If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Almost the end of the growing season in the Moscow region. The garden is preparing to fall asleep🌹🌿🍂🍁

In our October blog, Amber Ward reviews Netflix’s Toxic Town, a depiction of women’s response to the continued exploitation of residents in a deindustrialized English town.

Entrevista a la @wbottero.bsky.social sobre estudiar l'estratificació social a partir de la interacció social, per als alumnes de l'assignatura Estratificació social del Grau de Sociologia. @uocuniversitat.bsky.social
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💥Join us this Thursday 3-4.30pm BST for our online reading group!💥

We'll be discussing storytelling & classism by reading some of
Lisa McKenzie's Getting By, which tells the story of people living on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham.

Sign up below👇

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A few of you have followed me off the back of @sslh.bsky.social 's great Labour History starter pack. If you'd like to be added to my small but growing pack of writers & academics writing/researching class or related topics then please just let me know and I'll add you.

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🌹🌿 New weekend blog on growing roses in a countryside garden as a way of observing climate shifts. Through writing about roses, I reflect on the interrelations between gardening, inequality, poetic imagination, local seasonal weather and global climate change 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/10/04/t...

Sociological Research Online is now accepting nominations for the role of the Chair of the Editorial Board!

We welcome applications from senior scholars (Reader or above, or equivalent) or those with relevant experience. Deadline: 13 October. More details:
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✨New article alert✨In her latest piece, Alexandrina Vanke introduces an avant-garde methodology that develops multi-sited ethnography of everyday life. Curious about using drawing and sketching in research, writing ethnography and creative dissemination?
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Thank you, Steven!

✨ My latest article on multi-sited ethnography and creative research methods is now out. It introduces an avant-garde methodology that pushes forward ethnography of everyday life. Check it out here 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1177/1360...

I made a lot of tomato chutney for the last three weeks. Good luck with yours!

Excited to share the first three case study 'long reads' from the After Last Orders project - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk. Each case study draws on extensive research to tell the story of a pub and the people and places affected by its closure. after-last-orders.lboro.ac.uk

Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.

In the new blog post, I share my experience of making video abstracts for journal articles. Does a video abstract really increase research visibility and boost public engagement? Find out here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/09/13/h...

SRO is still accepting proposals for their next special issue!

The proposed special issue can be on any theme and should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates.

Submit by 24 September 2025. Details below.
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A great opportunity for ECRs to write about their research for wider audiences👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

New book out: "Rethinking Spatial Inequality" by Linda M. Lobao, and Geography, The Ohio State University. "It offers a new perspective on the spatial dimensions of societal well-being; addressing the key question of who gets what, and where." www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/ret... #urban #sociology

📝 Part 2 of our October blog is out! Read about the artistic use of "green" spaces and the friction between artist and the spaces built for them and used by them

Marvellous piece by Georg Simmel, which I hadn’t come across before. And, of course, there is something to debate. As both a researcher of inequality and a rose grower, I’ve found this piece fascinating, as it bridges the theoretical critique of inequality and the beauty of everyday life.

Part 2 of the blog is now live. I continue the conversation on class within today’s global socio-political agenda in a dialogue with the reviewers of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. Join the conversation in comments, on blogs or in journals alexandrinavanke.com/2025/08/07/p...

This month's DEPOT deindustrialization blog is on "Proletarian (green) Publics in Transformation: Perspectives from the Ruhr" by Ute Eickelkamp and Stefan Berger.

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🏭🧵 DePOT affiliate @lisajt67.bsky.social's book Threads Of Labour is out now! She explores worker responses to the closure of Firths Carpet, engaging with worker testimony and her own personal connection to the community. @manchesterup.bsky.social has a discount code "EVENT30" to get 30% off!