The recording of our Launch 'Current Issues in Intimate and Sexual Citizenship' w keynotes from Diane Richardson and Ana Cristina Santos @acsantos_ces is available on our webpage now!

Huge congratulations to CISG member Alicia Denby who succsessfully defended her PhD yesterday! Dr Denby was supervised by @Jennyhvh and examined by Vanessa May and Eleanor Wilkinson

New paper! Published in the Youth Justice Journal I explore the views of Resettlement Officers in YOIs +the range of barriers they face implementing Constructive Resettlement. ROs described feeling isolated and invisible @ICF_Mcr @mcys_mmu @_YJB 👇

Call for convenors for a relaunched BSA Historical and Comparative Sociology Study Group. The group will provide a forum for sociologists and other social scientists using history and historical methods in their research and teaching https://t.co/eBaYgK6wx0 #Sociology

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Register now for our @morgancentre conversations and @ConnecteDNA workshop. Third party assisted reproduction: Making connections across borders. Monday 28 April. @uomsoss

What happens after early career? Find out by booking on ‘Coping, Thriving, Progressing?’, a @BSAECForum event, 21 March, Newcastle University https://t.co/oMdMvfJefQ #Sociology

Really happy to share a new article. With the @ConnecteDNA team, we explore how parents through DC navigate DNA testing and what this tells us about kinship and childhood. @nicky_hudson @lucy_frith @NordqvistPetra @BioethicsUoM @morgancentre @SocStudiesShef @manmetcrimsoc

Register to attend our NCRM event that explores the ethics and possibilities of creative writing and social research at ‘whose words are they anyway?’ Please register here: https://t.co/qEhd5yYAoj

Great to see our @mcys_mmu colleague @HannahLSmithson excellent research featured in @britsoci Network Magazine!

Diary filling up for 2025?? Add this BSA book talk before it's too late! https://t.co/IdIo2zJk8u @UCLpress @UCLSociology @LeaveNetwork #parentalleave #SPL

A new report from @mmu_decentwork is calling for increased investment in adult social care to help attract and retain care workers, while creating a system that reduces pressure on the NHS. Find out more 🔗 https://t.co/2xopauG2K8

Call for abstracts, by 30 January 2025, for the BSA’s Presidential Event, ‘The Future of the Sociology of Education’ in London on 6 June, held in collaboration with @bsaeducation #Sociology

New Paper! CISG Leads Christian Klesse and @Jennyhvh challenge conventional notions of transparency and deceit, to explore the crucial role of secrecy in both creating and disrupting intimacy.

Book now for ‘Caring is Sharing? Couples navigating parental leave at the transition to parenthood’, a free online @BSA_FARGroup Group webinar, 10 January https://t.co/hjnqngMNxs #sociology

Bear joined @alicia_denby and @Jennyhvh on their Intimate Relationships module for the week on pets as family members

Wanna hear more about the role of fantasies and HIV? Join the @CCRIEdinburgh seminar on Thursday! I'll be talking all about fantasy, health and #HIV! 🫴 https://t.co/1g0x7gS0Q7

“Instead of removing the banned chemicals PFOS and PFOA our treatment plants are actually creating them." Our research has shown processes intended to decontaminate landfill waste has been found to increase some of the worst toxic chemicals. Read more 👇

How should sociologists write about other people’s lives? Find out at our free members-only online 'Writing people's lives' event on November 25, when professors Ann Oakley, Graham Crow, Ann Phoenix and @gletherby give the benefit of their experience https://t.co/SWcS560XSJ

Our @HannahLSmithson is a guest editor for this special edition, with @sfcreaney and Ruth Parkes. Join our colleagues @bjcommunityjust for this online event sign up here 👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/iwJdoU3Hls @_YJB @ManMetUni @manmetcrimsoc @the_AYJ @NAYJtweets

🚨Deadline alert🚨 Abstract submissions for the 1st ICF conference are closing soon. Make sure you submit your abstracts by 31 Oct! #FamilyStudies #FamilySociology