Congratulations to @academicdiary.bsky.social on the @britsoci.bsky.social presidency! We are so thrilled to have such a caring and visionary leader in our community at a time when we need Sociology more than ever! 🎉
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@ktwamley.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Considering postdoctoral research opportunities? Book now for ‘Applying for Postdoctoral Research Funding as an Early Career Scholar’, an online @bsaecr.bsky.social event, 30 January tinyurl.com/muas4sk8 #sociology
real as hell
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Make your vote count before the last safe day on Wednesday.
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Join us on 30 Jan 2026 (2–3 pm GMT) for the BSA webinar on applying for postdoctoral research funding with Dr Fei Huang (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) & Prof Katherine Twamley (Professor of Sociology). Get tips on proposals, applications, mentors & more! Book now:
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Join me tomorrow at Victoria Embankment.
Home truths: Obligated to Care, our new Sociological Review Monograph, focuses on the family in today’s China.
Edited by Xiaoying Qi & Jack Barbalet, its 11 chapters focus on subjects ranging from LBGTQ+ people’s intergenerational relations to da pei and modern childrearing.
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@bupjournals.bsky.social
New article out! I look at how stay-at-home fathers understand, experience and express emotions - and how these emotions evolve in caregiving and intimate relationships - to show how gendered power is sustained and what it takes to disrupt it.
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Photo of print copy of book 'Caring Fathers in the Global Context'
Look what came in the post! What a joy it was to work on this with an amazing set of colleagues. Will be available open access from Thursday 24th July. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/caring-fathe...
‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’
Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
looking forward to this!
