Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow
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Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
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If you're in Glasgow this time next week, join us for the launch on ‘Onlife Criminology: Virtual Crimes and Real Harms’ by our colleague Dr Janos Mark Szakolczai, with @catherinehapper.bsky.social @gemmamilne.bsky.social, Prof Mike Nellis and Dr Johnny Ilan.
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Congratulations to @fabiolacreed.bsky.social on her book The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain. Some of the questions it answers are:
🌧️ Why are sunbeds more prevalent in North(-West) Britain?
🚭 Is the sunbed industry similar to the tobacco, nicotine and alcohol industry?
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📙 Bluesky is the only platform where I haven’t circulated my book, as I’d recently joined and was waiting for the physical copy. So here it is (last book post, I promise) 📙

☀️ Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear is free to download via: dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781...
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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’.
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Today! Come along to our co-organised colloquium with @uofgsps.bsky.social Politics & International Relations & @uofgsociology.bsky.social

'The Souls of White Jokes'
Dr Raúl Pérez

10 Oct, 11-12.30
Room 257, Wolfson Medical Bldg, University of Glasgow

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A reminder about our first Sociological & Cultural Studies seminar of the year, taking place tomorrow, with @raulperez.bsky.social - hosted jointly with colleagues in Politics & IR, and with the journal @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
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Join us Friday for our co-organised colloquium with @uofgsps.bsky.social Politics & International Relations & @uofgsociology.bsky.social

'The Souls of White Jokes'
Dr Raúl Pérez

10 Oct, 11-12.30
Room 257, Wolfson Medical Bldg, University of Glasgow

@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @raulperez.bsky.social
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This special session, with @sriprateekraj.bsky.social and @dramylind.bsky.social, and chaired by our colleague @matthewwaites.bsky.social, is coming up on the 15th October.
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Join me with Amy Lind and Prateek Srivastava for this queer feminist double bill in the Sociological and Cultural Studies Seminar Series, 15 October, 3.30pm, room 432 St Andrews Bldg, all welcome! @uofgsociology.bsky.social @dramylind.bsky.social @sriprateekraj.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
Amy Lind and Prateek Srivastava queer feminist seminar at University of Glasgow 15 October 3.30-5.00pm, room 432 St Andrews Building, all welcome.
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Join our upcoming event, co-organised with @uofgsps.bsky.social Politics & International Relations & @uofgsociology.bsky.social

'The Souls of White Jokes' with Dr Raúl Pérez

11.00am-12.30pm, In person: Hugh Fraser Room 257, Wolfson Medical Bldg, University of Glasgow

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🎉 Congratulations to @sachahilhorst.bsky.social!

”‘Corruption talk’ and the politics of class in 21st century Britain”, a co-authored paper drawing on Dr Hilhorst’s award-winning doctoral thesis, is out now #openaccess in The Sociological Review journal.

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Our colleagues Dominic Pasura and Nomatter Sande are inviting submissions for this international workshop on 'Religion, Mobility and Youth in Transnational Perspective’ taking place here at the University of Glasgow, 30 April – 1 May 2026. Call for papers below - please circulate.
Call for Papers: Mapping the Future: Religion, Mobility and Youth in Transnational Perspective – RASTAY
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All are warmly invited to this exhibition which, as part of World Mental Health Awareness Week, explores the impact of climate change on mental health and how photography can help us tell the stories of those impacts (afternoon of Oct Tues 7th, in the Advanced Research Centre - details below).
Storytelling Through Photography: Climate Change and Mental Health
Photo exhibition
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SGSAH/SGSSS are delighted to announce a series of student presentations to mark Black History Month 2025. Online, free & open to all, showcasing cutting edge doctoral research. Coming up soon:

Unarchigal (உணர்ச்சிகள்)—Modalities of Resistance

8 October, 2pm
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SGSAH/SGSSS Black History Month Event - Unarchigal
Wed 8 Oct, 14:00 - 15:00 [BST]: Together with SGSSS, we are delighted to announce a special interactive session to mark Black History Month 2025. This free, online and open-to-all session will be pres...
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Here's a little Friday thought from William Morris, who died on this day in 1896: "...the first step toward the fresh new-birth of art must interfere with the privilege of private persons to destroy the beauty of the earth for their private advantage, and thereby to rob the community.”
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Join next Friday for our co-organised colloquium with @uofgsps.bsky.social Politics & International Relations & @uofgsociology.bsky.social

'The Souls of White Jokes'
Dr Raúl Pérez

10 Oct, 11-12.30
Room 257, Wolfson Medical Bld, University of Glasgow

@uofgsocsci.bsky.social @raulperez.bsky.social
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Three new books have entered our Essential John Berger series!

ART AND REVOLUTION
A SEVENTH MAN
FROM A TO X

"Any book by John Berger is an event." – Times Literary Supplement

Shop the series on our website today!
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Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Last call for abstract submissions to next year's @britsoci.bsky.social conference in Edinburgh...
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Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other.

Submission deadline: TOMORROW, Friday 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
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📢 Submit your paper for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference by Monday 20 October.

There is no predetermined theme. We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology.

More info ➡️ lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
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📣 We're currently accepting papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference!

The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline.

We invite scholars to submit abstracts of up to 400 words on topics relating to any aspect of sociology➡️ buff.ly/wTaE0fI
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Caste aside? Researcher Madhuri Kamtam hears from female workers in India’s multimillion-dollar tobacco industry who remain exploited, excluded and ignored owing to their caste and gender – and who are claiming their rights. Out now in The Sociological Review magazine.

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Close-up of a Dalit woman’s hands rolling a beedi cigarette, surrounded by tobacco and tendu leaves, representing the invisible labour of women fighting for recognition and rights in India’s beedi industry.
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Our latest Sociological & Cultural Studies blog has just been posted. In it Karolina Benghellab discusses the hidden forms of violence and detention that are a deliberate consequence of Europe's increasingly militarised, and hugely costly, border regimes. Please read and share...
Tracing migration journeys in empty squats along the Balkan Route.
Karolina Benghellab discusses the real consequences of Europe's increasingly militarised border regimes.
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If you are a @uofglasgow.bsky.social staff or student interested in intersex, non-binary and trans studies join us for our GLINTS launch event later this month on October 21st: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau... also enjoy this image of some our publications (books and zines!) from our stall.
A stall featuring books and zines written by co-directors and members of GLINTS. Also features our own zine beautifully crafted by Kirstie Ken. The table also has a trans flag on.
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#OtD 30 Sep 2014 Xu Lizhi, a poet and rural migrant who worked at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, died by suicide at the age of 24. Learn more about Xu and other Chinese migrant worker poets in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-...