/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

The The Guardian's coverage of Mark Smith’s resignation features a photo of the anti-arms action we co-organised with @free_jlm in Jerusalem, London & Manchester on the day of David Lammy's visit to Israel, calling for an end to the UK’s arming of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Museum of broken relationships. Grandchild says it’s very poignant. brokenships.com/hr

Neighbour’s cat appears and makes itself at home

The first #Identities Anniversary Lecture to mark 30 years takes place next month! 'Wrongs Not Righted: How Might We Think about Repair?' with Professor Catherine Hall 📅 25 Sep, 12-1.30pm BST (Online) #IdentitiesEvents UofG Soc & Pol Sci UofG Social Sciences CSLBS eventbrite.co.uk/e/wrongs-not-r…

Amazing resource. Bev has been so influential in British sociology on gender and class in particular.

Our BigQual book on Springer Nature stand #ESAPorto24 (photo by Luiza Valfina) - the book guides you through the value of analysing large volumes of quali material & covers everything you need to know about how to do it - our breadth-and-depth method.

FUNDING CALL: the Sociological Review Foundation is once again inviting applications for funding for online, hybrid or in-person seminars and symposia. Apply by 3 October for events in 2025: buff.ly/46HF5Zq Read about our 2024 winners: buff.ly/46B08eG

I am completely and utterly gobsmacked because NCRM are giving me a Lifetime Achievement Award. And I'm not even dead yet! More info here ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.php?… - this is the kind of thing that happens to other people... it feels very odd. But definitely really good!

Submit your proposal for the next Sociology special issue! Find the details below on the BSA Publications Opportunities page. Deadline 26 September 2024, 17:00 BST. britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/…

When you're just back from a lovely holiday in Porto and a colleague sends you a photo of your book with Emma Davidson Ros Edwards 🕯🌱 Lynn Jamieson on display at the European Sociological Conference ... in Porto #bigqual Palgrave Macmillan

Very proud to be part of the team to have won an NCRM 20th anniversary impact prize for developing new methods with a long term impact 💅🎉 with @DrSusieWeller Emma Davidson Lynn Jamieson. NCRM has supported us throughout - so 🙏🏼 to them too. ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.php?…

allyship intersections complexity - Insightful arguments by Soton colleagues Bindi Shah & Prof Les Carr - open access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Go Silke Roth !

💥 Creativity and qualitative research💥 QUEST seminar, 1-3pm, 17 September 💻 free, online, inspiring talks by 🔹Helen Johnson on her community-engaged model 🔹Daniel Ashton on working w/ creative practitioners 🔹Laura Harris on working w/cultural orgs eventbrite.co.uk/e/quest-semina…

DM me for copy UK welfare policy. Parents/children translated into datapoints to support new logics of choice manipulation. Power ceded to financiers, data analytic & social marketing companies, platform developers and big tech industries. Resulting … 1/2 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…