Jim Lusted
drjimlusted.bsky.social
Jim Lusted
@drjimlusted.bsky.social
Sport sociologist, researching and writing about social inequalities, anti racism and social justice in sport. COYS ⚽
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We have 4 sport & exercise related funded PhD studentships available for Oct 2026 in the following areas:
- Women’s stories of life after past harms in sport
- Strength & conditioning in tennis
- Strength and Conditioning for Golf
- Durability in Endurance Athletes
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The Open University
We currently offer the following PhD studentships:Faculty funded studentshipsApplications for October 2026 will open in November 2025.Based in Milton Keynes, UKEach year, the Faculty of Wellbeing, Edu...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Our Care Experienced Scholarship provides a fantastic opportunity for those who have been in the care system to access higher education. Althea's story shows just how important this scholarship is.

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My Story: Althea
YouTube video by Open University Development Office
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May 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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JOIN OUR TEAM!
We are currently looking for a part-time lecturer (0.5) in Sport, Fitness and Coaching to join our vibrant team. More details on the link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
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May 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The BSA Sport Study Group will host an online seminar on GenAI and teaching the sociology of sport: Tues 24 June, 10:30-12:00 (MS Teams). Join the discussion and share your practice! Register: forms.office.com/e/mMPj0a5ir2
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May 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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New article from #TeamOUsport 's Helen Owton - 'London marathon: why you need a plan to prevent the post-race blues' theconversation.com/london-marat...
London marathon: why you need a plan to prevent the post-race blues
Post-race depression can include increased anxiety levels, burnout and challenges in adjusting back to everyday life.
theconversation.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Never miss an opportunity to show Swift in her sparkles. My piece about Girl on Girl in @theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Spoilsports: Doing feminist work in sport spaces

Our new collaborative article published in Women’s Studies International Forum

Check it out for free here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Spoilsports: Doing feminist work in sport spaces
Feminist activism has played an important part in challenging patriarchal, ableist, corporate and colonial sporting traditions, structures, economies …
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April 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Have you read our latest blog post from Dr Helen Owton? 'Tackling abuse: the triumphs of women rugby players' www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-Spo...
Tackling abuse: the triumphs of women rugby players | OU Sport & Fitness Team Blog
www.open.ac.uk
April 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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glad to talk to @keeanga.bsky.social @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, @danieldenvir.bsky.social, about our increasingly weird political situation and the role that identity politics plays in it. even if this episode isn't for you, @thedigradio.bsky.social is a gold mine

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Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Lisa Tilley discusses the landmark work of #CedricRobinson, the subjects of history, and why race is central to capitalist formation.

🔎 Explore #ConnectedSociologies Curriculum Project's open-access educational resources, including video lectures and detailed lesson plans.
Racial Capitalism - Dr Lisa Tilley
An intellectual product of the Black Radical Tradition, ‘racial capitalism’ was first expansively developed as an account of the historical origins and embed...
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February 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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This is possibly our last podcast from the YouGaMSI study on N/Irish young people and gambling—recorded in Dec—but if you have a spare 33:44, this might be right up your alley.

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How AI is Exposing the Hidden Dangers of Gambling Ads
As AI becomes a bigger part of our world it can be utilised to power research and studies in ways that were never possible before. Today we hear about new research that has used AI to expose the har
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January 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A bit of a LinkedIn rant from me. I’ll get on my soapbox all the time about good asynchronous options for higher education students!

#AcademicSky
January 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Sport scholars: as of 2025, I am an Assistant Editor for Journal of Sport & Social Issues. Be on the lookout for new submission guidelines soon and consider submitting your work! We are committed to publishing strong scholarship from around the world, with good feedback and decent review times.
January 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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💯 As I tell my students, having AI write your philosophy paper is like sending a robot to the gym for you and expecting to reap the health benefits.
Writing is thinking.

It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
December 12, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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If you're an independent researcher who is not employed by a university, feel free to join the Independent Researchers Network on LinkedIn where you'll find interesting articles, grant opportunities, and a growing global network of independent thinkers and scholars.

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December 3, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Today is publication day...

Available via:
www.routledge.com/The-Geopolit...
And
www.routledge.com/Continental-...

MASSIVE thanks to everyone involved - a collection of truly great people
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November 29, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'

The week's column

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‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 25, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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Here’s a starter pack of sociologists if sport. It’s mainly UK based at the moment, but add you name below if you want to be added to the list go.bsky.app/BKgUU5v
November 24, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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I've made a starter pack of UK-based social science academics interested in sport and/or physical activity

Do give me a DM if you want to be added (or withdrawn) !

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November 24, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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There's still time to apply for our four-year funded PhD project (applications close on 13th January) on sports history and marginalized communities in rugby. Do get in touch if you want to chat about the project. Please share widely. All the info is here: www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
www.midlands4cities.ac.uk
November 22, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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School of Sociology University College Dublin has just advertised a new 4 yr PhD scholarship. Applications in these broad areas particularly welcome:
● Diversities & Inequalities
● Quantitative & Computational Social Science
● Organised Violence, Peace & Nationalism
See www.ucd.ie/sociology/st...
PhD/MLitt in Sociology - UCD School of Sociology
www.ucd.ie
November 14, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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www.grahamscambler.com/a-brief-intr... Interested in critical realism? Here’s my blog on Roy Bhaskar’s‘dialectical critical realism’. Bit longer than my usual blogs.,
A Brief Intro to Bhaskar’s Dialectical Critical Realism
1:         Dialectical Critical Realism – Moving on from Hegel I have in earlier blogs introduced Bhaskar’s basic critical realism, going on to suggest it offers a way of coming to terms with…
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November 18, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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New critical sports account starter pack just dropped.

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November 10, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Hi there, we have a tutor vacancy in the department of criminology, sociology and social policy at Swansea University 🙂https://www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swansea/current-vacancies/details/?opening-id=10351
Tutor in Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy
We’re recruiting a Tutor to work flexibly across the disciplines in the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy.
www.swansea.ac.uk
November 15, 2024 at 8:37 PM