@mbherbert.bsky.social
Sociological Review Fellow 2024/25.
Counsellor and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse
Counsellor and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse
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Join us on 5th December to honour the legacy of UCL alumni Dr Refaat Alareer.
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Join us on 5th December to honour the legacy of UCL alumni Dr Refaat Alareer.
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We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md
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Join us on 5th December to honour the legacy of UCL alumni Dr Refaat Alareer on the second anniversary of his murder.
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Join us on 5th December to honour the legacy of UCL alumni Dr Refaat Alareer on the second anniversary of his murder.
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LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
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Migration insights: read our Virtual Issue of The Sociological Review journal, a companion to our Annual Lecture 2025 with Shahram Khosravi.
📑 12 #openaccess #freetoview papers exploring refugees, borders and migration, introduced by Editor-in-Chief @carinrunciman.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/7KaED6U
📑 12 #openaccess #freetoview papers exploring refugees, borders and migration, introduced by Editor-in-Chief @carinrunciman.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/7KaED6U
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Migration insights: read our Virtual Issue of The Sociological Review journal, a companion to our Annual Lecture 2025 with Shahram Khosravi.
📑 12 #openaccess #freetoview papers exploring refugees, borders and migration, introduced by Editor-in-Chief @carinrunciman.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/7KaED6U
📑 12 #openaccess #freetoview papers exploring refugees, borders and migration, introduced by Editor-in-Chief @carinrunciman.bsky.social
➡️ buff.ly/7KaED6U
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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Action taking place now at UCL to condemn complicity with GoogleDeepMind in genocide in Gaza.
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Action taking place now at UCL to condemn complicity with GoogleDeepMind in genocide in Gaza.
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UCL staff, students and alumni demand that UCL rescinds Demis Hassabis’ Honorary Fellowship. Sign our petition now, link and info at this link: shorturl.at/l0BCO
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
UCL staff, students and alumni demand that UCL rescinds Demis Hassabis’ Honorary Fellowship. Sign our petition now, link and info at this link: shorturl.at/l0BCO
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Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Almost all children in 73 areas of England live in low-income households
New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivation
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
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🎥 WATCH: Lifestyle, Migration & Community
In a recent Conversations event, @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Graham Crow and Matthew Hayes take a closer look at the field that Professor O'Reilly’s book The British on the Costa Del Sol helped to launch.
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In a recent Conversations event, @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Graham Crow and Matthew Hayes take a closer look at the field that Professor O'Reilly’s book The British on the Costa Del Sol helped to launch.
buff.ly/zBCtAkQ
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🎥 WATCH: Lifestyle, Migration & Community
In a recent Conversations event, @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Graham Crow and Matthew Hayes take a closer look at the field that Professor O'Reilly’s book The British on the Costa Del Sol helped to launch.
buff.ly/zBCtAkQ
In a recent Conversations event, @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Graham Crow and Matthew Hayes take a closer look at the field that Professor O'Reilly’s book The British on the Costa Del Sol helped to launch.
buff.ly/zBCtAkQ
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In July 88 a US missile cruiser breached Iranian territorial waters & was fired on by Iranian gunboats.The Vincennes’ incompetent/belligerent crew identified a civilian Iranian plane as an F14 & fired on it, killing 290 people inc. 66 kids.Toby Craig Jones will speak on this in our seminar nxt week.
October 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In July 88 a US missile cruiser breached Iranian territorial waters & was fired on by Iranian gunboats.The Vincennes’ incompetent/belligerent crew identified a civilian Iranian plane as an F14 & fired on it, killing 290 people inc. 66 kids.Toby Craig Jones will speak on this in our seminar nxt week.
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“A medical source at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza says two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Shujayea neighbourhood.”
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks rises, despite ceasefire
Palestinians continue to be killed by Israel as people struggle for aid in decimated Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“A medical source at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza says two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Shujayea neighbourhood.”
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Coloniality 101: “…we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who…must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
And now an explicit rejection of Palestinian self-determination…again ”.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"It was hard seeing the videos of our colleagues returning to their homes, finding them literally in rubble."
Gazan aid worker Mai Elawawda tells @krishgm.bsky.social she knows "many people whose bodies were still under the rubble".
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/ceasefi...
Gazan aid worker Mai Elawawda tells @krishgm.bsky.social she knows "many people whose bodies were still under the rubble".
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/ceasefi...
‘Ceasefire doesn’t end Gaza’s manmade catastrophe’ – Aid worker
We spoke to Mai Elawawda, a Gazan who works for Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza, and began by asking her how she feels now people are moving back towards northern Gaza.
www.channel4.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"It was hard seeing the videos of our colleagues returning to their homes, finding them literally in rubble."
Gazan aid worker Mai Elawawda tells @krishgm.bsky.social she knows "many people whose bodies were still under the rubble".
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/ceasefi...
Gazan aid worker Mai Elawawda tells @krishgm.bsky.social she knows "many people whose bodies were still under the rubble".
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/ceasefi...
We marched again 🇵🇸🇵🇸
October 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We marched again 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents
October 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents
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OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess).
💡 Includes a Special Section on the legacy of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.
buff.ly/bJQXWs6 @journals.sagepub.com
💡 Includes a Special Section on the legacy of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.
buff.ly/bJQXWs6 @journals.sagepub.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal 73.5, featuring 13 new papers (11 #openaccess).
💡 Includes a Special Section on the legacy of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.
buff.ly/bJQXWs6 @journals.sagepub.com
💡 Includes a Special Section on the legacy of @academicdiary.bsky.social and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods, published in 2012 as part of our monograph series.
buff.ly/bJQXWs6 @journals.sagepub.com
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We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md
October 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md
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“I enjoy working here because people treat us with respect – around 90% of the customers are regulars. You get to know them, and they get to know you.”
London’s chicken shops offer chips, community and respect, writes Safia Banharally in The Sociological Review magazine.
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London’s chicken shops offer chips, community and respect, writes Safia Banharally in The Sociological Review magazine.
buff.ly/u7edt4y
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“I enjoy working here because people treat us with respect – around 90% of the customers are regulars. You get to know them, and they get to know you.”
London’s chicken shops offer chips, community and respect, writes Safia Banharally in The Sociological Review magazine.
buff.ly/u7edt4y
London’s chicken shops offer chips, community and respect, writes Safia Banharally in The Sociological Review magazine.
buff.ly/u7edt4y
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Lucy Pickering and I first talked about research ethics nearly 30 years ago. Now we’re launching a call for chapters on experiences of ethics review.
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
More here 👉 helenkara.com/2025/10/08/e...
#ResearchEthics #CallforChapters #EthicsReview
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
More here 👉 helenkara.com/2025/10/08/e...
#ResearchEthics #CallforChapters #EthicsReview
Ethics Review In Practice
I have known Lucy Pickering for a long time. I first met her almost 30 years ago through a mutual friend, and I got to know her well some years later when we were doing our PhDs at the same time. W…
helenkara.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Lucy Pickering and I first talked about research ethics nearly 30 years ago. Now we’re launching a call for chapters on experiences of ethics review.
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
More here 👉 helenkara.com/2025/10/08/e...
#ResearchEthics #CallforChapters #EthicsReview
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
More here 👉 helenkara.com/2025/10/08/e...
#ResearchEthics #CallforChapters #EthicsReview
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Attacks at synagogues and mosques. Don't let them claim we're not in this together against racism and racist violence. Divide and rule is all they have. Solidarity.
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Attacks at synagogues and mosques. Don't let them claim we're not in this together against racism and racist violence. Divide and rule is all they have. Solidarity.
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They say there’s hope in poetry. There are no poets, no children here. Come back, poets & children of Gaza.
I’m reminded of Amrita Pritam’s invocation of the poet Waris Shah in ‘Aaj Aakhan Waris Shah Nu’, eliciting his response on the endless murders of Punjabi women at Punjab’s partition in 1947.
I’m reminded of Amrita Pritam’s invocation of the poet Waris Shah in ‘Aaj Aakhan Waris Shah Nu’, eliciting his response on the endless murders of Punjabi women at Punjab’s partition in 1947.
October 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
They say there’s hope in poetry. There are no poets, no children here. Come back, poets & children of Gaza.
I’m reminded of Amrita Pritam’s invocation of the poet Waris Shah in ‘Aaj Aakhan Waris Shah Nu’, eliciting his response on the endless murders of Punjabi women at Punjab’s partition in 1947.
I’m reminded of Amrita Pritam’s invocation of the poet Waris Shah in ‘Aaj Aakhan Waris Shah Nu’, eliciting his response on the endless murders of Punjabi women at Punjab’s partition in 1947.
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It’s weird how UK unis are now encouraging academics to use AI (parking climate concerns). Unis are soon going to be one AI model talking to another “But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically”
olivia.science/ai
olivia.science/ai
Critical AI
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
olivia.science
October 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It’s weird how UK unis are now encouraging academics to use AI (parking climate concerns). Unis are soon going to be one AI model talking to another “But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically”
olivia.science/ai
olivia.science/ai
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When Labour came to power last year it followed 14 years of Tory rule in which international monitors had issued stark warnings about the UK's "authoritarian turn" through crackdowns on political protest and migrants' rights. Starmer is continuing that project.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
When Labour came to power last year it followed 14 years of Tory rule in which international monitors had issued stark warnings about the UK's "authoritarian turn" through crackdowns on political protest and migrants' rights. Starmer is continuing that project.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...