UCL Sociology Network

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UCL Sociology Network: Sociological studies, lectures and events at UCL
Websitehttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/collaborative-social-science/ucl-sociology-network
Twitter biohttps://twitter.com/UCLSociology
RT @pengzell
Research assessments push poor science: papers published before deadline are in lower impact venues and less cited https://twitter.com/mishateplitskiy/status/1654356444215488513
Science of Science on Twitter

“Every 5 years U.K. academics scramble to publish papers to beat the REF (national evaluation) deadline, even if the papers are crappy https://t.co/GZieGFzR5i”

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RT @UCLEast
Superb opportunities for east London communities thanks to @FdnFutureLondon and @westfieldstrat

Small, medium and large grants available with loads of support to help you apply. Go for it!

https://twitter.com/FdnFutureLondon/status/1653388237769957376?s=20

Foundation for Future London on Twitter

“We are pleased to announce Year 4 of the #WestfieldEastBank #CreativeFuturesFund with £550k in grants up for grabs! Supported by @westfieldstrat Apply for up to £50k through our community grant schemes https://t.co/6MHNkZVwFl”

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RT @Aksoyundan
📣 Register for our free and online workshop of experimental sociology with a great line up of speakers and discussants, join in even for a talk or two, or the whole programme. 10-11 May. Looking forward 👇 https://twitter.com/socioburak/status/1650784468767047681
Burak Sonmez on Twitter

“📢 We're pleased to share the 3rd Experimental Sociology Workshop (#ESW23) programme consisting of 5 sessions with a great line-up of presenters; discussants; and a keynote lecture by @RobbWiller Register your place to attend online🎟️ 10-11 May 2023 https://t.co/nNCE0MEiOY”

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RT @UCL_IAS
IAS Book Launch: The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity
9 May 6-8pm
Kirsty Dootson offers a compelling account of modern British visual culture that reveals colour to be central to its aesthetic trajectories & political formations https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2023/may/ias-book-launch-rainbows-gravity-colour-materiality-and-british-modernity
IAS Book Launch: The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity

Join us for an evening celebrating the publication of The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity by Kirsty Dootson.

Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)

RT @TheSocReview
#Contribute: for our Strikes & Care issue, we’re inviting pitches on #strikes around the world, #care, #selfcare, the #CostOfLiving crisis, #labour, financialisation of public services, contestations over the meaning of care & more.

Pitch deadline 10 May https://buff.ly/3FKaNsY

Our August 2023 issue

RT @GrahamScambler
Astonishingly, I’ve just exceeded 350,000 views on my website. Many thanks to all visitors and passers-by. It’s much appreciated. http://www.grahamscambler.com
Graham Scambler

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCL

Graham Scambler

RT @IDjnl
From #Identities, with #OpenAccess:

'#Interracial couples and the phenomenology of #race, place, and #space in contemporary England' by Elena Zambelli

@NasarMeer / @aaronzwinter / @Routledge_Socio / @RaceEDS / #racism / #discrimination

Read with #OA ➡️
https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1993007

Interracial couples and the phenomenology of race, place, and space in contemporary England

Drawing from ethnographic research in England, this article discusses interracial, Black-white couples’ perceptions and experiences of racism and racial discrimination. Empirically, it enlarges sch...

Taylor & Francis
RT @ELSA_Study
Check out the final programme for our @ELSA_Study 20th Anniversary Conference - happening 1 week from today at the Royal Society in London. If you've secured your place we look forward to seeing you there! If not, you can follows the action here #ELSA20 https://www.elsa-project.ac.uk/post/elsa-20th-anniversary-conference-final-programme
ELSA 20th Anniversary Conference: Final Programme

The final programme for the ELSA 20th Anniversary is now available to download:

ELSA

RT @StoneEcon_UCL
🪙 How wealthy are the wealthiest in the US? Should there be a limit on one's wealth?

Colleagues at @umichStoneCID answer these and other questions in their latest video.

Watch now 👇 https://twitter.com/umichStoneCID/status/1653034195013316611

Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics on Twitter

“Wealth inequality in the United States is nothing short of astronomical. Is there such a thing as too much wealth? What if we decided there was? Check out our new video here: https://t.co/JWWCJWSrJ1 #WealthInequality #EconTwitter #Sociology #InternationalWorkersDay #Wealth”

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RT @TheSocReview
“I can’t really remember what triggered it.”

@chloepeacock87 explored criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 UK “#riots” and found that forms of forgetting normalised the state’s extraordinarily harsh approach to participants.

https://buff.ly/3nmTMiu #OpenAccess