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  • An introduction to academic podcasting

    An introduction to academic podcasting on Prezi

  • Creating a successful online presence

  • The value of multi-author blogging for communicating research

    The word ‘blogging’ often has negative connotations. Yet blogging can be understood both as an output and as a platform. Many negative views about blogging are connected to a certain idea of what it is: a single author, using it as a forum to express their views to a world which, in my cases, isn’t particularly interested. However this…

  • What does Twitter have to offer academics?

    What’s the point of Twitter? Twitter has an image problem. It first penetrated the public consciousness in a way which has left it defined by celebrities and, particularly for academics, this is unattractive. However the academic twittersphere (for lack of a better term) is a relatively self-enclosed ecosystem. While you’ll undoubtedly find a bit of celebrity gossip…

  • Tending your ‘ideas garden’

    Do you value your ideas? If you’re reading this website then chances are you answered ‘yes’ to that question. Yet unless you record all your ideas I’d argue that you don’t value them. At least not as much as you could. It’s a difficult habit to acquire and it can be time-consuming. But technology is making it so much…

  • How can researchers use curation tools?

  • CfP: Education and Learning: Sociological Perspectives

    EDUCATION AND LEARNING: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Wednesday, 25th September 2013, University of Surrey CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote speaker: Heather Mendick, Brunel University This one-day conference, supported by the British Sociological Association’s Education Study Group, will showcase the diverse and innovative range of research that is currently being conducted within the Sociology of Education. We welcome theoretical,…

  • CFP: The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting

    There is a name for those under- and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic. Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has…

  • +1 for Efficient Labour: Gamification, Capitalism and Intellectual Responsibility

    Earlier this week, it was reported in a number of outlets that Tesco has been using armbands to monitor employees at a distribution center, enabling management to track moment to moment activity in a way which was previously impossible: The armbands, officially known as Motorola arm-mounted terminals, look like something between a Game Boy and Garmin…

  • 2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality

    2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) November 7-10, 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA The NWSA Asexuality Interest Group welcomes papers for the 2013 NWSA annual conference. These asexuality-related themes are orientated towards the full NWSA 2013 CFP which can be found here: http://www.nwsa.org/content.asp?contentid=27 If you are interested in being a part…

  • “The Last Outing” Project

    “The Last Outing: Exploring end of life experiences and care needs in the lives of older LGBT people”. The study has been funded by Marie Cure Cancer Care Research Programme, and is led by Dr Kathryn Almack at the University of Nottingham. We are now at the stage of launching our survey and we are…

  • PhD & ECR summer school on Contesting Claims for Expertise in a Post-secular Age: In Search of Intellectual Life

    CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Contesting Claims for Expertise in a Post-secular Age: In Search of Intellectual Life IAS Summer School, University of Warwick, 15-19 July 2013 The current moment seems to be one of ‘crisis’ or at least of dramatic change for the authority of academic expertise. Policy debates over climate change, embryology and the like…

  • Evaluative playgrounds Audit and government after neoliberalism

    Evaluative playgrounds Audit and government after neoliberalism Dr. Will Davies Assistant Professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies 4-5.30pm, Monday 11th February Cowling Room, S2.77, Social Sciences Building Neoliberalism depends on forms of audit and government, through which activity can be subjected to independent economic evaluation and critique. The epistemological crisis of neoliberalism consists of the collapse…

  • “Oh! There are other people just like me? I’m not so weird after all”: the transformation of identity in the digital age

    The internet was integral to the formation of the asexual community. While the details are slightly messier than such an account suggests, the sociologically important aspects of its history can be summarised as follows: Individuals who don’t experience sexual attraction are made to feel ‘broken’, ‘damaged’ or ‘fucked up’ by a culture which places great stress on…

  • CFP: Capitalism and Erotics

    Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013, London, 28th-30th August 2013 Capitalism and Erotics Organiser: Jason Lim (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group of the RGS-IBG This session seeks to examine the multitude of ways of thinking about the relationship between capitalism and erotics. Much recent…

  • Becoming Who We Are – a realist approach to studying personal change

    In this presentation I draw on critical realist theories of the person to offer an account of how persons change, or fail to change, over time. I argue that many of the substantive concerns of biographical and lifecourse research can be fruitfully recast as questions relating to personal morphostatis (staying the same) or personal morphogenesis…

  • What is ‘academic blogging’?

    This question has been on my mind a lot this week. Largely because it occurred to me that I have yet to encounter a non-trivial answer to it. Sure, it’s easy to say academic blogging is blogging by academics. But what does this really tell us? Martin Weller has an interesting discussion along these lines in his book the Digital…

  • Do you find social media taking up too much of your time?

    Do you find social media taking up too much of your time? If so then IFTTT could be incredibly useful for you. It allows different social media channels to be connected up using statements of the form IF [x] THEN [Y] – where X is an event occurring on one channel and Y is an action on another channel.When I…

  • Citizenship and Belonging: A Postgraduate Conference

    Call for Papers: Citizenship and Belonging: A Postgraduate Conference Posted on December 3, 2012 by citizenshipandbelonging2013 Call for Papers and Participants for a two-day BSA-Sponsored Regional Postgraduate Event Citizenship and Belonging: A Postgraduate Conference Hosted by the University Nottingham On Monday the 25th and Tuesday the 26th of March 2013 Within Sociology, the study of…

  • Research Seminars, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster

    RESEARCH SEMINARS PROGRAMME Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster All seminars take place in room A6.9 at Harrow campus, University of Westminster All welcome, but please email Dr Anastasia Kavada at A.Kavada@westminster.ac.uk if you’d like to attend [Please scroll down for more information on each seminar and speaker] Date Speaker Title 6 Feb. Ben…

  • Call for Papers Qualitative and Ethnographic Research (QER): Sharing and shaping pedagogies

    Reminder: Call for Papers Qualitative and Ethnographic Research (QER): Sharing and shaping pedagogies – learning through doing. May 10th 2013, Department of Drama, University of Exeter, UK. We invite your proposals for papers, presentations, and other forms of dissemination for the HEA funded workshop, QER: Sharing and shaping pedagogies on May 10th 2013. We are…

  • CFP: Queer geographies and the politics of anti-normativity

    CFP: Queer geographies and the politics of anti-normativity RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London, 28-30th August 2013 Convened by Eleanor Wilkinson (University of Leeds) Sponsored by the Space, Sexualities and Queer Research Group This session aims to critically question queer theory’s political commitment to anti-normativity. It seeks to challenge any rigid distinction between the normative and the…

  • CSWG Graduate Seminar Series @SocioWarwick – 23rd of Jan!

    The CSWG Graduate Seminar Series starts this term with a seminar session on the topic ‘Women, Work and Family’. The seminar will be held on Wednesday the 23rd of January, 5pm-7pm in the Ramphal Builing, room R0.14. Presentations include: NATALIE WREYFORD, Kings College London – Gender and Networking for Work, Inside and Outside the UK Film Industry LUCILLE NONZWAKAZI MAQUBELA, University of Venda – Work-Family…

  • 2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality

    2013 Call for Papers about Asexuality National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) November 7-10, 2013, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA The NWSA Asexuality Interest Group welcomes papers for the 2013 NWSA annual conference. These asexuality-related themes are orientated towards the full NWSA 2013 CFP which can be found here: http://www.nwsa.org/content.asp?contentid=27 If you are interested in being a part…

  • Social Theory Postgrad Seminars @SocioWarwick

    The Social Theory Centre Postgraduate Seminars will take place in the odd weeks of the second term of 2012-2013 in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. This series is particularly designed for postgraduate students interested in all aspects of social theory; whether based in Sociology or other social science of humanities disciplines –…

  • Want to join the BSA Digital Sociology group?

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  • Education, Employment and Social Mobility: what is really going on and what can be done?

    University of Greenwich Business School Work and Employment Research Unit Seminar Series Wednesday 13 February 2013, 2 – 6p.m. EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL MOBILITY: WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AND WHAT CAN BE DONE? Ken Roberts (Liverpool) ‘The real trend in social mobility: from upwards to downwards’ Lefteris Kretsos (Greenwich) ‘The persistent pandemic of Work Precariousness…

  • Digital Sociologist #2: Les Back from @SociologyGold

    In this podcast I talk to Les Back from Goldsmiths about his Academic Diary project. So what is the Academic Diary?  How did the idea for the project come about?  What did the process of crafting it entail?  Was the experience of producing it different to that of a more traditional publication?

  • Academic blogging – both/and rather than either/or

    How do you feel about academic blogging? If you are reading this then, chances are, you feel reasonably well inclined towards it. However if you are an academic blogger then you will undoubtedly be aware that many people are not so well inclined. This raises an obvious question: why? There are many different answers which…

  • Asexuality, Sexual Culture and Pathology – Interview for a Greek magazine

    What is it about this time in particular that has made asexuality so popular? Why now? Why is it visible now as opposed to 40 years ago?Is it because sex has become the focus of attention? This is a fascinating question. Until the early 21st century, there was no sign of an organised asexuality community…

  • European Geographies of Sexualities Conference

    5, 6, 7 September 2013 | FCSH, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal | http://egsc2013.pt.to Call for papers and sessions Sexualities have become a legitimate and significant area of geographical research, across diverse areas ranging from cultural, social and feminist geographies, to political and economic domains. One of the main characteristics of studies on sexualities has been its critical…

  • Digital Sociologist #1: @ProfSteveFuller from @SocioWarwick

    In the first of this series for the BSA Digital Sociology group, Steve Fuller (Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick) talks about his experience of using Twitter. If you have ideas of how profile sociologists you’d like to see interviewed about their use of social media, or ideas about questions…

  • 2012 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 28,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

  • Why do people believe what they believe? Getting beyond the idea there’s something wrong with people who disagree with us

    I’ve always been fascinated by the question of why people hold the political beliefs they do. In part this is because of how badly most people handle this question. From across the political spectrum, there is a pervasive tendency to explain away the beliefs of others: idiocy, ignorance, naivete, self-interest etc. In a recent Twitter conversation, someone invoked…

  • Ethics and Social Theory: The Work of Andrew Sayer

    University of Wales, Newport (City Campus) 22 February 2013  |  09:45-16:45 Ethics and Social Theory: The Work of Andrew Sayer Andrew Sayer’s work in critical social science has ranged across political economy, social theory and ethics — combining insights from each, and shedding light across them in rare and valuable ways.  His most recent books The Moral Significance of Class(Cambridge, 2005) and Why…

  • Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?

    Creating Publics keynote lecture event with Rachel Pain (University of Durham)  Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?  Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 14:00 – 16:00 Michael Young Building, Room 1&2, Ground Floor, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA Outline: “The University is just one site where the idea of public good…

  • Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?

    Creating Publics keynote lecture event with Rachel Pain (University of Durham)  Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?  Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 14:00 – 16:00 Michael Young Building, Room 1&2, Ground Floor, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA Outline: “The University is just one site where the idea of public good…

  • Qualitative360 Europe, April 17-18 2013 Berlin – Call for Abstracts – Deadline coming up soon!

    Qualitative360 Europe: 3rd Annual Conference April 17-18, 2013 Berlin, Germany http://www.qualitative360.com For anybody wanting to submit a presentations synopsis for the upcoming Qual360 Europe conference, the deadline is coming up shortly – 22 December. Qualitative 360 Europe, now in its third year, is the cross-disciplinary event bringing together academics, professional researchers and consumer insights specialists…

  • Doing research inclusively, doing research well, 7-8 Feb, Southampton

    Course: Doing research inclusively, doing research well Date and place: 7-8 February 2013, Southampton Presenters: Professor Melanie Nind and Dr Hilra Vinha Fees: £60 for UK registered PhD students; £120 for staff at UK academic institutions, ESRC funded researchers and registered charity organisations; £440 for all other participants. Further info and register: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=3820 This training is…

  • How safe are European children online? An interview with Leslie Haddon from the EU Kids Online project

    In this interview I talk to Leslie Haddon about the EU Kids Online project. The project explored the internet use of children, as well as the risks they encounter as a consequence, across 33 countries. It is unsurprising that this issue has received much media attention given the rapidity with which internet access has spread across society and…

  • What does the future hold for ethnography? An interview with Alex Smith

    In this interview I talk to Alex Smith (right) about the New Ethnographies book series he edits. I was interested in this series because of its deliberate intention to embrace and ferment the extension and productive growth of this most traditional of qualitative approaches. As Alex describes in the forward to the series which is quoted from below:…

  • The ‘prestige’ of journals in a social media age

    Prestige: reputation or influence arising from success, achievement,rank, or other favorable attributes. distinction or reputation attaching to a person or thing andthus possessing a cachet Journals seen as prestigious have a reputation for possessing favourable attributes: they are well managed, have high editorial standards, publish good papers. In fact all these factors are, in practice, related. They’re also seen to be related – perhaps, once might suggest, to an extent which outstrips the reality. Great faith has been placed in…

  • BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event Thursday 13th December 2012

    BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event Thursday 13th December 2012 Gender and Bourdieu, “Is doing gender unavoidable?” Bourdieu first entered the sociological discussion of gender relationships in the 1990s. In 1998 he published La Domination masculine . Bourdieu argues that the relations between men and women are tied to masculine domination and that this masculine domination…

  • Seminar, 5th December – Learning, team-working and co-creation of knowledge: Two case studies

    Learning, team-working and co-creation of knowledge: Two case studies Dr Mark Childs Wednesday 5th December Venue: WE029 1.30 – 2.30pm Learning, team-working and co-creation of knowledge  have  specific  needs,  barriers  and solutions.  This  seminar  will  present  two  research projects  conducted  earlier  in  the  year  that  employ different techniques for learners to work together at a…

  • The Public Understanding of Science is a Political Issue: an interview with @AlexTTSmith

    In this interview I talk to Alex Smith about his recent fieldwork in Kansas City, part of the larger Making Science Public project, exploring the role that debates about the status of science are having in the unfolding of the Republican primaries. We touch on broader issues about the role of science in society but also about…

  • Nordic Youth Research Symposium

    CHANGING SOCIETIES AND CULTURES: YOUTH IN THE DIGITAL AGE NYRIS12 focuses on cultural and social changes in the digital age. Rapid technological developments, structural changes in society and economic uncertainty may influence young people in some respects more than other age groups. In the highly globalising and ICT-saturated world young people can also be seen as…

  • My favourite Zygmunt Bauman quote

    In what we do we hardly ever start from a clean slate. The site on which we build is always cluttered: the past lingers in the same ‘present’ in which the future tries to take root.

  • Race, Migration, Citizenship: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives

    Against the backdrop of decolonisation, a global economic boom was accompanied by tightened border controls, ever more punitive asylum regimes and limited access to citizenship. Immigration from former colonies to former metropoles has been limited in the postcolonial period as racialised discourses have set the West in opposition to an alien ‘rest’. Now, in this…

  • Thinking the present with Max Weber: The University, the Scholar and the Student

    Thinking the present with Max Weber: The University, the Scholar and the Student Organised by the Max Weber Study Group of the BSA. Supported by the University of Salford & UCU Salford 7 December 2012, Clifford Whitworth Conference Room, University of Salford (Manchester)   A one-day seminar on the situation of the university, part of a seminar series…

  • Encounters, Morgan Centre Interdisciplinary Conference, 3-4 July 2013, University of Manchester – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

    News from the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships & Personal Life, University of Manchester We are now inviting abstracts (presentations and posters) for our exciting interdisciplinary conference‘Encounters’, to be held on 3-4 July 2013 at the University of Manchester Keynote Speakers are: Jackie Kay (Poet, novelist & Professor of Creative Writing, University of…

  • Reminder: Deadline approaching for Queer London Conference cfp

    Queer London Conference: Call for Papers Saturday 23rd March, 2013 Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matt Cook (Birkbeck College, University of London) This one-day conference is dedicated to a consideration of London and its role in creating, housing, reflecting and facilitating queer life. It aims to bring…

  • Queer Homes, Queer Families: a history and policy debate at the British Library Conference Centre

    Queer Homes, Queer Families: a history and policy debate at the British Library Conference Centre With Peter Tatchell; Professor Jeffrey Weeks, OBE; Dr Kath Holden; Professor Sasha Roseneil; Professor Alison Oram; and Dr Matt Cook. Monday 17th December 2012, 6.30 – 8.00pm Places still available but numbers are limited so book soon! The last decade has…

  • Calling BSA members: we’re trying to start a Digital Sociology study group and we need your support

    Myself and Emma Head at Keele are proposing a digital sociology study group for the BSA. For it to be approved we need 15 statements of support from current BSA members. If you fall into this category and think the group is a good idea could you send  a quick e-mail (literally one sentence will…

  • Hypoactive Skydiving Disorder

    Have you ever skydived before? Of course  most people haven’t and have no interest in it. I have, and for me, it was a thrill. But do those who have not had, and do not want to have, this experience have a disorder? So, if you don’t want this experience, should we diagnose you with, say, hypoactive skydiving disorder because you…

  • Researching Families and Relationships: innovations in methods, theory and policy relevance 10th – 12th June 2013

    We are delighted to announce the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships 4th International Conference will take place in Edinburgh from Monday 10th – Wednesday 12th June 2013 http://www.crfr.ac.uk/events/crfrinternational/index.html Researching Families and Relationships: innovations in methods, theory and policy relevance 10th – 12th June 2013 John McIntyre Conference Centre, University of Edinburgh Full Registration…

  • CfP: Queer Senses: A One-Day Symposium at Royal Holloway, 26 Mar 2013

    CfP: Queer Senses: A One-Day Symposium at Royal Holloway, University of London (11 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RF) Tuesday 26th March, 2013, 10.00-17.00 Organizers: Dr Emily Jeremiah and Prof James Williams (SMLLC, RHUL) And ‘Queer, The Space’ (www.queerthespace.org) We invite proposals for 20-minute papers to be given at this event, which will ask: what makes…

  • The Sociology Teacher: the Journal of the BSA Teaching Group

    THE SOCIOLOGY TEACHER The Journal of the BSA Teaching Group The BSA Teaching Group is a network of people keen to further the interests of sociology teaching from secondary to tertiary education. The aim of the Group is to encourage and promote the teaching of the Social Sciences in Primary, Secondary, Further and Higher Education. The…

  • Interrogating “the Social Unconscious” – 25th January

    BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis and the Psychosocial Study Group in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research   Interrogating “the Social Unconscious” Friday 25 January 2013  2pm – 5pm  Room 101, 30 Russell Square   What is meant by the concept of “the social unconscious”? What is it trying to capture, and is it a…

  • Romney’s musical friends vs Obama’s musical friends

  • Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology

    Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology Date            7 December 2012 Time            9.30am – 4.30pm Location        The British Library, London Digital methods have been utilised by a variety of disciplines. In an era in which social life is increasingly played out online, such methods…

  • Call for Papers to 12th Nordic Youth Research Symposium (NYRIS 12)

    The organising committee for the 12th Symposium is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers is now open! NYRIS 12 focuses on cultural and social changes in the digital age. In the conference programme there are 30 sessions in 16 streams, covering youth-related topics from different perspectives: Youth participation and political activities Online youth activism Youth and digital…

  • Online Networking for Researchers

  • NVivo for Mac looks SO good!

  • Pretty much everything you need to get started on social media as an academic contained within…

    My getting started with social media bundle has pretty much every training resource I’ve ever produced in it. Some collections of other people’s stuff about Twitter, blogging and podcasting. All my Prezis from social media workshops. The LSE Impact Blog’s Twitter list and Twitter guide. Go through the former list, follow anyone who seems interesting and Twitter will…

  • Tweets and the Streets: an interview with Paolo Gerbaudo about social media and contemporary activism

    I did a podcast earlier this week with Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book Tweets and the Streets. I’m going to properly edit it and post on Sociological Imagination but for a couple of reasons (I’m in the middle of moving SI between hosts & I’m rethinking the branding/editing of my podcasts) it will be a…

  • Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers

    Friday, 30 November 2012 from 09:30 to 18:00 (PST) Manchester Digital Laboratory, Manchester, United Kingdom Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and importing your data Coding strategies and techniques Analysing visual and…

  • A Jubilee of a Different Kind: Celebrating Diane Abbott’s 25 years as an MP

    Fri 26th Oct, 10-7pm, Goldsmiths, University of London  A Jubilee of a Different Kind: Celebrating Diane Abbott’s 25 years as an MP Celebrating, honouring, reflecting on 25 years of the UK’s first black female MP, Diane Abbott To celebrate Diane’s achievements, Dr Deirdre Osborne from Goldsmiths’ Department of Theatre and Performance has organised a series…

  • An interview I did about asexuality

    Why the interest in asexuality? Were people around not surprised about your interest and research into asexuality? Is it ok for us to ask about your sexual orientation? I became interested in asexuality because I met a couple of asexual people socially and, I now realise in common with pretty much all non-asexual people, I…

  • CfP BSA Theory Group biennial conference

    Race, Migration, Citizenship: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives Against the backdrop of decolonisation, a global economic boom was accompanied by tightened border controls, ever more punitive asylum regimes and limited access to citizenship. Immigration from former colonies to former metropoles has been limited in the postcolonial period as racialised discourses have set the West in opposition…

  • BSA Regional Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Event: ‘Ways to Enhance Your CV’

    BSA Regional Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Event: ‘Ways to Enhance Your CV’ Wednesday 12th December 2012, 11am-3pm Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET Hosted by Dr Pam Lowe, Head of Sociology & Senior Lecturer: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff-directory/lowep/ & assisted by senior colleagues from the Sociology & Social Policy Dept, Aston University, & BSA Postgraduate Co-convenor/represenatives…

  • Early Career Theorists’ Symposium call for abstracts

    BSA Theory Study Group: Early Career Theorists’ Symposium 2nd April, 2013, Kings College, London Call for Abstracts The Early Career Theorists’ Symposium is a special one-day symposium for up-and-coming theorists, organized by the Theory Study Group of the British Sociological Association. This symposium aims to bring together sociologists at a relatively early stage in their careers…

  • FREE Software Planning Seminar, 9th November, Birmingham University

    Choosing the right software for your qualitative and mixed-methods analysis Choosing the appropriate analysis software package is an important part of planning any qualitative or mixed method research project. There are a range of options available, but it is not always easy to visualise exactly what a package offers when exploring it for the first…

  • Nefarious – merchant of souls Wednesday 7 November

    Coventry Feminists and Coventry University presents Nefarious: Merchant of Souls On Wednesday 7th November Coventry University & Coventry Feminist will host a screening of Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, a hard-hitting documentary that exposes the disturbing trends in modern sex slavery. From the very first scene, Nefarious ushers you into the nightmare of sex slavery that…

  • FWSA 2013 Conf: Mapping Feminist Movement, Moments and Mobilisations

    The Lady Doth Protest: Mapping Feminist Movement, Moments, and Mobilisations Biennial FWSA Conference 21-23 June 2013, University of Nottingham Keynote Speakers: Professor Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS, University of London) Professor Diane Elson (University of Essex) Dr Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths University) The Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (FWSA) is pleased to announce details of its 2013 conference, ‘The Lady Doth Protest: Mapping…

  • Wikipedia for Researchers – Free Workshops at the British Library

    Friday 16th November, 14:00-15:00, British Library Conference Centre, Eliot Room This 1 hour bite-size talk will provide an introduction to Wikipedia and its community. Andrew will introduce ways Wikipedia can be used by researchers, as well as discussing research done using Wikipedia as a subject. Friday 23rd November, 14:00-16:00, British Library Conference Centre, Eliot Room…

  • “You ask for what one should be keyed up?”

    “You ask for what one should be keyed up? My god, for long weekends in the country, and snow and the feel of an idea and New York streets early in the morning and late at night and the camera eye always working whether you want or not and yes by god how the earth feels when it’s…

  • Free Agent Nation OR what precarity looks like for the winners

    Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation, makes being a ‘free agent’ sound pretty great. But then as a former political insider at the heart of the Democratic machine in the 90s and more latterly a business guru and best selling author, it seems likely that his experiences of being a free agent have been,…

  • Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov

    9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory  Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and importing your data Coding strategies and techniques Analysing visual and multimedia data Using memos effectively…

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  • Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov

    9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory  Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and importing your data Coding strategies and techniques Analysing visual and multimedia data Using memos effectively…

  • BSA Presidential Event: Understanding the financial crisis: sociology, political economy and heterodox economics

    BSA Presidential Event, together with FESSUD and the British Library ‘Understanding the financial crisis: sociology, political economy and heterodox economics’ British Library Conference Centre, London Monday 8 October 2012; 10am – 4.10pm The BSA President, Professor John Holmwood, announces a one-day seminar  on the financial crisis, organised in collaboration with Dr Andrew Brown of FESSUD (an EU…

  • New Seminar from CRFR: Disclosing the trauma of child sexual abuse: a gender analysis

    Disclosing the trauma of child sexual abuse: a gender analysis Wednesday 24th October 2012 2pm-5pm Free to attend however places are limited St Trinneans Room, St Leonards Hall, Pollock Halls of Residence, Edinburgh http://www.crfr.ac.uk/events/gbvseminar.html Child sexual abuse occurs with both girls and boys, although much more research has been done with girls. In her qualitative…

  • Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov

    9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory  Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and importing your data Coding strategies and techniques Analysing visual and multimedia data Using memos effectively…

  • Furthering Equality in International HE – a seminar

    Furthering Equality in International Higher Education: UK and transnational programmes Date: 29 Jan 2013 Time: 10:30am – 3:30pm Location/venue: University of Surrey This event is being hosted as part of the Higher Education Academy’s Workshop and Seminar Series 2012/2013 Extant research on processes of internationalisation within higher education has highlighted important inequalities. Students from more…

  • BSA Theory – Early Career Theorists’ Symposium, Apr 2013, London

    BSA Theory Study Group: Early Career Theorists’ Symposium 2nd April, 2013, London Call for Abstracts The Early Career Theorists’ Symposium is a special one-day symposium for up-and-coming theorists, organized by the Theory Study Group of the British Sociological Association. This symposium aims to bring together sociologists at a relatively early stage in their careers who work…

  • The Greatest Debate of the Decade – Christopher Hitchens vs. George Galloway

  • Call for papers: (Im)personal desires: pornography, sexuality and social networks of desire

    In the last decade discourses such as celebrity culture, reality TV, social networking and transnational media have shifted the emphasis of online pornography away from a private and clandestine domain towards a self-authenticating and transformative embodiment of self-expression. This special edition of Networking Knowledge aims to address how and why the rhetoric’s and representations of…

  • SPECIAL ISSUE of Gender and Language on Gender, language, communication and the media

    SPECIAL ISSUE of Gender and Language on  Gender, language, communication and the media Gender and Language invite papers on the topic of gender, language, communication and the media for a forthcoming special issue in 2014. We invite papers that deploy various methods (e.g., linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, content analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and sociolinguistics) to explore…

  • Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov

    9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory  Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and importing your data Coding strategies and techniques Analysing visual and multimedia data Using memos effectively…

  • By far the best explanation of cultural realism I have ever encountered

    You can think of culturally decodable information as a potential form of experience, very much as you can think of a brick resting on a ledge as storing potential energy. When the brick is prodded to fall, the energy is revealed. That is only possible because it was lifted into place at some point in…

  • SOLIDARITY BUT NOT SIMILARITY? LGBT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

    SOLIDARITY BUT NOT SIMILARITY? LGBT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Free one day conference, 9th November 2012, Sheffield This conference will disseminate findings from the recent UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project on understandings and experiences of ‘LGBT communities’, and their implications for ‘wellbeing’. It will also feature additional contributions from experts in the…

  • An early review of the Sociological Imagination (“Imagine a burly cowpuncher on the long, slow ride from the Panhandle of Texas to Columbia University”)

    Imagine a burly cowpuncher on the long, slow ride from the Panhandle of Texas to Columbia University, carrying in his saddle-bag some books which he reads with absorption while his horse trots along. Imagine that among the books are some novels of Kafka, Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution, and essays of Max Weber. Imagine…

  • Interview: Les Back on the 2011 riots in the UK

  • BSA Presidential Event: ‘Understanding the financial crisis: sociology, political economy and heterodox economics’

    BSA Presidential Event, together with FESSUD and the British Library: ‘Understanding the financial crisis: sociology, political economy and heterodox economics’ The event will take place at the British Library Conference Centre, London on Monday 8h October 2012 between 10am – 4.10pm Speakers include: Andrew Brown (Leeds University Business School), Mathew Bond (London South Bank University), Julie Froud…

  • Gender Sex & Power: Interdisciplinary Dialogues

    Gender Sex & Power: Interdisciplinary Dialogues University of Hull Postgraduate Conference Wednesday 21st November 2012 Call for Papers: This one-day interdisciplinary conference draws together postgraduate & early career scholars to explore the intersections of gender, sex and power through their research. Registration Details: There is a £5 registration fee to secure attendance which is inclusive of…

  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equalities: Surviving Austerity – Free workshop

    2.00-5.00 pm, 6 November 2012, NCVO conference suite, Camden, London This workshop will provide a forum for stakeholders, community activists, and service users to discuss current developments in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equalities field. It will include presentations by key community organisations and it will introduce the recently published book Sexuality, Equality and…

  • Psyche in the habitus? Last chance to book!

    Psyche in the Habitus?  Thursday, 27 September 2012, 10am-4.15pm  Birkbeck, University of London, Birkbeck Main building, Room 414, Malet Street, London WC1 Travel details at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps £15.00 BSA members/£10.00 Post-grad BSA members £18.00 Non-BSA/£12.00 non-BSA post-grads  BOOK NOW at: the BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis and the Psychosocial Study Group webpage or follow the links from the BSA website (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/ ).  Organizer: Elizabeth Silva The workshop aims…

  • Call for Abstracts: Special Section on Happiness Research in Sociological Research Online 2013

    The British Sociological Association Happiness Study Group invites social scientists to submit abstracts for their forthcoming special section that aims to explore the theoretical and methodological challenges facing the sociological study of happiness. We feel that happiness research has been neglected in mainstream sociology journals and this special section we hope will be the first…