Reposted by Gareth M. ThomasThe Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 01/01/2026OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal. Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey. buff.ly/lubHIf8 0175
Reposted by Gareth M. ThomasDes Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Delighted to receive this in the post - 'Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry' by @drjamielewis.bsky.social and Andy Bartlett. This book is in the finest STS tradition of showing how an apparently marginal or obscure scientific practice opens up an entire epistemological world. 1214925
Reposted by Gareth M. ThomasOli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Thanks @the-polyphony.bsky.social for sharing your platform with us to give people a sense of what's in the new edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' Available as a free e-book or relatively inexpensive paperback 5/5 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...bristoluniversitypress.co.ukRecalibrating StigmaRecalibrating Stigma - Sociologies of Health and Illness; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Featuring original analyses from emerging leaders in medical sociology, this book r... 084
Reposted by Gareth M. ThomasOli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 11/12/20252 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5 thepolyphony.org/2023/09/11/r...thepolyphony.orgRecalibrating StigmaGareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness. 11511
Reposted by Gareth M. ThomasJamie Lewis @drjamielewis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025My book with Andy Bartlett - an STS analysis of Bigfooting - is now out and available to order at www.routledge.com/Bigfooters-a... If this is of interest, I would really appreciate it being shared. Thank you.routledge.comBigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate ScienceBigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organise their lives, analysing evidence, and making knowledge. This book exami... 2179
Reposted by Gareth M. ThomasJaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social · 11/09/2025😍What a pleasure it’s been share the floor with @gmthomas.bsky.social @oliwilliams.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social and Jen Remnant talking about stigma at @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social Check out the book Recalibrating Stigma: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin... 193
Reposted by Gareth M. ThomasOli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 18/06/2025We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection. It is available as a free e-book and in paperback: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin... 75320
Reposted by Gareth M. ThomasAmy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/04/202526th June: we are excited to host an FSHI funded symposium at U of Edinburgh based around the forthcoming edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness' More details below! 095
Gareth M. Thomas @gmthomas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Free symposium, 'Recalibrating Stigma', on 26.06.25 at at University of Edinburgh. Funded by SHI Foundation. Speakers: Katharine Cheston, Harriet Cooper, Fay Dennis, Janice McLaughlin, Jennifer Remnant, and more! Details: jumpshare.com/v/bzZYybtCP9.... Register by 30/04. Email at thomasg23@cf.ac.uk.jumpshare.comRecalibrating Stigma - Symposium.pdfShared with Jumpshare 1135