Simon Goodman
drsimongoodman.bsky.social
Simon Goodman
@drsimongoodman.bsky.social
Associate Professor in #Psychology at De Montfort University.
I analyse talk about #hate, #prejudice, #refugees, income #inequality and more
#discourseanalysis
New BJSP paper with @alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social and Mirko Demasi:
"The overlap of anti-Black and anti-protest rhetoric: How far-right political commentators preserve anti-Black racist stereotypes in the context of #BLM debates"
Open access here
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Research has shown that speakers opposing political demonstrations can pathologize protesters campaigning against racial prejudice in order to justify racialized police profiling and brutality. This ....
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January 27, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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🚨 New Episode 🚨
If racism is meant to be in retreat in Britain, why does it feel harder than ever to ignore? @zoegrunewald.bsky.social is joined by Rahul Sambaraju and @drsimongoodman.bsky.social to ask: is racism becoming more acceptable in the UK?

Listen everywhere: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
January 14, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Our* special issue on economic inequality is available in Qualitative Research in Psychology! Thank you to our contributors

www.tandfonline.com/toc/uqrp20/2...

* @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social Jackie Abell and Mirko Demasi

@ree-uwe.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 10:02 AM
The @euroqualpsy.bsky.social online research seminar is happening today! 4pm UK; 5pm CET; 6pm EET
@wiam.bsky.social will be presenting " How can we visually share findings from our qualitative analyses?"
Details here: www.equipsy.org/agor%C3%A1/2...
Link to join on teams here: tinyurl.com/vavhzn3w
2025
www.equipsy.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This is happening this afternoon (Tuesday 16th!) and should be a great talk. Join if you can!
(And UK people, note this is at 4pm)
Hello, we invite you to join the E-Agora tomorrow.

The ‘Manosphere’ with Cecilia Rollano, (National University of Distance Education, Spain).

Tuesday the 16th of September 2025. At 17.00-18.30 Central European Time (16.00 West European Time/UK; 18.00 East European Time).

Link: shorturl.at/tSGdb
Join conversation
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September 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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When irresponsible politicians try to divide our communities, what do we do? We speak up, we stand together, we stay strong.

We are, and always will be, an island of solidarity, not of strangers.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
May 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Leicester Psychologists for Social Change statement in solidarity with student activists arrested for peacefully protesting against atrocities in Palestine

www.psychchange.org/leicester.html
April 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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🥳 New blog post from our own, Dr Simon Goodman (@drsimongoodman.bsky.social)

⌨️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...
March 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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We've got a blog on media representations of wealth inequality and economic growth 📈

Thanks to @acadsocsciences.bsky.social for including us in their good growth hub!

@ree-uwe.bsky.social @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social
⭐New blog post⭐ In this blog ✍️ for our good growth hub, Dr Philippa Carr, drsimongoodman.bsky.social, @dradamjowett.bsky.social & Dr Jackie Abell explore how the media portrays inequality & wealth and the impact this has on economic growth.
Read here ➡️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...
March 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
New edition of The Other Side of Hope, out now here:
othersideofhope.com/vol-41-onlin...
@othersidelitmag.bsky.social
vol 4.1 online
editorial team & publication information contributors' notes acknowledgements foreword by John Vincent
othersideofhope.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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So pumped that this @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social volume THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MIGRANT IDENTITIES is finally in my hands !! Thanks to the editors @proftaylor.bsky.social, @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dumore and reviewers. Thanks to my fab coauthor @elenainlimbo.bsky.social #discourse
February 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Here's the documentary about Palestinian suffering that the BBC took down 🍉
x.com/kahlissee/st...
Khalissee on X: "THE FULL GAZA DOCUMENTARY THEY TRIED TO BAN https://t.co/ifrpRwIknW" / X
THE FULL GAZA DOCUMENTARY THEY TRIED TO BAN https://t.co/ifrpRwIknW
x.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore

Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4
February 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It's QMiP's 20th anniversary this year and we'll be celebrating at the conference! There'll also be fab keynotes: @ginnybraun.bsky.social @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social and Paul Flowers

Submit your abstracts and join us! Deadline 28th March

www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit...

#qualitative #research
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January 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Actors for Human Rights (AFHR) returns to DMU on 25 February at Trinity House with events co-organised by Politics & IR, Law School, SDG Impact Hub, and DMU Pride. Highlights include Tales from the Hostile Environment (14:00-15:45), a play with Q&A on immigration policies

@dmuleicester.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Statistically Nazi salutes are more commonly a symptom of Nazism than autism.
January 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM