Nice coverage by @stockholm-uni.bsky.social on our recent publication. www.su.se/english/divi...

Rense Nieuwenhuis @rnieuwenhuis.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Need and Capacity for Resilience in European Labour Markets: An Inequalities in Resilience Framework New paper with @thaning.bsky.social @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and Lovisa Backman, just published in Social Policy & Administration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I and @aronszekely.bsky.social were very happy for receiving this 2026 Robet Merton award 👇

Sociology at Oxford@sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 7d ago

👏🏆 Congrats to Dr Ozan Aksoy and @ucl.ac.uk's Aron Szekely on winning the 2026 Robert K. Merton Award from the International Network of Analytical Sociologists! 📝 Won for their 2025 article “Making Sense of Honor Killings". www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/articles/oza...

Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova will face each other in the Wimbledon final. Karolina leads the head to head 1-0. They’ve never played on grass. The All-Czech Final. Who wins their first Grand Slam title? 🏆 🇨🇿🇨🇿

Always a pleasure to come together with the work-family scholars and under the UCL roof ❤️

Everyone can see this is disastrous, but no one is screaming loudly enough. Years of policy drift have hollowed out the funding model, and now direct cuts are accelerating the damage. But hey, there’s still demand for university merch on Oxford Street!

David Higgins@davidhiggins.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m starting to suspect that many in government think UKHE is too big and actively want courses to close, staff to be sacked, and unis to collapse. But this is hard to say publicly, so instead they go for a funding squeeze, leading to total chaos.

An open call to be featured in a documentary for those who are living alone (or in a flat-share, without a partner or family) and with an immigration background, e.g. away from family or roots etc. Being London-based is necessary. Details below and reach out to the email for more queries.

Observing life through the lens of care or care-giving and receiving placing itself at the centre of my new essay on Substack (as if it ever left the scene) The Queue and The Element of Care open.substack.com/pub/wellingt...

The Queue and The Element of Care

care is the core of life and my mind lives in servitude to it

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This could have been a proper post but delivered as a note because yours truly seems to enjoy writing on a whim. Take it as an encouragement for you to read Ben Lerner’s Transcription: substack.com/@merveuzunal...

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It is a rarity to read a book where our everyday devices, starring an iPhone, and now-mundane habits, referring to FaceTime calls, weave through the relationships, including the characters’ perception...

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"Swedish social policies are predicated on a perceived equal division of parenting, but checks to ensure equal parenting are few." Lovisa Backman (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social) publishes @reusilience.bsky.social research in Social Politics. academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...

Implications of an Incomplete Gender Revolution for Low-Resourced Single Mothers in Sweden

Abstract. Gender equality in the labor market and family life has been a long-standing policy aim in Sweden, which has sought to solve this problem by prom

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'Narrative power in electoral autocracies: The policy narrative behind the success of a pension movement' by @elifcan.bsky.social  has been awarded as the @ecpr.bsky.social  2025 Best Paper on Public Policy: https://f.mtr.cool/plpaqgqdxm 🎉Congratulations @elifcan.bsky.social

2025 Best Paper on Public Policy winner announced

European Consortium for Political Research

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What is a dream without a dreamer? My recent attempts at reading Borges: open.substack.com/pub/wellingt...

On mind, perception and what makes us

Thinking about Borges' response to Berkeley

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A Mi(y)s(t)ery open.substack.com/pub/wellingt...

A Mi(y)s(t)ery

between misery, mystery and maybe mastery.

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Our new paper is in Social Politics: One Size Fits Few: The Evolution of the European Union’s Work–Life Balance Agenda over Three Decades academic.oup.com/sp/article/d...

One Size Fits Few: The Evolution of the European Union’s Work–Life Balance Agenda over Three Decades

Abstract. The article analyzes the evolution of the European Union’s work–life balance agenda over the past three decades, focusing on key policy initiativ

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📢NEW PUBLICATION: Do you think work-family challenges are limited to advanced economies, where many women work in the formal sector? Our review article disagrees (w @aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social ). doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

We have a new paper out discussing the childcare gap phenomenon examining the statutory parenting leave entitlements and early childhood education and care services provision www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The childcare gap in Europe: probing policy constructions of work-life balance and parental agency

This piece problematizes complexity in work-life balance policies in 15 European countries and examines their underpinning models of parental agency. It compares parenting-related leaves and early ...

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Post-family visit reflections on some unique repetitions, doing/undoing/redoing starring Hélène Cixous, Nathalie Sarraute, Louise Bourgeois open.substack.com/pub/wellingt...

On Repeat

On returning, rereading and persisting

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Reading Didier Eribon’s The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working Class Woman and Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs finally motivated me put my thoughts out there: open.substack.com/pub/wellingt...

Some not-so-festive readings and reflections on the mental cost of care

My not-very-festive readings this season included Didier Eribon’s The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman (published by Penguin, translated by Michael Lucey) and Chantal Akerman’s My Moth...

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On average, women's pensions are 23% lower than men's in the OECD. This gap reflects both past gender inequalities in the labour market - gender gaps in career length, hours worked and hourly wages - and redistributive elements in the pension system that can compensate for those. 4/4

"It is time to confront the delusion that the UK can provide Scandinavian-style welfare with American-style taxation." Associate Prof İrem Güçeri and Prof Christopher Adam, ODID, University of Oxford, set out the choices Britain now faces in their Financial Times letter👇 https://ow.ly/saJp50XvFOB

Extended deadline, you can submit your abstract to be part of the anniversary special issue of socialpolicy.ch until December 15th. Research on different themes about social policy across the globe is welcome.

Petra Sauer@petrasauer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In 2026, Swiss online journal socialpolicy.ch celebrates its 10th birthday. Abstracts are welcome until Nov 15th for a special issue, focusing on a decade of dynamic developments and critical transformations in the field of social policy. www.sozialpolitik.ch/announcement...

Just have been asked to show my bank account to prove I have sufficient funds for travelling 🤷🏻‍♀️ thank you life and the border police

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Find out more about the project here 👇 (2/2) www.russellgroup.ac.uk/impact/helpi...

Helping build resilient families | Russell Group

Horizon Europe funding backs University of Oxford research into social policies which support resilient families

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Please apply! PhD position @sofi.su.se. Stockholm University ERC-funded project, Making Time: Organized Labour and the Politics of Care Leave. MA degree (or near completion) and quant training required. 1 Oct deadline, start Jan 2026. See: su.varbi.com/what:job/job....

Doktorand i sociologi

Sociologiska institutionen är en av Stockholms universitets största samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och rankas kontinuerligt bland de 50 bästa sociologiska institutionerna i världen. Mer info

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The shift from Wimby final to this score is one for the books www.instagram.com/share/_tIWlQ...

The Tennis Letter@thetennisletter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Anisimova d. Swiatek 6-4 6-3 AMANDA IS A US OPEN SEMIFINALIST. From losing 6-0 6-0 to Iga at Wimbledon to beating her in straight sets today. That takes a different type of resilience. ✅Back-to-back Slam SF ✅3rd Slam SF ✅6th top 10 win of 2025 Fire in the belly. Hunger in the heart. 🇺🇸❤️

That winning feeling when your favourite bookshop picks up a series on your recommendation 🫰🏼🫰🏼🫰🏼🫰🏼

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Orhan Pamuk Reads Jorge Luis Borges

Podcast Episode · The New Yorker: Fiction · 02/01/2019 · 55m

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🚨We are hiring 2 Lecturers/Assistant profs in Quant Social Science at UCL🚨 What we look for: 🐍 R/Python proficiency 🤖 Teaching and/or doing ML and/or social networks 🌍 Research on inequality, climate, education, social norms & more Circulate this or apply by 10-Oct 👉 tinyurl.com/5djcc35z

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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ok tell me does this exist: a progressive, inclusive school, child-led, where parents (with DBS check) are allowed to come for part of the day, where the staff are throughly, profoundly trained in how to work with neurodivergent children? and if it doesn't shall we start one?