Congratulations to all colleagues who received promotion news this morning at UCL, but in particular to Professor Caroline Oliver from our coordinating group! Richly deserved! ucl.ac.uk/human-resource…

Dear RC22 members and supporters: The deadline for the call for sessions for the ISA Forum in Morocco is next Monday, July 1, 2024! Do not miss this opportunity. We look forward to your proposals. isa-sociology.org/en/conferences…

What's happening on gender issues in the workplace, including the gender wage gap? If you missed our Economic and Social Research Council project conference catch up with the 5 main presentations available free to download here discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1019… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Sociology Network UCL Economics

In our latest blog post, Claire Crawford finds that if bolder action is to be taken to equalise education opportunities, we may need to see an over-delivery of manifesto commitments, whichever leader is in Number 10 🗳️🏫🧑‍🎓👇
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Applications for the Institute for Global Health postgraduate bursary close this week! The bursaries are open to all IGH MSc applicants and will offer £2,000 to contribute to fees.

Submission deadline: 9:00 BST, 28th June 2024.

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📢New paper
Methods for evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of direct-to-consumer mobile health apps: A scoping review bmcdigitalhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

We reviewed published app evaluations. Field is rapidly expanding, but most studies are small, with short follow-up
UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering

📚 Applications for our MSc programmes will be closing this Friday for students who require a visa.

Ensure you submit your application this week to meet the deadline.
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📣 The third RC47 RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements - ISA 'Social Classes and Social Movements' Webinar ⬇️

'Migrant Solidarity, Housing and No Border Struggles in Glasgow (Scotland): The Politics of the 'No Evictions Network”, to be held on July 3, 2024 // 1:00 – 3:00 pm CET (Madrid, Paris, Roma) 🗓

Just a few days left to submit your proposal for a session of the next ISA Forum - to be held in Rabat, Morocco in July 2025

Deadline for proposals: 1 July 2024

The BSA #sociology

We send our best wishes to FES Sociología 🇪🇸 for their XV Spanish Congress of Sociology (Seville, 26-29 June 2024)!

To celebrate this event, we're offering #OpenAccess 🔓 to this article for the entire week. Wishing a fruitful event to FES and happy reading to you! 📖

You'd think unions wouldn't matter any more in the #USA given the decline in membership. You'd be wrong. Find out more in my VoxEU blog with Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman here: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) UCL Sociology Network UCL Economics

I’m writing about the 1665 plague of London. And reminded again of the appalling claim in spring 2020 - that a “protective ring” had been thrown around care homes, even as patients with COVID were being discharged into them. I still don’t understand the lack of accountability for

Less than 2 weeks to go now until our Centre for Ed Policy & Equalising Opportunities Annual Lecture - don't miss your chance to hear Stanford University Professor Sean Reardon share his research on educational inequalities

📅 Thurs 4th July, 6-8pm
🧭 Central Hall, Westminster

👇Sign up now:
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Don't forget to respond by 1st July.

#environment is basis of our society

We must reset our hierarchy of needs - we need safe environment & safe society before we can support and nurture our own needs

Maslow triangle re-envisioned for the twenty first century by Maslin

#ClimateCrisis
#Sustainability
#ukelection

🔊 Call for Papers: SSEES Postgraduate Conference 2024

Theme: Visions of Hope and Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus

🗓️ Deadline for submissions: 03 July 2024

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Following the publication of our report summarising EDI data for the social sciences in UK higher education, the The Political Studies Association has used this as a basis to explore the diversity of university politics & international relations departments. Read more ⬇️
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There is substantial evidence that core levels of benefits are inadequate.

Last year saw record homelessness numbers, while the number of emergency food parcels distributed by food banks surpassed three million for the first time.

resolutionfoundation.org/publications/r…

Happy to share the intro to our forthcoming special issue in Ethnic and Racial Studies on the political representation of minorities during #Covid19 . Saskia Glas and I look at past crises and present 7 exciting articles exploring the topic from different angles tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#ERSNew 🐣

In their introduction to the special issue, Stefanie Walter & Saskia Glas explore the impact of #Covid19 on minoritized groups' political representation.

You can read this intro here: doi.org/10.1080/014198…