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The UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social is looking for a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sociology, to support the institute's strong research profile in sociology as well as the delivery of its new MSc in Sociology. Application deadline: 17 April. Further details in the link below.

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A reminder that you can catch my conversation with @k8lister.bsky.social on drug use and drug cultures in 1920s London here... shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

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Drugs, gender and Dope Girls... tobyseddon.com/2025/03/10/d...

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So true it hurts

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📢 New report out today! 📢 ➡️ Access the report here: repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeow/cepeo... 📊 What did we find? 🔸 Most of the socio-economic background (SEB) and ethnic inequalities in entry to professional occupations are driven by employer-side decisions made during the recruitment process

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Out tomorrow: our @nuffieldfoundation.org report "Inequalities in Access to Professional Occupations" @clairetyler.bsky.social & Catherine Dilnot Why are working class & ethnic minority young people underrepresented in professional jobs? Do they not apply? OR do they apply, but just not get hired?

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Nice piece on the challenges of teaching when contested or troubling issues are involved. The complex dynamics of a classroom are not always easy to see in the moment.

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In between meetings and emails, today has been a day for reviewing: 20 conference abstracts and 2 papers. There is some truly inspiring and important research going on in the drug field at the moment.

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Does the US degree you were planning to pursue suddenly seem a bit less... appealing? We got something for you studyinternational.com/news/changin...

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📢 #NewPubAlert! 📢 We’re thrilled to celebrate SRI PhD candidate Emily Clark’s latest publication: “Is the universal basic income a neoliberal Trojan horse? Analyzing representations of ‘the poor’ and ‘poverty’ in UK UBI policy discourses” in Critical Policy Studies. Link: doi.org/10.1080/1946...

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this letter in the LRB on Karl Polanyi is a useful quick explainer of the present moment—helpful framing for talking to relatives etc @londonreview.bsky.social

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It’s not every day that a @clscohorts.bsky.social cohort study is a plot point in one of the biggest shows in the UK! Watch this clip from BBC’s ‘Call the Midwife’ about the 1970 Birth Cohort Study- which we confirm at SRI we still learn from at least 55 years later! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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✨Research positions for the new Wellcome-Trust DESTINY project in automating evidence synthesis! (destiny-evidence.github.io/website/) 🌍✨ 🔬Two at EPPI-Centre, UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... ... AND ...

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We are delighted to be leading four new exciting 1-year master’s degrees in Sociology. Covering vital modern topics including Children’s Rights, Data Science, Social Inequalities and more, they start this September. Applications are open right now! Take a look here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...

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The new UCL Sociology MSc degrees with various pathways (data science, inequality, childhood) are launched. Come and join the strong academics, cutting-edge research centres, great students the UCL Social Research Institute represents.

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Call for abstracts for the 17th annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy, 11-13 June 2025 in Manchester, UK. #issdp2025 www.issdp.org/conferences-...

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Supporting statement for a TEF submission…

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Fantastic news about these new postgraduate Sociology degrees @sriucl.bsky.social @uclofficial.bsky.social

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Out-of-office on, emails off. See you all in 2025!

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Provocative opinion piece by Martyn Hammersley on the (un)scientific nature of (some) social science. I disagree with a fair amount of this but he does raise some important questions well worth thinking about. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/unsc...

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🔔 Inside #NewIssue 25(3/4): ‘Rethinking drug laws: theory, history, politics’ @tobyseddon.bsky.social, 2023) #BookReview by Caroline Chatwin ACCESS HERE ➡️ www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

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Caroline Chatwin has written an extremely generous and insightful review of my 'Rethinking Drug Laws' book, published in the latest issue of @dhspolicy.bsky.social www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

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Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Extremely important new report on innovative darknet drug markets in Russia. Researched and written by the brilliant @maxdaly.bsky.social and @patrickshortis.bsky.social: globalinitiative.net/analysis/rus...

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Currently reading Hobsbawm’s ‘Industry and Empire’ for an economic historian’s take on the connections between industrialisation, empire and colonial trade. I’m especially interested in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Any recommendations for other books that cover this ground?

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New drug deaths stats out today are appalling. All those lives lost and families devastated. Here’s the Policy Brief I wrote in the summer which sets out a plan for tackling this public health crisis: www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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This was quite widely shared in the other place but resharing here for those who had fully evacuated already! My thoughts on how we can turn the tide on the public health crisis of drug-related deaths: www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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First post! Decided to try this out. Looking forward to reconnecting with familiar names and connecting with some new ones, to share ideas and work and hopefully have some interesting conversations. If you want to know a bit more about me and what I do, this is a good place to start: tobyseddon.com

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