Ros Edwards
Academic. Families. Research methods.
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- Barrister or barista equipment?
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsWATCH: video recording of The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025 Author & "accidental anthropologist" Shahram Khosravi on doing migration studies in dark times. Chair @carinrunciman.bsky.social, discussant Karolína Augustová, poet Tawona Sitholé. buff.ly/742ITKk @uofgsociology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsToday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day - the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsPoverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsSo chuffed to be in this new book edited by Charlotte Bates and Emma Jackson, and my chapter is my first attempt at writing about life in Glasgow manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526184900/
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsYesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsIt’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
- 1/2 Just published #decolonising: - Explores trusting & discomfort for non-Indigenous researchers working with Indigenous researchers - Highlights processes of relational accountability & trusting - Argues discomfort is necessary given colonial relations doi.org/10.1177/1077...
- 2/2 Take a look at The Tipuna Project website: www.thetipunaproject.co.nz
- Just published - our edited collection on innovation in critical policy analysis.
- Contributors rethink, extend and reflect on the WPR approach in novel ways, demonstrating its applicability beyond policy documents and across diverse social science disciplines. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/a-critical-a...
- Reposted by Ros Edwardswe’re reading the introduction to @danmcquillan.bsky.social’s Resisting AI and my article Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library—join us!
- Just published Red flags! Parents’ perspectives on data led policy and practice in family intervention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Ros Edwards#3 - “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback by @vicclarke.bsky.social et al.
- Decolonial research in the Social Sciences IJSRM special issue. This collection stands out because of the range of thought brought to bear. If you’re interested in challenging discussions of #decolonising research, I recommend. www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsrm20/2...
- In particular I value the honesty of this piece by Leon Moosavi #decolonising www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- And there’s this treasure of an article by Vineeta Sinha #decolonising www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Ros EdwardsHey, it's Michael, Toby, Dora, David, and Josh. For the past week, we've been documenting our protective presence work in the West Bank on TikTok @naamod1 and on Instagram @naamoduk .
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- "This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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- Reposted by Ros EdwardsFor the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to claim that only one kind of Jew with one position on Israel can work for an organisation set up to commemorate over 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust is utterly disgraceful. www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsWe are gravely concerned for the wellbeing of the 8 Palestine Action-linked prisoners currently on hunger strike in the UK. (1/6)
- Brave/foolhardy rose buds 🫣
- A rather beautiful and heart wrenching piece by the wonderful Sapphire Allard, who also writes telling poetry
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsWas also pleased to join a panel today launching the Don't Buy Into Occupation coalition's 2025 report - the most ambitious look so far at corporate & financial involvement in Israel's violations of international law in the OPT. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQr...
- Reposted by Ros Edwards83% of the public agree that no child should be living in poverty in the UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Reposted by Ros Edwards📽️ The recording from our widely popular #RSVPDigiEvent "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal" is now live. We had a record-breaking 101 registrants for this panel! Since we did not quite hit that number in attendance, we know many will be interested to watch/re-watch: youtu.be/sP5Y1iicKJ0
- I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI? I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsHow have maternal ways of knowing been sidelined and devalued? What’s the harm in sociology’s fixation on its “founding fathers”? And why must we de-gender motherhood and see how all of us must care? Babalwa Magoqwana joins us from South Africa. buff.ly/ttlsfhZ
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsHow to finance old age has been a problem since the inception of Britain’s welfare state. Why is #pensionreform so difficult? 🔓 Chris Renwick’s new Behind the Times is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/behi...
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsIn Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now. 🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t... #ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsFrom hashtag to history The story of Thanks for Typing began with the viral #ThanksForTyping hashtag-a call to recognise wives’ invisible labour in academic life. From typing manuscripts to conducting fieldwork, these women made crucial but uncredited contributions to their husbands’ research.
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsAn insighful and timely piece by Diane Reay on the purposes of education journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...
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- I haven’t heard anything that caught me up like this has for ages
- Reposted by Ros Edwards🎧 Bring Your Research to Life Through Podcasting We’re excited to be teaming up with the @royalholloway.bsky.social Social Science Impact Accelerator for a dynamic, hands-on workshop exploring how podcasting can amplify your research story and reach new audiences.
- November ladybird travelling by train.
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsEllen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsEmbroidery in suffrage colours of violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, embroidered with the names of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, 1912 #womensart
- Can anyone help me out - what is this flimsy delight representing?
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsI can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit. Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social largerfamilies.study/publications...
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsThis week's Substack post tells the story of Brighton's interwar council housing. There's a new post every Thursday in your inbox if you subscribe. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...
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- Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk
- Reposted by Ros Edwards🚨 New on Substack: Brighton built a lot of fine council housing between the wars but could it make it affordable to the working class? My post on Brighton’s Interwar Council Housing Estates: ‘Housewives with empty larders’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/brightons-...
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- Reposted by Ros EdwardsHave you heard Sideways Sociology? Three audio essays on three landmark figures of UK anti-racism: Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Len Garrison and Gerlin Bean. Engage, learn, share! @blackhistorymonth.org.uk #blackhistory #antiracism @irrnews.bsky.social buff.ly/Wcn1lzK
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsNew post out: "The worst social policy ever" Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP. Lots of data but also powerful testimony. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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- If you teach research methods, this is an amazing resource for inspiring approaches 🤩 www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...
- If you teach research methods, this is an amazing resource for inspiring approaches 🤩 www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsIsrael has bombed Gaza again. 104 Palestinians are dead. Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.
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- Reposted by Ros EdwardsThe New York City Tree Alphabet is an alphabetical planting palette, inviting us to plant secret messages with real trees. You can also write/type with the NYC Trees font, find it here: www.katieholten.com/new-york-cit... #naturewriting #booksky #trees 🌿
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- Reposted by Ros EdwardsHere we are then, the article I have been whining about for well over a year. Written with @robinskyer.bsky.social, our article explores failure and crip temporalities in UKHE and is published today with the Sociological Review doi-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0038... #bipolar #Sociology
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsTwo 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
- Do people know what adverts are? They are for getting consumers to buy products. That’s their purpose.
- Part of my Times Radio interview about diversity and inclusion on screen. Beneath her prejudiced expression of anger, how far does the Reform MP have a point to make? x.com/TimesRadio/s...
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsUnderstanding ‘Gender Equality’ Earlier this year, @ktwamley.bsky.social & Charlotte Faircloth were nominated for the BSA & SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence. Their work reshapes thinking around caring responsibilities, work & equality post-parenthood. tinyurl.com/mpddkevn tinyurl.com/4hf5xkry
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsNature is amazing....Dance at dusk ☺️ and goodnight 😴
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- How to explain Bourdieu - a masterclass
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsThe Scottish gov identified 6 priority families to highlight children at greater risk of poverty 9 in 10 children in poverty live in 1 or more of these priority families Devastating stats tell us how important it is to invest in a better future for all 🚸 youtube.com/shorts/NLTsFhPGgFU
- Reposted by Ros EdwardsWe are deeply relieved to see Israeli and Palestinian families united today at the end of the horrendous ordeal they have gone through. While there is profound uncertainty about the future, these families’ indescribable pain is finally over. (1/4)
