⛓️ ‘Where jobs went, so did the things that held communities together'

Poverty affects the whole of the UK, but it’s not distributed evenly.

Our analyst @scothunter.bsky.social sets out where poverty is most acute, and the action needed for all communities to thrive, no matter where they are.

📣 New report: Despite efforts to widen access to higher education, social mobility is flatlining or declining across wealthier countries

Students whose parents did not attend university remain 45% less likely to reach the top earnings quintile than those with graduate parents.

➡️ bit.ly/4oE8YSK

Power structures in this country are still dominated by a small group of people.

1️⃣ The 7% who go to private schools

2️⃣ The roughly 1% who go to Oxford or Cambridge for university

This is especially true for those who attend both private school and Oxbridge 👇

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

new article alert:
Parental social class and school examinations: a longitudinal investigation using linked administrative and survey data
by Sarah Stopforth & Vernon Gayle Huge congrats!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @rachelbrooks.bsky.social @coralinglingxu.bsky.social

Final week to sign up for the annual @largesocialsurveys.bsky.social symposium!
📍 Edinburgh University Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
💰 Free!
💬 Keynote from Lucy Dean at @natcen.bsky.social /ScotCen too!
✏️ Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/ARDLVnhyU3

🚨London PhDs — We’re hiring PGTAs in Quantitative Methods at @sriucl.bsky.social 🧮📊

💼 Teach on core quant methods modules — I'm on POLS0007, happy to chat if you're interested!
🗓️ Deadline: 25 April (3 days left!)

Apply here 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/pg-teaching-...

#PGTA #QuantMethods #PhD #LondonJobs #UCL

Registrations for the LSS symposium '25 are now open! This is a PGR led conference about all the different uses of survey data in the social sciences. We've got a great keynote speech lined up from Lucy Dean at ScotCen too. Sign up here :https://forms.office.com/e/ARDLVnhyU3

This is a great idea! 💡 ⬇️ #academicsky

Wee jaunt to University of Stirling for a super useful and informative weights workshop delivered by Pierre Walthery from the UK Data Service. Cheers @kateohara.bsky.social for organising through the Large Social Surveys group (time to make a blue sky account so I can tag you pls).

go.bsky.app/T667spi

CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS

Hey everyone!

I'm currently recruiting participants for my PhD research project - please repost and share far and wide!

Scan the QR code below or drop me a line for more info. Thanks in advance!

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.

So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.

Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.