Interdisciplinary research focusing on computing, visual and graphics technologies in cultural heritage based at the University of Brighton.
Sociologist
University of Edinburgh
Workingtonian in Liverpool (home)/Manchester (work), UK.
Working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs. Keen on the need to #stopburningstuff.
Senior Lecturer in Education (Sociology) at MIE UoM. My views not my employers, obviously. Part of the ESRC Transforming Working Lives ‘L-earning’ project, researching education, work, gender, social class.
Feminist, abolitionist, anti-racist collector of religious kitsch and novel experiences.
Skeets are mine and mine alone, & u should hold my employer accountable for their words and deeds.
Strategy Fellow, Global Health & Wellbeing at Coefficient Giving. Views my own
The Little Book of Second Mentions, out now https://amzn.to/43oYehw | secondmentions.com | secondmentions@gmail.com
Writer, academic, worrier. Creative industries & Director of Liberal Arts, Uni of York. New book: The Poetry of Suicide (MUP, April 2026).
Understanding who produces, what is made, and how class is represented on television. AHRC-funded project at @leedsunimedia.bsky.social The University of Leeds - 2023-26. shorturl.at/uIkTP
We dream of a future where being creative and experiencing brilliant culture is a regular part of every child’s learning and life.
Freelance contemporary art curator
PhD student at Manchester University
Curator for Lubaina Himid
Living between London & Manchester
Artist | The Courtauld Research Forum | Contemporary Art, Feminism, Spiritualism, Occultism & Magick. All my own views.
Birmingham/London
Sociologist. Assistant Prof @ENSAE & @crestsociology.bsky.social, Paris. I study cultural inequalities & digital technologies using mixed methods and CSS.
A citizen that pays attention to politics, history, arts, media, and culture in Greensboro NC.
Writer of serial fiction. Read it over on the Write More newsletter: https://simonkjones.substack.com/
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI
Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
Author/Illustrator/Drawer/Hobby-haver
https://linktr.ee/Roserobbins
Same as @thomasforth on X. Gone back to Twitter for now. Quality filter, locations in bios, and polls pls. Leeds, Yorkshire, UK.
YouGov guy earning paychecks by researching public opinion, projecting elections, doing MRPs, running campaign and comms testing and development, figuring out how AI can help measure public opinion, and being a talking head in the media.
Political scientist @official-uom.bsky.social studying elections and immigration, education and parties
Media and Memory and Water and Women and Ageing and AI
@leedsunimedia.bsky.social
@JoanneGH on other platforms
http://linkedin.com/in/jo-garde-hansen-aa99a231
Book on protestmemory here!
Electromagnetic simulations, mostly magnets, sometimes superconducting. C++, Python, Fortran. Gadgets. Coffee. Not recovering runner. Fantasy and science fiction.
Senior Lecturer in Creative Labour & Cultural Work at King's College London. Member of the MeCCSA Executive Board. I research work in the creative economy. My academic profile and publications list are here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tamsyn-dent
📝 phd @ glasgow uni
🎮 interested in video games, worker organising, and cultural labour
Researching and teaching about the creative and media industries and cultural policy at the University of Warwick since 1999. Part of the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures (SCAPVC).
Mainly music, politics and cricket.
Also local Lewisham history project @longlazylewisham.bsky.social
Director Loughborough University Policy Unit & Director of Policy CoSTAR creative technologies Foresight Lab. #policy #london #football #creativeindustries
Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher. Views my own
Cultural Trends is a peer-reviewed journal analysing cultural policy and the arts sector, publishing rigorous research connecting scholars, practitioners and policymakers worldwide.
Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Comment writer of the year at British Journalism Awards 2024
Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Sociologist at Manchester Met University. Intimacy, couples, friendship. Rhymes with loaf.
I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
Culture writer, debut non-fiction WE WERE THERE out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942/we-were-there-by-bakare-lanre/9781847927477
Writer, researcher, adviser, coach etc. cultural sector and intersections. Thinking Practice. / www.thinkingpractice.co.uk
Random Restaurant bot on Bluesky using code created by @friendo.bsky.social, bot engineered by Turbo Dong 420
https://verdur.in - cultural project and event space, concept store, and soon publisher in London.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
Socially engaged curator, art writer, researcher in cultural democracy & museum studies |AHRC PhD at IWM & UCA on the social impact of co-curation.
📍Turin- Edinburgh- London
Program Manager @ amazongames.com
Co-founder @ pocplay.org
Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Higher education, elitism and moral sociology.
Associate professor/Reader (Docent), Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. Research interests: cultural policy, welfare, and marginalisation. Occasional poster of cat pics.
Opinions are my own.
We're a campaign and research group dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in UK higher education.
www.1752group.com
dissin' your fly girl
yoinkin' your memes
(not the guy from twitter)
Visiting Scholar & Incoming Assistant Professor in Sociology (LTA) at UNBSJ | Studying Labour Organizing in the Cultural Industries | Eyeliner aficionado
https://www.madisontrusolino.com
We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
Small time sociologist.
He/him
Guionista y director. Las historias cambian el mundo. Profesor en @upf.edu. Escribo para Perdición Films y The Mediapro Studio. Lo próximo: 'Ciudad sin sueño', 'El límite del mal'.
cultural sociologist 國立中正大學
www.benjaminduester.com
Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age (Bloomsbury) coming May 2025:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/tomorrow-on-cassette-9798765105962/
Academic, feminist, TV lover, researcher. Interested in the ordinary and the everyday. Prof of TV, film and media at University of Leeds. Opinions my own.
commons or barbarism
she/her
Social research. Pop culture junkie. United and Raiders endurer. Terminally online. What would Springsteen do?
🏳️🌈 He/Him/His
🏡 Canberra, AU (Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri country)
👔 Law (chiefly, public law)
Pop Music | Eurovision | General Shenanigans | Recovering Tasmanian
Personal Profile | Views My Own | Likes/Links/Follows/Shares ≠ Endorsements
Professor of Cultural Policy and Participation at University of Leeds. Currently researching how we can better identify, acknowledge and learn from failure https://failspaceproject.co.uk. Also keen gardener as antidote to despair at our political system!
Research team @Suttontrust.bsky.social and COSMO
Sociologist. Academic fun: childhood & socialization, class analysis, cognitive sociology. Non-academic fun: cooking and light construction work. Research Director @ Childhood, Culture & Cognition (https://shorturl.at/4jZGv). Chair ECCI (www.eucci.eu)
Sociologist. Post-Doctoral Researcher @mpifg.bsky.social. Labour, culture & elites. Ethnographer of butlers.
Sociologist of cultures and media. Lecturer at the University of York.
Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Journalist/lapsed mackem | Features/reviews/investigations. Mostly on culture. Currently reporter @theobserveruk.bsky.social (plus bits in @theguardian.com) | British Journalism Awards winner 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rachael-healy
I host the Great Australian Bake-Off. Check out twitch.tv/TomWalker and the podcast “BigSoftTitty.png” with my cool wife Demi
Work in digital sexual health. Play in acting/writing/directing, running, quizzing, quiz hosting, whippet walking, Eurovisioning, cult TVing and inventing gerunds.
Been on some quiz shows 🏳️🌈
My Eurovision site: sixonstage.com
Co-Director of Sweet 'Art. Work at London Museum. Personal account to follow arts and culture stuff. She/Her
Associate Professor at SPRU, University of Sussex Business School
Research Lead at Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Views are my own.
Researching complexities of participation, inclusion & voice in culture, education & work. Interests in youth, disability, gender and participatory/ethnographic/creative method/ologies.
Research Associate: Ableism in the Academy at Uni of Sheffield
Associate Professor/Associate Grad Chair Sociology/ Munk School @University of Toronto. Instagram @dn.petti
Lecturer in arts management and Human Resources at University of Melbourne. Specialist in careers, employability, HR and organisational behaviour in the arts and cultural sector.
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country.
Sociologist who does musicology. Lecturer at School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro University, Sweden. Focus on music and extremism.
Editor at NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rnor20
Documents, markup (https://xml.silmaril.ie/), typesetting (https://latex.silmaril.ie/) • Writer • Grandfather • Cook • Pronoun: he/him/us’n • Bribable with chocolate • Discord: frisket • Recipes: https://xml.silmaril.ie/recipes/ ☘️ 🇮🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
Independent research & policy recommendations for the UK's creative industries. Led by Newcastle University Business School with the RSA and funded by AHRC. https://pec.ac.uk/
actor; director; writer; reader; filmmaker; dramaturg; musician; lecturer; researcher; trustee; student... (he/him)
TETHYS GODDESS OF FRESHWATER
www.dermotdaly.co.uk
Lecturer/researcher in work and employment, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Also a musician. Sociology of work(ing), inequalities, creative/cultural work, public sectors and healthcare. Views my own.
Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries at Monash University researching homemade, amateur and DIY creativity with thoughts about healthy cultures - see @HADIY.creative UTV
Founder & CEO of Canada’s most sought-after and influential polling firm, Abacus Data.
Prof at Carleton University.
Davidcoletto.substack.com
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Science, University of Sheffield • Author of 'Who Enters Politics and Why?' & 'Governing in an Age of Distrust' • Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales
Website: www.jamesweinberg.co.uk
Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Leeds (he/him). Interested in place, culture, policy and ecological thinking.
Media academic researching television, creative labour, and cultural inequalities. Lover of documentaries, long walks, and Yorkshire tea (sometimes). https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/staff/330/dr-david-lee
🎭Manchester Arts Centre
🎟️Theatre•Art•Music•Events
🥂Food•Drink•Co-working•Hires
👉DMs not monitored 24/7, email boxoffice@contactmcr.com
Chartered Geographer | Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication & Head of School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster | doug.specht.co.uk
Prof of Geography (he/they) | Co-Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch & EPD | Direct MSc Geography at UNITO | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
Comedy academic. Author of Stand Up
Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms (2023), co-founder of Mixed Bill research network. Book reviews editor for Comedy Studies. Views/cats my own. She/her
Emeritus Professor, Institute for Culture and Society. Sociologist researching cultural policy and planning, and cities and urban cultures.
He/him. Jew-ish. Brown. Ace. Aphantasic. Trans rights are human rights. Cries in art galleries. Loves: books, records, cooking, TTRPGs, old cameras, my cat.
Senior Lecturer in Data, AI, & Society.
AI & In/equality Lead for Centre for Machine Intelligence.
Social, cultural & digital policy.
Author of Understanding Well-being Data: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-72937-0
Supporter of arts, humanities and social sciences with a hefty sprinkle of data. Particularly interested in creative health and health inequalities.
Big fan of horror and corvids.
Enjoyer of beaches and woodlands.
Intersectional feminist. She/her.
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researcher in voice theatre and community
everton fc
Professor@imec-SMIT-VUB. Media economics & policy, diversity, recommender systems, platforms, music. @hranaivoson@mastodon.social @hranaivoson
Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at the University of Glasgow. Contemporary British/European playwriting, performance, dramaturgy and political theory. Next book is on Tim Crouch (MUP). Also: 🌿🚴🌈🎉 Orgullosament xarnega. Hola!
EU cultural/audiovisual policy & cultural diplomacy scholar | Part-time Prof @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social | Co-chair @forumukeu.bsky.social | Assembleia @partidolivre.pt | PT/UK | 📍London | https://mafalda-damaso.com | Views my own
🇲🇺🇬🇧 Dr. of Performance Capture. POC in Play. DVRS Games Festival Director
