🚨Deadline alert🚨 Abstract submissions for the 1st ICF conference are closing soon. Make sure you submit your abstracts by 31 Oct! #FamilyStudies #FamilySociology

“Instead of removing the banned chemicals PFOS and PFOA our treatment plants are actually creating them." Our research has shown processes intended to decontaminate landfill waste has been found to increase some of the worst toxic chemicals. Read more 👇 bit.ly/48xM48a

Our @HannahLSmithson is a guest editor for this special edition, with Dr Sean Creaney and Ruth Parkes. Join our colleagues British Journal of Community Justice for this online event sign up here 👇🏻👇🏻 surl.li/fqqpel Youth Justice Board Manchester Metropolitan Uni Sociology and Criminology at Man Met AYJ NAYJ Tweets

How should sociologists write about other people’s lives? Find out at our free members-only online 'Writing people's lives' event on November 25, when professors Ann Oakley, Graham Crow, Ann Phoenix and Prof Gayle Letherby give the benefit of their experience tinyurl.com/yuh5z4ry

Wanna hear more about the role of fantasies and HIV? Join the CCRI Research seminar on Thursday! I'll be talking all about fantasy, health and #HIV! 🫴health.ed.ac.uk/research/curre…

Book now for ‘Caring is Sharing? Couples navigating parental leave at the transition to parenthood’, a free online BSA FAR Study Group Group webinar, 10 January tinyurl.com/339k8y24 #sociology

Bear joined Alicia Denby and Dr Jenny van Hooff on their Intimate Relationships module for the week on pets as family members

New Paper! CISG Leads Christian Klesse and Dr Jenny van Hooff challenge conventional notions of transparency and deceit, to explore the crucial role of secrecy in both creating and disrupting intimacy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Call for abstracts, by 30 January 2025, for the BSA’s Presidential Event, ‘The Future of the Sociology of Education’ in London on 6 June, held in collaboration with bsaeducation #Sociology

A new report from Decent Work and Productivity at Manchester Met Uni is calling for increased investment in adult social care to help attract and retain care workers, while creating a system that reduces pressure on the NHS. Find out more 🔗 bit.ly/3Bfe2JZ

Diary filling up for 2025?? Add this BSA book talk before it's too late! britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa… UCL Press UCL Sociology Network LP&R - @leavenetwork.bsky.social #parentalleave #SPL

Great to see our MCYS colleague @HannahLSmithson excellent research featured in The BSA Network Magazine!

Register to attend our NCRM event that explores the ethics and possibilities of creative writing and social research at ‘whose words are they anyway?’ Please register here: forms.office.com/e/bUxN0686p2

Really happy to share a new article. With the ConnecteDNA team, we explore how parents through DC navigate DNA testing and what this tells us about kinship and childhood. Nicky Hudson Lucy Frith Petra Nordqvist CSEP Manchester Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social SocStudiesShef Sociology and Criminology at Man Met

What happens after early career? Find out by booking on ‘Coping, Thriving, Progressing?’, a Early Career Forum event, 21 March, Newcastle University tinyurl.com/ykj8tjdh #Sociology

Call for convenors for a relaunched BSA Historical and Comparative Sociology Study Group. The group will provide a forum for sociologists and other social scientists using history and historical methods in their research and teaching tinyurl.com/4ryp4dvu #Sociology

Register now for our Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social conversations and ConnecteDNA workshop. Third party assisted reproduction: Making connections across borders. Monday 28 April. UoM School of Social Sciences

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New paper! Published in the Youth Justice Journal I explore the views of Resettlement Officers in YOIs +the range of barriers they face implementing Constructive Resettlement. ROs described feeling isolated and invisible Institute for Children's Futures MCYS Youth Justice Board 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

Huge congratulations to CISG member Alicia Denby who succsessfully defended her PhD yesterday! Dr Denby was supervised by Dr Jenny van Hooff and examined by Vanessa May and Eleanor Wilkinson