✨❤️Deeply proud of this ep with my lovely friend &mentor Prof Bev Skeggs. We talk about class, power, capitalism & trauma. It's a timely reflection for the current times. This is also a celebration of the launch of Bev's archive bevskeggs.com curated by evelyn miller

CLOSING SOON: if you need time, space and help to work on a paper or chapter, apply by 29 August for a chance to join our funded writing retreat for early career scholars at Gladstone’s Library in Wales. Find out more + submit an application by Thursday buff.ly/3LJ9tJf

Big up the team behind this evelyn miller & Bev!

Definitely lining this Surviving Society episode up for my weekly listening! My fantastic Sociology Department Lancaster University colleagues Aaron Winter Ala Sirriyeh 🇵🇸 talking Gaza and solidarity with Palestinians

How does the legacy of colonialism sit at the heart of current crises we face? Robin D. G. Kelley and Imani Mason Jordan (Imani Mason Jordan) consider the pivotal moments leading up to today's ruptures in our Autumn Keynote. 📆 Thurs 5 Sep 🕖 7pm - 9pm (UK) 📍 Conway Hall & Online

We've missed you! This upcoming season will deal with themes of grief and loss, but also the ways in which these spaces of community we build are sacred, as Dr. Ethel Tungohan documents on her blog at gradstudentdrone.tumblr.com. Join us for Season 5, coming out later this Fall.

This is such a great archive of Bev Skeggs work. I particularly recommend the piece Labour of Love which is all about her work for The Sociological Review Foundation - the highs and lows

LAST CALL: if you need time, space and help to work on a paper or chapter, apply by tomorrow a chance to join our funded writing retreat for early career researchers at Gladstone’s Library in Wales. Don't delay - find out more and apply! buff.ly/3LJ9tJf

✨Will be delivering the plenary speech at the European Sociological Association annual conference (European Sociological Association) tomorrow evening in Porto with Professor Jason Arday. ✊🏽Stuart Hall, bell hooks & Gramsci will of course be guiding our reflections! europeansociology.org/conference/202…

Experiencing massive #FOMO that I am not in Porto with Manuela Boatcă Kirsteen Paton Dr Chantelle Jessica Lewis and likely many others European Sociological Association conference …

In January 2021 the UK Government made an unprecedented offer for Hong Kongers to migrate to the UK: the Hong Kong BNO visa. Michaela Benson unpacks how the BNO visa has contributed to redrawing humanitarian migration policy after Brexit. historyworkshop.org.uk/migration/brit…

Next week in Birmingham! #iris2024 bordering society conference with Nandita Sharma (@nsharma101.bsky.social) Nasar Meer Nira Yuval Davis and many others superdiversity.net/iris-conferenc…

Running counter to the universalist approach underpinning the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UK claims for itself the right to choose who to protect and on which terms. By Professor Michaela Benson Nando Sigona and Elena Zambelli politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/the-uks-s…

New humanitarian schemes for Afghans, Syrians, Ukrainians and Hong Kongers mark a transactional approach to humanitarianism, where the UK claims for itself the right to choose who to protect. By Professor Michaela Benson Nando Sigona and Elena Zambelli politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/the-uks-s…

Elena Zambelli, Professor Michaela Benson, and Nando Sigona examine impact of Brexit on family structures and mixed-status families. Read their analysis now below. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/003803…

Pleased and immensely relived to be able to say that my research on discourses of identity among post-Brexit applicants for Irish passports was published by Political Psychology this morning: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… A quick thread, with some of context & major points in the article:

If you are at the IRiS conference today, come to the panel on Coloniality, Migration and Citizenship. Can't wait to hear the other papers by Professor Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna & Kate Botterill et al. I'll talk about this: academic.oup.com/ips/article/18…

Great to see that the call for overseas constituencies remains on the agenda - this is about extending political representation to the extensive and diverse British emigrant population abroad