Interesting week engaging with church policymaking on sustainable flowers, just before St Valentine’s too! Calls to stop the debate didn’t succeed. It was made clear-how 🌺 are grown, sold & displayed impacts people & planet 🌍-a justice issue. Hope you enjoyed your💚weekend. @surreylib.bsky.social

All things bright and beautiful need to be sustainable as well, says Church of England’s new flower policy

Look out for more local flowers in your parish church, after a new ruling.

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The BSA’s Young Sociologist of the Year competition is now open – entries in audio-visual as well as written format are accepted. The prize is an Apple iPad. Deadline 3 November www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

At #wesconf25? Looking where to send your great research? Pop yo see me at Editor’s Drop In 12.30-1.30 today, to chat all things Sociology journal (on programme) & see below for egs of brilliant sociology of work articles we’ve published recently. @britsoci.bsky.social @bsa-weel.bsky.social

Great visit to a @surreylib.bsky.social work placement students. A year in a global marketing team, with international travel 🧳. Thanks to @stanleyblackdecker.bsky.social for providing such an opportunity. As a #sociologistofwork, these visits are always a highlight of my job 🤩

Exploring potential & challenges for #justtransitions in #sustainableflowers. Vital for global industry but hard decisions to face. Great morning with international sociology of work @rc30sociologywork.bsky.social colleagues #isaforum25, on links of environment & worker impacts. @isa-sociology.org

What stops #wideningparticipation students taking or succeeding in sandwich 🥪courses? Great to discuss at #isaforum25 learning from international colleagues at the RC04 with @rachelbrooks.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @isa-sociology.org @surreylib.bsky.social @education.ox.ac.uk

Welcome to Morocco to any sociologist friends arriving for ISA forum in Rabat… We’ve some of our editorial team and reviewers here from the BSA journal Sociology. See the welcome from me as Editor in Chief and hope to see you in the week, prepared for a sociological chat over tea! 🫖#isaforum2025

Very pleased to be on here now and today to be on sunny campus @surreylib.bsky.social. Celebrating my first day in new position as Associate Professor in Sociology following latest promotion round. Thanks to all those who supported my application 🙂.