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News and updates from the Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Department at University of Southampton 14th in the UK for Sociology and 4th for Criminology (Times University Rankings 2026) #AcademicSky #Sociology #CrimSky #Criminology

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Gina Vale @ginavale.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My research calls for a fundamental shift in how policymakers, practitioners, and scholars understand children's vulnerability to radicalisation—one that centres their protection while maintaining community safety. I welcome your thoughts and engagement with this work 🤓
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Gina Vale @ginavale.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I apply an #exploitation lens to children's recruitment and engagement in terrorism/violent extremism online, drawing from 30 interviews + 2 workshops with experts across #counterterrorism, #antislavery, #childprotection + #digitalsecurity.
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Gina Vale @ginavale.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🗣️ New year, new publication! ✍ I'm delighted to share my new article, "Exploited for the Cause?: The Potential for a Cross-Harm Approach to Children's Online Engagement in Terrorism," published #openaccess in the British Journal of Criminology: doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...
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Exploited for the Cause?: The Potential for a Cross-Harm Approach to Children’s Online Engagement in Terrorism
Abstract. The traditional intersection of exploitation and terrorism lies within armed conflict, whereby individuals are subjected to physical abuses for f
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The second of the two articles is by @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social, exploring disability, failure and UKHE. You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0038... (now with a working link!)
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Two of the three most recently published articles on @thesociologicalreview.org are by academics from our department! Congratulations all. You can read fascinating work from @rosedwards.bsky.social and Val Gillies on challenges of researching academic wives at doi.org/10.1177/00380261251375423
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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Are you interested in researching gender and inequalities? Join us for our Gender and Inequalities Research Collaboration Event next month, 5 Nov 2025. More details in our infographic below. If you're interested in attending, please email us at gain@soton.ac.uk so that we can get an idea of numbers!
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🚨New Publication Alert🚨 Thrilled My Latest Article - The Darkest Shade of Green - Is Out In Studies In Conflict & Terrorism 🎉🍾🥳I Examine the Links Between #ClimateChange and #RebelGovernance among #IslamicState #AlQaeda #Hamas & #Hezbollah 👇👇👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Darkest Shade of Green: Climate Change, Terrorist Organizations, and the Battle for Environmental Legitimacy
Climate change is fundamentally reshaping modern terrorism through “environmental governance competition”—strategic contests where terrorist organizations exploit climate vulnerabilities to outperf...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 16/09/2025
How have sociologists’ wives contributed to the discipline? @rosedwards.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social and Val Gillies on post-war sociology, invisibility and the “great man narrative”. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/0VVrW9Y Thanks for Typing #podcast buff.ly/dJZ97H1
Rosalind Edwards and Val Gillies 
Hidden Traces: Writing sociologists' wives into existence 
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The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst
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South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership @scdtp.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Please help to spread the word! A chance to get your PhD funded through ESRC SCDTP to study @ Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth & Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @chiunipress.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social
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Pam Ugwudike @pamsoton.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This article outlines key findings from our ESRC-funded research project which revealed digital harms that arise when parents disclose children’s information online. Awareness raising resources for parents & briefings for stakeholders including policy makers are available at: www.protechthem.org
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Children at risk of identity theft and fraud from 'sharenting'
Researchers at the University of Southampton are warning of the dangers of posting your children's photos online.
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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Important intervention from my departmental colleague, @petefussey.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social #facialrecognition #policing
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Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use
Academic says sample size was too small to claim new sensitivity guidelines have removed racial, gender or age bias
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Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We’re hiring in criminology, sociology, social policy @sspcatsoton.bsky.social 1x Lecturer in Criminology: tinyurl.com/3ypv6ef3 1x 12 month Teaching Fellow in any area of Sociology, Social Policy or Criminology: tinyurl.com/37smc5as Come join our collegiate & inclusive dept, ranked #4 in UK REF
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Gender and Inequalities Centre at Southampton @gain-centre.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🎓 Are you a PhD, ECR, or Teaching Fellow researching gender & inequalities at @unisouthampton.bsky.social ? 💡 Apply for up to £150 to fund fieldwork or conferences! ✍️ Deadline: 2 Ma. For more on how to apply, please see: generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk/gain/researc... Email us 📩 GAIN@soton.ac.uk
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Research Opportunities – Gender and Inequalities Research Centre, University of Southampton
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Fascinating and important work from Ros
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
On now at the Winchester Gallery, free exhibition curated by one of our lecturers: www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/winchest...
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Current Exhibition | Winchester School of Art | University of Southampton
Please visit our 'Upcoming Exhibitions' page for news about when the next exhibition will be on
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Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Had the Most AMAZING Time at Royal Holloway Last Night Discussing My New Book 'The World White Web' Such An Engaged Audience with Excellent Questions 😍 Thanks to @cvtrc.bsky.social For Hosting #AnthonyRichards for Chairing and @akilnawan.bsky.social for Organising ❤️
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Rosalind Willis @roswillis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This week sees the start of Semester Two @unisouthampton.bsky.social and the launch of my new module on #ageing and #crime. Excited to bring together my #ForensicPsychology training with my #Gerontology experience and enthuse a new generation of undergraduate students! @sspcatsoton.bsky.social
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Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Our research centre @crispsurv.bsky.social is hosting a major exhibition & series of events on Orwell. Starts with Hans K Clausen's 'The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth' at Stirling. Other events include a performance lecture by Bill Drummond (KLF), screenings, talks and more. All welcome
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Tobias Denskus @aidnography.de · 27/01/2025
With new followers & first citations showing up it may seem to be a good time to introduce our "Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality" that @silkeroth.bsky.social, Bandana Purkayastha & @aidnography.de edited in a longer 🧵 (1/x)
Book cover Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality - Elgar Handbooks on Inequality series
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social
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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Q: Whose shoulders are today’s sociologists standing upon? 📚 🪜 A: Some of them are sociologists’ wives👩🏻‍💼✍️ Read about role of social researchers’ wives in post-war British studies, inc. Phyllis Willmott, Pat Marsden, Sheila Jackson/Abrams, Ruth Townsend, Kay Titmuss #openaccess
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#ThanksForTyping … and the fieldwork: the role of sociologists’ wives in classic British studies | Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
No fireplaces? No problem! We're about to open the doors to our annual student Christmas party. After a couple of proseccos we hope everyone will agree a bit of tinsel and fairy lights can make even Building 58 full of festive magic!
A university seminar room with a screen showing a fireplace. Fairy lights are inexpertly draped on the tables. It does not give grotto.
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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Publication day of Organising for Change co-authored with Clare Saunders bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/organizing-f... and checking final proof of Handbook co-edited with Bandana Purkayastha and @aidnography.de
photo shows cover of book ‚Organising for Change‘ and proofs of ‚Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality‘
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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#ICYMI from @sociologicalreview.bsky.social: “Women's contributions to scholarship are consistently underrated; they’re still seen as wives & mothers.” Historian Selina Todd joins Ros Edwards. & Val Gillies in Ep4 #ThanksforTyping, Questions of Class buff.ly/48VptkF
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Thanks for Typing: Acknowledging the contributions of sociologists’ wives
The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. In this 6 episode podcast series, they explore how wi...
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We also all did lots of important teaching and research in sociology, social policy and criminology, today. But that doesn't photograph as well
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
An unexpectedly snowy morning in Southampton today. Rather lovely, and prompting lots of excited chatter around campus. ☃️
A view from a window showing snow falling. In the centre of the image an evergreen tree is dusted with snow, the grass beneath it is green, under the shelter of it's branches, resulting in a circle of snowy ground around it. Behind the tree are university buildingsA view from a window looking across the roof of another building. The is snow falling and a dusting of snow across the tops of the 4 buildings in shot
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A great starter pack from one of our colleagues, Ros.
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Where are our PGRs? We want to add you to our department starter pack! Give us a shout go.bsky.app/ADybLpB
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Staff and PGRs in SSPC at Southampton
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
We're recruiting a Teaching Fellow in Criminology / Sociology / Social Policy. The team is growing, come and join a fabulous group of Sociologists, Social Policy experts and Criminologists jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #academicSky
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Hosted here in SSPC at Southampton this June:
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Applications for fully funded PhD studentships on the SCDTP are open! Details on the process are here; southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply2324/ And you can review our staff who are welcoming PhD applications here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Charlie Walker, Associate Professor here in SSPC comments on the implications of Ex-Wagner fighters returning to Russia; "The Russian state has really little concern for the welfare of returning soldiers or wider Russian society" www.euronews.com/2023/10/10/t...
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'The Kremlin doesn't care': Ex-Wagner fighters cause havoc in Russia
Letting convicts loose in a war zone and then releasing them back into society shows the state has "little regard for ordinary people", one expert told Euronews.
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Just annouced: NCRM webinar series (free to attend!) Through the Looking Glass - how to incorporate visual material within research. Featuring a range of speakers, including many SSPC colleagues. Find out more and book here: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...
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SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Our friends on the floor below are hiring. If you are inclined in that way #academicsky #polisky
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