Paul Gilroy and Gary Younge Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology at Manchester University, reflect on Mark Twain’s reputed words ‘history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes’, and consider the potential in engaging sympathy and humour critically soundcloud.com/ucl-arts-socia…

We don't object to "science & evidence" - we object to Koch-funded, Spiked-promoted gaslighting. Ida B. Wells & W.E.B. DuBois were developing "science & evidence" techniques in the service of justice well before your racist heroes knew what a data visualisation was.

⚠️ New Runnymede report, Race & Racism in English Secondary Schools by @RemiJS90 analyses ❌ police in schools ❌ curricula ❌ lack of representative workforce ❌ school policies Teachers raise concerns on police permanently stationed in schools runnymedetrust.org/projects-and-p…

Please sign this petition to rename Beckford Primary School, currently named after William Beckford who was a slave owner, after my late grandmother Beryl Gilroy, who was headteacher there and one of the UK's first black headteachers. change.org/p/william-beck…

My son Hermes (9) had a good cry this evening, he's scared about losing his ability to walk as the disease progresses but said he'd feel better if he could chat to other boys in his shoes. If your #Duchenne boy is losing ambulation too & looking for a friend, pls DM me ❤#dmd

.Uni of East London Gargi Bhattacharyya and Corinne Squire are important writers, dedicated teachers and energetic union organisers at UEL. It's appalling that the management has targeted them--and others--for redundancy because of their UCU activities Please spread this news far & wide.

Thank you to Metro for showcasing my piece on life with a diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It was hard to write, but within the sadness there is still hope. What it feels like... to receive a fatal diagnosis for your son metro.co.uk/2021/01/03/wha…

Delighted to collaborate with CWA @angievegfem & Cambridge Central Mosque Shahida Rahman for a virtual event to introduce women visitors of the mosque to the services of #CambridgeWomensAid on 17/06 between 5-6pm. Registration details below: eventbrite.com/e/staying-safe… Dr Sabina Akram

Registration now open for this event! Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment! Full schedule and timetable to follow. Details of speakers to follow in next tweet (1/2) #tcfof20 eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-changing…

The event will feature contributions from Les Back John Solomos Tim Crabbe Aarti Ratna Dr Chris Webster Nathan Reid Dr Paul Ian Campbell Colin King Dr Natalie Darko Anika Leslie-Walker John Doyle Ben Carrington James Rosbrook-Thompson Emma Poulton Dan Burdsey and Viji Kuppan (2/2)

Thanks to everyone who came to anniversary event of The Changing Face of football… an incredible day and the reflections on the book were so insightful and humbling - I loved the description of the book as ‘companionable’. It really felt like an assembly of companions. Thank you

Was fantastic to attend this event in Nottingham yesterday. A real honour to be invited to speak and hear from the authors themselves plus so many other scholars whose work I admire. Big thanks to the organisers, Dan Burdsey and Viji Kuppan. UoB Sport & Leisure Cultures (SLC) research group #tcfof20

A new article by Dr Emma Casey and I has just been published open access in @TheSocReview: 'Scouring away the crisis? Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework' You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Maybe we need Media Studies after all.

I wonder how long before everyone participating in this mass psychosis will pretend they were always against it

I’m very excited that Nisha is coming to join us City Uni Sociology & Criminology for the first of our Carceral Studies events on March 21st. Nisha will present her (fantastic) work on joint enterprise and the racialised ‘gang’ - more details and registration here: city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

New BJC paper (with wonderful colleagues) on interaction between actuarial + epidemiological approaches in a multi-agency gangs team. Includes reflections on racial disproportionality + our attempt at a typology of public health/urban violence initiatives doi.org/10.1093/bjc/az…

📢 Our new book 'Preventing Violence: The Past, Present and Future of the Public Health Approach' is now published and FULLY OPEN ACCESS! 📢 Authored by me, Luke Billingham, Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon, Susan McVie and Tim Newburn, the book covers: ➡️ The history of the Public

Congratulations to the 2025 BSC Outstanding Achievement Award recipient Prof Eugene Mclaughlin, a very popular choice indeed British Society of Criminology Conference 2025