New blog about teaching and learning about trans identities in UK schools from my PhD research 📖 bera.ac.uk/blog/speaking-… Thanks BERA for the great opportunity, such an amazing PGR/ECR community 😊

Are dating apps like Grindr allies in public health? As more institutions choose to partner with dating apps for health promotion (such as HIV), we examine the opportunities and challenges of these partnerships in our piece for MedHums_BMJ! mh.bmj.com/content/early/…

📢There's still time to register to attend the launch of our book Viral Times: Reflections on the HIV and COVID pandemics, w/ @TheodoreKerr1 and carmen logie 🌈 on Friday 24th at 3pm UK time eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-hiv-to-…

We're recruiting a PhD student. ESRC funded, for a Msc. Sociology & then PhD Sociology. PhD on Mass Observation Project, looking at visual and material aspects of the archive and how this helps us to understand everyday life. More info in thread & link: findaphd.com/phds/project/w…

Up in Dundee with Sophie Atherton (she/her) to talk about research integrity and research culture with UK Committee on Research Integrity!

📢We have an amazing opportunity for a PhD project for *health professionals* looking at multi morbidity in HIV clinics. 🔥Supervised by Martyn Pickersgill @Sarah_C_Burley and myself Applications to the programme Multimorbidity PhD for Health Professionals open today! 👉gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/d…

My first co-authored book!! It’s been such a pleasure to work on this with my amazing colleagues ❤️ 📕 Janina Suppers Dr Frances Howard Benjamin Hanckel Dr Karenza Moore

First show for Dr Sophie Atherton @CODIfringe today! Still time to book The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Good Old Days and Daft Scientists: edin.ac/3Yqj67q #edfringe #unleashyourfringe #codi

We're #hiring! The successful candidate will join the Wellcome 'FemTech Innovation' project, conducting fully-funded fieldwork as a Post Doctoral Fellow. Expertise in a geographical area outside the US or UK required, closes 30 August. Read more: edin.ac/3YuILMh

🔥 Just out! 👋How do you determine what counts as public engagement and research for ethics review? What guidelines can help do public engagement ethically? 👉Check out our paper describing our work around ethics and PPI in BMC: researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Last chance to see Best Days of Your Life with the @CODIfringe at #EdFringe tomorrow! The last show SOLD OUT, book now: edin.ac/4bzznK3 Memories are fascinating - don't just take our word for it, join Dr Sophie Atherton (she/her), 1.40pm at The Stand 5. #UnleashYourFringe

First publication from my PhD at Uni Manchester Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social published in Gender and Education and available here: doi.org/10.1080/095402… The paper is about trans students experiences of privacy (or lack of) in school toilets and changing rooms

😍Delighted to announce that Sharif Mowlabocus Sharif Mowlabocus will be the keynote at our upcoming conference Intimacy, Risk and Resilience in Online dating. 📱Sharif will talk about 25 years of online dating 👉Still time to register (free): eventbrite.co.uk/e/intimacy-ris…

Amazing time at JYS conference, presenting two papers, catching up with colleagues and meeting new ones 🥰 #UUStopTheClock

Our latest paper is now out! Wrote this with Jaime Garcia-Iglesias jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social and Peter Aggleton as part of the Viral Memories research project - see thread below for more info

Great to see this positive review of our book Viral Times: Reflections on the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics in The Lancet Infectious Diseases 😍"Two pandemics, a shared lesson" Checkout the review: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Get the book (free): doi.org/10.4324/978100… Maurice Nagington 🏳️‍🌈💃☮️

Join us Saturday 9th November to see posters created by students at Castlebrae and George Watson's College! 📍 Craigmillar Library 12-2pm. Posters will be exhibited from 8th – 22nd November. Book here: tinyurl.com/3kkn437r Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) Economic and Social Research Council #ESRCFestival

The posters are all set up and ready 🥳 Available to view in Craigmillar Library until 22nd November Join me on Saturday 12-2pm for a chat about the posters and chance to learn more! #ESRCFestival Castlebrae Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS)