Exciting!! After reviewing many many excellent applications and making recommendations...the first batch of our @ucl.ac.uk @sriucl.bsky.social MSc Sociology offers for 2026/27 entry just went out to our applicants TODAY!

Do you have our (first) offer? 🤩 Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Who'd thought my op-ed (and research) on the "eldest daughter syndrome" two years ago just made its way into Taylor Swift's new album (track #5 "Eldest Daughter") 🤩

theconversation.com/what-is-elde...

Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social:

📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx
📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7
📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL
📌Chevening: www.chevening.org

Applications open from October 13!

“Women are worshipped as goddesses in this society, but the worshippers torture their women at home.”

“He would come home and throw the cooked food around.”

My talented co-author, Kausiki Sarma, is also a brilliant photographer. The fieldwork images speak thousands of words.

“There is not a single object in my house that has not been a witness to the violence.”

Never knew one can't access NBC from Europe...

Not making it to #PAA2025, but excited/thankful that my fabulous collaborator @yueqiansoc.bsky.social is presenting our paper on what family and welfare changes mean for fertility desires in China. If you'll be at #PAA2025, we look forward to hearing your comments/thoughts on our research ⬇️

We know this piece really resonated when I received a hand-written letter across the pond from an 86-year-old reader in Pittsburg this week to share his most touching LAT love story ❤️

Thanks to Chris Osuh @theguardian.com for taking our research to the public www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

🚨 In other closely related news, we are presenting our paper & poster at #Neurips2024 on a new masked language model in detecting and mitigating biases in labour market text generation by ChatGPT/LLM. openreview.net/pdf?id=MP7j5...

📊 Analysing 28.6 million job ads with labour force stats in the UK, our research reveals the bidirectional relationships of how language in job ads shapes labour force gender and racial segregation & how labour force gender and racial composition shapes the wording of job ads.

(3/9)

We know that job adverts are important because they are the first point of contact between employers and potential job applicants, and job adverts also inform candidate selection, shortlisting, etc. down the line. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

(2/9)

And almost full Page 3 of today's The Guardian @theguardian.com