An insightful inaugural professorial lecture from Jo Ferrie sharing the importance of how we teach research methods that create social change

Have you read our latest #symposium ?

Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance

Published in our latest issue, 31(2) ⬇️
tandfonline.com/toc/gide20/31/2

Mihaela Mihai Nasar Meer Aaron Winter T&F Social Sciences and Humanities

'...she continued to plead. Why? Because she assumed the world did not know what was happening in Gaza. Because if the world knew, how could they possibly let this happen?'
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There is an entire brand of pundits whose job is not to clarify, add nuance, or explain current events but rather to cloud understanding.

And they are out in force right now.

'Subverting 'supra-identity' politics in the 'New Turkey'

The latest from the #IdentitiesBlog , by Ece Yoltay

@nasarmeer Aaron Winter

Read the blog post ⬇️
identitiesjournal.com/blog-collectio…

🔴 Gaza:

In Rafah, conditions for survival are not in place. We have seen a massive increase in diarrhoeal illnesses & malnutrition among children under 5.

Without access to medical care, thousands more lives will be lost.

Read our report for more👇
msf.org/gazas-silent-k…

📢Want to learn from our experiences of co-producing our @bibreasearch Age of Wonder Adolescent health study? Then please read on...👇
Ready, set, co(produce): a co-operative inquiry into co-producing research to explore adolescent health and wellbeing
researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

'The figure for the amount of rubble in #Gaza is 37 million tons.

To put that in context, that's more rubble than in Ukraine, and in Ukraine the front is 600 miles. Gaza is 25 miles long.'

- Charles (Mungo) Birch , head of UNMAS in the State of Palestine

If you are considering PhD research & are interested in improving public health in prisons, please apply for this PhD with my brilliant ENU colleagues Katrina Morrison Prof Liz Aston & Rebecca Foster. It's part of a new programme of health-justice research across ENU, Strathclyde & UoG

Rap music used as evidence in scores of trials in England and Wales, study finds - Jamie Grierson on new report by Eithne Quinn Will Pritchard & Erica Kane
theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/3…

And it’s a thing of beauty:- UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024 |⁦School of Education⁩ ⁦UofG Unesco RILA 🧡⁩ ⁩ ⁦UNESCO UK⁩ ⁦Anna Nsubuga - UK Ambassador to UNESCO⁩ heyzine.com/flip-book/dfc9…

Excellent talks so far from Aaron Winter (@SociologyLancs) and Liz Fekete (@IRR_News) in our #SSAHE webinar about the right to protest, co-chaired by Ann Phoenix (@TCRU_UCL) and Ben Gidley (@SocSciBBK).

As well as a team of wonderful supervisors at Napier, this PhD is linked to an exciting new programme of research across Napier, Strathclyde and Glasgow. Do share with potential candidates!

Thanks to editors at Identities Journal for organising a symposium on Fighting Identity & to generous respondents

In my response, I talked about embodied ethnography, the importance of seeking out convivial possibilities and anti-racist horizons

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢📢📢 Yes, the job advert is properly live now. Please reshare it far and wide: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHG231/res…

Our colleague, Co-I, Refaat, who taught & enabled mothers to write stories for their children that were dreams of peace and freedom. Assassinated for his poetic, prophetic words. Now we mourn his daughter, son-in-law and grandchild but with his resistance & the tale of his kite

‘Affective Control: The Emotional Life of Mobility Control in Europe’. Recording now available of the Identities Journal webinar of the emotions (and unemotionality) of the immigration system.
ioana vrabiescu College of Life and Environmental Sciences Geography Birmingham IRiS
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In light of attacks on pro-Palestinian protests/protesters at US universities, often based on accusations they're antisemitic and extremist, I'm re-sharing some pieces I've written about this:

Community Policy Forum Briefing on Islamophobia and Antisemitism
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🚨 Don't forget! Registration is still OPEN until Apr 29th for the next 4 'Spring into Methods' workshops! SGSSS ✏️

Open to all doctoral researchers aligned with SGSAH, SGSSS, SOCIAL AI or SICSA at member HEIs 📚

🔗 Register here social.sgsss.ac.uk/spring-into-me…

If you're interested in neoliberalism, activism, revolution, join us for this free event in Glasgow on May 29th. We're celebrating the life and work of Neil Davidson and are finalising a fantastic list of speakers. Lunch provided! Sign up on below link:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-wit…