Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social Academic. Publishing about poverty (new book out now called 'Relative Poverty Re-examined: social science and socialism'). Former Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Lincoln, #FreeSpeech
Ian Badger @iebadger.bsky.social Open Research Librarian at the University of Kent
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Tom Disney @tdisney85.bsky.social Associate Professor and Social Geographer at Northumbria University. My research applies geographical theory and spatial methods to social work and child welfare.
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/d/tom-disney/
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Norma Schemschat @drnorma.bsky.social Researcher curious about all things urban and migration | Research Lead for >FuturMig< (Futures of Migration) @ IMIS (Uni Osnabrück) | Interested in future-making in peripheralized places, autonomy-building, and place-making
OCE Lab @ocelab.bsky.social Our research seeks to uncover how people interact within civil society organizations and how those interactions can strengthen organizations, promote civic engagement, and improve the quality of life in communities.
liz cox @lizcox.bsky.social PhDone • research practitioner • northern • fan of potatoes, seasonal playlists, and books • curious about: creative methods, gender, health, bodies, belonging, more-than-human, care, space + place, cultural sociology, feminism • she/her • views mine •
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Kate Maclean @drkate99.bsky.social Professor of Feminist Geography, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. Editor
Gender, Place & Culture and Journal of Latin American Studies. Chair @GFG_RGSIBG.
#Firstgen. Alter-ego: Elsie Unheimlich.
Karolina Lebek @karolebek.bsky.social studying migration. PhD in human geography at Umeå Univeristy
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
KyBlueSue @sgreerpitt.bsky.social Political and environmental sociologist, retired professor, artist and crazy cat lady, hubby is another sociologist. Democrat. Tikkun olam. Appalachian raised in California. Love my Kentucky mountain home. Bi. Breast cancer survivor. She/her.
Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social Welcome to the British Academy-funded project 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures' https://speculativemachines.co.uk PI Carolyn Pedwell https://tinyurl.com/4z6m62wz AI/digital/history/affect/politics/ethics
Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social Asst Prof English │ Long 19th C │ Writer │ Researcher
Theatrical Afterlives (OUP 2026), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/theatrical-afterlives-9780198992882?lang=en&cc=es
https://metode.academia.edu/MarinaCano
Ames Clark @amesclark.bsky.social Sociologist - interested in care, abolition, temporalities, & political imagination
Research Associate @ Uni of Sheffield (chanse.org/lgbti_futures) - LGBTQI+ youth imagined futures & wellbeing in times of crises.
Lisa Morriss @lisamorriss.bsky.social Academic @ School of Social Sciences Lancaster, PI Keeping Mothers in Mind. Interested in Hope, Motherhood, Mental Health, Futures, Ghosts, Archives, Loss, Tattoos
Luciana @lucilang.bsky.social Anthropologist of green and blue spaces. Interested in commons; making; age-friendly cities; social natures; and muddy stuff.
Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Academic. Poet. Creative sociologist. Queer non-binary trans man. Spoonie. Gentletran & a scholar. Also part of the Queer Disability Studies Network snails. 🐌🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
UK's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoycouk.bsky.social DISCOVER JOY in UK (England, NI, Scotland, Wales) events, biz, health, music, tourism, on linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyCoUk. Unleash fun nationally, from villages to cities and tourist hotspots. Embrace togetherness through the four home nations | HowToEnjoy.co.uk
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Reboot The Renaissance @rebootrenaissance.bsky.social For the curious and cunning. Reinstalling MediciOS. Ideas reborn. Influence retooled. Principles reprogrammed. Digital age insight restoring civilization’s civic software—to dispel a new Dark Age. reboottherenaissance.substack.com | #bskystorians
Laura Fenton @soc-researcher.bsky.social Sociologist and researcher based at the University of Sheffield- P Phil Crockett Thomas @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social Giving this another try...
Teaching at the University of Stirling.
Stuff at https://crowdedmouth.com/ and https://abolitionscifi.org/
Marjo Kolehmainen @marjokolehmainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @utu.fi, PI: Networked Care: Intimate Matters in Online Mental Health Support (2023-2027). Editor at The Sociological Review.
https://www.marjokolehmainen.net/
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
Leisure Studies Journal @leisurestudies.bsky.social Leisure Studies is a leading international journal that publishes innovative leisure research in the social sciences.
ReDICo @redico.eu ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively. redico.eu
An interdisciplinary project exploring intercultural practices and discourses within digital spaces and beyond.
Join our research hub: hub.redico.eu
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Eve Stowe @evestowe.bsky.social Socio PhDing, queer(ing) walking, hopefully reading 🐸
Feride Kumbasar Ph.D. @feridekumbasar.bsky.social Interdisciplinary scholar, activist, and community builder with interests spanning migration, gender studies, sociology, diaspora and transnationalism, memory and identity, place-making, and gentrification—drawing from a bit of everything
Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social Academic @york.ac.uk
Sociology of Professions / Critical Management Studies / History
Shannon Kneis @shannonkneis.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Sociology at Polity Press https://bsky.app/profile/politybooks.bsky.social
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Prof Sophie Woodward @sophierwoodward.bsky.social 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.
Marsh Equity Research @marshequity.bsky.social We find companies trading below their intrinsic value and share them via an email newsletter.
Subscribe here: marshequityresearch.substack.com
DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social your platform for thought-provoking cinema
ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures @sociodigfutures.bsky.social We live in a sociodigital world – a world where society and digital technology are increasingly bound together. Founded in 2022, we bring together leading interdisciplinary expertise to explore sociodigital futures in the making. www.bristol.ac.uk/censof
Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social Academic law person at King’s College London. Working on feminist, disability & gender things, also medical ethics. Held hostage by my beagle. All views my own & not peer reviewed.
Ian M. Cook @ianmickcook.bsky.social Editor-in-chief Allegra Lab / Podcasting Scholar for Hire - http://drianmcook.net / OLIve / anthro / urban India / Glossopian Népszínház Butterfly
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Helen Holmes @helenholmes.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology/Deputy Director of Sustainable Futures at university of Manchester. Interested in sustainable consumption, diverse economies, waste & disposal.
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Ben Anderson @benandersongeog.bsky.social Theories of affect, and this conjunctural crisis. New book co-written with Anna Secor: The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983299/the-politics-of-feeling/
Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social Professor in Digital Media @Lancaster University. Affect, intuition, habit, digital media, AI, culture, politics; Affect Theory Reader 2: http://tinyurl.com/36zdbeak; Revolutionary Routines: http://tinyurl.com/mtkehm62 
Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.