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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 1d

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025

Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social · 9d

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate - Uncovering Hidden Inequality:Oxford Road

We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project, ‘uncovering hidden inequality: developing new ways of doing death administration’ directed by Professor Kate Reed in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 15d

📺Watch our new video series introducing key concepts in the sociology of families & personal life. Please share if you know anybody teaching or studying these topics!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives - YouTube

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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 14d

How can speculative fiction become a research method? This new article explores four approaches: close reading existing sci-fi, analysing how stories influence real policies, inviting participants to write their own futures, and researchers creating speculative narratives.
doi.org/10.1332/3050...

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Su-ming Khoo @sumingkhoo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yay for #JCRM journal launch and cupcakes, with @edwina-thorn.bsky.social Sophie Woodward Harriet Shortt and @drhelenkara.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social

Journal of Creative Research Methods flyers on the publisher's stand with a JCRM cupcake

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Sep 4

Unbelievably thrilled to see the launch issue of this amazing journal which I am a co-editor of - Journal of Creative Research Methods. Open access until 31/12/25. Please share and consider contributing to future issues!

Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · Sep 4

The future of research is creative, collaborative, and boundary-breaking! From speculative fiction to visual data storytelling, this groundbreaking collection showcases how creative approaches are transforming research across disciplines!

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Lisa Morriss @lisamorriss.bsky.social · Sep 1

This has been a long time in the making (understatement!). Massive thanks to @academicdiary.bsky.social @saranahmed.bsky.social, Alice Bloch, Tia DeNora, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and @amychandler.bsky.social for guiding our thinking. Thank you also to @rosedwards.bsky.social for the support.

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Aug 25

How do mothers who have experienced child removal use tattooing to cope with their pain?

@lisamorriss.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and Siobhan Beckwith @huddersfielduni.bsky.social on Sara Ahmed, maternal connections and grief.

#OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/QrP2lD2

Lisa Morriss and Siobhan Beckwith
Marking motherhood: Tattooing and willfulness as a response to and a way to survive child removal
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251359845
The Sociological Review journal #OnlineFirst

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading this.

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National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Sep 1

Over the past five years, NCRM has trained thousands of researchers across many sectors, with 20 per cent of course participants working outside the social sciences.

To find out how NCRM is building the UK's #research capability, read our impact report: buff.ly/RisFFv4

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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · Aug 28

📣 Coming soon: The Journal of Creative Research Methods📣
We’re a home for researchers who are thinking, questioning, or approaching research in a creative way 💡
Learn more bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
#RGS2025 #RGS25

Journal of Creative Research Methods.
We accept submissions of:
Creative, qualitative, quantitative, or multi-modal research;
Creative arts-based research;
Creative digital research;
Creative research using transformative research frameworks;
Creative adaptations of existing methods.

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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · Aug 18

Upcoming FREE @ncrm.ac.uk 2 day in-person innovation forum: Improvising Methods: Experiencing Collaborative, Inventive, Apposite &Original Methods! on 15-16 October at Uni Manchester. Explores what happens when skilled researchers & practitioners are methodologically responsive to their field sites

NCRM Engagement | Innovation Fora | Improvising Methods

NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation

www.ncrm.ac.uk

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jul 7

“Attentiveness is a way to retrain the ‘sociological gaze’ away from the unusual to the unnoticed elements of everyday lives and objects.”

@sophierwoodward.bsky.social‬ reflects in a new Special Section on the legacy of Live Methods by ‪@academicdiary.bsky.social‬ & Nirmal Puwar.

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Jun 27

Deadline to register your participation in the Research Methods Rendezvous is weds 2nd of July.

National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Jun 5

NCRM has opened applications to participate in the Research Methods Rendezvous!

This free event will explore the process of turning early-stage ideas into #research projects.

#RMR2025 takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025.

Apply: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/RMR...

A promotional graphic for the Research Methods Rendezvous, which takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025.

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Jun 12

Looking forward to this!

MGS Conference 2025 @mgsconference25.bsky.social · Jun 11

We're pleased to have @sophierwoodward.bsky.social present her keynote: Cultivating attentiveness: re-enchanting ordinary and unnoticed material culture.

Look at our programme to find out more! bit.ly/mgsconf25-pr...

Keynote Speaker Professor Sophie Woodward

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Jun 11

Curious about how ideas become doable research projects? Register to participate now!

National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Jun 5

NCRM has opened applications to participate in the Research Methods Rendezvous!

This free event will explore the process of turning early-stage ideas into #research projects.

#RMR2025 takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025.

Apply: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/RMR...

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · May 30

Delighted to have an article included in the special issue on ‘attentiveness’ and why this matters in developing a vital sociology

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 27

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited

Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Apr 1

Well this is exciting. Delighted to be made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social · Apr 1

Well done to @sophierwoodward.bsky.social!

A distinguished sociologist, Sophie has authored of several books including Why Women Wear What They Wear (2007) as well as co-directs the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives.

Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/f...

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Five Manchester experts become Academy of Social Sciences Fellows

An unprecedented five academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their fields by being named as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. New Fellows are n...

www.manchester.ac.uk

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Mar 21

Permanent teaching and research lectureship in sociology at the university of Manchester. Linked to the Morgan centre. For researchers in areas of everyday lives, personal life and relationships. Please share! Deadline April 7th

Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · Mar 20

JOB: Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre.bsky.social

Looking for a new colleague with research expertise in personal life, relationships & everyday lives. Pls share! 🙏🏾 Closing date: 7 Apr
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Mar 19

The Journal of #CreativeResearchMethods is live! Looking for submissions that centre creativity at all stages of the research: questions you ask, methods you use, how you analyse or how you write. Curious and playful thinkers welcome! Check out the website

Bristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social · Mar 18

We’re delighted to introduce you to our latest journal!
The Journal of #CreativeResearchMethods
Edited by @sumingkhoo.bsky.social, Harriet Shortt, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and consulting editor @drhelenkara.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
#ResearchMethods #Creativity

Journal Of Creative Research Methods

The Journal of Creative Research Methods is a space for the creative research methods community; it publishes critical and engaged work on creative research methods and welcomes contributions from aut...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · Mar 17

Interested in our @methodsmcr.bsky.social Creative Qualitative Methods summer school course?

Join our free online taster session to hear from the course leaders about creative ways to design, carry out & share your research

12.30-1.30pm Weds 19 Mar 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Mar 13

Does it matter if we use the term artefacts or belongings? Can belongings be more inclusive of the multiple investments people have in things? Discussed in this article I coauthored with wonderful archaeologists (Bonnie Pitblado, Suzie Thomas and Anna Wessman) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Retheorizing Archaeological “Artefacts” as “Belongings” - Archaeologies

In this article, we suggest that archaeologists should recognise the limitations of the term “artefact”, because it does not capture the many ways that diverse groups think about and interact with suc...

link.springer.com

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methods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social · Feb 28

Join the @morgancentre.bsky.social's upcoming summer school taster session on 19 March, where you'll learn more about their upcoming two-day summer school course on creative approaches to qualitative research

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Feb 25

Only one more week to get your ‘I wonder’ in. Get involved in this fab event on research ideation and turning ideas into projects.

National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Feb 3

NCRM is inviting researchers to contribute to its unique new event, the Research Methods Rendezvous!

The two-day, online event will provide attendees with the opportunity to present research ideas and develop them with other researchers.

Read the call: https://buff.ly/3EnkrUs

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Feb 5

So shocking, and sad

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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Feb 4

This will be amazing: NCRM event which centres research curiosity, ideation and how we turn these into doable research. Please submit!!

National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Feb 3

NCRM is inviting researchers to contribute to its unique new event, the Research Methods Rendezvous!

The two-day, online event will provide attendees with the opportunity to present research ideas and develop them with other researchers.

Read the call: https://buff.ly/3EnkrUs

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