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Yasmin G @anilsghost.bsky.social · 12d

This is the very best of qualitative methods textbooks, short 3k word chapters, all case study examples of critical & creative methods. Beautiful images in every chapter

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How To Do Social Research With...

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · 17d

Huge congrats to Dr Phung And supervisors!

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · 17d

New audio paper by Konstantinos Damianakis, Louise Rondel and me. It brings to life a discussion across sound studies and urban sociology about listening, rivers and … mermaids. seismograf.org/node/20849?f...

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great to see the Live Methods special section in issue form!

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Sep 8

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess).

💡 Includes a Special Section on the ideas and impact of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.

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The Sociological Review Journal Vol 73 Issue 5
Kirsteen Paton Emma Jackson Les Back
Nirmal Puwar Andrea Doucet Eva Jewell Jessica Falk
Rebecca Coleman Dawn Lyon Chloe Turner
Thomas Wadsworth Zoe Walshe
Beth Bramich Shamser Sinha
Sophie Woodward Brenda Herbert
Irene van Oorschot Sophie van Balen
Andreas Folkers Susie Scott Nina Lockwood
Theresa O’Keefe Aline Courtois Jérémy Vachet

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/5/

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Sep 8

OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess).

💡 Includes a Special Section on the ideas and impact of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.

buff.ly/bJQXWs6 @journals.sagepub.com

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Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social · Mar 10

Are you a PhD or early-career researcher working on #urban #inequalities and related themes? Join us for the Emerging Urban Inequalities #Conference in Sheffield, UK on 26-27 June 2025. Submit your abstract by 25 April. More info at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

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A conference for post-graduate and early career researchers Sheffield, UK - June 26th and 27th, 2025

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jun 25

“Live Methods made an important intervention into how sociological research methods are practised, understood & written about.”

@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ introduce a journal Special Section on @academicdiary.bsky.social & Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods.

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Jun 21

Les Back on how football can inspire songs of celebration, defiance, protest or calls to action – which sounds like folk music to us.

How football chants became the folk music of today

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 I'm recruiting a funded MA + PhD to research poverty alleviation models w/ a leading Greater Manchester organisation!
More than a rough sleeper: Framing & examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation.
Deadline: July 1 | Start: October
UK/home students only www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

More than a rough sleeper: Framing and examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - More than a rough sleeper: Framing and examining holistic approaches to poverty alleviation at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · May 27

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?

As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

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Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social · May 28

Thank you to all of our contributing authors and to @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar for their powerful and often moving conversation with me and fellow editor @emmakjackson.bsky.social on the making and legacy of Live Methods

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · May 27

A pleasure, Brenda. Thank you for contributing such a brilliant article!

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · May 27

This has been a long time in the making, but I’m delighted to share this special issue of @thesociologicalreview.org edited by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social & I.

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 27

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited

Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 27

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited

Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬

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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · May 20

📢JOB: Research Associate @ethnicityuk.bsky.social

New project w. @nhs-rho.bsky.social: racial inequality in mental health/healthcare. Closing date 22 May- pls share 🙏🏿

@britsoci.bsky.social @inequalccsr.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social
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Research Associate - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE):Manchester

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · Apr 26

If you're watching the London Marathon tomorrow, look out for my @adey70.bsky.social and give him a cheer.

Big Issue @bigissue.com · Apr 15

Our very own senior arts correspondent, Adrian Lobb, is swapping interviews for running shoes on Sunday, 27 April, taking on the biggest London Marathon to date, to raise money for the Big Issue.

We're cheering him on, and you can too! Sponsor @adey70.bsky.social below. ⬇️
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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · Apr 19

What a beautiful baby. It’s so desperately unfair. Sending love to you and your family. X

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · Apr 19

Next week in Manchester. The Sociological Review inaugural quiz. I’m at the helm. Come on down!

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Apr 18

23 April: Join us in Manchester!

Quizmaster @emmakjackson.bsky.social says: “We want this to be a fun event that brings people together. Most questions are multiple choice – and some rounds are downright silly. Bring your friends or come on your own and make some new ones!” –

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Apr 18

23 April: Join us in Manchester!

Quizmaster @emmakjackson.bsky.social says: “We want this to be a fun event that brings people together. Most questions are multiple choice – and some rounds are downright silly. Bring your friends or come on your own and make some new ones!” –

🎟️ buff.ly/6AlTR7e

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Apr 15

Our very own senior arts correspondent, Adrian Lobb, is swapping interviews for running shoes on Sunday, 27 April, taking on the biggest London Marathon to date, to raise money for the Big Issue.

We're cheering him on, and you can too! Sponsor @adey70.bsky.social below. ⬇️
buff.ly/ygygZ6d

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Paul Frightlaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · Apr 7

Clem Burke was one helluva drummer and the coolest of cats. RIP.

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Blondie - Dreaming

YouTube video by BlondieVEVO

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · Apr 4

We are heading upstream for this year’s London Rivers Week. Tell your friends in Petts Wood! www.thames21.org.uk/event/london...

London Rivers Week 2025: Tales from the Kyd Brook - A story-sharing workshop in Petts Wood - Thames21

Get involved in Thames21's clean up work and training across London

www.thames21.org.uk

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · Mar 6

A niche but nonetheless very cool (and permanent!) soil sociology job going at Durham: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Assistant Professor in Sociology (Environmental Health)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social · Mar 5

Women’s unpaid labour is currently being glamorised and repositioned as empowering ‘self-care’. My book is a call to resist the retreat back to highly conservative and debilitating representations of housework. RESIST! #housework #unpaidlabour #mentalload #invisiblelabour @manchesterup.bsky.social

Manchester University Press - The return of the housewife

The return of the housewife - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The return of the housewife by Emma Casey

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Mar 4

OUT NOW: in the new issue of The Sociological Review journal, we reassess Bev Skeggs' acclaimed Formations of Class and Gender.

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@jolittler.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @simov.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @tellynelly.bsky.social #OpenAccess

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Claire Mercer @clairemercer.bsky.social · Feb 27

Come and join us at LSE!

Job ad for Asst Prof in Urban Environmental Geography

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Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography

Assistant Professor in Urban Environmental Geography, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage app...

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British Sociological Association (BSA) - Early Career Forum @bsaecf.bsky.social · Feb 21

upcoming bsa ecr event! Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’? 21 March 2025 (10am–3.30pm)
Newcastle University (Department of Sociology, Henry Daysh Building)

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?

www.britsoc.co.uk

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Tina Harris @tinahonjo.bsky.social · Feb 19

Two PhD positions at Leiden University: “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change" (Tokyo and Louisiana) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

2 PhD Candidates for the project

Leiden University's Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) is looking for2 PhD Candidates for the project “Climate Citizenship (4 years, full time) We welcome applications...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Feb 17

CLOSING TODAY: the Sociological Review Foundation is hiring an Editorial Officer to manage the journal’s review process and support the Editor-in-Chief and team of editors.

Applicants must be based in, and eligible to work in, the UK. Today, 17 February, is the final day to apply.

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Emma Jackson @emmakjackson.bsky.social · Feb 14

We recorded this, went back to the hotel, then watched Labour win the 1997 election. It was a good day to be 18.

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