience tells us about social isolation, why we're spending more time alone, and what this could mean for society buff.ly/oDVa2A5

Congratulations on the citations @notrightruth.bsky.social !

Ruth Pearce@notrightruth.bsky.social · last mo.

Bittersweet milestones - our 2020 article "TERF Wars: An Introduction", published in @thesociologicalreview.org, just hit 600 citations on Google Scholar, and has over 100,000 views. I would love for it to become irrelevant. However, given the state of the world, I'm grateful it remains useful.

JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 12 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in January 2027. Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community. ➡️ Deadline 16 October buff.ly/mPov5pd

Last night, Angela Saini delivered our Public Lecture for 2026. In “Anatomy of a Myth: Why Human Classification Can’t Cure Health Disparities”, she challenged the audience to rethink the everyday practice of sorting people into categories of race, sex and gender. buff.ly/f5WxNBN #PublicSociology

🏆 The Sociological Review Foundation Public Sociology Awards 2026 – winners revealed! 🏆 Last night in London, we celebrated outstanding projects across four categories, recognising innovative work that demonstrates the relevance of sociology in everyday life. buff.ly/3oMJKGN #PublicSociology