Here's me thinking there is such a thing as 'commi con' i.e. communistic convention, but Alexei Sayle is actually talking about being at Comic Con 😂 open.spotify.com/episode/7qRc...
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Juliette Wilson-Thomas
@juliettephd.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in education and childhood studies. Qualitative Sociological researcher of Inequalities. All views my own.
thesociologicalreview.org/fiction/look... I painted this in the same theme as my short story. The contrasts in Manchester and rapidly changing skyline never cease to stop me in my tracks.
If you are interested in anti-racist issues in early years education and care, please take a look at my article with Josephine Gabi on the differences between top-down and grass-roots guidance www.j-ces.com/index.php/jc...
A critical race theory analysis of top-down and ground-up regulatory documents in early years practice
The ‘pervasive silence and hesitancy to address racism and its manifestations’ (The Child Safeguarding Practice Review (HM Gov., 2025a) and how this renders invisible the safeguarding needs of Black, ...
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Ireland rolling out a basic income for artists, woo! UBI UBI UBI
The highlight of the last two weeks has been being with students again; hearing their stories about what brought them to uni, and exploring their goals and passions. (Lowlight, all the administration around teaching and uni bureaucracy)
'Putting the ‘ass’ into ‘astronaut!’” The Pop Idol said to the Activists,' Read the latest issue of @thesociologicalreview.org magazine considering the 'Ladies Astral Luncheon' thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/sep... by Jennifer Takhar
Space commodity: How the Blue Origin flight left feminism floating in a most peculiar way
The neoliberal feminism of the elite Blue Origin space mission by celebrity women. Satirical poem from consumer culture researcher Jennifer Takhar.
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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
At the end of my PhD I came to the conclusion that universal basic income was a better way to start to address Inequalities than much else. Trials seem to confirm this www.vice.com/en/article/a...
Austin Gave Poor Families a Basic Income. It Changed Their Lives.
For one year, low-income families in Austin, Texas, received $1,000 a month to do whatever they wanted; they spent it on rent and “substantially" improved their situations.
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In the wake of my local MP resigning, I'm reading Iris Pissaride's poignantly observed story about Turkish occupied Cyprus thesociologicalreview.org/authors/iris...
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@juliettephd.bsky.social Great to see our SEDA blog out today - Reflecting on Facilitating Student Voice in Creative Critical Assessment @SEDA thesedablog.wordpress.com
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Supporting and leading educational change
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025... shocking, and it's coming for nurseries too.
Nearly a quarter of foster places in England provided by private equity-backed firms
Experts raise alarm over ‘commodification’ of vulnerable children as independent fostering agencies make millions in profit
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“How can we as academics endure? How can we nurture a sociological life in increasingly hostile environments? It’s essential that we have the means to theorise & evidence better ways of understanding one another.” Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce our new issue buff.ly/y8o76RY
My response to the spending review for the Early Childhood Studies Degree network www.ecsdn.org/news-events-...
News, events and opportunities | ECSDN
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From skiing in melting Alpine snow and the sociology behind far-right plotlines in Hollyoaks, to the end of the world and beyond: editors Iris Pissaride and @juliettephd.bsky.social introduce a wide-ranging June issue of The Sociological Review magazine. buff.ly/elEpWJP
Really proud and happy to share our latest issue of The Sociological Review Magazine. In this issue we explore neoliberal universities, workers unions, apocalyptic futures and climate change, and I interview Jayshree Patel in bringing sociology to TV soaps thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/jun...
June 2025
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The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite | Andy Beckett
Politicians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite different, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
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www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may... Good news, but a horrific injustice that needs to be investigated
‘I need to get out there’: wrongfully identified in drill music video and jailed, he now wants to study law
Ade Adedeji, 21, from Manchester, served three years for a crime he did not commit before his conviction was quashed
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WRITE FOR US! Editors Iris Pissaride and @juliettephd.bsky.social are accepting pitches until 9 May for The Sociological Review magazine’s September issue. 🔎 Find out more about our regular magazine features, including Sociology at Work and Private Troubles, Public Issues. buff.ly/H1sJ25K
CONTRIBUTE! Editors Iris Pissaride and @juliettephd.bsky.social are accepting pitches until 9 May for The Sociological Review magazine’s September issue. Find out more about regular features including Sociology at Work and Private Troubles, Public Issues. thesociologicalreview.org/publish-with...
a cartoon drawing of a purple kidney using a laptop with the words tappity written on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a purple kidney using a laptop with the words tappity written on the bottom
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... shocking but predictable that safety issues are on the rise when EY policy focuses on costs and spaces rather than care and education
The Guardian view on early years education: new nurseries must be the start of something bigger | Editorial
Editorial: Raising standards, including safety, should be at the heart of Labour’s plans for preschool
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Really happy to see some funding going into researching early years policy in the UK. Will look forward to the results early-education.org.uk/early-years-....
Press release: New study of early years workforce policy will share lessons from the four UK nations - Early Education
A new study of workforce across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has been launched by Early Education
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Manchester’s radical Black female activists: ‘We didn’t define ourselves as feminists’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
Manchester’s radical Black female activists: ‘We didn’t define ourselves as feminists’
Founded in 1980, Abasindi Co-operative fought systemic racial and gender inequalities. Nearly 50 years later, the group’s legacy is everywhere
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Can community time banks help to tackle social exclusion and inequalities? In our March magazine, Juliette Wilson-Thomas @juliettephd.bsky.social discusses her doctoral research, its links to feminism, and using an ethnographic approach to build trust with participants. buff.ly/s78C1gM
