Sofia Lampropoulou
@sofialampro.bsky.social
University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical; migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Pinned
‘Hosting refugees is the most rewarding experience’: migrant identity and affective positioning in curated NGO stories
This study explores positive migrant storytelling in non-governmental organizations’ advocacy campaigns. We focus on the practices and implications of leveraging storytelling towards charity organi...
www.tandfonline.com
Our article with Korina Giaxoglou and Paige Johnson has just been assigned an issue at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social We argue that even humanitarian narratives about migration in the UK are deeply problematic.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 17th is one of the events proudly commemorated in Greece - and a platform to protest&express current political sentiment.
At 3AM, November 17, 1973, "The Colonels" sent a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic. It had been occupied by students protesting the fascist junta. Dozens died, mostly teens, 20s and one boy of 5. Over 2,000 were injured.
The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.
The protests it sparked brought down the dictatorship.
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
November 17th is one of the events proudly commemorated in Greece - and a platform to protest&express current political sentiment.
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Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.
See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.
The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.
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More utterly predictable news of Labour's utterly pointless "one in one out* policy.
At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
More utterly predictable news of Labour's utterly pointless "one in one out* policy.
At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Each story in The Other Side of Hope, Volume 5 is a journey 🕯️📝✨
Join us in supporting the voices that matter
#theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction
Join us in supporting the voices that matter
#theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Each story in The Other Side of Hope, Volume 5 is a journey 🕯️📝✨
Join us in supporting the voices that matter
#theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction
Join us in supporting the voices that matter
#theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction
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3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible.
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Doctoral Landscape Awards | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible.
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025.
Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
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New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
Location: MS Teams
Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r
Location: MS Teams
Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r
November 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
Location: MS Teams
Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r
Location: MS Teams
Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r
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Less than 24hrs after a damning Home Affairs report condemned military sites for asylum housing, Labour announces two more.
Wethersfield must close. Napier must close. Cameron and Crowborough must not open.
People seeking safety belong in communities, not camps.
Wethersfield must close. Napier must close. Cameron and Crowborough must not open.
People seeking safety belong in communities, not camps.
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Less than 24hrs after a damning Home Affairs report condemned military sites for asylum housing, Labour announces two more.
Wethersfield must close. Napier must close. Cameron and Crowborough must not open.
People seeking safety belong in communities, not camps.
Wethersfield must close. Napier must close. Cameron and Crowborough must not open.
People seeking safety belong in communities, not camps.
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🔈 ‘Integration’ narratives are simply an internal border within states that reinforce second-class status, forcing people to abandon their cultures and identities to navigate into systems of oppression.
📖 Read our new Substack analysis: buff.ly/NpR129y
📖 Read our new Substack analysis: buff.ly/NpR129y
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🔈 ‘Integration’ narratives are simply an internal border within states that reinforce second-class status, forcing people to abandon their cultures and identities to navigate into systems of oppression.
📖 Read our new Substack analysis: buff.ly/NpR129y
📖 Read our new Substack analysis: buff.ly/NpR129y
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1️⃣ Reporting on migration & accountability can often feel futile
Not today
The ECHR ruled Greece violated the right to life in the 2018 Agathonisi shipwreck: 16 dead, incl. 7 children & 2 babies
@rsaegean.org fought for the families; We had investigated w/ former @spiegel.de colleagues
Decision ⬇️
Not today
The ECHR ruled Greece violated the right to life in the 2018 Agathonisi shipwreck: 16 dead, incl. 7 children & 2 babies
@rsaegean.org fought for the families; We had investigated w/ former @spiegel.de colleagues
Decision ⬇️
HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights
The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L...
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNbU3tleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBac3JwWWhXRWVwZ25KeUVrAR5i_i-_IxCFXZkcLzr-LWO2r_VlwDHI6_yWOvify7BqAaKpltIMdjDXWWWy0Q_aem_po49uLWm4ySAmtc28DE0Cg#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-245252%22]}
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
1️⃣ Reporting on migration & accountability can often feel futile
Not today
The ECHR ruled Greece violated the right to life in the 2018 Agathonisi shipwreck: 16 dead, incl. 7 children & 2 babies
@rsaegean.org fought for the families; We had investigated w/ former @spiegel.de colleagues
Decision ⬇️
Not today
The ECHR ruled Greece violated the right to life in the 2018 Agathonisi shipwreck: 16 dead, incl. 7 children & 2 babies
@rsaegean.org fought for the families; We had investigated w/ former @spiegel.de colleagues
Decision ⬇️
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❤️ Σάββατο - Κυριακή - Δευτέρα θα είμαστε στη Μυτιλήνη!
Σας περιμένουμε στο τριήμερο εκδηλώσεων «Λέσβος 2015 – 10 Χρόνια Μετά» 👇
rsaegean.org/el/triimero-...
📅 18–20 Οκτωβρίου 2025 | Νεοκλασικό σπίτι, οδός Τζέημς Αριστάρχου 17, Μυτιλήνη
🙏 Με την υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος @proasyl.de
Σας περιμένουμε στο τριήμερο εκδηλώσεων «Λέσβος 2015 – 10 Χρόνια Μετά» 👇
rsaegean.org/el/triimero-...
📅 18–20 Οκτωβρίου 2025 | Νεοκλασικό σπίτι, οδός Τζέημς Αριστάρχου 17, Μυτιλήνη
🙏 Με την υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος @proasyl.de
October 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
❤️ Σάββατο - Κυριακή - Δευτέρα θα είμαστε στη Μυτιλήνη!
Σας περιμένουμε στο τριήμερο εκδηλώσεων «Λέσβος 2015 – 10 Χρόνια Μετά» 👇
rsaegean.org/el/triimero-...
📅 18–20 Οκτωβρίου 2025 | Νεοκλασικό σπίτι, οδός Τζέημς Αριστάρχου 17, Μυτιλήνη
🙏 Με την υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος @proasyl.de
Σας περιμένουμε στο τριήμερο εκδηλώσεων «Λέσβος 2015 – 10 Χρόνια Μετά» 👇
rsaegean.org/el/triimero-...
📅 18–20 Οκτωβρίου 2025 | Νεοκλασικό σπίτι, οδός Τζέημς Αριστάρχου 17, Μυτιλήνη
🙏 Με την υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος @proasyl.de
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It seems Labour have now learnt the word 'racism', but this is utterly disingenuous given how they are pandering to Reform’s far-right agenda.
✍️ our Stephen Walcott, Head of Policy, on @bigissue.com
✍️ our Stephen Walcott, Head of Policy, on @bigissue.com
Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tact
The Labour Party can't out-Reform Reform, and if it genuinely wants to choose ‘decency’ over ‘division’, it needs to change tact.
www.bigissue.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It seems Labour have now learnt the word 'racism', but this is utterly disingenuous given how they are pandering to Reform’s far-right agenda.
✍️ our Stephen Walcott, Head of Policy, on @bigissue.com
✍️ our Stephen Walcott, Head of Policy, on @bigissue.com
No criminal record, then volunteer, then learn the language and, ideally, bring an Oscar or an Olympic medal. Then we'll accept you - maybe you'll get citizenship...
Labour looking at Reform's racist policies and saying "we"ll have some of that". These aren't just discriminatory, by making migrants meet higher standards than the average person, they automatically treat migrants as if they are criminals on community service.
#r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 29, 2025 at 6:21 AM
No criminal record, then volunteer, then learn the language and, ideally, bring an Oscar or an Olympic medal. Then we'll accept you - maybe you'll get citizenship...
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#OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...
September 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
#OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...
Labour Party Conference kicks off tomorrow, so we thought we'd mark the occasion by going through some of the Prime Minister Keir Starmer's recent social media posts on the Government's #immigration policies. 👉 buff.ly/MshzSHQ
To Starmer’s Government: Your #WordsMatter.
To Starmer’s Government: Your #WordsMatter.
Keir Starmer is complicit in stoking anti-migrant racism
Disclaimer: we had to edit this piece multiple times because the PM kept making more anti-migrant statements
open.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
September 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
TUP has given us access to 25 online copies of our gendered linguistic ideologies paper in UK schools. Feel free to download!
el.utpress.utoronto.ca/ls/click?upn...
el.utpress.utoronto.ca/ls/click?upn...
September 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
TUP has given us access to 25 online copies of our gendered linguistic ideologies paper in UK schools. Feel free to download!
el.utpress.utoronto.ca/ls/click?upn...
el.utpress.utoronto.ca/ls/click?upn...
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We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid.
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies
September 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid.
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies
The #CFP will be launched soon.
We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information.
Follow us there & help us spread the word!
#CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies
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"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
At the last 'Approaches to Language, Migration&Identity' conference, I discussed how we can go beyond the positive migrant 'storytelling canon'. Project Armonia is a great initiative supporting displaced people through food/cooking (and not linear storytelling)
projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...
projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...
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projectarmonia.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
At the last 'Approaches to Language, Migration&Identity' conference, I discussed how we can go beyond the positive migrant 'storytelling canon'. Project Armonia is a great initiative supporting displaced people through food/cooking (and not linear storytelling)
projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...
projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...
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Family unity is central to recovery, integration, and wellbeing. We stand with @rasvoice.bsky.social in urging the Home Secretary to recognise the human cost of this policy and to reinstate safe, legal, and timely pathways for families to be reunited.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘It kept me going’: halt to refugee reunion scheme in UK shatters hopes
Afghan man seeking asylum and permission to bring wife to Britain describes shock at home secretary’s announcement
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Family unity is central to recovery, integration, and wellbeing. We stand with @rasvoice.bsky.social in urging the Home Secretary to recognise the human cost of this policy and to reinstate safe, legal, and timely pathways for families to be reunited.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK's family reunion route is already a farce which sees too many people denied ability to reach UK to seek asylum, including children.
Tightening it will only ensure even more, particularly women and children, are denied safety, and more families ripped apart. #r4todau
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tightening it will only ensure even more, particularly women and children, are denied safety, and more families ripped apart. #r4todau
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Family reunion rules to be tightened in asylum cases
Yvette Cooper will outline her plans when MPs return to Parliament after the summer break.
www.bbc.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:54 AM
UK's family reunion route is already a farce which sees too many people denied ability to reach UK to seek asylum, including children.
Tightening it will only ensure even more, particularly women and children, are denied safety, and more families ripped apart. #r4todau
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tightening it will only ensure even more, particularly women and children, are denied safety, and more families ripped apart. #r4todau
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And it is available open access @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Revisiting herstory: from trailblazers and herstory makers to the pitfalls of popular post-feminism
We live in a moment where feminism is “done” everywhere we turn—be it online or offline, on billboards or on television, in music or in the press. In this moment, however, we are also experiencing ...
www.tandfonline.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
And it is available open access @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Revisiting herstory: from trailblazers and herstory makers to the pitfalls of popular post-feminism
We live in a moment where feminism is “done” everywhere we turn—be it online or offline, on billboards or on television, in music or in the press. In this moment, however, we are also experiencing ...
www.tandfonline.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We're proud to join over 200 organisations to call on Party Leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past.
Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate.
Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social
Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate.
Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We're proud to join over 200 organisations to call on Party Leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past.
Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate.
Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social
Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate.
Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social