2/This is a Wellcome Trust funded project examining human-animal relations and health. If you want more information on the roles then check out this dedicated site where we explain how it all works and what we are looking for microsite sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/re...

Recruiting researchers in Animal Studies (humanities and social sciences)

Last year, ‘Multispecies Mutualisms’ was successfully awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of £1.6 million. We are now recruiting four new Post Doctoral Research Associates to join the team.

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Excited to see this article published in Sociology about Fieldwork Fables, a series of research films, using actors, that myself and Profs Les Back and Michaela Benson made. Used in over 100 universities for methods teaching! shorturl.at/a3WDC @morgancentre.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

The Unloved Curriculum: Teaching Research Methods and ‘Demonstrably Alive’ Sociology - Les Back, Michaela Benson, Maisie Tomlinson, 2025

This article reflects our experiences of developing a more sociable approach to teaching qualitative methods. Through a set of examples drawn from our teaching ...

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Spare hour over half-term? Join Chata the golden retriever on Thurs 30th October for a family-friendly foray into what ‘work’ looks like from a dog’s perspective at the PMH in Manchester, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences @morgancentre.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @ukri.org

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

Happy to have this short piece published in So-Fi-Zine, on the politics of treading the line between fact and fiction in "What a Mouse Knows", a play based on my research with lab mouse welfare scientists sofizine.com/extra-conten... @uomsociology.bsky.social @morgancentre.bsky.social

What a Mouse Knows: walking the line between fact and fiction in a stage play inspired by research

by Maisie Tomlinson This essay accompanies a dramaturgical piece featured in Edition 14 of So Fi Zine Read the full edition here. Lydia Larson and Ian Drysdale in What a Mouse Knows (Photo: Maisie …

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  What can a snoozing assessor tell us about situated knowledge and embodied attention in laboratory animal welfare assessment? My latest paper on Qualitative Behaviour Assessment (QBA) doi.org/10.1177/0162... @nicolecnelson.bsky.social @evahaifa.bsky.social @gailfdavies.bsky.social

Observer 8: Outliers, Attention, and Situated Knowledge in a Qualitative Behavioral Assessment of Laboratory Mouse Welfare - Maisie Tomlinson, 2024

This article explores how an innovative animal welfare methodology (Qualitative Behavior Assessment) negotiates subjectivism and objectivism in its distinctive ...

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Reflecting on the Adventures in Multi-Species Ethnography workshop that I ran last week at UoM. Such a warm, inquiring, committed group of attendees from across disciplinary backgrounds. As always, I learn a huge amount from our experiments and discussions together! shorturl.at/U5cF8