Sarah Barnard
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Sarah Barnard
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Contemporary Work at Loughborough University, UK. Interested in equality, diversity and inclusion, technology, work and higher education. Views my own.
Reminds me of the saying No good deed goes unpunished
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
She was one of ten children. So hardworking, made clothes, worked as a pastry cook. I remember her not really getting etiquette of telephone calls as she only had one in her retirement years, when she finished saying what she wanted to say she simply put the phone down!
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Hearing my grandmother, who was born in 1904, talk about her life when I was a child was like time travelling
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Feels like erasure (first in family to stay in education past 16), discomfort in your own history, you lose a sense of self which is hard to recognise, never mind reclaim
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Great book title! Could work across so many disciplines
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
You also don't have to do your best to be enough x
October 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Count me in
October 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If he had the capacity for that kind of thinking he might not have called the referendum in the first place
October 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We are busier than we would like to be
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Every day I envy my dogs
October 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
But then it feels so good to take them off!
September 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Good as preventative medicine, but once depression sets in it is extremely difficult to do the lifestyle things like exercise that can help
September 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
One of my dogs can tell the difference between the sound of me peeling and chopping a carrot and other root veg (she loves carrots and runs into the kitchen to ask for some)
September 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Girls with wealthy parents and attending single sex private schools are more likely to play after-school sports
September 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
See also BBC coverage of Wimbledon finals
September 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Really enjoyed the first series, so great there is more coming
August 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Unless they are snarky footnotes
August 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM