Our project won second prize in the Research & Knowledge Exchange Awards: Exploring Power and Consent in KS3 Relationships and Sex Education, led by Dr Saskia Jones, Dr Kate Milnes, Dr Rhys Turner-Moore, Lauren Korytko, and Dr Katerina Litsou. www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/resear...
Do you want to get involved in shaping the future of feminist research. Consider this excellent opportunity @genderandjustice.bsky.social @gemakloppe.bsky.social @sssh-research.bsky.social @lauraiesue.bsky.social @heleentouquet.bsky.social @sorchamcc.bsky.social @ruthfletcher.bsky.social
Welcome to our Meet The SSSH! Group series, where we will be introducing our researchers! You can read the full biographies on our LinkedIn post here: www.linkedin.com/posts/sex-se...
Yesterday, 3 SSSH! group students graduated from @leedsbeckett.bsky.social: Congratulations to Lucy Eldred, Lynsey Fenwick, and Francesca Taylor-Phillips! We are so proud to know you, to have learned with and from you, and we cannot wait to see what you go on to achieve! 👏 👏 👏
Sexuality and disability are wrongly treated as separate dimensions. As cornerstones of bodily autonomy and consent, one informs us about the other from the classroom to the doctor's office. Inclusive sex ed is disability justice.
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#DisabilityPrideMonth
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Graphic with St Martin in the Fields Frontline Network Partner logo and Basis Yorkshire logo. Text reads: Women's Rough Sleeping Census Week Planning Session #2. Online, 1st August 2pm-3.30pm. Sign up now!
Join us 2pm on 1 August for a planning & training session. This session is designed for participants in this year's census week in September, aiming to provide support and information on conducting the survey and reflecting on the experience.
Sign up now: buff.ly/aBZ9444
Call for Papers Abstract submission is OPEN Submit an abstract
Call for abstracts for the BSA @britsoci.bsky.social Annual Conference 2026 at Edinburgh Uni!
Submit abstracts for 15-min presentations, roundtable contributions, posters, and 🥁Special Events🥁 by 3 Oct 2025!
Also: consider submitting to the Theory Stream!
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... #Theory
Our most recent #SSSHseminar is now available on our YouTube channel! Thanks again to Allysa Czerwinsky for sharing her research on the #incelosphere with us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pM...
#AcademicSky #PhdSky #FeministSky #incels #adolescence #researchseminar #leedsbeckett
🚨Read cutting edge feminist scholarship, specially selected by our Editors.
We’ve made 3 articles free to access until 31st July 2025, so you can get some of the highlights! 🔥
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Are you a post-doctoral researcher with strong qualitative skills, a critical mind and a love for digging into the complexities of how people navigate work and health? Check out our vacancy at the Uni of York School for Business and Society: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... @uoysbs.bsky.social
Advances in Psychological Science Open (APSO), APS's new open access journal in the field of #psychology, is seeking to appoint additional Associate Editors!
Apply today to work with Rachael Jack, the inaugural Editor-in-Chief!
Newly Published:
Growney’s & English’s study explored how age and social closeness relate to how people view their relationships and interactions.
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#AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing
How to continue to do the right thing for your trans colleagues and customers, from the brilliant folks at Gendered Intelligence. ow.ly/3g6350VZZqa
⏳FINAL CfPs #LEXJointConferenece OPEN CALL🌎
✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’.
✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill
✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025
✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events'
✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3
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In one week - next Thursday, May 22nd - the #everydayprevention team will be holding a Q&A session on the Instagram account's story. Please join in with your questions about everyday prevention, and how we can all work to end sexual harm in our daily lives. #PhDSky #AcademicSky #FeministSky #metoo
As part of this project, the team set up an Instagram account (www.instagram.com/everydayprev...) to educate the @leedsbeckett.bsky.social community about #everydayprevention. It contains messages about EP and links to local &national resources for ppl who have been harmed &/or have engaged in harm.
SSSH! members Rhys Turner-Moore & Erin Shannon, alongside 2nd-year Psychology student co-researchers Adele Care, Harris Heaton, & Estelle McGhee, have been working on an #actionresearch project on 'everyday prevention': small steps we can take to prevent sexual harm in our daily lives. #AcademicSky
To apply, please send a statement of up to 200 words to bsatheory@gmail.com describing your interest in the role, alongside a brief outline of one or two events that you would like to host in the coming academic year.
#Theory #Sociology #AcademicChatter #ECRChat
Our (@gmthomas.bsky.social Tanisha Spratt @amychandler.bsky.social) book went to print - very exciting! The @britsoci.bsky.social London MedSoc Study Group is hosting a launch event (thanks @twiterney.bsky.social) on 19 June 18:00-19:30. All welcome, register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-london...
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Congratulations to our 2025 BPS Practice Board Award winners.
Graham Towl, Rachel Tribe, and Julie Freeborn are 3 inspiring members of our community who have shown the lasting impact psychology can have on communities & policy.
👉www.bps.org.uk/news/congratulations-2025-practice-board-award-winners
We are proud signatories of this statement on the Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010. You can sign at the top of the document if you represent a group/centre/network and want to add your support. Read the full statement ➡️ tinyurl.com/SCgenderstud...
Join us for our second seminar in our new seminar series ❗ this coming Monday, May 19th from 3:30-5pm❗
We're excited to hear from Allysa Czerwinsky about her very timely research on the incelosphere. Book your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sssh-semin...
#PhDSky #AcademicSky #FeministSky
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Join us 5th June as we explore this year’s Women’s Homelessness Census!
Together, we’ll identify key locations and strategies to help maximise the national response during Census Week this September.
Online, 2pm-3.30pm
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Misan Jekhine at her MSc graduation at Leeds Beckett in 2023.
“Representation matters!”
In our latest edition of LBU Research Voices, we met up with Misan Jekhine, a PhD student researching gender diversity, focusing on corporate events in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
🔗 bit.ly/3ZaJ3Y4
#PhDSky #LBUResearchVoices #eventsmanagement
Could you help to drive forward initiatives that champion equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) across the society & the broader psychological professions? Applications are open for a Chair to lead our EDI Board until 11 Jun '25. Members apply here: https://www.bps.org.uk/elections-2025
Could you help to drive forward initiatives that champion equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) across the society & the broader psychological professions?
Applications are open for a Chair to lead our EDI Board until 11 Jun '25.
Members apply here: www.bps.org.uk/elections-2025
Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.
My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
Sex educators get these convos aren't easy. In March, our friends @thencsh.bsky.social launched Own The Awk, a video series and comprehensive media campaign to support young adults navigating relationship and sexual health topics. Check out episode 1👇 🎞️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ltN...
We're looking forward to our second seminar featuring Allysa Czerwinsky! The event is free and online, and you can register below ⬇️ #AcademicSky #FeministSky #Adolescence
“Our message is that violence against women and girls is not by the bogeyman, the scary stranger that nobody knows about. It’s by men that are in our community, that are known and loved and trusted. And it's endemic."
Read more from our Chief Exec, Nik Peasgood⤵
www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-n...
