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Academics - that paper you've joked about writing with a friend? Just write it. This has been a wild ride of pure joy. PS Rob Barward-Symmons proof it's not just your footnotes 🙃

The Call for Papers is now live! See tinyurl.com/5n7z488d Deadline for abstracts 7th February 2025

tinyurl.com/y2pfxa57 for Weds 22nd January 2025 at 8am BST (9pm NZDT, 10am EET, 11am EEST) - I'd love to see you there!

Call for Papers by 7 February for the @BSASocrelSG 50th Anniversary Annual Conference, ‘Charting Challenges and Change: The Past, Present and Future of the Sociology of Religion’ on 14–16 July 2025, Durham University tinyurl.com/ahkz2bm3

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

The deadline to submit abstracts for this year’s SocRel conference has been extended until 14.02.2025, 12noon (GMT) For more info on the call for papers, abstracts & submission: buff.ly/3Q5bBNG... Many thanks to those who have already submitted abstracts for consideration

The February ASDS .bsky.social postdoc session is on Wednesday 19th at 8am GMT (pm NZDT, 10am EET, 11am EEST). Old hats and new faces equally welcome - we'd love to see you there ✨👻 ✨tinyurl.com/2s3njdpc

Welcome to Grave Goods Wrapped! Hours of staring at boob doodles & so so worth it - I've had so much fun working on this collab already (and lots more to come - watch this space!)

tinyurl.com/yrkybkjd March's ASDS postdoc group is on Wednesday 19th at 8am GMT (pm NZDT, 10am EET, 11am EEST). I'd love to see you there! PS - I'm trying to shuffle this mortal coil to Bluesky. Join me if you can!

The Gov has committed to extend the right to bereavement leave to include pre-24 week baby loss. This is after we joined calls from MPs & @miscarriagea to implement bereavement leave for every baby loss: bit.ly/3FplUdu

The next ASDS postdoc session is on 30th April 2025 - & you can sign up at tinyurl.com/env5w2hz Please note the change in time - this is the time of year when different global summer time shifts go bananas 🍌🤯 - 9am BST, 11am EEST, 8pm NZST!

A big week for public speaking with Dr Riley - you can see my TEDxAberdeen talk at tinyurl.com/y2j7vxa2 or listen to my episode of Jess May's Opening Ceremony podcast tinyurl.com/ykrb3syv Increasingly trying to be on Bluesky rather than here!: jen-studies-death

& thank you to The Leverhulme Trust for making this childhood dream of a research project happen!

Join me for the next ASDS postdocs session - 25th June, 8am BST! tinyurl.com/2tx6acc2 (and maybe join me on Bluesky at darkplace, my place-studies-death.bsky.social while you're at it?!)

Please send!! Otherwise it will just be Rob Barward-Symmons and his photos of questionable university accommodation

My wonerful colleagues in the Law school invited me to talk about grave goods (and grave...bads?) for their Death and Law Podcast. You can catch me here! open.spotify.com/episode/4OPyoE…

The next ASDS postdoc meeting is on Wednesday 23rd July at 8am BST (A slight change of date, I'm afraid, as I'll be running a conference!) Book via tinyurl.com/3u4jc7vn or sign up for reminder emails at tinyurl.com/2x2nuxae (right hand side!)