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Prof Sophie Woodward
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Sociologist University of Manchester, co-Director Morgan Centre, Vice Director NCRM; co-editor Journal of Creative Research Methods, researches material culture, dormant things, fashion, wardrobes, gender and feminism.
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · Oct 23
Book publication day! We argue that because gender is multidimensional we need multiple disciplines to understand it. Using a facet methodology approach we explore how disciplines are gendered and how disciplines come to know about gender. Dream coauthoring team ❤️
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sophierwoodward.bsky.social
Book publication day! We argue that because gender is multidimensional we need multiple disciplines to understand it. Using a facet methodology approach we explore how disciplines are gendered and how disciplines come to know about gender. Dream coauthoring team ❤️
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gen...
Book cover ‘gender studies: a multidisciplinary approach’ Contents page
October 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Join us at The Making Room Fair – an evening celebrating upcycling, sustainable fashion, and creative community in Manchester.
📅 Thursday 6th November, 4–10pm
📍 The Yard, Manchester

🎟 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

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October 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025

Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester.

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Research Associate - Uncovering Hidden Inequality:Oxford Road
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project, ‘uncovering hidden inequality: developing new ways of doing death administration’ directed by Professor Kate Reed in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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📺Watch our new video series introducing key concepts in the sociology of families & personal life. Please share if you know anybody teaching or studying these topics!
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The Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives - YouTube
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September 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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How can speculative fiction become a research method? This new article explores four approaches: close reading existing sci-fi, analysing how stories influence real policies, inviting participants to write their own futures, and researchers creating speculative narratives.
doi.org/10.1332/3050...
September 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Yay for #JCRM journal launch and cupcakes, with @edwina-thorn.bsky.social Sophie Woodward Harriet Shortt and @drhelenkara.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social
Journal of Creative Research Methods flyers on the publisher's stand with a JCRM cupcake JCRM editorial team
September 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Unbelievably thrilled to see the launch issue of this amazing journal which I am a co-editor of - Journal of Creative Research Methods. Open access until 31/12/25. Please share and consider contributing to future issues!
crmethodsjnl.bsky.social Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · Sep 4
The future of research is creative, collaborative, and boundary-breaking! From speculative fiction to visual data storytelling, this groundbreaking collection showcases how creative approaches are transforming research across disciplines!

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September 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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This has been a long time in the making (understatement!). Massive thanks to @academicdiary.bsky.social @saranahmed.bsky.social, Alice Bloch, Tia DeNora, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and @amychandler.bsky.social for guiding our thinking. Thank you also to @rosedwards.bsky.social for the support.
thesociologicalreview.org The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Aug 25
How do mothers who have experienced child removal use tattooing to cope with their pain?

@lisamorriss.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social and Siobhan Beckwith @huddersfielduni.bsky.social on Sara Ahmed, maternal connections and grief.

#OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/QrP2lD2
Lisa Morriss and Siobhan Beckwith Marking motherhood: Tattooing and willfulness as a response to and a way to survive child removal https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251359845 The Sociological Review journal #OnlineFirst
September 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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ncrm.ac.uk
Over the past five years, NCRM has trained thousands of researchers across many sectors, with 20 per cent of course participants working outside the social sciences.

To find out how NCRM is building the UK's #research capability, read our impact report: buff.ly/RisFFv4
A map of the UK.
September 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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📣 Coming soon: The Journal of Creative Research Methods📣
We’re a home for researchers who are thinking, questioning, or approaching research in a creative way 💡
Learn more bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
#RGS2025 #RGS25
Journal of Creative Research Methods. We accept submissions of: Creative, qualitative, quantitative, or multi-modal research; Creative arts-based research; Creative digital research; Creative research using transformative research frameworks; Creative adaptations of existing methods.
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Upcoming FREE @ncrm.ac.uk 2 day in-person innovation forum: Improvising Methods: Experiencing Collaborative, Inventive, Apposite &Original Methods! on 15-16 October at Uni Manchester. Explores what happens when skilled researchers & practitioners are methodologically responsive to their field sites
NCRM Engagement | Innovation Fora | Improvising Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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thesociologicalreview.org
“Attentiveness is a way to retrain the ‘sociological gaze’ away from the unusual to the unnoticed elements of everyday lives and objects.”

@sophierwoodward.bsky.social‬ reflects in a new Special Section on the legacy of Live Methods by ‪@academicdiary.bsky.social‬ & Nirmal Puwar.

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July 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Deadline to register your participation in the Research Methods Rendezvous is weds 2nd of July.
ncrm.ac.uk National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Jun 5
NCRM has opened applications to participate in the Research Methods Rendezvous!

This free event will explore the process of turning early-stage ideas into #research projects.

#RMR2025 takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025.

Apply: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/RMR...
A promotional graphic for the Research Methods Rendezvous, which takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025.
June 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Looking forward to this!
mgsconf.bsky.social MGS Conference 2025 @mgsconf.bsky.social · Jun 11
We're pleased to have @sophierwoodward.bsky.social present her keynote: Cultivating attentiveness: re-enchanting ordinary and unnoticed material culture.

Look at our programme to find out more! bit.ly/mgsconf25-pr...
Keynote Speaker Professor Sophie Woodward
June 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Curious about how ideas become doable research projects? Register to participate now!
ncrm.ac.uk National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Jun 5
NCRM has opened applications to participate in the Research Methods Rendezvous!

This free event will explore the process of turning early-stage ideas into #research projects.

#RMR2025 takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025.

Apply: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/RMR...
A promotional graphic for the Research Methods Rendezvous, which takes place online on 10 September and 29 October 2025.
June 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Delighted to have an article included in the special issue on ‘attentiveness’ and why this matters in developing a vital sociology
thesociologicalreview.org The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 27
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited

Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬

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May 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Well this is exciting. Delighted to be made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Permanent teaching and research lectureship in sociology at the university of Manchester. Linked to the Morgan centre. For researchers in areas of everyday lives, personal life and relationships. Please share! Deadline April 7th
morgancentre.bsky.social Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · Mar 20
JOB: Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre.bsky.social

Looking for a new colleague with research expertise in personal life, relationships & everyday lives. Pls share! 🙏🏾 Closing date: 7 Apr
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road
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March 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The Journal of #CreativeResearchMethods is live! Looking for submissions that centre creativity at all stages of the research: questions you ask, methods you use, how you analyse or how you write. Curious and playful thinkers welcome! Check out the website
March 19, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Interested in our @methodsmcr.bsky.social Creative Qualitative Methods summer school course?

Join our free online taster session to hear from the course leaders about creative ways to design, carry out & share your research

12.30-1.30pm Weds 19 Mar 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...
March 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Does it matter if we use the term artefacts or belongings? Can belongings be more inclusive of the multiple investments people have in things? Discussed in this article I coauthored with wonderful archaeologists (Bonnie Pitblado, Suzie Thomas and Anna Wessman) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Retheorizing Archaeological “Artefacts” as “Belongings” - Archaeologies
In this article, we suggest that archaeologists should recognise the limitations of the term “artefact”, because it does not capture the many ways that diverse groups think about and interact with suc...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Join the @morgancentre.bsky.social's upcoming summer school taster session on 19 March, where you'll learn more about their upcoming two-day summer school course on creative approaches to qualitative research
February 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Only one more week to get your ‘I wonder’ in. Get involved in this fab event on research ideation and turning ideas into projects.
ncrm.ac.uk National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Feb 3
NCRM is inviting researchers to contribute to its unique new event, the Research Methods Rendezvous!

The two-day, online event will provide attendees with the opportunity to present research ideas and develop them with other researchers.

Read the call: https://buff.ly/3EnkrUs
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February 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This will be amazing: NCRM event which centres research curiosity, ideation and how we turn these into doable research. Please submit!!
ncrm.ac.uk National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · Feb 3
NCRM is inviting researchers to contribute to its unique new event, the Research Methods Rendezvous!

The two-day, online event will provide attendees with the opportunity to present research ideas and develop them with other researchers.

Read the call: https://buff.ly/3EnkrUs
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February 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM