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Associate Professor in #Psychology at De Montfort University. I analyse talk about #hate, #prejudice, #refugees, income #inequality and more #discourseanalysis

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Jan 21

My latest #socialpsychology paper, available open access

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Managing Jewish Identity in Arguments Over Jewish Support for Palestine

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 23d

This is happening this afternoon (Tuesday 16th!) and should be a great talk. Join if you can!
(And UK people, note this is at 4pm)

Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology @euroqualpsy.bsky.social · 23d

Hello, we invite you to join the E-Agora tomorrow.

The ‘Manosphere’ with Cecilia Rollano, (National University of Distance Education, Spain).

Tuesday the 16th of September 2025. At 17.00-18.30 Central European Time (16.00 West European Time/UK; 18.00 East European Time).

Link: shorturl.at/tSGdb

Join conversation

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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · Jun 30

New article with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social, @adamjowett.bsky.social and Jackie Abell on how the international super rich are constructed as migrants in entertainment documentaries

Open access too!

@ree-uwe.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring how entertainment documentaries construct London to account for the residence of the international super-rich in the “hostile environment” for migrants

Unlike poorer migrant groups, governments offer visa inducements to attract wealthy individuals into a country. However, super-rich migrants’ impact on the UK has been shown to be negative. This re...

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Jul 3

How were they?
You've achieved a good chip shape there!

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Jun 3

The Psychologists for Social Change in the @psychmag.bsky.social
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Struggling with the silence | BPS

The Leicester Chapter of the Psychologists for Social Change meet unfolding horrors with 'anger brewing'…

www.bps.org.uk

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · May 27

When irresponsible politicians try to divide our communities, what do we do? We speak up, we stand together, we stay strong.

We are, and always will be, an island of solidarity, not of strangers.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Headline from the Mirror newspaper reads "refugee and migrant groups join with hundreds to warn again 'politics of division'

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Apr 11

Leicester Psychologists for Social Change statement in solidarity with student activists arrested for peacefully protesting against atrocities in Palestine

www.psychchange.org/leicester.html

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DMU Psychology @dmu-psychology.bsky.social · Mar 21

🥳 New blog post from our own, Dr Simon Goodman (@drsimongoodman.bsky.social)

⌨️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...

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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · Mar 21

We've got a blog on media representations of wealth inequality and economic growth 📈

Thanks to @acadsocsciences.bsky.social for including us in their good growth hub!

@ree-uwe.bsky.social @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social

Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · Mar 20

⭐New blog post⭐ In this blog ✍️ for our good growth hub, Dr Philippa Carr, drsimongoodman.bsky.social, @dradamjowett.bsky.social & Dr Jackie Abell explore how the media portrays inequality & wealth and the impact this has on economic growth.
Read here ➡️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Mar 14

New edition of The Other Side of Hope, out now here:
othersideofhope.com/vol-41-onlin...
@othersidelitmag.bsky.social

vol 4.1 online

editorial team & publication information contributors' notes acknowledgements foreword by John Vincent

othersideofhope.com

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Mar 11

This looks great!
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ARCP 19: For Palestine, online resources (2025)

Curated by Ian Parker This issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology comprises academic articles that address the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people carried out by the settler-colo…

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Pascual Pérez-Paredes @perez-paredes.bsky.social · Feb 26

So pumped that this @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social volume THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MIGRANT IDENTITIES is finally in my hands !! Thanks to the editors @proftaylor.bsky.social, @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dumore and reviewers. Thanks to my fab coauthor @elenainlimbo.bsky.social #discourse

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Feb 25

Here's the documentary about Palestinian suffering that the BBC took down 🍉
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Khalissee on X: "THE FULL GAZA DOCUMENTARY THEY TRIED TO BAN https://t.co/ifrpRwIknW" / X

THE FULL GAZA DOCUMENTARY THEY TRIED TO BAN https://t.co/ifrpRwIknW

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is a great compass paper (open access) on working with refugees
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out

Concepts like vicarious trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury do important work in making suffering legible and enabling claims to recognition, acknowledgement, and care. Nonetheless,...

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · Feb 12

📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore

Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Feb 6

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Remove Coventry University vice-chancellor from government role

Coventry University is facing an unprecedented jobs and debt crisis under the leadership of vice-chancellor John Latham. The institution is threatening to sack 300 staff and rehire some of them in its...

speakout.web.ucu.org.uk

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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · Feb 3

www.tickettailor.com/events/uniof...

Get Tickets – Activism for Palestine & The role of Psychology - A Psychology Cultures Seminar – MsTeams

This is a free event, open to all, and will be held via MsTeams. This event will not be recorded. The MsTeams link will be prov...

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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · Jan 30

It's QMiP's 20th anniversary this year and we'll be celebrating at the conference! There'll also be fab keynotes: @ginnybraun.bsky.social @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social and Paul Flowers

Submit your abstracts and join us! Deadline 28th March

www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit...

#qualitative #research

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Politics & IR @ De Montfort University @dmupoliticsir.bsky.social · Jan 28

Actors for Human Rights (AFHR) returns to DMU on 25 February at Trinity House with events co-organised by Politics & IR, Law School, SDG Impact Hub, and DMU Pride. Highlights include Tales from the Hostile Environment (14:00-15:45), a play with Q&A on immigration policies

@dmuleicester.bsky.social