Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Jaime Garcia Iglesias @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social Sociologist of sexual health. Chancellor's Fellow at University of Edinburgh. 🇪🇸🏳️🌈🏴 he/him
Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network (TransDI), Chair: Dr Liang Ge (Univ of Manchester) @liangge11.bsky.social
Mark Davis @profmarkdavis.bsky.social Economic Sociologist | Co-created Local Climate Bonds - raised +£30M for #netzero projects so far | Now researching social relations of retrofit | Deputy Head of School @sspatleeds.bsky.social | First-Gen | Views mine
Hannah Al-Othman @hannahalothman.bsky.social Journalist @guardian. Northern Powerhouse, running bore 🏃🏽♀️, MUFC 👹. Send news: hannah.al-othman@theguardian.com. DM for WhatsApp/Signal
Steve Threadgold @stevethreadgold.bsky.social Sociologist at University of Newcastle
Research on youth and class: alternative work trajectories; underground and independent creative scenes; cultural formations of taste, fintech and financial practices.
https://linktr.ee/stevethreadgold?utm_source=link
Dr Katy Pilcher @kpilch.bsky.social Sociologist - power, inequalities, gender, sexualities, ageing, community led culture, creative activism, visual & sensory methods
Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Swansea West
Dr Beth Johnson @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social Academic, feminist, TV lover, researcher. Interested in the ordinary and the everyday. Prof of TV, film and media at University of Leeds. Opinions my own.
Paul Hodkinson @paulhodkinson.bsky.social Prof of Sociology at University of Surrey - fathers, masculinities, youth, digital media...
Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social Official account • good cats being workers • unionized • mascot: Jobert the cat • Business/credit/removal: translatedcats@gmail.com • Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/translatedcats/
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Tig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social Queer, trans, disability studies,sociology, education stuff.
Currently working on a project about preventing harassment of people doing LGBT+ research: Tinyurl.com/LGBTImpact
Sally Hines @sallyhines.bsky.social Gender Studies & Sociology Academic, UK. Proudly deflecting from the nasty place. She/her
CIGS Leeds @cigsleeds.bsky.social The Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies is based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, Leeds University.
https://gender-studies.leeds.ac.uk/
Dr Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social Senior lecturer at University of York, researching sexual misconduct in HE and CCIs and inequalities in music education. Founder and co-director of The 1752 Group. Cats. www.1752group.com
Cath Lambert @cathlambert.bsky.social singing sociologist
Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social The Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/
Helen Manchester @helenmanchester.bsky.social Prof participatory sociodigital futures, ageing, co-design, culture, Bristol, uk
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) @jrct.bsky.social A Quaker grant-making organisation supporting those who address the root causes of conflict and injustice.
https://linktr.ee/jrct_
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk not a professional account
Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology @morgancentre.bsky.social University of Manchester Sociology Department | Digital Media & Tech, Digital Methods, Gender & Sexuality, ESEA Creative Industries and Popular Cultures | they/them
Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social Emeritus Prof (criminology) @open-university.bsky.social, trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social, love @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social Justice after Grenfell? Marx, Spurs, Reggae, Gramsci, The Clash, Social Harm, Luxemburg (Rosa)- not necessarily in that order
Debt Shop Boi @debtshopboi.bsky.social Toronto-based synthpop-industrial-darkwave-electropunk artist. Lover of black cats, hater of fascism. https://linktr.ee/debtshopboi
Martín Hernán Di Marco @martindimarco.bsky.social Sociologist. Violence, Femicides & Perpetration. A. Professor at @ISGA_Hague & Adj. Prof. @emoryuniversity.
Secretary @TG11_ISA & RC38. Food enthusiast
Thea Hilhorst @theahilhorst.bsky.social Professor of humanitarian studies at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University. #TheHagueHSC #bikepacking #SafeFieldwork #030 @flyingless
Char Binns @charbinns.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher, sociology of religion, focus on Millennial women’s encounters with the sacred, social media, influencer culture and postfeminism.
Dog mum, Pickleballer, Independent Visitor (IV)
🏡 Morecambe Bay 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
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
Paula Sergeant @psergeant1.bsky.social International Research Lead | Project Manager @MMUPERU #LEARNineq @coordinate_eu
@guidecohort @EuroCohort #CoSiE2020 #MiCREATE #innosi
@projectmyweb
Trustee of People’s Voice Media @peoplesvoice
Treasurer of People’s Voice Media
Centre for Study of Crime, Criminalisation & Social Exclusion @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation & Social Exclusion (CCSE) at Liverpool John Moores University @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
http://ccseljmu.wordpress.com
Co-Directors: Will McGowan and Lisa White
(Previously at https://x.com/ccse_ljmu)
University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social Researching and teaching sociology at The University of Manchester since 1964.
Links: https://linktr.ee/UoMSociology
Web: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/sociology
Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social Small time sociologist.
He/him
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
Caspar Addyman @kzzprr.bsky.social Writer, technologist & infantologist creating ethical AI for families. Author of The Laughing Baby (pop sci), Babies Laugh™ (for babies) & Help Yourself (novel)
Reading: Mainly #scifi
Sanity: Running, tai chi & Zen
https://playtandem.com
https://babies.lol
Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Communication and Media at University of Liverpool. Researching television, gender, collective memory, convergence and Dungeons & Dragons. Common or Garden Nerd.
@ulivucu.bsky.social @ulivucu.bsky.social
Valeria Vargas @v-vargas.bsky.social Multidisciplinary academic working at Manchester Metropolitan University
The 1752 Group @the1752group.bsky.social We're a campaign and research group dedicated to ending sexual misconduct in UK higher education.
www.1752group.com
Barry Godfrey @barrygodfrey.bsky.social Professor of Social Justice
University of Liverpool
Peter Campbell @petersoc.bsky.social Reader @ Dept. of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool.
Emily Harmer @harm365.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media. Research/teach gender, media & political communication. (She/her). DigiPol: Centre for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy @digipol.bsky.social
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/emily-harmer
Aaron Jacklin @aaronjacklin.bsky.social Independent Journalist
Crime & Crime Policy
MA, Criminology & Criminal Justice Policy
Subscribe: The Art of Explaining Crime, aaronjacklin.substack.com
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Abi O'Connor @drabioconnor.bsky.social Urban Sociologist. Leverhulme ECF @ Sheffield University. Fellow @ Uni of Liverpool. PhD ✍️ political economy of housing/land, spatial inequality, local gov/politics & stigma. Fullback Union rep. Organising w Liverpool Residents Action et al. Views my own
Terence Heng @tereheng.bsky.social Reader in Sociology at Liverpool University, also Photographer. Visual Methods \ Visual Sociology \ Sacred Flowscapes. Current project: The Spirited North - A Photographic study of Spiritual Spaces in North England - www.terenceheng.info/spiritednorth
Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social News from the Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Liverpool. Monitored 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-and-social-sciences/
Laura Smith @lsmitthh.bsky.social Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool.
PhD Researcher exploring Everyday Peace, Gender and Intimacy in Northern Ireland.
Previously University of Leeds, and Queen Mary UoL
Views my own
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Prof Ali Browne @profalibrowne.bsky.social Human Geography, University of Manchester. Everyday Life. Water. Environmental Change. Two-Way Pedagogy/Science. Methods. | Exhibition: Nowanup x Wild @ Manchester Museum | 🌈🌻wadjella |🍉❤️💛🖤
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/alison.browne
Steve Rothberg @steverothberg.bsky.social Husband, Dad, academic, transplant recipient, immigrant stock, slow runner, Man City fan, Alfista. Provost & Deputy VC at Manchester Metropolitan University. Eyam and Loughborough. He/him
Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social Professor of Social Science at University College London | UCL Social Research Institute | Chair of Release | Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences | Interested in: drug policy, social science, critical theory, history | www.tobyseddon.com
Prof Amanda ML Taylor-Beswick @amltaylor66.bsky.social Professor of Digital and Social Science. Working at various sociotechnical intersections.
Also on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prof-amanda-ml-taylor-beswick-b3810647?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=
Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social P/T lecturer 0.2 in Social Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths, London, + semi-retired. Views my own. Climate Justice, Stop Ecocide, Critical Management Studies, Solidarity Economy, 💙.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/icce/staff/r-hull/
N🚫 DMs - you WILL be blocked
Clarissa Smith @profclarissasmith.bsky.social Professor, Northumbria University; Co-Editor Porn Studies #pstudies; #pornstudies; #sextech; #sexualities; #mascnet; #digitalintimacies
Dr Anne-Marie Day @anne-marieday.bsky.social MMU Criminology lecturer, youth justice researcher, AYJ board member, life long Man United supporter, stressed out mum!! All views are my own!
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Educational Research@Lancaster Uni @edreslancaster.bsky.social Educational Research at Lancaster University has a world class reputation for excellence in both teaching and research and offers several part-time, online distance-learning PhDs:- https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/study/phd/
Dean Kirby @manchesterhistory.uk Author keeping people's history alive. Historian. Orwell Prize nominated journalist. PhD. Tour guide. Rep: @litagencygmc.bsky.social.
📕Pre-order my new book The Scuttlers: https://linktr.ee/TheScuttlers
Substack newsletter: www.manchesterhistory.uk
tara @tarapoole.bsky.social Research Associate in Survey Infrastructure Development at Manchester Metropolitan University for Growing Up In Digital Europe @guide-cohort.bsky.social www.guidecohort.eu @mmuperu.bsky.social
Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social #Historian of gender, sexuality, health & the life cycle in modern Britain.
Research Fellow, Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980, University of Birmingham.
Queer | Feminist | French | Vegan | She/her
Tom Witney @twiterney.bsky.social Medical sociologist at UCL interested in sexual health, HIV and relationships 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I am a cat lover and I love to run
Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity.
Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️⚧️
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
Kathryn Telling @kathryn-telling.bsky.social Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester. Higher education, elitism and moral sociology.
maria hunter @mariahunter.bsky.social associate lecturer in criminology
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 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
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
BCU Sociology Team @bcusociology.bsky.social Updates from the Sociology team at Birmingham City University on research, teaching, public engagement and more.
Dirk Jacobs @dirkjacobs.bsky.social full professor in sociology (methodology, migration, education, heritage, just transition) Université Libre de Bruxelles
president Brussels Studies Institute (BSI)
president Andrée Geulen asbl (ULB-VUB)
Belgium 🇧🇪🇪🇺⚜️
Melissa Mendez 🇹🇹🏴 @dr-mendez-to-you.bsky.social Lawyer turned criminologist. Caribbean woman navigating Welsh life and academia.
UCL Sociology Network @uclsociology.bsky.social UCL Sociology Network is a creative space and intellectual home for sociological staff and doctoral students at UCL.
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/collaborative-social-science/ucl-sociology-network
@katzgerro.bsky.social @katzgerro.bsky.social
Dr Helen Rand @helenrand.bsky.social Feminist Academic at University of Greenwich. Sex worker rights. Women’s resistance. Transgender love.
Prof | Dr Anna Sergi @annasergi.bsky.social Criminology & Organised Crime Professor | from Calabria to Bologna via 🇬🇧 | love 🇦🇺 & podcasts | critical scholar |'ndrangheta/mafia, transnational migration & crime, transculturation & crime, power & crime, ports & crime, cocaine trade |English | Italian
Ryan Davey @ryandavey284.bsky.social Anthropologist | Out now: The Personal Life of Debt: Coercion, Subjectivity & Inequality in Britain (Bristol Uni Press). https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-personal-life-of-debt. Teach social sciences at Cardiff Uni. @RyanDavey284 on twitter.
Daniela Mardones-Bravo @danielamarbrav.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology MMU @manmetcrimsoc.bsky.social and Researcher at @mmuperu.bsky.social
Older people/Prisons /online methods. Chilean, living in Scotland, working in England.
she/her
More stuff here: linktr.ee/danielamarbrav
Kat @katsimmo.bsky.social Sociologist interested in young people's experiences of education, work, and community in former mining communities. Social Haunting| Deindustrialisation| Marxism| Ethnography
Will also spam you with dog pictures 🐾
Dr Natalie Hammond @nataliejane.bsky.social Sociologist - Gender, health, climate, security & violence. Researching extreme environments from HIV, to conflict injury to climate disruption.
Likes reading, running, animals, the beach & being outside.
Manchester/Sheffield/Wales when I can.
Bethan Archer @bethanarcher.bsky.social Criminology Lecturer at Lancaster University, UK.
Shane Horgan @drshanehorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Edinburgh Napier University.
Associate Director, Scottish Institute for Policing Research
Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social Multiemployed PostDoc at City, University of London and Babeş-Bolyai University, researching social movements and political parties of the left and the far-right. Free time Climber 🧗♂️
www.felipegsantos.com
Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social Sociologist of leisure and consumption; alcohol, drinking culture & pubs; men and masculinity (wellbeing, identity & relationships).
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/social-policy-studies/staff/thomas-thurnell-read/
ForThe100 @forthe100.bsky.social Campaigning ForThe100 ~ Higher education providers owe a duty of care to their students. It’s that simple. We want students safety to be a legal must. 💛
🌐 https://www.forthe100.org.uk/
ForThe100 Mailing List: https://bit.ly/3Q3GD9g
Karen Lillie @karenlillie.bsky.social Senior researcher at Max Planck (MPIfG). Sociologist of education interested in social class, wealth, gender, mobilities. American emigrant. Mother of 2. Caffeine-dependent.
Chris Waugh @thewaughreport.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology. Specializing in masculinity, sex work and gender based violence prevention. I paint small men for fun and study normal sized men for a living
Esther Dermott @estherdermott.bsky.social ProVC for Arts, Law & Social Sciences, University of Bristol. Professor of Sociology & Social Policy. Families, parenthood, fatherhood, inequalities, socio-digital. Plus other random stuff
Rob Ralphs @robralphs.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Social Policy @ Manchester Metropolitan University. He/Him. Mancunian. Interested in all things drug related:Use/Markets/Policy/NPS/IPEDS/Chemsex/Harm Reduction/Trends/ Treatment/Homeless/Pleasure/Prison/Testing etc.
Katy Brookfield @katybrookfield.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Criminology specialising in technology-facilitated domestic abuse. All views my own.
Peter Mallory @pmallory.bsky.social Sociologist at St. Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada). Cultural sociology; social theory; personal life. Writing a book on friendship and therapeutic culture.
Dr Sharron FitzGerald @sharronfitz.bsky.social Academic: VAW, trafficking, gender, law
Director LEX network
lexnetwork.org
Bluesky: lexnetwork.bsky.social
Co-E-in-C Gender & Justice
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gj/gj-overview.xml
genderandjustice.bsky.social
Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social 'That childless woman.' Psychotherapist, author, Substacker, TEDxer, cat staff, apprentice crone. Founder of Gateway Women and Gateway Elderwomen #Childless #Childfree #WestCork #AgeingWithoutChildren https://linktr.ee/gatewaywomen