Phil Crockett Thomas
@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social
Giving this another try...
Teaching at the University of Stirling.
Stuff at https://crowdedmouth.com/ and https://abolitionscifi.org/
Teaching at the University of Stirling.
Stuff at https://crowdedmouth.com/ and https://abolitionscifi.org/
Really good to chat about our show A Giant on the Bridge and Scottish justice issues with Arusa Qureshi and (some of) the team for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j... touring Scotland from Feb
Between the bars: theatrical gig about life after prison reveals hard truths of homecoming
A Giant on the Bridge, performed by a ‘Scottish indie folk supergroup’, draws on dozens of interviews about the confines former prisoners experience on the outside
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Really good to chat about our show A Giant on the Bridge and Scottish justice issues with Arusa Qureshi and (some of) the team for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j... touring Scotland from Feb
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✨️🎓 Funded PhD opportunity:
Our colleague Dr @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social is part of the #PhD supervisor team for this AHRC doctoral #studentship on heritage, buildings, and #ClimateChange action.
Applications close 23rd January
#Scholarship #Heritage #Humanities
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Our colleague Dr @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social is part of the #PhD supervisor team for this AHRC doctoral #studentship on heritage, buildings, and #ClimateChange action.
Applications close 23rd January
#Scholarship #Heritage #Humanities
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - 2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
✨️🎓 Funded PhD opportunity:
Our colleague Dr @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social is part of the #PhD supervisor team for this AHRC doctoral #studentship on heritage, buildings, and #ClimateChange action.
Applications close 23rd January
#Scholarship #Heritage #Humanities
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Our colleague Dr @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social is part of the #PhD supervisor team for this AHRC doctoral #studentship on heritage, buildings, and #ClimateChange action.
Applications close 23rd January
#Scholarship #Heritage #Humanities
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come and do a funded PhD with Vanicka Arora, Kim McKee & me on thermal comfort in Stirling's historic tenements! Would suit someone with experience in creative & collaborative or activist methods, &/or background in housing, heritage, planning or climate change: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - 2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Come and do a funded PhD with Vanicka Arora, Kim McKee & me on thermal comfort in Stirling's historic tenements! Would suit someone with experience in creative & collaborative or activist methods, &/or background in housing, heritage, planning or climate change: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Congratulations to brilliant editors Lucy Cathcart Frödén, @kateherrity.bsky.social & Áine Mangaoang on this huge achievement!!
Hey all, #Sound and #Detention is out on THURSDAY!!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...
If you happen to be in Oslo on January 19th, at 12:30 do come to our bokbad to celebrate! Please share, particularly those of you interested in #prison studies and #sociology, #Musicology, #SoundStudies...
If you happen to be in Oslo on January 19th, at 12:30 do come to our bokbad to celebrate! Please share, particularly those of you interested in #prison studies and #sociology, #Musicology, #SoundStudies...
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Congratulations to brilliant editors Lucy Cathcart Frödén, @kateherrity.bsky.social & Áine Mangaoang on this huge achievement!!
Excited to be participating in this Glasgow Ursula Le Guin love fest on 4/11 with @suchmayer.bsky.social, @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social
We're celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social gorgeous new book The Word for World which centres on Le Guin's imaginative maps. Come!
We're celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social gorgeous new book The Word for World which centres on Le Guin's imaginative maps. Come!
A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin today.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Excited to be participating in this Glasgow Ursula Le Guin love fest on 4/11 with @suchmayer.bsky.social, @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social
We're celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social gorgeous new book The Word for World which centres on Le Guin's imaginative maps. Come!
We're celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social gorgeous new book The Word for World which centres on Le Guin's imaginative maps. Come!
Reposted by Phil Crockett Thomas
Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
Reposted by Phil Crockett Thomas
Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃
4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo.
www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...
4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo.
www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...
A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin today.
www.waterstones.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃
4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo.
www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...
4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo.
www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...
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We are delighted that Dr Martha O'Carroll is joining us at the University of Stirling to do an SGSSS ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship #research project on 'Activating Anti-Carceral Archives in Scotland', supported by mentor Dr Phil Crockett Thomas @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social #Criminology #Abolition
September 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We are delighted that Dr Martha O'Carroll is joining us at the University of Stirling to do an SGSSS ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship #research project on 'Activating Anti-Carceral Archives in Scotland', supported by mentor Dr Phil Crockett Thomas @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social #Criminology #Abolition
New article on utopia, abolition and science fiction published open access @thesociologicalreview.org! If you want to read the creative writing by the project's (brilliant) participants which I discuss in the paper, the eBook is free to download at abolitionscifi.org
“Fiction is an important space where activists reckon with the complexity of their hopes about distant futures.”
@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social on what science fiction teaches us about the struggle for prison abolition.
#OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/xw5UXjJ
@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social on what science fiction teaches us about the struggle for prison abolition.
#OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/xw5UXjJ
July 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New article on utopia, abolition and science fiction published open access @thesociologicalreview.org! If you want to read the creative writing by the project's (brilliant) participants which I discuss in the paper, the eBook is free to download at abolitionscifi.org