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Tania de St Croix

@tania-dsc.bsky.social
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Researcher, youth worker, writer, lecturer @KingsECS, views my own, she/ her

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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Great to hear George the poet speaking up for youth work on Radio 4 just now - the need for youth clubs and art provision that inspires everyone to take a thoughtful, creative and collective look at society. #radio4 #wato #youthwork
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The Children's Society Policy and Youth Practice @tcspolicypractice.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The scale of child poverty is a national scandal. This report highlights how poverty can bleed into every area of children's lives. The government’s child poverty strategy must take children’s experiences into account and make urgent changes. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’
Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit cap
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research. www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res... @kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 07/07/2025
Out now! Sideways Sociology looks at three key figures in UK anti-racism – Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean, Len Garrison – and shows how they teach us what that term means and takes, and how they speak to sociology now. Feat. John Narayan, A.S. Francis, Hannah Ismael. Subscribe: buff.ly/lRwSQSD
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research. www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res... @kingsecs.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social @liamciniodwyer.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
It's always great to see youth work in a spending review. But this is a tiny amount of funding, much of which had already been committed, and doesn't make up for what's been lost. We urgently need funding to employ and support more grassroots youth workers, and bursaries for youth work uni courses.
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
On the work of Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean & Len Garrison ‘The event’s focus will include questions of methods and ethics, action and legacy, remembrance and representation’ thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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Writing about activists – the launch of Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism
Join The Sociological Review Foundation on June 18, 2025, for 'Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism,' exploring critical questions of archival representation, activism legacies, and the stories of influ...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 25/05/2025
At #UCU2025 we passed motions to reaffirm our commitment to trans rights. We’ll keep fighting for inclusive spaces, supportive policies and real solidarity. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #UCU2025 #UnionPower
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 15/05/2025
OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah. buff.ly/RwjIdlS #palestine #gaza
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
‼️KCL management has demanded that the student Palestine encampment disband by 10 today or face disciplinary action. This is an unacceptable repression of their fundamental rights to protest and freedom of speech. We have written to management to call for dialogue over coercion
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Solidarity with our KCL students, who have launched another encampment on the Strand Quadrangle, rejecting the university’s complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and demanding the demilitarisation of their education. Another world is possible!
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School of Education, Communication and Society at King's @kingsecs.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Dr Francesca Meloni (@francescameloni.bsky.social) has won the Hart-SLSA award for Early Career Academics 2025 for her book Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality. 🎉 Read more about the award and the book here ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
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Dr Francesca Meloni wins SLSA Book Prize 2025
Dr Francesa Meloni, Senior Lecturer in Social Justice at the School of Education, Communication and Society, has won the Hart-SLSA Book Prize for Early Career Academics 2025 for her book Ways of Belon...
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Can't wait to read this book by my brilliant colleague, @ptheodoropoulos.bsky.social
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School of Education, Communication and Society at King's @kingsecs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Just days to go until we host the launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker by Panos Theodoropoulos and this is your last chance to register! 🗓️12 May, 6.30pm 📍Great Hall, Strand Campus Register here: bit.ly/43h1TiF @mmbuob.bsky.social @industrialworker.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
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Book launch: "The Precarious Migrant Worker" by Panos Theodoropoulos
This new book explores the ways precarity is lived and contested in Glasgow's warehouses, factories and kitchens.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 08/05/2025
“Not a single party is standing up for working class people and Reform offers nothing but division. No plan for the NHS. No plan for transport. No answer to the cost of living crisis. If we want change, we need to come together and demand it.” drjogrady.bsky.social on BBC Question Time tonight.
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
For anyone who came last night & esp for all sociologists, we are asking that you donate to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A powerful, moving event, that left me (and I'm sure many of us) in tears... a space to hold hopelessness and hope at the same time, and to feel emboldened and strengthened, to keep going. Many thanks to the organisers and speakers #freePalestine @thesociologicalreview.org @anilsghost.bsky.social
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Playing Out @playingout.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Bristol folk - join us for #KidicalMass 2025! A family-friendly city-centre protest ride calling for safer streets for children and everyone. Come on bikes, scooters, skateboards or roller-skates! Castle Park bandstand from 11am, Saturday 14th June. www.facebook.com/events/10929...
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I wrote about Israel’s ballistic destruction of Gaza & how colonial explosive violence has left its mark on critical social thought @sociologicalreview.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
‘Reflecting on the genocide in Gaza and settler occupation in Palestine, the speakers will explore the role of sociology in intervening, and how the tools of our craft might offer insight, as well as their limitations’ Come join us 8th May
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 19/04/2025
UCU was proud to stand in solidarity at today’s emergency protest for trans rights in London. ✊ Today, and every day, UCU stands with the trans community. We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights #UCU #Solidarity
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Thinking this morning of the vital importance of trans-specific and trans-led youth work, LGBTQ+ youth work, and trans-inclusive open youth work for all. While the implications of the UK Supreme Court ruling remain unclear, the sector must actively support our trans young people and youth workers.
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Young people won't let youth work disappear! Thanks It's Just Research podcast @kingsecs.bsky.social for inviting me and Louise Doherty to discuss our recent article "Embers, and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
People and microphones- recording a podcastTania and Louise smiling
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This looks amazing. Thank you to the organisers and speakers. #freePalestine
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Solidarity to all trans people and allies, today and forever xxx
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James Duggan @dugganjr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Stop the Cuts at Kingston University Please take a moment to read, sign and share ✊🏻 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Stop the Cuts at Kingston University
We write as students, staff and stakeholders of Kingston University to express our profound concern and alarm regarding the impact, reputational damage, and questionable legality of the job cuts and c...
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
So proud of my union, defending staff being targeted and threatened for pro-Palestine positions. Opposing genocide should not lead to threats or intimidation, and universities need to take this seriously. @kclucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @drjogrady.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/03/2025
Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump | Owen Jones
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Threaten campuses, shut down debate: that’s what free speech looks like under Trump | Owen Jones
The president has slashed $400m in funding from Columbia University. He wants to stifle criticism of Israel – but the real target is dissent, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0-11 years) @hhcp-ucl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨 Just published! A new article on why primary schools have found Ofsted so difficult. Article by @alicebradbury.bsky.social, @janeeperryman.bsky.social, Graham Calvert & Kate Killian (@ioe.bsky.social) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Primary teachers’ experiences of Ofsted inspections: ‘driving the joy out of education’
Research has long suggested that Ofsted, the school inspection service in England, has a negative impact on teachers and school leaders. Concern over this issue intensified following media reports ...
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Today KCL was formally notified of a trade dispute between KCL and @ucu.org.uk over the College’s failure to safeguard the welfare, wellbeing and safety of staff, its mishandling of complaints procedures, and its failure to protect academic freedom
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Centre for Young Lives @cfyounglives.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Today we’re publishing our Raising The Nation Play Commission interim report. Thanks to the many people who have contributed evidence and given advice. We set out the huge benefits of play, the barriers, and make policy recommendations. www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...
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Inquiry Report Calls On The Government To Restore School Playtime Amid Warning That Play Is Being Squeezed Out Of Children’s Lives — Play Commission
The Raising the Nation Play Commission, a year-long independent inquiry into why play is critical to the wellbeing of children in England, publishes its Interim Report, ‘State of Play’. The Commission...
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KCL UCU @kclucu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
KCL UCU is deeply concerned about the escalating targeting of academic staff and trade unionists at KCL for their expressions of solidarity with Palestine. Defend Academic Freedom! Stand Against Harassment and Censorship! Join the Demonstration – Tomorrow, 12:30pm, Strand Campus
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Robert MacDonald @rfmacdonald.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
@profwebster.bsky.social Grim!
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 20/02/2025
What does #sociology have to say about #gender & #class in 2025? Join renowned feminist sociologists Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social & @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of the Foundation’s new Conversation series. 📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online #IWD2025 🎟️ buff.ly/4gOe3TB
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Pravin Balakrishnan @pravinbalakrishnan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Organizing my first ever online conference, please consider registering for the conference!
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Bez Martin @bezmartin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Irish Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will host a two day showcase on participation This in-person event will take place over two days: - Tuesday 6th May for international attendees, and - Wednesday 7th May for domestic attendees.
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Health + Youth Work Project @healthandyouthwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Youth workers - we need you ! Help us to explore and improve youth work services for young people with long term conditions across the U.K. Survey: tinyurl.com/YWSMapping
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James Duggan @dugganjr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
This individualises and abstracts young people, extracting the data of diversity and discrimination from the marginalised youth... erasing radical histories and collective possibilities, inviting young people to understand change in terms of professionalised, institutionally safe strategies.
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Do we risk reworking emergent and political participatory action as linear and risk averse practice that is eager to make dull and uneventful compromises with power?" Yes. Fantastic and important article @dugganjr.bsky.social, loved it.
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Camille Warrington @camillelw.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I usually feel a little coy about sharing articles/outputs in I'm proud of this one. From the Imagining Resistance project with the amazing @klanghoff.bsky.social and Becky Warnock. (Not sure why not open access but get in touch if you'd like a copy) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The role of arts-based methods in supporting safe and participatory research addressing sexual violence with young people - Camille Warrington, Kristine Langhoff, Becky Warnock, 2024
Background: The use of participatory visual methods in humanities, health, education and social science research to study ‘sensitive’ subject matter with childr...
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Tania de St Croix @tania-dsc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
First post on here yay! Sharing our newest article "Embers, and Fragments", on youth work policy making around impact measurement. Written with Louise Doherty, we tangled with ghosts in mourning what's been lost, imagining what's yet to come... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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