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Benjamin Hanckel

@benhanckel.bsky.social
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Sociologist at Western Sydney University. Researching: youth studies, health & wellbeing, digital media, gender & sexuality. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Latest open access article by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al.: Invisible girls, visible harms: health, well-being, and safety among child domestic workers in Myanmar www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New open access article by TASA members Xavier Mills & Benjamin Hanckel et al.: Reconfiguring the Family: Queer Lives and Plastic Kinship in Australia
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New #book by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al. Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
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Young and Resilient Research Centre @youngresilient.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A new report which represents the culmination of 3 years of research with young men, victim-survivors, and practitioners who work with young men who use intimate partner violence (IPV) will be launched online on Wednesday 5 November from 12pm – 1pm. Register your place here: lnkd.in/g7ytWMYP
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Brand new OA article by TASA members Emily Wolfinger, Benjamin Hanckel and Kate Huppatz Anticipating gendered futures? Young adults’ financial practices in relationships and work-family plans. Journal of Gender Studies, 1–21. doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It's out! 5th edition of #qual #methods for health research now published, and in a library near you soon!
Book in packing box
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
**IMPORTANT** Only 18 days left! General Abstract Submissions close on 22 April. Submit now and be part of #TASA2025! www.tasa.org.au/content.aspx...
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TASA 2025: Submissions - The Australian Sociological Association
There is a limit of 2 submissions per delegate (either 2 general or 1 general and 1 panel). To allow for a smoother and more efficient event organisation process, as mentioned above, we have brought all submission deadlines forward significantly compared to previous years. See Key Dates. 
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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Pleased to have contributed to writing team for this, and to making case for #qual methods to strengthen NE evaluations
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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The #BSA Medical #Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September 2025, Northumbria University, UK, *CALL FOR PAPERS* is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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Medical Sociology Conference 2025
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Leah Williams Veazey @leahmouse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
JOB ALERT: I'm hiring a part-time research fellow to work with me @healthy-societies.bsky.social at @sydneyuni.bsky.social on my research program on migration, im/mobility and belonging, with a specific focus on healthcare worker migration. Applications close 27 April bit.ly/4iAohs3 #Academicsky
Beige background with a black line drawing of a handheld megaphone. Text reads: We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology. Work with Dr Leah Williams Veazey and the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies team to generate foundational knowledge about healthcare worker migration. Part-time (0.5FTE) for 1 year. Academic level A. Start May/June 2025.
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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It was so great to talk with @chadibenedetto.bsky.social for this @mashableofficial.bsky.social article about trans tech as a form of resistance. "This moment for trans technology is so important. It's so vital to have these alternative technologies, because we can't rely on mainstream platforms."
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How trans people use technology to fight back against aggression
Academic Oliver Haimson explains how trans identities and tech go hand-in-hand in his new book, 'Trans Technologies.'
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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · 20/02/2025
In a new piece for @aunz.theconversation.com, ADM+S Affiliate Dr @awtsn.bsky.social details how researchers are finding new ways study ✨vibes✨, using approaches that can complement or even update tried-and-tested research methods, expanding on what we know about human relationships and experiences.
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Vibes are something we feel but can’t quite explain. Now researchers want to study them
Vibes – ambiguous as they are – have become part of the cultural zeitgeist. Studying them could help us better understand human relationships and experiences.
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Paul Byron @paulibyron.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New paper from me and Lisa McDaid: "Informal digital peer support for mental health: understanding the digital support practices of LGBTQ+ young people in Australia" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Informal digital peer support for mental health: understanding the digital support practices of LGBTQ+ young people in Australia
This paper offers an analysis of informal digital peer support among LGBTQ+ young people in Australia, based on survey data from 660 young people (aged 16-25). Research on LGBTQ+ young people’s men...
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Anthony K J Smith @anthonykjsmith.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Open access (no paywall) article in Social Science and Medicine, outlining 'the sociology of prescribing'. This is the sort of literature I wish I had access to in one place during my PhD. I outline sociological contributions to understanding drug prescribing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Worried about how Meta's new moderation policies will impact online sexual and reproductive health promotion? So am I! This piece is co-authored with my expert colleague & HDR student Joanna Williams: theconversation.com/metas-shift-...
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Meta’s shift to ‘community notes’ risks hurting online health info providers more than ever
Between allowing more “free speech” and removing official fact-checking, Meta’s platforms risk becoming more hostile to public health organisations.
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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 10/01/2025
Check out this CFP for a Special Issue in the Journal of Media and Cultural Studies titled "The Future of Nonbinary". Abstracts due Jan 31 🌈🎓 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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The Future of Nonbinary
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🔥 piece on Meta's global responsibility: "Rather than investing in culturally informed moderation with local language and regional expertise, Meta opts for a hands-off strategy, leaving fragile ecosystems to navigate a worsening crisis of truth." @jonathanong.bsky.social @tomdivon.bsky.social
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
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Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I’m speaking at 'Downsides of Digital’ on January 27th at #SUinsights session. Aiming to better understand the trade-offs that may accompany the adoption of digital technologies in health and care. Registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/67953a... #medsky #healthpolicy #digitalhealth
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Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
New year, new job? We are hiring at the Bristol Digital Futures Institute. These are sweet gigs because the first 5 years are 80% research. Also because Bristol. 🥰 Due date is Jan 13 so please spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLD242/l...
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Lecturer in Digital Futures at University of Bristol
Recruiting now: Lecturer in Digital Futures on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
#publichealth evaluation could make more use of methods such as process tracing - useful recent review: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How is process tracing applied in health research? A systematic scoping review
Complex health system questions often have a case study (such as a country) as the unit of analysis. Process tracing, a method from policy studies, is…
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Young Australians speak out against the social media ban www.sbs.com.au/news/the-fee...
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'Social media saved me': Here's what children want you to know about the social media ban
Some Australian children are speaking out against the world-first social media ban for under-16s.
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Brady Robards @bradyjay.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
shout out to the research participants from our study on the importance of social media and the internet for LGBTQ+ ppl - key quotes in this screenshot from this chapter: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... @brenchurchill.bsky.social @paulibyron.bsky.social @benhanckel.bsky.social + Son Vivienne
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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
An excellent article: “…when Haidt shows a rise in psychological distress in Nordic countries starting in 2010, we don’t see what happened before 2002. It risks giving the impression that nothing changed before the spread of smartphones”.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Calling all youth studies, media literacy PhD students: this might be up your alley. (And @lanalanalana.bsky.social is awesome!)
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Eric Layland, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @ericlayland.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Connect with folks through this LGBTQ Youth & Families Research starter pack. Happy to add others who are here! go.bsky.app/M2dCSHy
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Digital & Social Media UTS @utsdsm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"Youth and Social Media: Is Banning Access the Solution?" - a panel discussion hosted by the UTS Technology, Media, Strategy research group, in-person, Sydney, Dec 9. Register at: events.humanitix.com/youth-and-so...
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Youth and Social Media: Is Banning Access the Solution?
Get tickets on Humanitix - Youth and Social Media: Is Banning Access the Solution? hosted by UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. UTS Central (Building 2), Level 4 Foyer, 61 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm really excited about this one. We've opened a new @britishacademy.bsky.social call offering up to £150k for researchers to work with peers around the world to strengthen evidence informed policymaking in different contexts. Deadline 19th Feb. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/evid...
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Evidence-informed policymaking grants
This programme gives ODA-eligible early-career to senior researchers the opportunity to work with peers around the world to inform policymaking through quality evidence and research.
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Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u
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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The proposed 'social media ban' legislation is being pushed through Australian parliament tomorrow with zero consultation with the young people it impacts most, and zero input from digital, youth and mental health researchers, practitioners and advocates. See this thread for more info:
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 20/11/2024
Hot off the presses! Our fall issue, full of passionate, exciting, innovative sociology, is free to read, download, and share through Dec. 15: contexts.org/articles/f24... Resilience. Vulnerability. Protest. And joy... no matter what comes!
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Ben Bowman @bennosaurus.com · 18/11/2024
Youth studies starter pack! A work in progress - please send suggestions (and feel free to nominate yourself) I miss our youth studies chat on the other place.... here we go! 💥 go.bsky.app/DbniWGw
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
I feel so proud to announce that my first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - will be published in March 2025, by @ucpress.bsky.social 🫶🏼
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Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences @oxprimarycare.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🤔 Is technology really improving patient care in general practice? Latest study from @oohgpwales.bsky.social, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social reveals unexpected effects of rapid technology adoption in healthcare. Discover their insights in our latest blog post 👉
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Quality of care: compromised in contemporary general practice?
The Remote by Default 2 project sheds light on how technological transformation in healthcare has often backfired, adding new inefficiencies and exacerbating inequalities rather than improving care. R...
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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
For new #publichealth followers, please follow @cphjournal.bsky.social for latest papers - we're celebrating 1st year since our departure from commercial publisher!
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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 14/11/2024
Reposting my queer and trans studies feed for anybody who is new and wants a way to connect with others in the field. It will automatically catalogue your posts if you use the rainbow and graduation cap emojis together 🌈🎓
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
🥁 🧪 The List QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH is up and running! This is a first stab. Some people on it may not belong (or may want to come off it). Many people who should be on it aren't (yet). Please reply with more suggestions (esp for academics of colour / Global South). bsky.app/profile/tris...
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
Latest OPEN ACCESS article by @benhanckel.bsky.social et al. ‘Risk ambassadors and saviours: Children and futuring public health interventions’, Sociology of Health & Illness, doi.org/10.1111/1467...
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Risk ambassadors and saviours: Children and futuring public health interventions
Schools are increasingly positioned as sites for intervening on the bodies and minds of children in the here and now in order to bring about health gain for the future. Public health interventions fo...
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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
The BSA Medical Sociology Conference 2024 will take place from 11-13 September at the University of Warwick Call for Papers is now open www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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Cost of Living Blog @costoflivingblog.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Now Blog - "Physician Associates: why the controversy?" - Judy Green @judegreen.bsky.social examines the role of the Physician Associate within primary care www.cost-ofliving.net/physician-as...
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Physician Associates: why the controversy? - Cost Of Living
Physician Associates: why the controversy?
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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Call for papers: Health Sociology Review 2025 Special Issue: Relational Approaches to Conceptualising, Measuring & Enacting Wellbeing & Care in Palliative & End-of-life Contexts. tasa.org.au/content.aspx... Guest editors Sarah Maslen, Rebecca E. Olson & Aileen Collier Abstracts due 13 Feb 2024
Image is the cover of Health Sociology Review (green background, white lettering, image is outlines of people drawn in fine yellow lines). The text is the same as the accompanying post.
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Dr. Ashley Brooks 🏳️‍🌈🧠🎮😻 @dr-ashley-brooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
An incredibly cool piece of trans internet history! 🌈🎓
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You Can Now Look Back at the Early Trans Internet. Yes, There Were Memes
Three years of TGForum posts were found on a CD-ROM — and uploaded for all to browse.
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Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies @healthy-societies.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
JOB: We're hiring a Level A/B Postdoc to work with us on the sociology of death, dying and bereavement. Open to a range of backgrounds - suit someone keen on qualitative and sensitive research. usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E... (Please share with your networks) Academicsky
Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow or Research Fellow in Sociology (Level A/B, full-time, fixed-term, 2 years). We are Hiring.
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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Journal Social Studies of Science is looking for new editor in chief tapuya.org/category/ext...
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
🧵We’re recruiting! 4 x 3yr post-docs at @KingsCollegeLon on our @responsibleaiuk project. We’re looking for people in the following areas: AI Technology & Policy, AI Skills and Education, AI for Social Good, AI in the Creative Sector.
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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
We have two ongoing T&R Lecturer in Cultural Studies jobs open now for applications at The University of Melbourne. Applications close 30 November. Come work with us 🙏🏼📚🌈
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Details : Lecturer in Cultural Studies (Multiple Positions) : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
New sociology of edtech paper out with my esteemed colleagues - looks at the behind-the-scenes power brokers - capital investors - and how their outsized agency shapes the global education landscape - open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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When public policy ‘fails’ and venture capital ‘saves’ education: Edtech investors as econom...
Educational technology (Edtech) investors have become increasingly influential in education; however, they remain under-researched. We address this deficit and introduce the grammar and landscape o...
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