These two articles offer a good overview of how social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook can be used for conducting diary methods, thereby offering qualitative researchers enhanced insight into everyday experience.

Do share with your students and colleagues!

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Key Considerations When Designing a Social Media-Based Diary Study

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The Advantages of Social Media-Based Diary Methods: Using WhatsApp and Facebook Groups to Collect Diary Data on Everyday Lived Experience

Methodological Innovations

Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I’ve now published two journal articles which explore this method in greater depth.

• The Advantages of Social Media-Based Diary Methods: Using WhatsApp and Facebook Groups to Collect Diary Data on Everyday Lived Experience

• Key Considerations When Designing a Social Media-Based Diary Study

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🚨 New Methods Papers 🚨

📱 Social media-based diary methods 📱

In January 2024 I produced a training resource for @ncrm.ac.uk exploring social media-based methods and offering a guide to develop your own project: www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/on...

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Incredible final day at the BSA Sociology of Religion Conference at Durham University.

Highlights:

🌟 Chairing a session on religion, healthcare, politics and the state
🌟 Important reflections on Religion, Disability and Neurodiversity
🌟 A thought-provoking discussion of the sociology of religion

Thought-provoking reflections on the sociology of religion by Professor Linda Woodhead and Professor Gordon Lynch.

It is quite a time to be studying the sociology of religion, with so much rapid change and diversity in society. But it is also an exciting time to see how discussions develop.

Incredible session led by @renasha.bsky.social and @krysiawally.bsky.social with Dr Naomi Lawson Jacobs reflecting on the SocRel Chair’s Response Day 2025 on Religion, Disability and Neurodiversity.

Such important discussions had around accessibility, inclusivity, equity, and good practice!

A small section of some of our wonderful community @bsasocrel.bsky.social, proud to be running this most important confernce that facilitates these connections!

Incredible second day at the BSA Sociology of Religion Conference at Durham University.

Highlights included:

🌟 A fantastic PGR/ECR session
🌟 An inspiring look back over SocRel’s 50 year history led by Dr Sarah Harvey with Prof Grace Davie and Dr Peter Gee
🌟 A celebratory 50th anniversary dinner

Fantastic PGR/ECR workshop this morning exploring public engagement, framing research and accessibility, and engaging with media by the excellent @jen-studies-death.bsky.social @renasha.bsky.social @robb-s.bsky.social

Lots of fantastic tips and insight which I look forward to putting into practice.

I had a fantastic first day at the BSA Sociology of Religion 50th Anniversary Conference at Durham University.

Highlights:

🌟 Publishing your Thesis by Prof Abby Day
🌟 A keynote by Prof Monique Moultrie on reproductive justice
🌟 Presenting my own research
🌟 The famous SocRel pub quiz!

#SocRel25

The BSA Sociology of Religion Annual Conference has started at Durham University and it promises a fantastic line up of presentations and keynotes over the next three days.
@bsasocrel.bsky.social #socrelconference25

The people behind the social media! Morgana (short hair) here on Bluesky and Ellie (long hair) covering things on our Discord channel #socrelconference25

En route to Liverpool to learn about creative research methods. Looking forward to expanding my methodology repertoire.

Would you like to share your vegan experience in a book anthology on global vegan voices? I’m looking for chapters that explore vegan experiences or reflections on veganism/vegan activism in different cultures. Please apply by 30 April. Full details: www.ellieatayeebennett.com/global-vegan...

The deadline to submit abstracts for this year’s SocRel conference has been extended until 14.02.2025, 12noon (GMT). For more info on the call for papers, abstracts & submission: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Many thanks to those who have already submitted abstracts for consideration.