Ros Edwards
@rosedwards.bsky.social
Academic. Families. Research methods.
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Ros Edwards
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· Feb 8
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Academics’ Wives
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Academics’ Wives
Academics’ Wives is a British Academy / Leverhulme funded research project exploring the contribution made by wives of social investiga...
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Our sociologists’ wives research is helping to set the record straight about whose shoulders British sociologists are standing on. Wives collected and analysed data, edited and co-authored. Visit our website to find out more, and …1/6
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I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI?
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
NCRM News | Qualitative research and generative AI: reflections on an NCRM seminar
Should qualitative researchers be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? Recently, more than 400 internationally renowned qualitative researchers co-signed a commentary rejecting GenAI for
www.ncrm.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI?
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
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83% of the public agree that no child should be living in poverty in the UK
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Unions urge Reeves to prioritise living standards as CBI presses for shift on employment rights
TUC calls on chancellor to focus on child poverty and upping minimum wage
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
83% of the public agree that no child should be living in poverty in the UK
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
How to Get Published in Academic Journal
YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI?
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
NCRM News | Qualitative research and generative AI: reflections on an NCRM seminar
Should qualitative researchers be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? Recently, more than 400 internationally renowned qualitative researchers co-signed a commentary rejecting GenAI for
www.ncrm.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI?
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
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How have maternal ways of knowing been sidelined and devalued? What’s the harm in sociology’s fixation on its “founding fathers”? And why must we de-gender motherhood and see how all of us must care? Babalwa Magoqwana joins us from South Africa.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
How have maternal ways of knowing been sidelined and devalued? What’s the harm in sociology’s fixation on its “founding fathers”? And why must we de-gender motherhood and see how all of us must care? Babalwa Magoqwana joins us from South Africa.
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How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
🔓 Chris Renwick’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
🔓 Chris Renwick’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
The Problem with Britain’s Pensions
www.historytoday.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult?
🔓 Chris Renwick’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
🔓 Chris Renwick’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
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In Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now.
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
Podcast of the Month - Thanks for Typing - Research Podcasts
This month’s Podcast of the Month is Thanks for Typing which uncovers the hidden contributions of Sociologists’ wives to their research. Behind many of the landmark studies that shaped modern…
researchpodcasts.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now.
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
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From hashtag to history
The story of Thanks for Typing began with the viral #ThanksForTyping hashtag-a call to recognise wives’ invisible labour in academic life.
From typing manuscripts to conducting fieldwork, these women made crucial but uncredited contributions to their husbands’ research.
The story of Thanks for Typing began with the viral #ThanksForTyping hashtag-a call to recognise wives’ invisible labour in academic life.
From typing manuscripts to conducting fieldwork, these women made crucial but uncredited contributions to their husbands’ research.
Podcast of the Month - Thanks for Typing - Research Podcasts
This month’s Podcast of the Month is Thanks for Typing which uncovers the hidden contributions of Sociologists’ wives to their research. Behind many of the landmark studies that shaped modern…
researchpodcasts.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
From hashtag to history
The story of Thanks for Typing began with the viral #ThanksForTyping hashtag-a call to recognise wives’ invisible labour in academic life.
From typing manuscripts to conducting fieldwork, these women made crucial but uncredited contributions to their husbands’ research.
The story of Thanks for Typing began with the viral #ThanksForTyping hashtag-a call to recognise wives’ invisible labour in academic life.
From typing manuscripts to conducting fieldwork, these women made crucial but uncredited contributions to their husbands’ research.
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An insighful and timely piece by Diane Reay on the purposes of education journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
An insighful and timely piece by Diane Reay on the purposes of education journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...
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Coming up on 13 November, our walk with Clare Balding for BBC R4 Ramblings
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Coming up on 13 November, our walk with Clare Balding for BBC R4 Ramblings
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I haven’t heard anything that caught me up like this has for ages
The New Eves - Cow Song
YouTube video by TheNewEvesVEVO
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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I haven’t heard anything that caught me up like this has for ages
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🎧 Bring Your Research to Life Through Podcasting
We’re excited to be teaming up with the @royalholloway.bsky.social Social Science Impact Accelerator for a dynamic, hands-on workshop exploring how podcasting can amplify your research story and reach new audiences.
We’re excited to be teaming up with the @royalholloway.bsky.social Social Science Impact Accelerator for a dynamic, hands-on workshop exploring how podcasting can amplify your research story and reach new audiences.
Storytelling for Impact: Podcasts
Come along to learn why podcasts are a great tool for storytelling, and how to launch your own
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November 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🎧 Bring Your Research to Life Through Podcasting
We’re excited to be teaming up with the @royalholloway.bsky.social Social Science Impact Accelerator for a dynamic, hands-on workshop exploring how podcasting can amplify your research story and reach new audiences.
We’re excited to be teaming up with the @royalholloway.bsky.social Social Science Impact Accelerator for a dynamic, hands-on workshop exploring how podcasting can amplify your research story and reach new audiences.
November ladybird travelling by train.
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
November ladybird travelling by train.
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Ellen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt
November 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Ellen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt
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Embroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Embroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart
Can anyone help me out - what is this flimsy delight representing?
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Can anyone help me out - what is this flimsy delight representing?
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I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit.
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit.
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social
largerfamilies.study/publications...
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This week's Substack post tells the story of Brighton's interwar council housing. There's a new post every Thursday in your inbox if you subscribe.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This week's Substack post tells the story of Brighton's interwar council housing. There's a new post every Thursday in your inbox if you subscribe.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...
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This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.
Interactive: explore England’s new deprivation map
Data analysis reveals ‘cheek by jowl’ inequalities in first study of country’s disadvantaged areas since pandemic
www.ft.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.
Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk
Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk
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🚨 New on Substack: Brighton built a lot of fine council housing between the wars but could it make it affordable to the working class? My post on Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’
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Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’
In 1921, Brighton was the second most densely populated county borough in the country after West Ham and, as a long-established town, a good deal of its housing was in worse condition than that of the...
municipaldreams.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🚨 New on Substack: Brighton built a lot of fine council housing between the wars but could it make it affordable to the working class? My post on Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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Have you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Have you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK