/Les Back explains how to turn our localities into a curriculum through walking & observing aspects of our neighbourhoods that we might otherwise miss. Discover the social history of New Cross while walking through the streets buff.ly/2NGrzyZ #sociologicalwalks

My first piece for i sport. The Black ArsenaI book is out today and is such an engrossing read. I explored the phenomenon and its wide-reaching organic impact on black British popular culture and beyond with the book’s co-editor Clive Chijioke Nwonka. inews.co.uk/sport/football…

So pleased to be the rogue south and ‘the river’ presence in the collection and tribute to all the black south london football talent that made Arsenal great.

Every word of this is essential… brilliant Jack Lowden 👏👏

📽️ Watch the recording of our #Identities event, 'What Sociologists Learn from #Music' with Les Back, exploring the relationship between musical life and sociological #identities. Les Back UofG Sociology UofG Soc & Pol Sci #IdentitiesEvents youtu.be/RCH6Do5w7aY

Spent an amazing morning at the Alasdair Gray Archive yesterday amongst his books, materials and artworks. Such a beautiful living monument to his creative & joyful spirit.

Great to meet you & your family Les! Pls drop us an email to hatch further plans 👍

Deep thanks to Sorcha Dallas Gray for being such a generous guide through the extraordinary collection of arts and things Alastair Gray gifted us.

As well as being a novelist, artist, mural painter and so much more I think I Alasdair Gray had a kind of sociological attentiveness to history, culture and people. Look at what he was reading. Sorcha Dallas Gray

The completely fabulous mbherbert is the new The Sociological Review Foundation Fellow. Brenda’s work is off the scale brilliant and vital. Huge congratulations, Brenda!

Have you read the latest issue of #Identities? With articles by Les Back, Fatima Rajina and more, plus a symposium on Fighting Identity: An Ethnography of Kickboxing in East London by Am It T&F Social Sciences and Humanities Explore 31(4) ⬇️ tandfonline.com/toc/gide20/31/4

🎙️ New from The Identities Podcast! Episode 3: The Contested Conjuncture From our panel session at 'Authoritarian Populism & Progressive Possibilities' Symposium Kirsteen Paton Les Back Aaron Winter Nasar Meer Nick Beech SHAP open.spotify.com/episode/0zSOeB…

✍️🗓️ Get it in the diary! SCCJR's Annual Lecture 2024 will be taking place on Friday 6th December Edinburgh Napier University #sccjr2024

Sociology and poetry, politics, love and loss: join us on 10 September as scholar, Makar & #Salford lover Jackie Kay gives our inaugural Public Lecture as part of #UndiscipliningII. Interview: thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/…

Jackie Kay Les Back School of Arts, Media & Creative Technology Salford Uni News University of Salford Pan Macmillan Chorlton Bookshop We can't wait! Thank you so much for saying yes to giving our debut Public Lecture - and who better to welcome us to wonderful Salford?

Really looking forward to being part of this event on 14th September celebrating the work of Michael Keith at a Rich Mix an organisation he founded - please come if you can outsavvy.com/event/21733/a-…

Absolutely love giving talks at Open Day - really proud of staff at UofG Soc & Pol Sci. Always, a privilege to speak in The Humanity Lecture Theatre - as Gramsci wrote humanity is not a point of departure but a destination and an achievement.

In two weeks time: Steven Threadgold presenting on new class formations and financialisation of youth, in person. Brought by Alistair Fraser and co-hosted by UofG Sociology seminars. Thanks to Les Back for chairing. See you there.

This is a totally beautiful thing and really proud to have written this tribute to Jah Shaka with my brother Prof William Lez Henry - I hope the final lines are like Shaka’s siren!!