Janet Boddy, FAcSS
@janetboddy.bsky.social
Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies, Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY), University of Sussex. Views my own. Latest book Thinking Through Family - #openaccess chapters https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
Excellent piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the class politics of extreme heat and the disproportionate impact on children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When the right promotes heat-stress denial, ask yourself this: whose children’s lives is it willing to risk? | George Monbiot
The class politics of extreme heat are very real and very dangerous – but that doesn’t stop the billionaire press from peddling its agenda, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Feeling so proud to be part of this University and so grateful to all of the colleagues who have worked so hard to secure this vindication of Sussex in the High Court.
University of Sussex@sussex.ac.uk · 6mo agoFollowing our successful judicial review against the Office for Students (OfS) in the High Court, hear more from our Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Sasha Roseneil.
Call for Papers by 11 May for ‘Exploring Emotions and Social (In)justice: Meanings, Imaginings, (Re)framings’, a @bsa-emotions.bsky.social free online event, 18 and 19 June tinyurl.com/yy79dzy4 #cfp #sociology
A very welcome publication highlighting the critical importance of engaging with complexity in systematic reviews - key reading for anyone involved in evidence synthesis.
Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 8mo agoOur new paper: Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy #episky #healthpolicy #medsky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
2 WEEKS TO GO: Contribute your insights, ideas and expertise to inform the work of the #NHSProductivityCommission and shape policy and practice to ensure better care for people. The Commission's Call for Evidence runs until Friday 12 December. Find out more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4oHG9UY
Job: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology in Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology (283420) | University of Oslo
Job title: Associate Professor in Cultural and Community Psychology (283420), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
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The cost of a single place in a residential children’s care home in England has nearly doubled in five years to an average £318,000 a year, with private firms racking up huge profits as a result of market failure, according to the public spending watchdog. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cost of place in children’s care homes in England hits almost £320,000 a year
Private firms’ profits soar, watchdog says, as prices nearly double in five years
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The REF has been paused for 3 months as policymakers scratch their heads to figure out how to resolve various tensions. This prescient piece by @annamgrey.bsky.social lays out those complexities www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
University crisis is forcing the REF to lower its expectations - Research Professional News
When dauntingly complex plans meet cash-strapped institutions, something’s got to give, says Anna Grey
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Are you studying questions of poverty, social security, welfare or justice in Africa? Then we want to hear from you! We’re calling for special issue proposals for the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice focusing on Africa bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #ASAUK Africa Studies
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
"Journal of Poverty and Social Justice" published on by Policy Press.
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Academics are very concerned that the BBC is changing access to its archival material by releasing material in an orchestrated way rather than allowing researchers to ask their own queries. Very worrying development and a good overview by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
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CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series. Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September. 🔎 buff.ly/Q5KZlcJ
Help please: we're trying to recruit some more parent research participants in Scotland for our #FamilyFinances project. Specifically: parents who are receiving #UniversalCredit and #ScottishChildPayment and who have at least one baby (0-12months) in the household. Can you help spread the word?
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
theguardian.com
Beautiful writing and important reading from @milliemaglet.bsky.social
Prof Ruth Patrick@ruthpatrick0.bsky.social · last yr.Another shout out for @milliemaglet.bsky.social brilliant blog, which has been (rightly) getting a lot of love on here. So important to foreground the precarity that shapes the lives of so many, including within academia itself. We feel very lucky to have Millie @changingrealities.bsky.social
Trusted local journalism, or pink slime? This is scary…
Gabriel Kennedy@gabrielkennedy.bsky.social · last yr.What happens when local journalism isn't really local, and isn't really journalism either? The US pandemic of fake 'pink slime news' has gone global, threatening our communities. My new investigation (linked below) for @pressgazette.co.uk explores how UK pink slime is on the rise.
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...
SHAPE the Future: Call for evidence
The British Academy is opening a call for evidence as part of a new phase of the SHAPE the Future programme, which will seek to examine the progress made against the long-term societal impacts identif...
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The recording of our webinar discussing the findings from an evaluation of @familyrightsgp.bsky.social trial of Lifelong Links in Scotland, is available here: buff.ly/3YKHtMR
Big day @leverhulme.ac.uk - we are celebrating our centenary by investing £100m in blue skies research and doctoral centres. Here I explain why... @wonkhe.bsky.social Research funding requires research capacity wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...
Research funding requires research capacity
The Leverhulme Trust is investing an extra £100m in supporting research next year. Anna Vignoles calls for new thinking on ways to sustain university research infrastructures
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Following sharp rises in food inflation in 2023, food insecurity in the UK has soared. The proportion of children living in households with ‘very low’ food security shot up from 5.6% to 9.4%t between 2020-21 and 2023-24.
New opportunity! We are offering funding for two researchers to embed themselves at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to work on one of the themes outlined below www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/glob...
New job vacancy at TCRU! For a Lecturer (Teaching) in Social Psychology - 2.5 year post (www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...). Please share widely! @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social
Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026. Read full Call for Papers below: www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
I’m so delighted to be stepping into this role, supporting the work of the Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social
Academy of Social Sciences@acadsocsciences.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to our 5 new trustees who were elected to the Academy’s Council at our AGM! Our newly elected Trustee @janetboddy.bsky.social is Prof of Child, Youth & Family Studies at sussex.ac.uk & Adjunct Prof at @nova-oslomet.bsky.social. bit.ly/4e6sBhM
🔥 Four (yes four) fixed-term jobs now being advertised working across two great projects & with an AMAZING team @changingrealities.bsky.social & @safety-nets.bsky.social 🔥 These are at @uofglasgow.bsky.social as I'm moving there at the end of this month www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate
Job Purpose To make a leading contribution to the Changing Realities and Safety Nets project working with Professor Ruth Patrick and colleagues across several institutions. The successful candidat...
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Deadline approaching! SRO’s special issue, Towards a Sociology of Dignity, welcomes contributions that engage with dignity as a contested concept, particularly in post-conflict settings. Find the full Call below. Deadline: this Thursday, 12 June 2025. www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
Future of world-renowned Pen Green children’s centre in hands of Reform UK www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Future of world-renowned children’s centre in hands of Reform UK
Pen Green, a model for Labour’s Sure Start, could face closure if Reform-led North Northamptonshire council fails to act
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Are you passionate about health, inequalities and the role of social and economic factors? We are looking for an Analyst to join our Healthy Lives team. Find out more and apply by 23.59 on 29 May ⬇ https://bit.ly/4j4sZhN
New British Future research, published ahead of the government’s expected Immigration White Paper, find more balanced public views on immigration for work or study: www.britishfuture.org/white-paper-...
New poll finds public support for migration to work or study - British Future
New British Future research on public attitudes to immigration, ahead of the government’s expected Immigration White Paper.
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A 2-year lectureship for someone with qualitative methodological expertise and experience of studying of political and civil conflict. 👇
Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 We're hiring! Oxford Sociology is looking for a Departmental Lecturer to teach on our MSc - leading on the qualitative methods and political & civil conflict papers, as well as supervising dissertations. Apply by 30 May ✍️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
