Kathryn McEwan
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Kathryn McEwan
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Sociologist. Pall & End-of-life care. Assistant Professor at Northumbria. BSA MCF Convenor. #TheArchers (mega) fan. Friend to Crows.
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In a rare work not Archers post- our paper on the value of nurses having time for compassion and kindness to patients and caregivers at home at the end of life is out #PalliativeCare #QualitativeHealthResearch Providing ‘professionalism with compassion’ BMC Palliative Care search.app/3PQ49DBRGJDC...
Providing ‘professionalism with compassion’; how the time for caring communication can improve experiences at the end-of-life at home, findings from a realist evaluation - BMC Palliative Care
Background For many patients and caregivers, attending to dying and death at home will be a new and fearful experience. This research brings new evidence on the central support of the Rapid Response S...
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What does it really mean to be mid-career in sociology today? Join the conversation at the BSA Mid-Career Forum launch on 28 Nov #AcademicSky #Sociology #HigherEd #MidCareer #AcademicLife #BritSoc26 #BSA75Sociology
Join us for the launch of the BSA Mid-Career Forum, a collective conversation on making academic life more sustainable, inclusive & connected.
Fri 28 Nov, 4-5.15pm, Online (free, registration req)
Register: britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/mid-career-forum-manifesto-a-collective-conversation/
Mid-Career Forum Manifesto: A Collective Conversation
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October 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Reposted by Kathryn McEwan
We’re a new BSA Forum supporting sociologists navigating the mid-career stage. Co-convened by @katyjmc.bsky.social and @drfloraposte.bsky.social we’re building a space for solidarity, strategy, and shared stories. For more: www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/speci... and keep watch for an online Launch Event.
Mid-Career Forum
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June 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Just finished omnibus. What a week of love, grief, forgiveness, and community. Joy’s care for Rochelle, Emma gently attending to Kate’s guilt, the echo of Peggy’s voice with Tennyson. And don't get me started on Hilda! I had to check the writers names to silently doff my hat. #TheArchers
May 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Are they going to dig up evidence of Neil's biological father in this? Is that who Reg D is? Or am I way out with dates? #TheArchers
April 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Joy’s epiphany on Seaham beach, place where sea glass washes up, softened by time, was beautifully echoed in her quiet honesty with Rochelle last night in #TheArchers. She named her part in the past without blame. Rochelle wasn’t ready, but Joy stayed kind. The past is weathered. What next? SW ❤️ ⭐💯
April 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
If it's a garden hose btw and his wife left with the gardener - I reckon he banged on about that damn engineered wood floor one time too many. #TheArchers
April 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The SW have me right where they want me. Brian's fury at Martyn feeling consequences while Pat n Helen assure themselves a box of chocolates makes up for the diabolical consequences they have foisted upon Clarrie. Yes, the working class woman is in peril but the rich man has a wet floor! #TheArchers
April 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Helen: "as long as there's no hard feelings".
Me: quickly pauses BBC sounds to take a moment to compose myself.
Yes, Helen, that's what's most important. It's only ever your mental health that really counts of course. Poor lovely Clarrie. #TheArchers
April 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I don't want to wind all the #TheArchers online community up, but that was a beautiful episode and was wholly right and exact (IMO, of course). I love The Grundys and The Carters, they have more integrity than every Archer and Aldridge put together and x2. Good on ya, Robert.
March 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Kirsty is now my favourite and that's that (sorry, Joy). May your doomed house bring a plague on Tom and Natasha so that sniveling sausage boy will finally feel some *consequences* of his actions! [Raises fists to the sky] #TheArchers
March 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Please please let someone soon tell Pat Archer that the call is coming from inside the house. Save my blood pressure. #TheArchers
March 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I wish Neil had finished off his objection to Pat by reminding her that Bridge Farm is responsible for the diary business, not the water company. And that pink wellies don't make up for weeks of cleaning graft, followed by making employees fight for a job in a game of HR musical chairs. #TheArchers
March 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
All possible! Has anyone suggested yet, he's continually denied, and increasingly frustrated, drives it anyway (and there is an accident). He seems too sensible but he's also quite independent. #TheArchers
So Henry gets to drive the tractor and
1. Comes off and injures himself
2. Comes off and gets run over by it and ends up like John
3. Can't control it and runs someone else over
4. Can't control it and demolishes the dairy

Take your pick

#TheArchers
a man wearing a jets jersey says place your bets now people on snl
ALT: a man wearing a jets jersey says place your bets now people on snl
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March 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Am I over-egging it or is Natasha perhaps genuinely terrible? Her mock empathy to Kirsty, Pat, and Tony that seems solely to her own end. Stealing Fallon's business and then attacking her for daring to try again at The Bull. Flipping the script regularly to manipulate. I'm scared of her! #TheArchers
March 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Isn't Natasha going to be absolutely*livid* that Pat and Emma are drawing attention to the sewerage on Radio Borchester when she's trying to draw customers back? #TheArchers
March 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
All and any early career sociologists on #AcademicSky see our free @bsaecr.bsky.social event - at Newcastle, we can offer some bursaries for travel etc so please do get in touch.
January 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
For any BlueSky early career sociologists who have also made the great migration to #AcademicSky - hello! we're your BSA ECF convenors, please get in touch, follow, watch this space for events and help us boost opportunities. #EarlyCareer #Sociology #BSA
Meet the ECF team. We are using this page to regularly update followers on events, grant opportunities, and member accomplishments.
January 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A great one for us @bsaecr.bsky.social to share #Sociology #ECR #AcademicSky
The SPA Awards 2025 are open for nominations!

We encourage nominations for:

- Outstanding Achievement in Social Policy
- Public Understanding of Social Policy
- Policy Press Outstanding Teaching Award
- Richard Titmuss Book Prize

Deadline: 3rd March ⬇️⬇️

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January 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Why are Ruth and David talking about Leonard as if he was one of their children? #TheArchers
January 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In a rare work not Archers post- our paper on the value of nurses having time for compassion and kindness to patients and caregivers at home at the end of life is out #PalliativeCare #QualitativeHealthResearch Providing ‘professionalism with compassion’ BMC Palliative Care search.app/3PQ49DBRGJDC...
Providing ‘professionalism with compassion’; how the time for caring communication can improve experiences at the end-of-life at home, findings from a realist evaluation - BMC Palliative Care
Background For many patients and caregivers, attending to dying and death at home will be a new and fearful experience. This research brings new evidence on the central support of the Rapid Response S...
search.app
January 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Archers friends - how do folk feel about Alice? I didn't think she could wind me up more yet she 'canters on'. She sounds so *terribly terribly* posh right now. And it's like she keeps landing in horse manure and coming out smelling of roses. Am I just too prejudiced by my frustration? #TheArchers
December 29, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Imagine, your spouse's ex lives locally, your fella stood her up at the altar and they lost a wanted pregnancy. She then got a dream home with a new bloke and it ended in disaster for her so she's selling up. So you try to *buy that house for you and her ex and your kids*. #TheArchers
December 13, 2024 at 9:00 PM
What *did* Joy do!? Why has she felt she didn't deserve happiness again in a relationship? The grand reveal is going to collide with this proposal isn't it?! #TheArchers
December 13, 2024 at 8:48 PM
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why Kirsty doesn't sell up and get the hell out of dodge. #TheArchers
December 9, 2024 at 8:32 PM
So Joy is my favourite character. This is an unexpected turn. I'm putty in the SW's hands. #TheArchers
December 6, 2024 at 9:22 PM