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janetboddy.bsky.social
Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies, Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY), University of Sussex. Views my own. Latest book Thinking Through Family - #openaccess chapters https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
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Are you passionate about health, inequalities and the role of social and economic factors? We are looking for an Analyst to join our Healthy Lives team. Find out more and apply by 23.59 on 29 May ⬇ https://bit.ly/4j4sZhN

New British Future research, published ahead of the government’s expected Immigration White Paper, find more balanced public views on immigration for work or study: www.britishfuture.org/white-paper-...

A 2-year lectureship for someone with qualitative methodological expertise and experience of studying of political and civil conflict. 👇

Really helpful thread for anyone who cares about UK higher education (let’s hope that includes the Universities Minister)…

📢📢 Upcoming ECF regional event at University of Leicester 📢📢 Beyond the ‘archival turn’: Making and using sociological archives 30 June 2025 (09:30-17:00 BST) Registration will open soon. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Join us for our conference this month on Sure Start and Family Hubs, with presentations of our analysis, a high-level panel and a fireside chat between @officialedballs.bsky.social and @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social. Thursday 22 May | 09:50–16:15 | The View, Royal College of Surgeons, London

That's right -- we started it first in Sussex Psychology @sussex.ac.uk www.ukrn.org/2024/01/30/p...

Look what came in the mail today - newly in paperback for extra portability! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/thinking-thr...

WE‘RE LOOKING FOR GUEST EDITORS! Editor @silkeroth.bsky.social will be commissioning two guest-edited Sociological Review monographs for 2027. 💡 Interested? Submit your proposal by 16 June 2025. 🔎 Find out more about this call: buff.ly/1wGpJrM 📖 View our Monographs series: buff.ly/Eqdhnrh

We’ve got a 3 year lecturership in human geog and gender now advertised. Deadline 6th May 2025 Please spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS710/l...

Do you work in SEND? Take our short Workforce Survey and share it with your colleagues so we can design our training and resources to meet the SEND workforce’s learning and development needs. @ndtihello.bsky.social forms.office.com/e/LgGnRbEEVy

PLEASE SHARE! We are looking for info about providing effective support to young mothers and birthing parents (aged 25 and under) in the perinatal period. We are looking for papers/reports/evaluations/blogs/commentaries. Send to: [email protected]. Information: perinatalsupport.co.uk

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 12-month Lectureship in Human Geography (esp. urban and political geography) @rhulgeography.bsky.social. Salary: £49,325 p.a. Application deadline: 2 May 2025. Starting date: c. 1 September 2025. Details: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

We’re hiring! 📣 Join our team as a Research Associate. We welcome applications from early career researchers with backgrounds in all aspects of economics, including economic policy, economic geography, fiscal policy and economic analysis. ❗Deadline 23 April 2025 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

The April newsletter for the Working Together with Parents Network is out! If you're a professional working with parents with learning disabilities & learning difficulties and you're not a member of the network, run by family member @researchip.bsky.social, visit www.ncb.org.uk/WTWPN to sign up!

We’re hiring - a permanent Lecturer in Geopolitics in the Department of Geography at King’s College London Full info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ723/l...

This is going to be a great event- 30 June- early and later career sociologists and community archivists explore working with marginalised voices and experiences held in archives to challenge, shape or disrupt public discourse. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

Online webinar with Joeli Brearley on Monday 19th May, 12-1pm. founder of Pregnant Then Screwed, talking about experiences of pregnancy and maternity discrimination www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-pol...

Pleased to be one of the co-editors of this soecial issue on Domestic Abuse and Violence. Submission deadline has been extended to 9 April 2025! journals.sagepub.com/page/qsw/cal...

🚨Breaking🚨 Ministers confirm UK Research and Innovation budget will fall. Funding agency’s allocation drops by £300m for 2025-26, despite rising R&D spending at science department. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Beautiful and moving piece about my university. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/03/f...

📢Call for Papers is NOW OPEN! Join us at the 2nd Workshop on Violence Against Women: Drivers and Policies. Submit by June 1, 2025. Info at tinyurl.com/ykhv2vvu @ub.edu @cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @planasrodriguez.bsky.social #ERC #ViolenceAgainstWomen #Econsky #VAWsky #economics

I'm looking for 1-2 doctoral candidates in my ERC-funded project "Relative Health: Long-Run Inequalities in Health and Survival Between Families and Across Generations". These are 4-year, fully funded positions at Lund University. More info: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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

Join us next week for Jessica Horst's professorial lecture! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-psychol...

If you’re wondering about the OfS decision at Sussex, this is analysis is well worth a read.

Last week on Wonkhe: As the University of Sussex declares an intention to appeal the free speech regulatory judgement and fine, David Kernohan examines some of the process of regulation questions that will dominate the future debate

#MothersDay2025 Not all mothers can be with their children. For many, Mother’s Day can be a challenge. Kristy, a member of Family Rights Group’s parent’s panel, tells her story. Read her blog here: ow.ly/q9LY50VqpWN #MothersDay #AllMothers

Our @reusilience.bsky.social project has been listed as a success story by the @ec.europa.eu. Very proud to be part of a stellar team and pleased that our work on family resilience resonates with policy and have found such correspondence projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/...

Two three year postdocs advertised at @camhistory.bsky.social, to work with the brilliant Niamh Gallagher on her UKRI project, Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire. Not just looking for historians btw... www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50601/

Spread the word! Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability. Deadline: 10 April @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social

“We need to take a stand for the sector and for the right of universities[...]to create respectful and inclusive communities, which is put at risk by this judgement.” Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sasha Roseneil, shares a message following the Office for Students' report published today.

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

How to reduce #poverty in a post-growth world? . Respond to UN Special Rapporteur's @olivierdeschutter.bsky.social call for submission on 'Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth' . 👉 www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

Final call for special issue proposals! #sociology

Lecturer in Sociology | UCL - Faculty of Education and Society #Edujobs #EduSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI116/l...

The @jrct.bsky.social - a relatively radical York based grant making foundation - is looking for new trustees micro.green-park.co.uk/jrct-trustees/

📑 JOB VACANCY - #ResearchFellow post within the ESRC-funded Connecting Generations programme. Examining fuller #workinglives and #care for later life individuals in the UK and internationally 📨Apply by 11 April: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @bspsuk.bsky.social @britishgerontology.bsky.social

@cclguk.bsky.social, Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social need your expertise! We're hosting workshops to build and deepen our shared understanding of the system around children and young people with cancer, and their families. Please sign up here: lnkd.in/eXnSxWcj

Today we launch a new funding programme: Scouloudi Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK Grants will support collaborative projects between historians in Higher Education and those in the galleries, libraries, archives and museums sectors, as well as community history groups. #Skystorians 1/2 👇

Privatised rail making money from unlawful prosecutions? Hopefully @heidialexander.bsky.social will read this.

📣 Come work with us! We're looking for a Research Associate to contribute to a project about educational exclusions & absences led by our own Prof Morag Treanor 🤓 The post is full time & fixed term until 31 Mar 2026. For details & to apply by *2 Apr*: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Every year students on our BA Childhood & Youth @sussexfss.bsky.social use #lego to explore key concepts in the #Reggio approach to early years theory & practice. I love the representation of #Malaguzzi meeting local women washing bricks - connection with community at the heart of the approach.

📣📣📣 So … public health jobs @healthfoundation.bsky.social are like buses - you wait for one for ages and then two arrive at the same time! Another great role shaping our prevention agenda ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Please share! lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/ca...

On international women’s day, watch our film The Sociologist’s Wife, telling the stories of three women married to eminent British sociologists who contributed to their work and how this has remained largely unsung - until now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy-Z...

The right wing think tank, Policy Exchange, has released a big report today recommending young people on PIP “be required to look for work, to volunteer or be engaged in training.” Only one problem: PIP is not an out of work benefit. policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...