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Prof Sophie Woodward

@sophierwoodward.bsky.social
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Sociologist University of Manchester, co-Director Morgan Centre, Vice Director NCRM; co-editor Journal of Creative Research Methods, researches material culture, dormant things, fashion, wardrobes, gender and feminism.

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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: Irrepressible – celebrating 20 years of the Morgan Centre 📅 Until 2 September, open to the public 9am – 5pm, weekdays 📍 Glass Corridor, Samuel Alexander Building University of Manchester Sociology Department Faculty of Humanities
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📢Major new UKRI-funded research project: 'Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air' involves researchers from across UoM & community partners to explore air pollution inequalities Builds on a great pilot project. So excited to see where this research takes us! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...
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Manchester researchers launch major UKRI funded project to understand “air inequalities”
A team of researchers at The University of Manchester has been awarded UKRI funding for a pioneering interdisciplinary project examining how communities experience and understand air pollution in ever...
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📺WATCH - new videos added to our 20th anniversary key concepts series: 🐶Animals & Social Life 👥 Sibling relationships 👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Family practices ♻️Consumption & everyday life 🦉What is ageing? Thanks to everybody who helped make these, and we hope you enjoy them! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Morgan Centre: Key concepts in creative methods and everyday lives research - YouTube
To mark 20 years of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester, we are pleased to present a new series of videos in w...
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
VACANCY: Research Associate on interdisciplinary project exploring how ppl experience poor air quality, using community and creative qual approaches. £37-39k full time, 2 years, start 1 June 2026. @sophierwoodward.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Book publication day! We argue that because gender is multidimensional we need multiple disciplines to understand it. Using a facet methodology approach we explore how disciplines are gendered and how disciplines come to know about gender. Dream coauthoring team ❤️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gen...
Book cover ‘gender studies: a multidisciplinary approach’Contents page
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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Join us at The Making Room Fair – an evening celebrating upcycling, sustainable fashion, and creative community in Manchester. 📅 Thursday 6th November, 4–10pm 📍 The Yard, Manchester 🎟 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk... @ukri.org @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026) Closing date: 20 Oct 2025 Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’. @britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate - Uncovering Hidden Inequality:Oxford Road
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project, ‘uncovering hidden inequality: developing new ways of doing death administration’ directed by Professor Kate Reed in the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester.
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📺Watch our new video series introducing key concepts in the sociology of families & personal life. Please share if you know anybody teaching or studying these topics! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives - YouTube
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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
How can speculative fiction become a research method? This new article explores four approaches: close reading existing sci-fi, analysing how stories influence real policies, inviting participants to write their own futures, and researchers creating speculative narratives. doi.org/10.1332/3050...
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Su-ming Khoo @sumingkhoo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Yay for #JCRM journal launch and cupcakes, with @edwina-thorn.bsky.social Sophie Woodward Harriet Shortt and @drhelenkara.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social
Journal of Creative Research Methods flyers on the publisher's stand with a JCRM cupcakeJCRM editorial team
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Unbelievably thrilled to see the launch issue of this amazing journal which I am a co-editor of - Journal of Creative Research Methods. Open access until 31/12/25. Please share and consider contributing to future issues!
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Lisa Morriss @lisamorriss.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This has been a long time in the making (understatement!). Massive thanks to @academicdiary.bsky.social @saranahmed.bsky.social, Alice Bloch, Tia DeNora, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and @amychandler.bsky.social for guiding our thinking. Thank you also to @rosedwards.bsky.social for the support.
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National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · 01/09/2025
Over the past five years, NCRM has trained thousands of researchers across many sectors, with 20 per cent of course participants working outside the social sciences. To find out how NCRM is building the UK's #research capability, read our impact report: buff.ly/RisFFv4
A map of the UK.
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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
📣 Coming soon: The Journal of Creative Research Methods📣 We’re a home for researchers who are thinking, questioning, or approaching research in a creative way 💡 Learn more bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #RGS2025 #RGS25
Journal of Creative Research Methods. 
We accept submissions of: 
Creative, qualitative, quantitative, or multi-modal research;
Creative arts-based research;
Creative digital research;
Creative research using transformative research frameworks;
Creative adaptations of existing methods.
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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Upcoming FREE @ncrm.ac.uk 2 day in-person innovation forum: Improvising Methods: Experiencing Collaborative, Inventive, Apposite &Original Methods! on 15-16 October at Uni Manchester. Explores what happens when skilled researchers & practitioners are methodologically responsive to their field sites
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NCRM Engagement | Innovation Fora | Improvising Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 07/07/2025
“Attentiveness is a way to retrain the ‘sociological gaze’ away from the unusual to the unnoticed elements of everyday lives and objects.” @sophierwoodward.bsky.social‬ reflects in a new Special Section on the legacy of Live Methods by ‪@academicdiary.bsky.social‬ & Nirmal Puwar. buff.ly/UvuBDtU
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Deadline to register your participation in the Research Methods Rendezvous is weds 2nd of July.
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Looking forward to this!
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Curious about how ideas become doable research projects? Register to participate now!
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Delighted to have an article included in the special issue on ‘attentiveness’ and why this matters in developing a vital sociology
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Well this is exciting. Delighted to be made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Permanent teaching and research lectureship in sociology at the university of Manchester. Linked to the Morgan centre. For researchers in areas of everyday lives, personal life and relationships. Please share! Deadline April 7th
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Journal of #CreativeResearchMethods is live! Looking for submissions that centre creativity at all stages of the research: questions you ask, methods you use, how you analyse or how you write. Curious and playful thinkers welcome! Check out the website
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Interested in our @methodsmcr.bsky.social Creative Qualitative Methods summer school course? Join our free online taster session to hear from the course leaders about creative ways to design, carry out & share your research 12.30-1.30pm Weds 19 Mar 2025 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-a...
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Does it matter if we use the term artefacts or belongings? Can belongings be more inclusive of the multiple investments people have in things? Discussed in this article I coauthored with wonderful archaeologists (Bonnie Pitblado, Suzie Thomas and Anna Wessman) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Retheorizing Archaeological “Artefacts” as “Belongings” - Archaeologies
In this article, we suggest that archaeologists should recognise the limitations of the term “artefact”, because it does not capture the many ways that diverse groups think about and interact with suc...
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methods@manchester @methodsmcr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Join the @morgancentre.bsky.social's upcoming summer school taster session on 19 March, where you'll learn more about their upcoming two-day summer school course on creative approaches to qualitative research
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Only one more week to get your ‘I wonder’ in. Get involved in this fab event on research ideation and turning ideas into projects.
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This will be amazing: NCRM event which centres research curiosity, ideation and how we turn these into doable research. Please submit!!
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mindy ptolomey @mindyptolomey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Join me online/in person 29th Jan 2-4pm UK time for a talk from the iconic Angela McRobbie! I’ll be responding + sharing insights from my arts-based research w/ disabled, girls celebrating Angela’s work + the legacy of the CCCS sign up ⬇️ www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci... @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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What is a Girl Today? Reflections on Young Women and the Politics of Popular Culture
Celebrating the publication of Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: The Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards (Goldsmiths Press/MIT)
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National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk · 08/01/2025
NCRM is running a free online workshop on creative writing and #SocialResearch. The event, on 21 January 2025, will explore issues that emerge when working with participants to produce creative writing. Learn more and register:
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Training course: Innovation Forum: Creative Writing & Social Research Workshop - Online
Join us for the follow-up session of the Innovation Forum on Creative Writing and Social Research titled Whose Words Are They Anyway? This will be an online workshop taking place Tue 21 January
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David Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
51 Guilty Verdicts, One Global Icon: The Legacy of Gisèle Pelicot’s Courage. My latest Substack explores not just Gisèle's bravery, but the ordinary men behind the crime, and the systems that excuse male violence. Available to read now ⬇️
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51 Guilty Verdicts, One Global Icon: The Legacy of Gisèle Pelicot’s Courage
How one woman’s bravery shattered the silence of rape culture and exposed the ordinary men behind the devastating crimes.
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Register to attend our NCRM event that explores the ethics and possibilities of creative writing and social research at ‘whose words are they anyway?’ Please register here: forms.office.com/e/bUxN0686p2
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This looks like a great initiative
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Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Details of our Air Space research project: www.creative.manchester.ac.uk/research/cre...
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
What is Creative about Creative writing? NCRM innovation forum in Manchester (and hybrid) 25 January 2024, 09:30- 17:30. 1 day event brings together fiction writers, poets, academic and community groups. Full info and register here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/news/show.ph...
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Jobs! @ University of Manchester Lecturer jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... and a senior lecturer jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... in cultural and creative industries and a lecturer in Museology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... I’m happy to answer questions about the roles too!
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Literary endings and beginnings. Finishing 2023 in Ethiopia with The Shadow King. An incredible book. Epic but also intimate. Even the most brutal people and acts are also troubled and vulnerable. Will be starting 2024 in 1970s Belfast with Trespasses…
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Thinking with affinities: call for expressions of interest to participate in this Morgan centre event on May 22nd. Looking for anyone inspired by affinities charges socio atmospherics and more tinyurl.com/y9wn6x7d
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
What Sociologists Learn From Music: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-socio...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/10/2023
My friend from Gaza suggests donating to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). www.map.org.uk
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Just a moment...
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
New blog post: International Creative Research Methods Conference 2023! Feat. @carolinelenette.bsky.social Pam Burnard and Dawn Wink. Includes links to both keynotes which are now on YouTube. Enjoy! helenkara.com/2023/10/10/i... #ICRMC #keynote #CreativeResearchMethods #CRMethods #AntiColonial
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Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Are you into creative methods? Fantastic opportunity to be involved in new methods journal on the editorial board
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