Academic. Families. Research methods. Take a look: academicswives.co.uk Creator for Meta AI (they stole my work) Na’amodnik You can’t DM me here
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Excellent day at the Mass Observation Archive. Great discussions about methods for big data and what's occurring atm. LOVED visiting the archive.This is a #BucketList moment I never knew I had. Excellent. #QualitativeArchives #QualitativeAnalysis #MassObservation #QDA #SocialResearch
Hey #sociologists - a very informative interview with Ann Oakley about housework, wives, research methods and her influential career. Skilfully carried out by @emmahcasey.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I couldn't ignore this perfectly placed puddle at Amersham London Underground station
Go Anna @profatarrant.bsky.social !
🎥🍉✨ We're excited to announce that all booking links are ✨NOW LIVE✨ at at linktr.ee/naamod for our September series of screenings and discussions across England of short films made by and with student-activists from the Gaza encampments.
Also, thank you @robinjsmith.bsky.social, who said we need to hear more about tattooing practices - and @thesociologicalreview.org for funding this pilot study.
!50! of my outputs used to train OpenAI without my agreement. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social recently contacted me to ask me to opt in to my book being used but I haven’t signed up. So what’s going on Bloomsbury?
If you’re interested in the Foucauldian inspired WPR approach to policy analysis (What’s the problem represented to be?), we tell you what it’s not as much as what it is, and consider drawbacks as well as affordances and potentials
If you’re interested in the Foucauldian inspired WPR approach to policy analysis (What’s the problem represented to be?), we tell you what it’s not as much as what it is, and consider drawbacks as well as affordances and potentials
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications. This opportunity allows postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for funding to support their research projects. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3K4kEyA
If you do perhaps you could negotiate group rates and count me in.
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
With a few women in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database inc. Jessie Mothersole, MV Taylor, Elizabeth Hodgson, Jocelyn Toynbee
p.s. reading this, you might suddenly find you ‘got something in your eye’
Such careful scholarship – theorised deep understanding of the significance of tattooing practices for mothers following state intervention and child removal #mothers #children #socialcare #state #trauma #tattoos Kudos to @sociologicalreviewfoundation for kick start funding this work
Methods people -this looks interesting
Personally I’d argue that the idea of sampling does no favours to an understanding of qualitative research. But happy to hear alternative views.
A bird in the bush
Typo 🤪 1968-88
Referencing preschool UK culture 1964-68
Time passes but …
Join our Introduction to Podcasting workshop on 17 November, with @researchpodcasts.bsky.social. Learn how to grow your idea, how to create great audio and how to launch and run your podcast. An interactive day, online, for a small group. Tickets here! www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...
Mutual for our work Lisa. 😍
Congratulations Lisa!
How do mothers who have experienced child removal use tattooing to cope with their pain? @lisamorriss.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and Siobhan Beckwith @huddersfielduni.bsky.social on Sara Ahmed, maternal connections and grief. #OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/QrP2lD2
It's disappointing that the government's plan to get people moving is focused around "Go for a jog" rather than, as the evidence suggests, building environments that encourage everyday incidental exercise: the ability to walk to amenities liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/388...
Curious about using podcasting to share your research? Want to know how to record and edit great audio? And how to launch a podcast? Start your journey into sociological podcasting with our Introduction to Podcasting workshop, with @researchpodcasts.bsky.social 17 Nov. Tickets here buff.ly/VSugrGb
Guess which uwe academic isnt a full professor. Hint. It is a woman. Its probably the only person on the list you have actually heard of... blogs.uwe.ac.uk/research-ext...
Currently docked just along the coast from me. The Galeón Andalucía - Spanish galleon replica.
#OtD 27 Aug 1889 the great strike of East End Jewish tailors in London, UK began during a dockers' strike. Despite the antipathy of the dockers' union leader, the tailors held out until October when the employers caved in stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9881...
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
This is a wild ride of a read for all kinds of reasons. Researchers and people who read about research on the internet should all find some valuable stuff in here. The incidental note that THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF OBJECTS ON A TYPICAL FRIDGE IS 55 is just the icing on the cake for me.
#OtD 24 Aug 1943 French philosopher and anti-fascist Simone Weil died. She opposed French colonialism, took part in factory occupations and joined the Durruti Column to fight Franco, besides working as an agricultural laborer and WWII resistance member stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9629...
‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding” John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
So true
Eek. 😧
Important intervention from my departmental colleague, @petefussey.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social #facialrecognition #policing
Last week, Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was filmed threatening and taunting Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti in a solitary confinement cell of the jail where Israel has held him for 23 years. We are disgusted by this display of contempt and intimidation.
Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme are still open to early-career researchers. Award holders will have the opportunity to complete a significant research project and gain valuable experience in a university setting. Apply now: buff.ly/McS8lRk
Leaving Avenue Road Another photo from the overlooked Croydon Tram network. Here's a shot of a Tram leaving at Avenue Road Tram Stop.
Norwegian home invasion.
Economic Research Rescue Fund (for people whose NSF grants have been pulled). From UK ESRC. #academicsky mailchi.mp/ssrc.org/rem...
The perfectly placed bench for close viewing of a hedge. The other side is a reservoir, wildlife and fields, but who wants to look at that?
Walk Over - Hampstead I love that you see can see people walking over the trains at Hampstead London Underground station.
Thinking about the possibility of setting up a sociologically informed podcast? Here's a chance to get some guidance about how best to go about doing that, thanks to @thesociologicalreview.org
Using my first Bluesky post to share that Marsha Wood & I have a new article out! 🎉 We take a gendered street-level look at how Universal Credit policies shape parents’ everyday realities of navigating work, care & welfare. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Upcoming FREE @ncrm.ac.uk 2 day in-person innovation forum: Improvising Methods: Experiencing Collaborative, Inventive, Apposite &Original Methods! on 15-16 October at Uni Manchester. Explores what happens when skilled researchers & practitioners are methodologically responsive to their field sites
An interesting retrospective reflection on #ethnography and extraction. Rosheka Faulkner for the International Journal of Social Methodology
Definitely worth a thanks in the book acknowledgments! And quite a different view to other accounts of her work I’ve managed to obtain. Hence my first impression of another person.
Wow! Indeed. Thanks. 🙏🏻 The whole book looks interesting.
Thanks Liam. I’ll take a look. I’m thinking maybe a different Helen Parsons tho.
Mobile methods in social research. Watch RuthBartlett talking about walking interviews. @sadierockliffe.bsky.social on swim-along interviews. And GabrielleLynch on shared car journeys. Amazing creative researchers! Thanks @ncrm.ac.uk
I can thoroughly recommend doing this! #podcasting #sociologist
In the past in the West, girls were encouraged to create samplers to reflect their needlwork skills. Today surviving work, which is often signed, is viewed as a record of the otherwise obscured lives of many young women. Antique US sampler by Mary Blaylock, 1821 #WomensArt
Stuff I want AI to actually do Help me with stats Do the stats for me Analyse all the stats Make it so I look like I’m really good at stats Stop the statistician from making that face when talking to me
this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇
Help please sociologists or anyone else. I’m trying to find out some info about Talcott Parsons’ wife Helen. Any pointers appreciated.
This is incredible
I’d read this! Other endings. Amara’s barista career takes off & A opens a uni coffee shop: (a) baddies use it and A delights in slipping laxatives into their drinks, or (b) the uni coffee shop is such a success A opens a chain and is too busy to bother about a university world that is imploding.
Assessing the value of qualitative research Qualitative research should be guided and evaluated according to its methodological principles not by any false or imported ideas of how it should be. In my book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, Policy Press, 2025, I argue…
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?
A little bit of loveliness after reading my news feeds
'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2
The leaders of Progressive Judaism were just booed off stage at the 'March for the Hostages'. Why? Because they spoke in support of the Israeli ceasefire movement, said that only a hostage & ceasefire deal would get the hostages home safely, & that Palestinians have the right to self determination.
📢New publication from the FYFF study now available open access! ‘Being there’ as providers and caregivers: caring masculinities in parenting and partnering among young fathers in the UK,' has been published in 'Caring Fathers in the Global Context' bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...
Love this resource page. Talks about #thematicanalysis by @ginnybraun.bsky.social and @vicclarke.bsky.social www.thematicanalysis.net/talks-about-...
Our mi-neged protest at the UK Foreign Office yesterday
We are pleased to introduce the first guest post on the new CSP blog: Challenging the Two-Child Limit on Family Benefits by Ruth Patrick and Tracey Jensen @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social www.criticalsocialpolicy.com/post/challen... (Image Credit: Dominic Alves (cropped) CC2.0)
“Starmer, Lammy pick a side, human rights or genocide” - Mi Neged, a group of British-Israelis, is protesting outside the Foreign Office in London. They are holding red and black globes
In Western art the term 'overshadowed' does not reference any lack of women's creative talent but is representative of the systems of art which have favoured their male counterparts in terms of education, resources, representation and value.......
Embroidered hanging, 1891-2 by May Morris influential textile artist & designer, often overshadowed by a focus on the work of her father, William Morris #womensart
Too tempting - just a bit of time out from writing the book.
Talking (social science) shop: join us in Glasgow on 27 November for our annual Early Career Researchers Day, where professors Shahram Khosravi and Karen O’Reilly will lead sessions on migration studies and ethnographic practice. Apply by 8 September for this funded opportunity. buff.ly/RwAgtTj
The Watling Estate's Old Comrades wanted 'ordinary things … not the singing of high-brow folk songs and the reading of poetry’. My new post captures the tensions between those who would 'improve' the working class and the residents making their own lives. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-watlin...
'A vast, low-rise, low-rent ghetto in Burnt Oak … a red-brick NW9 Noweto’ according to Robert Elms. You can read my post on the history of the Watling Estate here: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-watlin...
Things that make this photographer happy part one.. Symmetry
UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza www.bmj.com/content/390/... The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
It's amazing to see that this fundraiser managed to raise £40k The link will remain active til Monday, as there are many essential things needed, & donations that come in will still go directly to the families who, by their very existence, are fighting against the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.
Kate Greenberg’s tribute to Awdah Hathaleen at our protest on Monday with Mi-neged. Awdah was murdered by a settler in the occupied West Bank on that same day.
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We have an opening for a one-year Sociology Lectureship in Glasgow focused on teaching the sociology of class. Please share it with anyone interested. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Over 600 people turned up to yesterday’s Foreign Office protest led by Jews and Israelis from mi-neged and Na’amod to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.
Over 600 people turned up to yesterday’s Foreign Office protest led by Jews & Israelis from Mi-neged and Na'amod to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel. The UK government must do everything in its power to stop the destruction, deliberate starvation, and genocide of Gaza and its people.
Another crop of this lucky photo that I was unaware I had taken. I composed this symmetrical scene at St Paul's London Underground station, & then suddenly loads of people rushed to catch the train. It was only when I was editing at home that I noticed I had captured a hat man!
Video of @naamoduk.bsky.social protest today - the big yellow banner says: ‘Starmer, will you oppose ethnic cleansing? UK Jews say: Stand up to Trump!’
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Support @naamoduk.bsky.social and share our letter demanding the UK government impose: a full arms embargo on Israel; an end to military cooperation; and sanctions against individuals and organisations responsible for violations of international law. drive.google.com/file/d/1JzXc...
Both groups are demanding that the UK impose sanctions on Israel and on Israelis, suspend trade, stop all military coordination, and not give diplomatic immunity to Israelis who are suspected of war crimes.
Hundreds of UK Jews and UK-Based Israelis led by @naamoduk and @minegedlondon gather outside the UK Foreign Office to demand IMMEDIATE SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL to compel an end to the genocidal destruction of Gaza.
HAPPENING NOW! 📣📣
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The Israeli government will only stop its campaign of genocide & engineered starvation if our governments, and governments around the world, move from empty condemnations to real pressure. Join us on Monday outside the Foreign Office at 5:30pm to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.
The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025). We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research! More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!
Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.
Read these words from our friend in Gaza. Don’t stay silent. Get out on the street. Join Na'amod, Mi-neged, and Rhythms of Resistance 🥁 on Monday 28 July, from 5.30pm, at the UK Foreign Office.
Condemnations are meaningless without action. The UK must end its complicity in genocide and bring external pressure to bear. Bring pots and pans! Circulate widely!!!
EMERGENCY DEMO - SANCTIONS NOW Jews in the UK demand forceful action to stop Israel’s starvation, displacement and bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. Join us in London this Monday, 28 July from 5.30pm – or as soon as you can make it – at the UK Foreign Office, to make your voice heard.
English/French born miniaturist painter Esther Inglis, Self Portrait, 1595 artist who composed 60 miniature books using her calligraphic skill with paintings, portraits, and embroidered covers #womensart
