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📢Security and police on university campuses 📢 We're looking to gather the views and experiences of students (and recent graduates) through this short survey (should take less than 10 minutes) Please share and complete: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_88…

Sentencing of Assault Offences - a literature review prepared by Dr Carly Lightowlers (Carly Lightowlers), Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Law & Social Justice, & Prof Melissa Hamilton at Surrey Law School has been published. Produced on behalf of the Scottish Sentencing Council Council. #sentencing #assault

📢📢 New Book Alert📢📢 ‘Education, Work and Social Change in Britain’s Former Coalfield Communities: The Ghost of Coal’ is out now! Edited by me & Robin Simmons, published by Palgrave Education link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… HudCRES @deindustrialpol Alliance of Working-Class Academics Working-Class Studies Association

'While mental health reasons are often used to explain suicide (e.g. depression), for suicides as a political act, individualistic and psychocentric explanations fall short ...' Suicide and Political Crisis - Read our new Blog post by Lynn Tang liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-soci…

Liverpool 🙌 #ucuRISING University of Liverpool UCU #CeasefireNow

Higher education is a broken system, universities make £millions off the back of students & the work of staff Join our UCU teach-out: an open discussion of how we can radically reimagine the university. 🗓️ 30th Nov ⌚post pickets, 2-4pm 📍Liverpool Guild of Students, L3 5TR

Look what arrived today. Can’t wait to read this over the weekend. Great work from Christy Kulz Kirsty Morrin Ruth McGinity

I was asked to share my thoughts on current Conservative housing policy. TLDL: any legislation that isn't centred on creating affordable housing is simply a mechanism for developers / landlords to gain yet more profit & entrench deeper inequalities. Also, rent controls!

Late to the promo but some excellent international coverage in the latest Red Pepper - Tooba, Jai Kumar, AWP Sindh and Jamhoor on the causes and devastation of the floods in Pakistan - Ahou Koutchesfahani on Iran's ongoing feminist revolution subscriptions.redpepper.org.uk

There's also loads of stuff on public ownership in the UK with We Own It, Alex Gordon #JoinAUnion of RMT on rail, and Sol Gamsu and Kirsty Morrin on higher ed

‘We strike for the future of the NHS.’ The largest strike in RCN history starts today, as nursing staff in England, Northern Ireland and Wales demand fair pay and patient safety. #RCNStrike #FairPayForNursing rcn.org.uk/magazines/News…

'It is through such research that we learn time and again how the academies programme retrenches, rather than reforms inequalities' Fantastic new Blog piece by Kirsty Morrin liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-soci…

Delighted that my book, THE CULTURE TRAP, has been published by Oxford University Press! This ethnography centers and celebrates Black youth in London and NYC schools, and shows that the use of culture to explain Black students' success or failure in schools is not only tricky; it is a trap!

'Participatory, democratic, local branch structures rather than top-down union leadership, are central to building militant trade union organising in universities'. Sol Gamsu and Kirsty Morrin on resisting the ongoing marketisation of higher education redpepper.org.uk/taking-back-th…

Important project offering a class-based analysis of former military personnel ~ supervised by Ross McGarry, Kirsty Morrin and Peter Campbell

Great PhD opportunity with our friend Dr. Ross McGarry at Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology doing class-based analysis of the UK armed forces. Supervision also from Kirsty Morrin & Peter Campbell. APPLY BELOW! jobs.ac.uk/job/CXM792/sta…

WEEK 2 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 💈 Black Barbershops in Focus 💈 a pop-up exhibition ✂️ 🗓️ 12th - 29th June 🖼️ by Habiba Nabisubi 📍 151 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, SE24 0NG

Today is the start of *week 2* of a community pop-up exhibition I’ve developed that’s being hosted from the basement of a South London barbershop that inspired my current research exploring the multiple roles Black barbershops play in making communities.

Over the weekend we peeled off the end date for our 💈Black Barbershops in Focus ✂️ exhibition. Not to end… but to EXTEND! If you missed it, please come by throughout July! 🖼️ by Habiba Nabisubi 📍 151 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, SE24 0NG

Dr Kirsty Morrin (Kirsty Morrin) recently presented 'Against Entrepreneurship' for the FutureU Forum (MSU), which maps out conceptual, historical, and spatial understandings of ‘entrepreneurship’ in education. 📺⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=NDCTcM…