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🤓 Associate Professor in Sociology @ucl.ac.uk
🔎 Family and work changes/inequalities in global contexts
🎓 Director MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social
➕ Co-dicrector @wfrn.bsky.social ECF program
🤓 Member @ref2029.bsky.social UoA21
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · Dec 5
🚨Thrilled my@wfrn.bsky.social Big Ideas Talk just dropped www.youtube.com/watch?v=jykO...

🎙️MANUFACTURING CARE: WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT CARE FROM AI

It was such an inspiring experience sharing a stage & delivering this alongside my super idols Ellen Galinsky & Rosabeth Moss Kanter in Montreal (1/5)
Yang Hu - What Can We Learn About Care From AI?
YouTube video by Work and Family Researchers Network
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🚨 New paper with Monideepa Tarafdar & Irina Rets doi.org/10.1111/isj....

🤖 Why is bias in machine learning applications so slippery to catch & eliminate? We dive into a key organisation developing AI tools for job/hiring decisions to find out.

@sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Catch Me If You Can: The Dynamic Nature of Bias in Machine Learning Applications
Bias in machine learning (ML) applications represents systematic differences between expected and actual values of the predicted outputs, such that certain individuals or groups are systematically an...
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February 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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🚨 Thrilled to share my new paper with @yueqiansoc.bsky.social just out in @europeansocreview.bsky.social

Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, we examine how online banking shapes who holds the purse strings among UK couples: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Empowerment and individualization: online banking and household financial organization
Abstract. Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in
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February 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Wonderful news that my great friend @imogentyler.bsky.social is elected Vice President of the @britsoci.bsky.social - having worked closely with Imogen for years, I cannot speak highly enough of what a truly caring, visionary, and inspiring leader Imogen is! ❤️🥰

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Professor Imogen Tyler elected as next BSA Vice President - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association
We are pleased to announce that BSA members have elected Professor Imogen Tyler as our next Vice President. Imogen is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at...
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February 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Congratulations to @academicdiary.bsky.social on the @britsoci.bsky.social presidency! We are so thrilled to have such a caring and visionary leader in our community at a time when we need Sociology more than ever! 🎉
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Professor Les Back takes up role of BSA President - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association
We are delighted to confirm that Professor Les Back has taken up the role of BSA President, stepping up from Vice President. Many members will know Les’s work and his...
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February 5, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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🚨 Our @sriucl.bsky.social 2026 Open Days are landing next week!

⭐️ Feb 4, Wednesday, 12:00-13:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Sociology

⭐️ Feb 5, Thursday, 13:00-14:00 (UK) – Master's degrees in Social Policy and in Social Research Methods

➡️ Sign up here and join us: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/graduate...
January 28, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Nigel Farage, has proposed a mass deportation plan called "Operation Restoring Justice," which includes creating a "UK Deportation Command" modelled on the U.S. ICE.

Don't vote Reform unless you want innocent blood on UK streets like we see in the USA.
January 24, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
January 21, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT.

New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social.

👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
January 20, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology
hermwerf.bsky.social Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Dec 19
A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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As well as being our 10th anniversary, 2025 was a huge year for our department's continued commitment to research, policy and social change. Read just a little bit of what we got up to in SRI's first ever Impact Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/sites/io...
January 6, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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🚨What's the role of AI in hiring & organisational inequalities? How does an interdisciplinary view matter?

Read our new paper (Karen Hughes, Alla Konnikov & @ndenier.bsky.social) in inaugural Human Relations review SI @tavinstitute.org: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Problematizing the role of artificial intelligence in hiring and organizational inequalities: A multidisciplinary review - Karen D Hughes, Alla Konnikov, Nicole Denier, Yang Hu, 2025
What are the implications of the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment and hiring for organizational inequalities? While advocates suggest ...
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January 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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🚨New year, new paper with the fab Anette Fasang, Ignacio Cabib, Adam Cooper &
@robgruijters.bsky.social!

We introduce our SI on 'Young Adult Life Courses in the Global South' & develop a new framework and concepts to advance the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Young adult life courses in the Global South: A comparative framework and research agenda
As of 2025, 85% of the world population lives in countries typically associated with the Global South. Fifty percent of the world’s population is unde…
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January 2, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Its the annual holiday countdown for my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Over the next 24 days I'll be highlighting the episodes from this year as well as giving shoutouts to some of the books of the year too!
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Research by Dr @yanghu.co.uk @sriucl.bsky.social finds concern around technology's impact on privacy, misinformation and work-life boundaries are highest among educated, Western European millennials. In fact, greater use of technology heightens digital anxiety, especially for the digitally literate.
Tech savvy users have most digital concerns
Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia.
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December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Resonating with @academicdiary.bsky.social's wonderful annual lecture on "The Paradox of Home" @uclsociology.bsky.social last week.
December 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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From work-family conflict to privacy loss, rapid digitalisation has unleashed heightened forebodings about digital technologies' ramifications. Who's concerned? How do digital literacy & exposure matter? @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I tried to find out doi.org/10.1080/1369...

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Who is concerned about digitalization? The role of digital literacy and exposure across 30 countries
Rapid digitalization has unleashed widespread digital concerns, namely concerns about the potential harms associated with digital technology use, such as privacy loss, blurred work-family boundarie...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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With alt-text:
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper By Joseph Fasano Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Call: The London Journal Early Career Publishing Workshop thelondonjournal.org/ECRPublishin...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Dec 7
I think we continue to suffer from the split that was made with the higher education portfolio sitting in the Department of Education and research in the Department of Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) as HE policy can miss impacts on research
In addition, we need a stronger interface between the higher education and research portfolios in government—in the medium run, under a single secretary of state. Although relations between the Department for Education and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are stronger than they were, it is not always clear that the DfE sees the impact of higher education policy on research, or fully understands the complex cross-subsidies at play within universities.
December 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Journals - this is so important: Please make this a condition for someone to accept a review invitation, not just part of the review submission. Thank you. 😀
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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🚨 SCHOLARSHIPS OPEN – MSc/MA Sociology @sriucl.bsky.social

🌍 International: Clarke & ISH Centenary (Tuition + Stipend/Accommodation).

🇬🇧 UK: Aziz Foundation (Full Tuition).

Scholarship details: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/about-io...

Apply to join MSc/MA Sociology: www.linkedin.com/posts/yang-h...
Considering doing a Master's degree in Sociology? For the first time in the 200-year history of UCL, and after several years in the making, the UCL Social Research Institute has just formally… |...
Considering doing a Master's degree in Sociology? For the first time in the 200-year history of UCL, and after several years in the making, the UCL Social Research Institute has just formally launch...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville.
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...

If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...
The Conference
Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Thrilled to announce the 2026 cohort of @wfrn.bsky.social early-career fellows! It's been such a privilege to review the 200+ excellent applications + huge congratulations to our elected fellows!

The whole WFRN family looks forward to supporting your career development!

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Announcing the 2026 WFRN Early Career Fellowship Recipients - Work and Family Researchers Network
The WFRN Welcomes 2026 Early Career Fellowship Recipients! To date, 170 early-career scholars have participated in the WFRN’s Early Career Fellowship Program. This program is designed to deliver a var...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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🚨🚨🚨 Job alert! 🚨🚨🚨
The Department of Political Economy @kcl-spe.bsky.social are hiring a permanent Lecturer in Economics. It's a fantastic department that's really going places.
Please share widely!

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Lecturer in Economics at King's College London
Apply for the Lecturer in Economics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM