Dr Bethan Juliet Oake
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake
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PhD in Sociology of Religion, researcher focusing on Satanic moral panic. Interested in all things folklore, myth, moral panic and the occult. Tutor in Religious Studies & History of Science at the University of Leeds
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 21
My PhD thesis ‘The satanic cult conspiracy: how online conspiracy theory discourses construct moral panic’ is now up on WREO: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · 5d
My new chapter “Save our children from Satanists”: Women, Motherhood, and Satanic Moral Panic” is now out in ‘Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture’ edited by Dr Miranda Corcoran. SO excited to have been included in this amazing collection & can’t wait to read the other papers!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 2
Thanks!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 1
Thankyou!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 1
Also means Im now officially locked out of my old student email (after 10 years 😢) so message on my staff one
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Sep 1
I’m now a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds for this year!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 21
Amazing, I’d love to hear more about it! & of course :)!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 21
Thankyou!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 21
Thanks!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 21
Thank you!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 21
Thanks so much :)!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 21
My PhD thesis ‘The satanic cult conspiracy: how online conspiracy theory discourses construct moral panic’ is now up on WREO: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 9
And first day on site setting up the new exhibition (and curating a cabinet of curiosities) for the museum of the history of science, technology & medicine at the uni
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 9
Phd corrections accepted!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · May 9
Thankyou!! Will send a new bio over :)!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Apr 4
Big thank you to my examiners Aled Thomas @aledjllthomas.bsky.social & David Robertson @davidgrobertson.bsky.social ! And my amazing supervisors Caroline Starkey @carostarkey.bsky.social , Mike Finn & Mel Prideaux 🖤
bethanjuliet.bsky.social Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Apr 4
I PASSED MY PHD VIVA!!! Introducing Dr Oake
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Apr 4
I PASSED MY PHD VIVA!!! Introducing Dr Oake
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Mar 25
Update the clinical trials rejected me
bethanjuliet.bsky.social Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Dec 18
Post-PhD job searching (There are no jobs and I’m signing up for paid clinical trials)
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Mar 17
Thanks!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Mar 17
Thankyou!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Mar 17
Thankyou!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Mar 17
I submitted my PhD!!!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Jan 23
Officially reached the deleting all social media phase of the PhD write up. See you in a month once it’s submitted!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Jan 22
Great couple days at the OU Religion & Disinformation workshop. Thanks again to @paulftremlett.bsky.social & @preciouschatd.bsky.social !!
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Jan 1
And also getting lost on ilkley moor (again) and finding a stone circle in the process
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Dr Bethan Juliet Oake @bethanjuliet.bsky.social · Jan 1
Last year highlight - searching for the demon wisht hounds of wistman’s wood, Dartmoor
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