Book now for ‘Education on the Lifecycle of Fertility and Reproduction’, a BSA Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference, 12 June, University of Birmingham tinyurl.com/mr2n7ww8 #Sociology

Suki Ali has been appointed as Professor (Education) in Sociology for her outstanding work in pedagogy & intersectionality, feminist postcolonial theory, research methodologies, representation & processes of identification and embodiment. Congratulations!

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Article can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Do let us know if you have trouble accessing it. For the Teams meeting link, e-mail [email protected] or PM on here. We look forward to seeing you! [2/2]

Join us at our next study group Fri 24th 1-2pm. An informal get together, discussing a shared reading. The reading this time will be 'Family and Parenthood in an Ageing ‘Youth’ Culture: A Collective Embrace of Dominant Adulthood?' by Paul Hodkinson (2013) [1/2]

🌟New Call for Papers!🌟
We are looking for article for our upcoming special issue:

Slavery and Freedom in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Lens.

Find the full call for papers below:
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‘Self-Tracking among Young People’ by Panayiota et al. considers the individual and social circumstances that render self-tracking an ongoing, iterative, cumulative and embodied process of discovery, learning and lived and ‘fleshy’ experience.

Read below.
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Join us tomorrow to hear Shamus Khan in conversation with Mike Savage 🎟️

Shamus will centre #families within the studies of the super-rich, arguing that the approach transforms what we see and find when looking at the social world.

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Job Vacancy 2: University Teacher in Criminology (Maternity Cover) ⁦Lboro Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy⁩ ⁦Loughborough University⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DHK784/uni…

Job Vacancy 1: University Teacher in Criminology (fixed-term) ⁦Lboro Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy⁩ ⁦Loughborough University⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DHM316/uni…

For all you new materialists, there is a stream on affect in this symposium.

‘Sensory Affinities among Families during Shared Reading with Children’ analyses communal reading not from an educational frame and instead highlights its prominence for relational dimensions.

Read now below.
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🏛️ A new article by Jeremy Aroles and Kevin Morrell, published in Work, Employment & Society, looks at the phenomenon of marketisation on UK museums and the broader implications for the public sphere.

Find out more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… #ResearchYork

Not long to go for applications! Deadline is Wednesday, 15 May!

So happy to see our paper online in Sociology Journal! We studied the association between parent's industrial sectors and children's fields of study in China.

What do the powerful get up to behind closed doors? Here, Marcus Morgan and I outline a new research agenda for how we might study this. Out now with Sociology Journal Open access. doi.org/10.1177/003803…

The Academy of Social Sciences has five vacancies for election to its Council this year. Applications by 17 May tinyurl.com/ynn68589 #Sociology

The Department for Education invites experts to join its newly formed Science Advisory Council, which will support the Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser. Apppications by 27 May tinyurl.com/383uhdcu #Sociology

Such an enjoyable The BSA event on ‘Teaching Sociology in Higher Education’ today! Many thanks to all our presenters and audience members for such great papers and thought-provoking discussion!

Really enjoyed organising this with Carli Ria Rowell 😊

This The BSA event is off to a great start - so far we’ve been to Westminster with @emmakjackson and her students, into a sociology of human rights classroom with Pete Manning, and just hearing from Vassilis Galanos about generative AI in teaching

🔜 Next week:
LSE Sociology will be joined by Shamus Khan and Mike Savage to discuss how we can centre not individuals, but families, within studies of the super-rich.

Register now ⬇️
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