Barry Gibson

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Medical Sociologist interested in consumption, health and illness. I am based in dentistry but my work draws on Luhmann's social theory, grounded theory methods and social practice theory.

The inaugural issue of the Journal of Critical Public Health is now out. This Journal is open-access and run by a community of Critical Public Health Scholars. Watch this space for more information on how to join this group.

#criticalpublichealth #publichealth

https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/issue/view/5429

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024) | Journal of Critical Public Health

Public health has moved towards a much better understanding of 'the social determinants of health' but the evidence is still very much stuck within a 'methodological individualism'. What alternatives would we suggest?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdoe.12931

So today in our introduction to social theory and the development of the sociology of health and illness lecture we will be discussing what our students would do with this scenario. Then working out what sociological theory can do to help us figure out different approaches to this dilemma. #sociology #publichealth #cphn

Welcome at @IKMZ, @ulrikeklinger! This semester, Prof. Ulrike Klinger will be a guest #professor at the #IKMZ.

She is Professor for #Digital #Democracy at the @ens at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), focusing on the transformation of digital publics and the role of #technology in democratic societies πŸ“±

She is also an Associate Researcher @Weizenbaum_Institut, was @freieuniversitaet – and worked for many years at our department. Great to have you back for the next months!πŸ™ŒπŸ»

The International Association of Grounded Theorists is hosting an online conference in September. In this mini message Antony Bryant invites you to join us. The rest of the message is here: https://groundedtheoryconference.com/a-message-from-tony-bryant/
A message from Tony Bryant – Grounded Theory Conference

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Call for Abstracts: Grounded Theory Futures - Conference on Grounded Theory 2024

Grounded theory methodology is the most cited method in qualitative research. There are thousands of grounded theory researchers studying and working in the world right now. The future of grounded theory is in their hands. Why not join us to discuss where the future lies for the method?

https://groundedtheoryconference.com/call-for-abstracts/

#groundedtheory

Call for abstracts – Grounded Theory Conference

Call for Abstracts: Grounded Theory Futures - Conference on Grounded Theory 2024

Grounded theory methodology is the most cited method in qualitative research. There are thousands of grounded theory researchers studying and working in the world right now. The future of grounded theory is in their hands. Why not join us to discuss where the future lies for the method?

https://groundedtheoryconference.com/call-for-abstracts/

#groundedtheory

Call for abstracts – Grounded Theory Conference

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Here’s a little something to help you get acquainted with Mastodon.

I've also written a tutorial on the same subject: https://tikli.neocities.org/resources/gswmastodon

#MastodonNewbie #TwitterMigration

(EDIT: Fixed a typo in the "searched for people" box on the top row.)

Getting Started With Mastodon [tikli's web nest]