Great to hear George the poet speaking up for youth work on Radio 4 just now - the need for youth clubs and art provision that inspires everyone to take a thoughtful, creative and collective look at society. #radio4 #wato #youthwork
The scale of child poverty is a national scandal.
This report highlights how poverty can bleed into every area of children's lives.
The government’s child poverty strategy must take children’s experiences into account and make urgent changes.
Read more here: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research.
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
@kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social
Out now! Sideways Sociology looks at three key figures in UK anti-racism – Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean, Len Garrison – and shows how they teach us what that term means and takes, and how they speak to sociology now. Feat. John Narayan, A.S. Francis, Hannah Ismael.
Subscribe: buff.ly/lRwSQSD
And here's the article we were discussing, Embers and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks, by Louise Doherty and me, in Journal of Education Policy:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research.
www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
@kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
See also recent article with Louise Doherty on the embers and fragments of youth work policy, haunted by ghosts of a valued tradition of publicly funded, practice-led youth work that refuses to disappear... and will rise again! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
And why was NCS money not redirected to open access youth work, as we've all been suggesting for years? Recommended reading, "Where next for youth work" by Gemma Lockyer Turnbull, recently published in Youth and Policy. www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/whe...
It's always great to see youth work in a spending review. But this is a tiny amount of funding, much of which had already been committed, and doesn't make up for what's been lost. We urgently need funding to employ and support more grassroots youth workers, and bursaries for youth work uni courses.
On the work of Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean & Len Garrison
‘The event’s focus will include questions of methods and ethics, action and legacy, remembrance and representation’
thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
At #UCU2025 we passed motions to reaffirm our commitment to trans rights.
We’ll keep fighting for inclusive spaces, supportive policies and real solidarity.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #UCU2025 #UnionPower
OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue
A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah.
buff.ly/RwjIdlS
#palestine #gaza
‼️KCL management has demanded that the student Palestine encampment disband by 10 today or face disciplinary action. This is an unacceptable repression of their fundamental rights to protest and freedom of speech. We have written to management to call for dialogue over coercion
Solidarity with our KCL students, who have launched another encampment on the Strand Quadrangle, rejecting the university’s complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and demanding the demilitarisation of their education. Another world is possible!
Dr Francesca Meloni (@francescameloni.bsky.social) has won the Hart-SLSA award for Early Career Academics 2025 for her book Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality. 🎉
Read more about the award and the book here ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
Can't wait to read this book by my brilliant colleague, @ptheodoropoulos.bsky.social
Just days to go until we host the launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker by Panos Theodoropoulos and this is your last chance to register!
🗓️12 May, 6.30pm
📍Great Hall, Strand Campus
Register here: bit.ly/43h1TiF
@mmbuob.bsky.social @industrialworker.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
“Not a single party is standing up for working class people and Reform offers nothing but division. No plan for the NHS. No plan for transport. No answer to the cost of living crisis. If we want change, we need to come together and demand it.”
drjogrady.bsky.social on BBC Question Time tonight.
For anyone who came last night & esp for all sociologists, we are asking that you donate to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
A powerful, moving event, that left me (and I'm sure many of us) in tears... a space to hold hopelessness and hope at the same time, and to feel emboldened and strengthened, to keep going. Many thanks to the organisers and speakers #freePalestine @thesociologicalreview.org @anilsghost.bsky.social
Bristol folk - join us for #KidicalMass 2025! A family-friendly city-centre protest ride calling for safer streets for children and everyone. Come on bikes, scooters, skateboards or roller-skates! Castle Park bandstand from 11am, Saturday 14th June. www.facebook.com/events/10929...
I wrote about Israel’s ballistic destruction of Gaza & how colonial explosive violence has left its mark on critical social thought @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
‘Reflecting on the genocide in Gaza and settler occupation in Palestine, the speakers will explore the role of sociology in intervening, and how the tools of our craft might offer insight, as well as their limitations’
Come join us 8th May
UCU was proud to stand in solidarity at today’s emergency protest for trans rights in London. ✊
Today, and every day, UCU stands with the trans community.
We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. 🏳️⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #UCU #Solidarity
Thinking this morning of the vital importance of trans-specific and trans-led youth work, LGBTQ+ youth work, and trans-inclusive open youth work for all. While the implications of the UK Supreme Court ruling remain unclear, the sector must actively support our trans young people and youth workers.
The podcast will appear in a couple of months. In the meantime there are lots of other great episodes to check out: www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
Thanks to
@pippasterk.bsky.social, Sara Black, Sylvie Carlos,
@liamciniodwyer.bsky.social @kingsecs.bsky.social
