Jeeez, it's been a while 😅 Anybody still here? The sociologist/academic in me is stirring after some suppression- send ideas for engagement please, I'd love to help ya'll!
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Jeeez, it's been a while 😅 Anybody still here? The sociologist/academic in me is stirring after some suppression- send ideas for engagement please, I'd love to help ya'll!
Hello new followers 👋 I'm a working-class academic with interests in place, community, social class, social mobility and ethnographic approaches. Currently working in the HE policy space (alt pathways through HE), but open to supporting ECRs in the areas above ☝️✨
I LOVE Claire's work on pubs, so important in understanding the role pubs play in everyday life 🍻✨
Did my first volunteering shift today for giveusashout.org 🗣️ V challenging but so rewarding. Shout is a free, confidential and 24/7 text messaging service for anyone in the UK who needs support. Text 'shout' to 85258 for #mentalhealth support 👥✨
Great interview with my colleague Sarah Kerr about her new book on ‘wealtherty’. Please share!
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
Hello hello! Good to have you back on my feed again 😎✨
@wealtherty.bsky.social I found you! Hello! 👋 (sorry, hope that doesn't sound weird 😂)
This was my hunch in my last HE role when a new subsidiary was introduced. They claim your pension is safe, and it'll only affect new staff (hooray for a two-tier system...). But it's inevitable that the below will happen in times of economic hardship
If I was 18 now, I wouldn't be going to uni. My maintenance grant/loan barely covered my accommodation back in 2011-14. Uni is not an option for people without the bank of mum & dad #HE #inequality
Anyone here do research on alternative HE pathways? Widening access, level 4/5 quals, degree apprenticeships etc. Let me know! 👇✨🎓📚
V interesting read about death administration and the painful process of dealing with a deceased loved one's affairs #bureaucracy #death #sociology
I was interviewed for @thetimes.com podcast today on Born to Rule 🎧
open.spotify.com/episode/12LV...
V interesting read RE enacting the socio-economic duty as part of the Equality Act 2010: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #class #inequality #discrimination
With Leeds Trinity and Loughborough we're now actually at 83, or exactly half of the 166 universities @timeshighered.bsky.social counts.
HALF OF OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE SHEDDING STAFF. In a normal timeline, politicians would care about this and try to do *something*, *anything*, right?
"The study found that, within five years, one-third of all scientists in the 2000 group had stopped publishing. This rose to about half within ten years and to nearly two-thirds by 2019. Women were around 12% more likely than men to have left science after five or ten years. By 2019, only 29% of women in the group were still publishing, compared with nearly 34% of men."
Academic exodus.
A study of >400,000 scientists finds that many quit science within five years of authoring their first paper.
Women were around 12% more likely than men to have left science.
#science #academicsky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Absolutely delighted to see this open access article out which has never felt more timely - me and Maddy Power reflecting on hope, participatory research & policymaking drawing on the work we do together on Changing Realities
You can read more about our cold spots maps for SHAPE disciplines in this piece on @wonkhe.bsky.social by Ruairi Cullen from @britishacademy.bsky.social
wonkhe.com/blogs/there-...
Worth reading this in the context of last week’s @suttontrust.bsky.social report on unequal access to creative HE. Place + social class means widening participation policy will struggle, even as the government prioritises both WP & the civic role of Unis
WRITE ON: The Sociological Review magazine is seeking reviewers for 11 sociologically rich new books on subjects ranging from psychedelics to parental leave, class and poetry to food and taste, public opinion to protest camps.
View the list and make a pitch!
buff.ly/3h7XLZM
Amazing, thank you! ☺️
Hello everyone 👋 I'm new here, but join me for a frustrated sociologist's thoughts on #class #inequality #HE and #poverty if you're interested!