🔊 Come and join us for the grand finale of our AI series. Hosted by Jane Birch, this panel discussion will explore AI, its environmental impact and use to achieve good:

🗓️ 26 April
🕝 2.30pm to 5.30pm
📍 The Guildhall York and online
▶️ Book tickets: bit.ly/ai-environment…

*Call for papers!* Sociology of the 1980s. We are interested in hearing from those with an interest in challenging the mythologies and scholarly absences of this hugely significant historical period UoY Sociology Please consider submitting an abstract: britsoc.co.uk/media/26501/so…

I’m lucky to work in a department where there is a fair divide of academic housework but acutely aware that this is unusual. Great article. kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

“In postwar academia, men got a family allowance...feeding the notion that men could depend upon their wives’ domestic labour.”

Miriam E David talks to Ros Edwards 🕯🌱 & Val Gillies in Episode 1 of the #ThanksforTyping #podcast .

🎙️ Listen, follow, subscribe: buff.ly/3voQkaX

On #SingleParentsDay we share some photographs from the archive of Gingerbread, a charity working with single parent families in the UK since 1918. 📁 5GNB Open to all!

REGISTRATION OPEN!

Radical Mothering in Europe: Everyday Forms of Resistance

University of Warwick, April 26th, 2024

Organised by Sarah Werner Boada (Warwick Sociology ) and Patricia Hamilton (@aPhDinAP UoY Sociology )

Register here (closes April 12th): warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociol…

'Sisterhood is Blooming', 1972, women's liberation poster from The Chicago Women's Graphics Collective #WomensArt

There is something terrible hearing Diane Abbott MP being talked ABOUT and not being allowed to talk herself is .. well, horribly predictable and depressing.

Brilliant thread 🧵

TY The Sociological Review Foundation I argue here for a Sociology of the 80s & examine the neoliberal positioning of consumption as solution to social problems. I focus on the MetroCentre but Channel 4’s ‘Miners Strike 84’ offers another example -the site of Shirebrook colliery now Sports Direct HQ.

To mark International Women's Day🌎 we are very excited to launch the LIBERATING HISTORIES podcast ✨

A series which explores the last 50 years of feminism through the campaigns, communities & controversies sparked by some of its most cherished magazines

podfollow.com/liberatinghist…

This is particularly the case for lone parents, most of them women. A single mum in London on a £50k salary will on average
💰take home £3.1k/month
🏠pay £1.6k for rent (2-bed)
🚸£1.7k for childcare
💡£185 for energy
This alone far exceeds take home pay theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Very much looking forward to welcoming Prof Lizzie Seal to UoY Sociology this afternoon and hearing her intriguing talk about crime and Gothic imaginaries.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation's annual UK Poverty report makes for grim reading, showing the depth of poverty in the UK. Lone-parent families, most of whom are women, have the highest poverty rate of any family type. More than 2 in 5 children in lone-parent families were living in poverty in 2021/22.

Brilliant critique of 'responsible gambling' paradigm from Charles Livingstone in new edition of criticalgamblingstudies.com/index.php/cgs/…. Purpose of RG's is 'to veil power in a smokescreen of apparent beneficence and concern, without demonstrating any such attributes'

Might be worth saying that many many of the actors in #MrBatesvsPostOffice started (and continue to work) in theatre. The current brutal arts cuts will have long term effects on our culture and storytelling. It all links up. #SaveOldhamColiseum for example.

⭐ Bravo to Dr Emma Casey and Jo Littler, whose paper was Highly Commended by judges for The Sociological Review Journal Article of the Year.

Read their #OpenAccess paper
buff.ly/3r5OZkK

Read more about the award:
buff.ly/46DVRqQ

Wish people wd stop saying gloomily that it took Tv to get the subpostmasters to the top of the agenda. This is (as Libby Purves has said I think) the real power of arts and drama (expertise that is being starved of funding) Message is: we need to fund the arts.