Chart showing youth unemployment rates: various countries
Young people face a particularly difficult outlook.
The UK’s youth unemployment rate now above the EU average for the first time since records began.
Yikes! Will have a good read of this one
Congratulations Steve, looks really interesting
What keeps men out of frontline care work? - Our new paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social suggests problem is less masculine identity anxieties & more low pay, insecure hours, limited progression & poor public understanding of care work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#gender
Today is the LAST DAY to complete the government's consultation on 'earned' settlement.
If you think these plans are wrong - make your voice count now.
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This stands the test of time, top drawer stuff
🔶New issue of Futures of Work.
This issue explores how borders shape workers’ lives, treating them not as neutral lines but as contested and ideological forces. The articles show how bordering practices structure labour mobility and inequality.
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Pleased to announce publication of a new article with Liam Foster on paid care workers in England's attitudes towards organising bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
The article is based on analysis of 45 interviews with paid care workers and key actors representing their interests, including unions and campaign groups. It brings together scholarship on paid care workers' wider work orientations and the burgeoning literature on organising among paid care workers
Pleased to announce publication of a new article with Liam Foster on paid care workers in England's attitudes towards organising bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Happening @yorkuniversity.bsky.social next Friday! Come listen to powerhouse speakers talk abt migrant justice and care work!
StAnza 2026
13–15 March, St Andrews & online
Tickets are on sale for StAnza 2026, Scotland’s award-winning poetry festival dedicated to bringing poetry in all its forms & many languages to audiences around the world
#poetry
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We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility. Deadline: 6 Feb 2026
We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you...
Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline?
A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility?
Experienced in data management and analysis?
If so, apply:
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Great stuff. I do enjoy walking in Glasgow - walked the subway route not long back which was cool
Looks great Les, congratulations
BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...
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We want to help build fair work in social care, with better pay, more job security, and improved working conditions. Our new #PathwaysToProgress project has launched a survey for #socialcare workers in #Scotland. Please fill it in and share!
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Bedside Books for December - The Sociological Review Collage of book covers for the titles I Who Have Never Known Men, At the Pond, Demon Copperhead, A Woman's Job, Becoming Young Men in a New India, All Fours and Climbing the Ladder
Our new Bedside Books column offers brief insights into titles our readers can’t put down, from books on men’s inner lives and women’s aspirations in today’s Delhi to volumes on the opioid crisis, perimenopause and swimming in Hampstead Ladies’ Pond.
Find your page turner: buff.ly/3EfwkNl
Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social
we're back, it is now 2026, our January issue is out now 🤖
FREE copies doing the rounds as we speak, sign up to our newsletter for an early look at what's in this month's mag
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We focus on community and care in a small-scale campaign by @uvwunion.bsky.social to improve pay and conditions at a London nursing home journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social
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Sorry to hear that, Rob
I greatly enjoyed presenting my work at the PSA Parliaments conference at the University of York last week.
It was nice to make new contacts and learn about the latest research in the field.
Thanks to @psa-parliaments.bsky.social for the organisation and the photo! ⬇️
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Congratulations - hope you'll be with us for many more years
Thanks for sharing all of this, Tim, so generous and beautifully put
@argonautbooks.bsky.social has put together a letter to Waterstones, which you can read and sign here:
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