We still have some places available in @CitySociology on our four courses there (BSc Sociology, Criminology, Criminology & Sociology, Sociology and Psychology) - if interested do contact us! @CityStGeorges .

In order that universities can get back on some sort of stable financial footing, fees need to go up significantly. None of the major political parties are currently prepared to countenance this option. At the very least to fill the gap from when they were frozen.

RT @profserious: Very few people seem to understand university finances and, distressingly, this includes many academics and most policymak….

RT @ianpacemain: If you’re at @edfringe , do go and see Morag Fullarton’s Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut. Hugely affectionate but also extre….

RT @greenocktele: UK sociologist explores Greenock through the lens of playwright Peter MacDougall

If anyone else who was in Greenock or Glasgow or nearby in the 1960s and 70s would be prepared to speak to me, please do get in touch.

Article in the @greenocktele about my research trip exploring the town and its refraction through the work of Peter McDougall.

The project I’m working on at the moment has in part to do with media representation of Scotland, especially Clydeside. This Python sketch, first broadcast in 1969, is really quite shocking now.

RT @timeshighered: Campaigners say they are ready to call English universities out on breaches of a new free speech law coming into force t….

@CampbellSocProf More academics of all persuasions should bear in mind that if the distinction between scholarship and politics is dissolved, what happens when their fields fall into the hands of those whose politics they hate. As with those who have opposed free speech until it affects them.

I was very impressed by @CampbellSocProf ‘s book when I read it last year. Not all sociologists acquiesce to the surrender of their discipline to activism and the concomitant surrender of truth to political expediency and social function. Which blights other disciplines too.

Good review of Bradley Campbell’s How to Think Better about Social Justice. ‘To its detriment, sociology has largely surrendered its scientific mission in favor of an emergent (religious) zeal for transforming the world around it.’.

RT @ianpacemain: My article for @TheCriticMag on how universities can implement the new guidance from the OfS relating to the Higher Educat….

RT @ianpacemain: Stage 3: most labour-intensive, institute meaningful FS/AF training for most academics and professional staff, as required….

RT @ianpacemain: Stage 2: recommended, not mandatory - each HE institution appoints a director of free speech/academic freedom, at same lev….

RT @ianpacemain: Also within Stage 1: draw up *provisional* free speech codes to be issued to academics and students in the autumn, making….

RT @ianpacemain: Then, also as part of Stage 1, remove highly politicised job titles immediately, fully document all processes for appointm….

RT @ianpacemain: Stage 1: removal of ‘all requirements for pledges of allegiance to contested aspects of EDI and other ideologies from proc….

My three-stage blueprint for universities in terms of how the OfS guidance on the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act can be implemented in full over the course of the 2025-26 academic year.

RT @HJoyceGender: Apart from the man being pandered to at the centre of this saga, almost everyone else involved is a woman. Every single p….