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News and updates from the Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Department at University of Southampton

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The second of the two articles is by @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social, exploring disability, failure and UKHE. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... (now with a working link!)
sspcatsoton.bsky.social SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 15d
Two of the three most recently published articles on @thesociologicalreview.org are by academics from our department! Congratulations all.

You can read fascinating work from @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies on challenges of researching academic wives at doi.org/10.1177/00380261251375423
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
sspcatsoton.bsky.social
Two of the three most recently published articles on @thesociologicalreview.org are by academics from our department! Congratulations all.

You can read fascinating work from @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies on challenges of researching academic wives at doi.org/10.1177/00380261251375423
October 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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gain-centre.bsky.social
Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at gain@soton.ac.uk so that we can get an idea of numbers!
October 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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ashkingdon.bsky.social
🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Thrilled My Latest Article - The Darkest Shade of Green - Is Out In Studies In Conflict & Terrorism 🎉🍾🥳I Examine the Links Between #ClimateChange and #RebelGovernance among #IslamicState #AlQaeda #Hamas & #Hezbollah 👇👇👇
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The Darkest Shade of Green: Climate Change, Terrorist Organizations, and the Battle for Environmental Legitimacy
Climate change is fundamentally reshaping modern terrorism through “environmental governance competition”—strategic contests where terrorist organizations exploit climate vulnerabilities to outperf...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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How have sociologists’ wives contributed to the discipline?

@rosedwards.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social and Val Gillies on post-war sociology, invisibility and the “great man narrative”.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/0VVrW9Y

Thanks for Typing #podcast buff.ly/dJZ97H1
Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies Hidden Traces: Writing sociologists' wives into existence https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251375423 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst
September 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Please help to spread the word! A chance to get your PhD funded through ESRC SCDTP to study @ Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth & Southampton

@unisouthampton.bsky.social @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @chiunipress.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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pamsoton.bsky.social
This article outlines key findings from our ESRC-funded research project which revealed digital harms that arise when parents disclose children’s information online. Awareness raising resources for parents & briefings for stakeholders including policy makers are available at: www.protechthem.org
Children at risk of identity theft and fraud from 'sharenting'
Researchers at the University of Southampton are warning of the dangers of posting your children's photos online.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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rosedwards.bsky.social
Important intervention from my departmental colleague, @petefussey.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social #facialrecognition #policing
Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use
Academic says sample size was too small to claim new sensitivity guidelines have removed racial, gender or age bias
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August 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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We’re hiring in criminology, sociology, social policy
@sspcatsoton.bsky.social

1x Lecturer in Criminology: tinyurl.com/3ypv6ef3

1x 12 month Teaching Fellow in any area of Sociology, Social Policy or Criminology: tinyurl.com/37smc5as

Come join our collegiate & inclusive dept, ranked #4 in UK REF
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April 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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🎓 Are you a PhD, ECR, or Teaching Fellow researching gender & inequalities at
@unisouthampton.bsky.social
? 💡 Apply for up to £150 to fund fieldwork or conferences! ✍️ Deadline: 2 Ma. For more on how to apply, please see:
generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/researc... Email us 📩 GAIN@soton.ac.uk
Research Opportunities – Gender and Inequalities Research Centre, University of Southampton
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April 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
sspcatsoton.bsky.social
Fascinating and important work from Ros
rosedwards.bsky.social Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · Feb 8
Our sociologists’ wives research is helping to set the record straight about whose shoulders British sociologists are standing on. Wives collected and analysed data, edited and co-authored. Visit our website to find out more, and …1/6
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Welcome to Academics’ Wives Welcome to Academics’ Wives Academics’ Wives is a British Academy / Leverhulme funded research project exploring the contribution made by wives of social investiga...
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February 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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On now at the Winchester Gallery, free exhibition curated by one of our lecturers: www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/winchest...
February 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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ashkingdon.bsky.social
Had the Most AMAZING Time at Royal Holloway Last Night Discussing My New Book 'The World White Web' Such An Engaged Audience with Excellent Questions 😍 Thanks to @cvtrc.bsky.social For Hosting #AnthonyRichards for Chairing and @akilnawan.bsky.social for Organising ❤️
January 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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roswillis.bsky.social
This week sees the start of Semester Two @unisouthampton.bsky.social and the launch of my new module on #ageing and #crime. Excited to bring together my #ForensicPsychology training with my #Gerontology experience and enthuse a new generation of undergraduate students! @sspcatsoton.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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petefussey.bsky.social
Our research centre @crispsurv.bsky.social is hosting a major exhibition & series of events on Orwell. Starts with Hans K Clausen's 'The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth' at Stirling. Other events include a performance lecture by Bill Drummond (KLF), screenings, talks and more. All welcome
crispsurv.bsky.social CRISP @crispsurv.bsky.social · Jan 8
Amazing Winston Smith Library of Victoty & Truth heading to Stirling. Launch event 28.1.25. All welcome.
Events | CRISP
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January 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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aidnography.de
With new followers & first citations showing up it may seem to be a good time to introduce our "Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality" that @silkeroth.bsky.social, Bandana Purkayastha & @aidnography.de edited in a longer 🧵 (1/x)
Book cover Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality - Elgar Handbooks on Inequality series
January 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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lizziereed.bsky.social
Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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rosedwards.bsky.social
Q: Whose shoulders are today’s sociologists standing upon? 📚 🪜
A: Some of them are sociologists’ wives👩🏻‍💼✍️
Read about role of social researchers’ wives in post-war British studies, inc. Phyllis Willmott, Pat Marsden, Sheila Jackson/Abrams, Ruth Townsend, Kay Titmuss #openaccess
#ThanksForTyping … and the fieldwork: the role of sociologists’ wives in classic British studies | Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences
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December 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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No fireplaces? No problem! We're about to open the doors to our annual student Christmas party. After a couple of proseccos we hope everyone will agree a bit of tinsel and fairy lights can make even Building 58 full of festive magic!
A university seminar room with a screen showing a fireplace. Fairy lights are inexpertly draped on the tables. It does not give grotto.
December 6, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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silkeroth.bsky.social
Publication day of Organising for Change co-authored with Clare Saunders bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/organizing-f... and checking final proof of Handbook co-edited with Bandana Purkayastha and @aidnography.de
photo shows cover of book ‚Organising for Change‘ and proofs of ‚Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality‘
December 15, 2023 at 12:32 PM
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#ICYMI from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social: “Women's contributions to scholarship are consistently underrated; they’re still seen as wives & mothers.”

Historian Selina Todd joins Ros Edwards. & Val Gillies in Ep4 #ThanksforTyping, Questions of Class

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Thanks for Typing: Acknowledging the contributions of sociologists’ wives
The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. In this 6 episode podcast series, they explore how wi...
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November 22, 2024 at 8:38 AM
sspcatsoton.bsky.social
We also all did lots of important teaching and research in sociology, social policy and criminology, today. But that doesn't photograph as well
sspcatsoton.bsky.social SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · Nov 21
An unexpectedly snowy morning in Southampton today. Rather lovely, and prompting lots of excited chatter around campus. ☃️
A view from a window showing snow falling. In the centre of the image an evergreen tree is dusted with snow, the grass beneath it is green, under the shelter of it's branches, resulting in a circle of snowy ground around it. Behind the tree are university buildings A view from a window looking across the roof of another building. The is snow falling and a dusting of snow across the tops of the 4 buildings in shot
November 21, 2024 at 6:21 PM
sspcatsoton.bsky.social
An unexpectedly snowy morning in Southampton today. Rather lovely, and prompting lots of excited chatter around campus. ☃️
A view from a window showing snow falling. In the centre of the image an evergreen tree is dusted with snow, the grass beneath it is green, under the shelter of it's branches, resulting in a circle of snowy ground around it. Behind the tree are university buildings A view from a window looking across the roof of another building. The is snow falling and a dusting of snow across the tops of the 4 buildings in shot
November 21, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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A great starter pack from one of our colleagues, Ros.
rosedwards.bsky.social Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · Sep 25
Let me know if you’d like to be added (or want to come out)
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November 15, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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Where are our PGRs? We want to add you to our department starter pack! Give us a shout

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Staff and PGRs in SSPC at Southampton
Join the conversation
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November 15, 2024 at 4:19 PM