Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks for supporting Jamie - see ya tomorrow 😀

Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6h

🫣 How does tanning culture speak to class, gender, race, sexuality and age-bound stigma?

📈 Were the public health campaigns effective?

💉 Finally, when reflecting on the past, what’s the future of tanning (and marketing) technologies?

3

Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6h

Some of the questions it answers are:

🌧️ Why are sunbeds more prevalent in North(-West) Britain?

🚭 Is the sunbed industry similar to the tobacco, nicotine and alcohol industry?

🔥 Can you trust the sunbed industry’s ‘skin’ and ‘health-enhancement’ campaigns?

1 2

Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6h

📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...

5 16 44

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

IHPST | University of Toronto @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social · 5d

🧠 Prof. Marga Vicedo warns: "At the end of the day, saying it's a mother's fault is a very strong and powerful way of keeping mothers as the main caretakers." www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...
Must-read piece from @npr.org
#Autism #Tylenol

'Long history of blaming mothers': Trump's Tylenol warning echoes past misconceptions

Medical scholars say that efforts to find a singular cause for autism have historically led to scrutinizing parents and fueling stigma about autism

www.npr.org

1 5 8

Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6d

To echo our team, we really valued your feedback. Hope to see you at the next few sports history conferences, and will definitely take on board your kind offer of proof-reading, etc. Thanks again.

1

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Martin Polley @historymartin.bsky.social · 6d

1/3 Great day at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social yesterday for the 1st Advisory Board meeting for @kthabitproject.bsky.social . This is a @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project on the history of addictive sport sponsorship in UK 1965-2025, with strands on alcohol, tobacco, and gambling

3 3 5

Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · 6d

Ordered, and can't wait to read! Wonderful meeting you yesterday - thank you for all your helpful suggestions. Please feel free to send the non-online publication about Newcastle to [email protected] (if you can)

1 2

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Robin Ireland @robinireland.bsky.social · Sep 7

Such a pleasure to visit Kett’s Books in Wymondham on Friday. You can now buy Cutting the Mustard there. Great community bookshop to support.

1 2 4

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you to everyone who came to our first project Advisory Board meeting yesterday. We had some really fantastic conversations about our research, and meaningful ways of disseminating it. Really looking forward to everyone's input over the course of the project.

2 4 6

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · Apr 24

They believe that personal letters from other academics explaining how they value the established services of the Written Archive Centre and how they are concerned about the changes would be very helpful.

1 3 6

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · Aug 29

Job klaxon: full time, permanent lectureship in Liberal Arts at the University of Glasgow: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM506/l...

Lecturer in Liberal Arts (R&T) at University of Glasgow

Discover Lecturer in Liberal Arts (R&T) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

www.jobs.ac.uk

22 28

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here:

tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

tinyurl.com

1 230 240

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · Aug 14

My new piece on Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service, and the neoliberalisation of Britain’s postal service. A little 🧵 on how this theme plays out in the show…

#skystorians 🗃️ #polisky #socsky

Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service (2008–2017)

The BBC’s readaptation of the adventures of Britain’s most famous fictional postman mirrored many concurrent neoliberal transformations of its postal service.

academicbubble.substack.com

7 27 68

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · Jul 30

Tonight I finished a complete redraft of my book, An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class.

There's only formatting and a last proof read to go!

9 6 71

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sharing here a call for papers from @kthabitproject.bsky.social in relation to forthcoming conference exploring the longer history of corporate influence on our health and on health related policies. @shwardle.bsky.social @fabiolacreed.bsky.social

Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · Jul 25

CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.

2 2

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · Jul 25

CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.

1 13 12

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social · Feb 11

Growing Up and Going Out is released with @manchesterup.bsky.social TODAY! If you're interested in histories of youth, leisure, drinking, urban space, and oral history then please do consider ordering a copy for your libraries. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152640/

Manchester University Press - Growing up and going out

Growing up and going out - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Growing up and going out by Sarah Kenny

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

4 20 46

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨Calling all #police historians. Come in, police historians🚨

#CfP 'Policing and Public #Health' history workshop, London, 17/09/2025!

Unsure if your work fits? Get in touch. We welcome all career stages, independent researchers, #GLAM and police sector folks. Hybrid is an option.

#HistSTM

Workshop Call for Papers: Policing and Public Health, c.1800-2000 | LSHTM

www.lshtm.ac.uk

16 17

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Kate Errington @kateerrington.bsky.social · Apr 29

Tonight! The first event from the @bconceived.bsky.social Small Grant Scheme 2025. The Impact of Motherhood within Art Institutions at The Courtauld, 18.30-20.30. Booking Essential:
courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/the...

The Impact of Motherhood within Art Schools and Institutions in the UK

This event will explore the impact of motherhood on art schools and institutions in the UK. Motherhood is understood in an expanded sense here, encompassing the experiences and challenges encountered ...

courtauld.ac.uk

1 3

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · Apr 28

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:

‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’

Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!

#PhD #postgraduate

www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...

www.gre.ac.uk

100 110

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨 Important thread! Please share🚨 A vital research resource that many of us have used, the BBC Written Archives, is proposing to seriously restrict access to materials.

4 42 32

Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · Apr 14

Here's our first blog post on our project: 'Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025'.

The project explores tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries' sports sponsorship (football, rugby, tennis, cricket and F1).

Delighted to be working with such a fantastic team!

Stoke-on-Trent, UK. Photographer/Credit: Jason Charters.

3 7

Reposted by Dr Fabiola Creed

Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social · Feb 26

My second journal article is out in Culture, Health & Sexuality. It is the final paper of the MANFOKUS project. Our paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2025.2458719

‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany

This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...

www.tandfonline.com

11 46 270

Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you, Rachel Elder, Thomas Schlich and Sophia Motluk for the opportunity to contribute to and be supported by such a fantastic conference and edited collection: Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

www.manchesterhive.com