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Simon Goodman

@drsimongoodman.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in #Psychology at De Montfort University. I analyse talk about #hate, #prejudice, #refugees, income #inequality and more #discourseanalysis

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Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology @euroqualpsy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Next E-Agora meeting: Tuesday the 29th of September 2026 Topic: Avatar-based Interviewing and Gameplay-based Research: Approach and Routing Matthew Pulis & Luke Joseph Buhagiar Link: teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
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Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New book on Narratives and Migration available to preorder! Edited by the great Anna De Fina&Sabina Perrino. Very happy to have contributed a chapter with Millie Montiel McCann& @samtbennett.bsky.social. Pleased to see @drsimongoodman.bsky.social's endorsement too! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/narrative...
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Oxfam GB @oxfamgb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hope lies in building a society that is kinder and more united, both within our borders and beyond them, so everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive. Read more➡️ www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-...
Text reads, "Keir Starmer's resignation marks an opportunity for reflection on the kind of leadership our country needs. We need someone who stands firmly for; human rights, international law, climate justice, gender justice." Oxfam logo in bottom right corner.
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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Our* new paper explores how highly edited documentaries can be analysed with Discursive Psychology and Goffman's concept of frames. @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social and Jackie Abell @ree-uwe.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Analysing entertainment documentaries with discursive psychology incorporating Goffman’s concept of frames
Discursive approaches have established how entertainment documentaries about the super-rich can be analysed as a form of political communication to explore how positions on wealth inequality are le...
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Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology @euroqualpsy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Next E-Agora meeting: Tuesday the 17th of March 2026 Topic: Exploring Affective Argumentation in Populist Political Discourses Helenor Tormis, University of Helsinki, Finland Link: teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New BJSP paper with @alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social and Mirko Demasi: "The overlap of anti-Black and anti-protest rhetoric: How far-right political commentators preserve anti-Black racist stereotypes in the context of #BLM debates" Open access here bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Research has shown that speakers opposing political demonstrations can pathologize protesters campaigning against racial prejudice in order to justify racialized police profiling and brutality. This ....
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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨 New Episode 🚨 If racism is meant to be in retreat in Britain, why does it feel harder than ever to ignore? @zoegrunewald.bsky.social is joined by Rahul Sambaraju and @drsimongoodman.bsky.social to ask: is racism becoming more acceptable in the UK? Listen everywhere: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Our* special issue on economic inequality is available in Qualitative Research in Psychology! Thank you to our contributors www.tandfonline.com/toc/uqrp20/2... * @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social Jackie Abell and Mirko Demasi @ree-uwe.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The @euroqualpsy.bsky.social online research seminar is happening today! 4pm UK; 5pm CET; 6pm EET @wiam.bsky.social will be presenting " How can we visually share findings from our qualitative analyses?" Details here: www.equipsy.org/agor%C3%A1/2... Link to join on teams here: tinyurl.com/vavhzn3w
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New @theconversation.com article, by me and Rahul Sambaraju theconversation.com/is-racism-be...
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Is racism becoming more acceptable in the UK?
Anti-migrant protests are helping challenge ideas about the acceptability of prejudice.
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is happening this afternoon (Tuesday 16th!) and should be a great talk. Join if you can! (And UK people, note this is at 4pm)
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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New article with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social, @adamjowett.bsky.social and Jackie Abell on how the international super rich are constructed as migrants in entertainment documentaries Open access too! @ree-uwe.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Exploring how entertainment documentaries construct London to account for the residence of the international super-rich in the “hostile environment” for migrants
Unlike poorer migrant groups, governments offer visa inducements to attract wealthy individuals into a country. However, super-rich migrants’ impact on the UK has been shown to be negative. This re...
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The Psychologists for Social Change in the @psychmag.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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Struggling with the silence | BPS
The Leicester Chapter of the Psychologists for Social Change meet unfolding horrors with 'anger brewing'…
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
When irresponsible politicians try to divide our communities, what do we do? We speak up, we stand together, we stay strong. We are, and always will be, an island of solidarity, not of strangers. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Headline from the Mirror newspaper reads "refugee and migrant groups join with hundreds to warn again 'politics of division'
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Leicester Psychologists for Social Change statement in solidarity with student activists arrested for peacefully protesting against atrocities in Palestine www.psychchange.org/leicester.html
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DMU Psychology @dmu-psychology.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🥳 New blog post from our own, Dr Simon Goodman (@drsimongoodman.bsky.social) ⌨️ acss.org.uk/rethinking-e...
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Rethinking Economic Growth: The impact of media narratives on inequality, wealth and growth – Academy of Social Sciences
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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We've got a blog on media representations of wealth inequality and economic growth 📈 Thanks to @acadsocsciences.bsky.social for including us in their good growth hub! @ree-uwe.bsky.social @drsimongoodman.bsky.social @dradamjowett.bsky.social
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New edition of The Other Side of Hope, out now here: othersideofhope.com/vol-41-onlin... @othersidelitmag.bsky.social
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vol 4.1 online
editorial team & publication information contributors' notes acknowledgements foreword by John Vincent
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This looks great! discourseunit.com/arcp-19-for-...
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ARCP 19: For Palestine, online resources (2025)
Curated by Ian Parker This issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology comprises academic articles that address the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people carried out by the settler-colo…
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Pascual Pérez-Paredes @perez-paredes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So pumped that this @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social volume THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MIGRANT IDENTITIES is finally in my hands !! Thanks to the editors @proftaylor.bsky.social, @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dumore and reviewers. Thanks to my fab coauthor @elenainlimbo.bsky.social #discourse
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Here's the documentary about Palestinian suffering that the BBC took down 🍉 x.com/kahlissee/st...
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Khalissee on X: "THE FULL GAZA DOCUMENTARY THEY TRIED TO BAN https://t.co/ifrpRwIknW" / X
THE FULL GAZA DOCUMENTARY THEY TRIED TO BAN https://t.co/ifrpRwIknW
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is a great compass paper (open access) on working with refugees compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out
Concepts like vicarious trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral injury do important work in making suffering legible and enabling claims to recognition, acknowledgement, and care. Nonetheless,...
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Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Remove Coventry University vice-chancellor from government role
Coventry University is facing an unprecedented jobs and debt crisis under the leadership of vice-chancellor John Latham. The institution is threatening to sack 300 staff and rehire some of them in its...
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Get Tickets – Activism for Palestine & The role of Psychology - A Psychology Cultures Seminar – MsTeams
This is a free event, open to all, and will be held via MsTeams. This event will not be recorded. The MsTeams link will be prov...
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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's QMiP's 20th anniversary this year and we'll be celebrating at the conference! There'll also be fab keynotes: @ginnybraun.bsky.social @kesimahendranprof.bsky.social and Paul Flowers Submit your abstracts and join us! Deadline 28th March www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit... #qualitative #research
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Politics & IR @ De Montfort University @dmupoliticsir.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Actors for Human Rights (AFHR) returns to DMU on 25 February at Trinity House with events co-organised by Politics & IR, Law School, SDG Impact Hub, and DMU Pride. Highlights include Tales from the Hostile Environment (14:00-15:45), a play with Q&A on immigration policies @dmuleicester.bsky.social
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Matt Haig @matthaig.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Statistically Nazi salutes are more commonly a symptom of Nazism than autism.
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Sir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴‍☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
My latest #socialpsychology paper, available open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Managing Jewish Identity in Arguments Over Jewish Support for Palestine
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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New follower alert! @drsimongoodman.bsky.social Find him in our archive here www.bps.org.uk/search?term=...
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Simon Goodman @drsimongoodman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Three guesses why I finally switched to Bluesky
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