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Tom Western @tomwestern.bsky.social · 2d

This year's Claire Dwyer lecture @uclgeography.bsky.social is with Dr Shabna Begum (@runnymedetrust.bsky.social) – reflecting on the 60th anniversary of the Race Relations Act of 1965

Tuesday 25 Nov, tickets below

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2025-c...

The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture: Dr Shabna Begum

Eventbrite - UCL Department of Geography presents The 2025 Claire Dwyer Lecture: Dr Shabna Begum - Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at Common Ground, London, England. Find event and ticket information.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 9d

Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social:

📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx
📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7
📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL
📌Chevening: www.chevening.org

Applications open from October 13!

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 15d

Dear hive: Does anyone have an idea on how to recruit *production workers in the Netherlands* for a qualitative study? Asking for a PhD colleague. Slim chance, but all hints would be welcome. Feel free to share as well! Thanks!

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 20d

We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share!
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

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Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social · 21d

So much talk about Reform voters, but I'm yet to read much about their lives beyond tropes and excuses ('legitimate concerns').

I've been back in the midlands to interview people and learn more. Here's my piece on them and Reform's attempts to present itself as a community-minded, pro-worker party:

Reform’s aesthetics of industry

Renewal 33.2_HilhorstRenewal 33.2_Hilhorst.pdf110 KBdownload-circle In North Nottinghamshire, Reform UK present themselves as the party of workers, community and coalmining heritage. But this image...

renewal.org.uk

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 22d

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: cultural theorists Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh explore the place the pub in Nigel Farage's English nationalist imaginary

renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

The man doesn’t actually like beer

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

renewal.org.uk

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · 22d

Short essay for @renewaljournal.bsky.social me and Vallu wrote on Farage, politics and pubs... a bit of a preview to the book we're working on about pubs, race and the nation to be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social in September 2026

renewal.org.uk/articles/the...

The man doesn’t actually like beer

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

renewal.org.uk

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 22d

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2

Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

Volume 33, Issue 2

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

renewal.org.uk

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Don McRae @donmcrae.bsky.social · 24d

Only the memories of Mike Tyson at his most destructive in sparring can rival the vivid images I carry of the young Ricky Hatton training in an old hat factory. He was utterly lost in boxing. It all felt so pure. Ricky was unforgettable then – and remains so now

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Unforgettable Ricky Hatton turned boxing into a spectacle for his vast army of fans

The ‘Hitman’ was extraordinary in his fleeting prime with his career bringing adoration and the demons of fame

www.theguardian.com

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 28d

we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor

he was deputy prime minister at the time

always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time

www.ft.com/content/0723...

Links between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein detailed in JPMorgan report

Emails indicate then UK business secretary stayed at New York house while disgraced financier was in prison

www.ft.com

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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 28d

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology, bringing together over 200 academics to advance their research.

Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 28d

will be doing some more general columns for the guardian going forward. this one is on remigration and the evolution of a far-right pipe dream into mainstream discourse. I promise they won’t all be this depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew

The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 29d

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization.

We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition.

Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 29d

Brilliant & important analysis from @kojokoram.bsky.social: why the populist right’s attack on history is integral to its attack on democracy & human rights:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From Washington to Westminster, the populist right needs to erase history to succeed. It’s up to us to resist | Kojo Koram

Removing ‘divisive’ Smithsonian exhibits, Farage’s ‘patriotic’ curriculum: this is where the unpicking of the 20th century liberal order begins, says academic Kojo Koram

www.theguardian.com

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Rebecca Elliott @rfelliott.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’m so excited to share that we’re getting ready for the next @bjsociology.bsky.social conference!

Now accepting abstracts. Please submit, and encourage friends and colleagues to do the same!

(And if previous attendees are wondering, yes, we plan to repeat the success of the boat party, IYKYK)

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · Sep 4

This, and many other clubs who have been too speculative have not done well as a result. Everton fans probably lauded Moshiri spending loads, bringing in James Rodriguez and Ancelotti, but that almost got them relegated!

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · Sep 3

Also excited to launch & lead the new MSc/MA Sociology and welcome our first cohort of students into this one-of-its-kind programme, powered by the powerhouse of interdisciplinary social sciences that is @sriucl.bsky.social 🚨 Applications for 2026 entry opening soon 🔜 www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Sociology MSc

The Sociology MSc provides you with the critical skills needed to analyse the defining issues of our time. Through a curriculum that emphasises a plurality of perspectives and rigorous methodological ...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · Sep 3

Thrilled to have started a new chapter in my career at @sriucl.bsky.social & Quantitative Social Science (QSS) centre @ucl.ac.uk this week.

Absolutely love my supportive colleagues & the inspiring environment ❤️

We're hiring 2 new lecturers in QSS – come and join us ➡ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Aug 26

Multi-ethnic working class area where I live: no flags.
V.white middle class area where I grew up: flags everywhere

The latter unlike the former has not been "forgotten by Westminster" or "left behind by globalisation". These people are mostly just racists.

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists – HOPE not hate

Union Jacks and the crosses of St George have begun to appear on lampposts up and down the UK in recent days. Much of the...

hopenothate.org.uk

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Aug 25

CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.

Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.

🔎 buff.ly/Q5KZlcJ

"A vintage green typewriter with a blank yellow sheet of paper inserted, set against a solid red background."

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Aug 20

My long read on Keir Starmer and human rights - for which a I spoke to dozens of current and former colleagues, campaigners and legal experts - is now a podcast. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? – podcast

Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixedBy Daniel Trilling. Read by Simon...

www.theguardian.com

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Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thinking about the possibility of setting up a sociologically informed podcast? Here's a chance to get some guidance about how best to go about doing that, thanks to @thesociologicalreview.org

Introduction to Podcasting

The Sociological Review Foundation’s Introduction to Podcasting workshop be will held on 17 November 2025 and will offer academics practical training in creating, producing, and launching impactful po...

thesociologicalreview.org

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · Aug 15

@samfriedman.bsky.social @emmakjackson.bsky.social ☕

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Any London-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent interactive lectures/seminars to sixth-formers in South London on Wednesday afternoons (3-4 pm) as part of a "Race, Class & Society" enrichment curriculum from September-December?

Can pay in coffee/snacks?

@sriucl.bsky.social

Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · Dec 3

Any (Greater) Manchester-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent enrichment to v nice sixth-formers in Rochdale on Wed afternoons Jan - April?

Broadly on race, class, inequality w/ focus on issues relevant to young people... can pay in coffee + travel

@uomsociology.bsky.social

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Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Any London-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent interactive lectures/seminars to sixth-formers in South London on Wednesday afternoons (3-4 pm) as part of a "Race, Class & Society" enrichment curriculum from September-December?

Can pay in coffee/snacks?

@sriucl.bsky.social

Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social · Dec 3

Any (Greater) Manchester-based academics keen to deliver one-off sociology-adjacent enrichment to v nice sixth-formers in Rochdale on Wed afternoons Jan - April?

Broadly on race, class, inequality w/ focus on issues relevant to young people... can pay in coffee + travel

@uomsociology.bsky.social

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