UCL Sociology PhDs: Join our PhD Coordinating Group
The group will play a significant and important role in the development of the network’s cross-UCL activities at the doctoral level tinyurl.com/mrm9s22j

Annual Lecture: The Paradox of Home by Les Back (11.12.25)
Home is a knife-edge word. Competing forces balance on its edge that either control or open the terms of belonging. It is why home is paradoxical tinyurl.com/3493r8e6

Do you undertake qualitative or mixed methods research at UCL? Complete this short questionnaire about the use of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) and the use of AI in qualitative analysis tinyurl.com/2kwzunnr @ktwamley.bsky.social

Are you a UCL Sociologist? Apply to join UCL Sociology Network's Coordinating Group. Contribute to the Network’s wide-ranging programme of activities and share news of important sociological developments tinyurl.com/2ut5dttz

UCL sociologists: launch your book with the UCL Sociology Network. Our call for book launches to take place in 2025-26 is now open. Closing date: 11am, 24 July 2025 tinyurl.com/y9db4x7z

Participate in our next workshop: Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Sociological Research. We will cover the rise of AI in qualitative research, outlining implications for the whole research cycle, focusing in particular on data preparation and analysis tools tinyurl.com/27br2v9a

Join us for our 2025 Annual Lecture: We Have Never Been Woke, to be given by Musa al-Gharbi.
Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory but what about the practice? tinyurl.com/4wkceuwt

@musaalgharbi.bsky.social @ktwamley.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social s.bsky.social

UCL Sociology Network PhD Inaugural Student Conference 2025 (3 June). This 1 day conference will be an exciting opportunity for PhDs to engage with doctoral research from 24 UK universities across a range of disciplines, all with a focus on sociological research / methodology tinyurl.com/5hbpyx9e

Join us for the book launch of Rachel Benchekroun’s Precarious Motherhood – Navigating relationships and support post-migration in the UK (25 March) tinyurl.com/2e9vxmuj @uclpress.bsky.social
@rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social

Apply for £10K for a UCL social science led cross-disciplinary (social science and non-social science) pilot/seed research project that will lay the basis for an external funding application with a strong social science component tinyurl.com/ycyvjrm2

Celebrate the publication of Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries by Alice Bradbury and Sharon Vince. This book explores into the innovative and compassionate ways educational institutions are addressing food insecurity @alicebradbury.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4t4m3hry

Host your book launch with the UCL Sociology Network
we host a small number of book launches of sociological research each academic year tinyurl.com/53n8sam2

USN Chair Katherine Twamley and Coordinating Group member Caroline Oliver write with Louise Ryan on how to go about writing your first sociological monograph. Great advice! @britsoci.bsky.social

The newest issue of Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest (Edited by UCL's @bdmabrams.bsky.social) has been published! View the Table of Contents and more for Volume 12, Issue 1 here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

UCL researchers: participate in our Methods Beyond the Interview workshop (31.01.25). Methodological approaches will be work-shopped in small groups shorturl.at/EE9c7

Call for abstracts: Inaugural Sociology PhD Student Conference. Don’t miss this chance to submit an abstract, contribute to the conversation and connect with your fellow PhD students! shorturl.at/Hsw26