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Ros Edwards
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Academic. Families. Research methods.
Take a look: academicswives.co.uk
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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · Feb 8
Our sociologists’ wives research is helping to set the record straight about whose shoulders British sociologists are standing on. Wives collected and analysed data, edited and co-authored. Visit our website to find out more, and …1/6
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Welcome to Academics’ Wives Welcome to Academics’ Wives Academics’ Wives is a British Academy / Leverhulme funded research project exploring the contribution made by wives of social investiga...
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In Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now.

🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...

#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
Podcast of the Month - Thanks for Typing - Research Podcasts
This month’s Podcast of the Month is Thanks for Typing which uncovers the hidden contributions of Sociologists’ wives to their research. Behind many of the landmark studies that shaped modern…
researchpodcasts.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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From hashtag to history

The story of Thanks for Typing began with the viral #ThanksForTyping hashtag-a call to recognise wives’ invisible labour in academic life.

From typing manuscripts to conducting fieldwork, these women made crucial but uncredited contributions to their husbands’ research.
Podcast of the Month - Thanks for Typing - Research Podcasts
This month’s Podcast of the Month is Thanks for Typing which uncovers the hidden contributions of Sociologists’ wives to their research. Behind many of the landmark studies that shaped modern…
researchpodcasts.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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An insighful and timely piece by Diane Reay on the purposes of education journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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corinnefowler.bsky.social
Coming up on 13 November, our walk with Clare Balding for BBC R4 Ramblings
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
rosedwards.bsky.social
I haven’t heard anything that caught me up like this has for ages
The New Eves - Cow Song
YouTube video by TheNewEvesVEVO
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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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researchpodcasts.bsky.social
🎧 Bring Your Research to Life Through Podcasting

We’re excited to be teaming up with the @royalholloway.bsky.social Social Science Impact Accelerator for a dynamic, hands-on workshop exploring how podcasting can amplify your research story and reach new audiences.
Storytelling for Impact: Podcasts
Come along to learn why podcasts are a great tool for storytelling, and how to launch your own
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November 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
rosedwards.bsky.social
November ladybird travelling by train.
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Ellen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt
Photo of s totem pole with symbolic animal carvings in an outdoor setting with trees behind
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Embroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart
Rectangular cream coloured cloth embroidered with a number of names with a border in violet, green and white and a photograph at thd bottom of two white women, head and shoulders
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
rosedwards.bsky.social
Can anyone help me out - what is this flimsy delight representing?
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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ruthpatrick0.bsky.social
I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit.

Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social

largerfamilies.study/publications...
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
This week's Substack post tells the story of Brighton's interwar council housing. There's a new post every Thursday in your inbox if you subscribe.
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Black and whte image of terraced housing on hill Black and whte image of council estate from hill Black and whte image of terraced housing from hill
November 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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timbale.bsky.social
This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.
Interactive: explore England’s new deprivation map
Data analysis reveals ‘cheek by jowl’ inequalities in first study of country’s disadvantaged areas since pandemic
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October 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk
Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
🚨 New on Substack: Brighton built a lot of fine council housing between the wars but could it make it affordable to the working class? My post on Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’
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Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’
In 1921, Brighton was the second most densely populated county borough in the country after West Ham and, as a long-established town, a good deal of its housing was in worse condition than that of the...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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thesociologicalreview.org
Have you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK
Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism Podcast series graphic featuring line drawings of four Black and Brown faces and two arrows pointing upward
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
New post out:

"The worst social policy ever"

Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.

Lots of data but also powerful testimony.

(Free to read)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
We have a couple of bonus guest posts over the next week.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Free access
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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If you teach research methods, this is an amazing resource for inspiring approaches 🤩

www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...
Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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naamoduk.bsky.social
Israel has bombed Gaza again. 104 Palestinians are dead.

Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Coming up...
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BBC Radio 4 - Ramblings, India in the Cotswolds with Corinne Fowler and Raj Pal
Clare and guests discuss how the British countryside is connected to colonial history.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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katieholten.bsky.social
The New York City Tree Alphabet is an alphabetical planting palette, inviting us to plant secret messages with real trees. You can also write/type with the NYC Trees font, find it here: www.katieholten.com/new-york-cit... #naturewriting #booksky #trees 🌿
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM