Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 16hThe evidence is clear: countries with lower NEET rates than the UK get there almost entirely through higher rates of post-18 education. In these countries, more young people stay in education for longer and often combine it with work. 5157
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialEwan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 21h'Green' and 'class' politics are often viewed as mutually hostile to each other. My research explores how British miners, electricity workers and builders articulated a distinctive working-class environmental politics in the 1970s and 80s. You can read my new article here.tandfonline.com‘The true conservationists’: British trade union environmental politics in the late twentieth centuryThis article demonstrates British energy trade unionists engaged intently with environmental debates during the 1970s and 1980s. These findings challenge dominant interpretations of the emergence o... 12710
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialCorey Boyle @coreyboyle.bsky.social · 20hThe final part of my series on making #Edinburgh a cycling city: a 10 point manifesto in four parts. The Alternative. The Carrot & the Stick. The Mechanism. #CarFreeDay @spokes.org.uk @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @cyclingscotland.bsky.social @wwctrustscot.bsky.social #ActiveTravel #Cyclingedinburghinquirer.co.ukHow we could turn Edinburgh into a real cycling cityAward-winning sustainable travel engineer Corey Boyle lays out a manifesto for the future of the active transport 185
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Is this legal? 121
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Such a fascinating range of projects funded through our small grants including looking at who voters blame for inflation, evaluating implementation of UK security/defence reviews and how geopolitics is impacting the UK semiconductor sector www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...thebritishacademy.ac.ukBritish Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Awards 2026 1165
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The brutal reality of universities' suppression of wages (in KPMG's report for DfE on cost of undergraduate provision in England) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aabfa... 24441
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New substack: You can marginalize Marxism, but you cannot marginalize the facts. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/marx-on-aichrisdillow.substack.comMarx on AITechnical change is an issue of what capitalism does to workers. 63726
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialLouise Murphy @louisemurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026DWP has just published a flurry of new data on how PIP and UC-Health assessments are carried out (face-to-face or via phone, video or paper) and whether this impacts who gets awarded health-related benefits. Five takeaways 🧵 11814
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialThe Workers' Observatory @workersobservatory.org · 11/09/2026📷 If you are looking for a weekend plan in Edinburgh, go check out the exhibition "Sandra George: Start from the Level" to see a portrait of real community power. edinburghartfestival.com/event/sandra...edinburghartfestival.comSandra George: Start from the Level - Edinburgh Art FestivalPhotographer Sandra George devoted her life to working with communities, documenting and developing vital social-action projects in Edinburgh for over thirty years. The legacy she has left is a first-... 01311
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialMartin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026So much of what is presented as differences by ethnicity, with the white working-class falling behind, is actually a case of place-based differences. In terms of social mobility there are significant advantages to living in London regardless of class or ethnicity. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...theguardian.comMinisters to put white working-class people in UK at heart of new equalities unitBridget Phillipson to announce creation of unit which will make class a key part of its equalities agenda 122
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialMichael Tobin @michaeltobin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026📣Call for Papers The Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference 📍South East Technological University (Waterford Campus) 🗓️6th – 7th May 2027 Sociology, Technology, and the Future of ‘the Republic’ lnkd.in/dDM57-ud 256
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialAlex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE. 4130120
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialChris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026We've now posted ISRF's newest in its series, Dispatches: Experiencing Academic Decline, this from a union rep for academic staff at a large UK research university. Read this chilling portrait of the post-professional university and its post-cognitive management. isrf.org/blog/negotia...isrf.orgNegotiating the cuts: Reflections on a University Statutory Redundancy Consultation 042
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialGav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is slide 4 of the first lecture of my sociology of work module. ✊🔹🔸🔹 2367
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialBlackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 23/08/2026This looks like a European holiday destination It’s actually the Cowgate without cars Edinburgh needs more vision in its planning @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social 59424
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialSimon Christie @thebonnieloon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026North Bridge/Nicolson St. Pedestrians spilling out onto the road and a "cyclists dismount and use footpath" while there are four lanes of road, two of which are full of parked wankpanzers blocking buses 🫠 63413
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialMartin Heneghan @martinheneghan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert. 13837230
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.social852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bro. People are cool as fuck. 274164512330
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialBlackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 12/08/2026This newly re-done junction at Summerhall puts cyclists at serious risk of left-hooks The desireline for people on bikes is straight on, but for cars it’s turning left Suitable for ages 8 to 80 ??? - We think not Edinburgh’s roads designers are morally bankrupt! 186820
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialDave McCraw @davemccraw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Five years ago, young kids could ride themselves through (small) parts of central Edinburgh, until the council got cold feet. This kid will grow up and have their own kids before this street gets back to 2021. Why are other UK cities leaving Edinburgh so far behind? 85119
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/08/2026New from me: Britain’s graduate earnings premium is falling, cue “too many go to university!” But non-university outcomes are also bad, cue “we must reform vocational routes!” Both miss the point: people used to think education drove economic outcomes, but the economy drives educational outcomes. 19535169
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialPhil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I think it's useful to remember that managers call in consultants to justify a decision they've already made. 0226
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialAlex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The government has effectively outsourced HE policy to consultants, including Nous, KPMG and others. At Exeter it’s Nous www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...theferret.scot‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cutsScotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work. 51512
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialDiane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I've finally read this working paper properly & it's v interesting about spotting 'critical junctures'. But one could certainly no longer use the Times as reliable source text in future, so thought needed about the best corpus to use: drive.google.com/file/d/1bGrd...drive.google.comCritical_Junctures_HB - Michael Callen.pdf 2323
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Everywhere: *is on fire* University of Surrey: The environment? Who needs to learn about _that_? 1257
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialPolicy Press @policypress.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Make the most of our #SummerSale with 50% off every title. ⏰ Browse our collection in the format that suits you best, from hardcovers and paperbacks to convenient eBooks (EPUB) and audiobooks. #BookSale Use code BUP07 before 31 July. 🌞 ow.ly/me4u50ZifzS 012
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialLee Gregory (he/him) 🏳️🌈 @academiclee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Time, Welfare and Society is now published!! We talk a lot about money in welfare debates — but far less about time. Yet time is the resource people lose first: waiting, repeating, proving, recovering. This book asks: What if welfare began with time instead? www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/tim... 1105
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In light of Burnham saying that care workers should be paid more, I'll plug one of the few of my pieces of which I'm proud: how "skill" is a matter of culture & ideology, not pure technique: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/skill-as-i...chrisdillow.substack.comSkill as ideologyWhat we think of as skilled work is a matter of ideology more than technology. 0209
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialColm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is good, both on the gendered way in which we conventionally count unemployment, often disregarding structural barriers, and on the dilemmas encountered by 1980s socialist feminist groups, who ended up engaging in state-sponsored 'training' programmes to catapult women into the labour market. 172
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialProf David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Crisis, what crisis? It was the hot summer of ‘76, Jaws was in the cinema & Chancellor Healey was feeling the heat. Superb @cssjournal.bsky.social piece by the fab Sunday Times econ editor @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social on the IMF crisis revisited. Free-to-view! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 174
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialSuede @suedehq.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Suede's era-defining third album Coming Up celebrates its 30th anniversary this year with a series of special anniversary editions. Released on 25 September. 1447
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialAlix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I did not know this! 34312
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 08/07/2026A country that is determined to destroy its own economy, and to make everyone's lives greyer and grimmer into the bargain. Peanuts, with vast multipliers. Unbelievable. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dfe-sla...artsprofessional.co.ukDfE slashes creative and performing arts teaching grants for universities - Arts ProfessionalPerforming and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of "difficult decisions" about 18039
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialProfessor Lisa Scullion @lisa-scullion.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Are you a family member, partner or spouse of someone who served in the UK Armed Forces? Have you interacted with MoD welfare services for veterans? Please give your views in our new survey: salfordshs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...salfordshs.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 175
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialAdam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up. 48030901141
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Each uni has a consultancy in that tells them how to run a degree cheaply. They all simply say 'mega lectures' (LOL, infrastructure) & 'generic modules staff is interchangeable on'. It's pitched as rationalising, creating a 'sustainable' portfolio. But its destroying what university actually is. 815475
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialSuede @suedehq.bsky.social · 19/06/2026"The candid biography of Suede we’ve all been waiting for." - Steve Lamacq Drawing on extensive interviews with the band, As One: Remaking Suede is an intimate portrait of Suede's remarkable second act. Released in hardback on 27 August. tr.ee/EZN3ZGPFkg - SuedeHQ 1294
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 17/06/2026“Interestingly, this means that the coming of AI is going to mean there will be demand for more professors, rather than fewer.” @nilsgilman.bsky.social 094
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialMatt Gallagher @mattmgallagher.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The UK's youth social media ban will require *all adults* to submit their biometric and personal data to a host of third-party ID verification providers. Some have questionable privacy records – and ties to the Israeli Govt and Peter Thiel. 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...bylinetimes.comThe Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to 'Unregulated' Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy RecordsThe age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers 12246203
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialPhil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"Starmer and Labour are cracking down on the freedoms of young people, and not the far right, nor white supremacist billionaires, precisely because no oligarchical interests will be harmed in doing so."averypublicsociologist.blogspot.comAuthoritarian BabyismIf you're lucky to be under the age of 16, congratulations! You will still be allowed to access this site from April next year. But if you w... 410640
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Northern Ireland assembly briefing paper on immigration into Northern Ireland over the last two decades www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets... 1132
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialLynton Lees @lyntonlees.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Good to see this covered! Given govt spent £500m to reassociate (!) this is surely a no-brainer. Max ~30k p/a Erasmus students studied in the UK. Charging unis £925 per inbound student (when they don't even pay fees!) doesn't exactly scream 'please sign up to Erasmus again'... 143
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 11/06/2026“With funding from the Regenerative Futures Fund, The Workers’ Observatory will be able to continue its mission to support precarious platform workers, with an expanded horizon of working directly with migrant communities across the city." www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...sps.ed.ac.ukTen-year funding secured for research addressing conditions in the gig economy | School of Social and Political Science 142
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Today I've written for Arguably on one big mystery in our public life: why does no-one care about the existential crisis of our universities? Read all about it... 👇 www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...arguably.ukThe quiet collapse of British universitiesOne of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away 312970
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 10/06/2026I don't know how to make it any clearer. Every contributor to Britain's ongoing decline from the late-20th c. onwards has been the right realising precisely the political programme they've wanted: Thatcherism & free market supremacy; then austerity; then Brexit; now rising authoritarianism. 112543
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialPolitics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 10/06/2026ICYMI - @trillingual.bsky.social on the rise of the UK far-right and how Britain's establishment institutions normalised ideas and policies that were once considered fringe and extreme:podcasts.apple.comThe rise of the UK far-right w/ Daniel TrillingPodcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · June 4 · 1h 14m 03225
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialAlasdair Stewart @abestew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026- Perfectly legitimate for sites to block mass scraping regardless of whether it is being done for genAI purposes or not given costs it imposes. - Governments are too enthralled by AI companies to recognise them anytime soon, but we need copyleft-like licenses that prevent commercial AI usage. 132
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Anyways here's a breakdown of how silly it is, and thankfully how unlikely it is to form anything close to policy direction until Farage is our overlord and at that point, we have bigger problems anyways.wonkhe.comPolicy Exchange sees a future – in 2010 and 1992For the time being at least, we have notionally centre-left governments across England, Scotland and Wales. 094
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This by @gsoh31.bsky.social captures a great deal, especially the sadness 1198
Reposted by @jaywiggan.bsky.socialAlasdair Stewart @abestew.bsky.social · 08/06/2026How out of touch is the DWP? '[O]fficials say [the ridiculous chatbot] will put "a job centre in your pocket".' www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...theregister.comDepartment of Work and Pensions' answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CVWhitehall says Work Assistant will help jobseekers apply around the clock – provided employers don't mind machine-written applications 001