Cancelled Futures: Class, Race & Place in Post-Industrial Britain 16th September at UCL I'll be talking race, class & place with @alexkelbert.bsky.social & @lukedenoronha.bsky.social Hosted by @uclsociology.bsky.social & @sprc-ucl.bsky.social Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cancelled-...

Big thanks to everyone who came down to the summer school over the last couple of days, and to @thesociologicalreview.org for their support.... not to mention all the speakers who donated their time for free! See you all next year (or a bit sooner).

Pubs for the People (@manchesterup.bsky.social)is part of Waterstone's 25% off summer sale... Pre-order using code SUMMER26 to get it for a bargain £14.24! Buy one, buy two, buy ten! www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

Pubs for the people: The fight for the pint and the nation @manchesterup.bsky.social event 📍Brighton at the Caroline of Brunswick pub 📆 Thursday November 5th Join me, Vallu, Malcolm James & @philmellows.bsky.social to discuss the book Come one, come all. www.eventbrite.com/e/pubs-for-t...

Pubs for the People has a new cover An antidote to right wing fantasies that present the pub as white England, we highlight the everyday togetherness forged in the pubs across the nation Out Oct @manchesterup.bsky.social A bargain £18.99 for hardback ⬇️ www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

Just over one month to go until two-day Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents All ⭐ line-up 📆 23-24 July 📍 Chestnut Grove Academy, Balham, South London Supported by @thesociologicalreview.org Come one, come all (+ free lunch!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch... @sriucl.bsky.social

July 24th with @alexkelbert.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social @lukedenoronha.bsky.social myself with a closing panel on racism & nationalism in a changing world Event generously supported by @thesociologicalreview.org including free lunch for attendees on both days

Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents 📆 July 23rd - 24th 📍London Full programme with all star line up ⭐ 23rd July feat @darrenchetty.bsky.social @jolittler.bsky.social @jasnijjar.bsky.social etc on prison education, meritocracy, colonialism, war + more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...

Organising this summer school with support from @thesociologicalreview.org 🚨Class, Culture & Discontents 📍23rd & 24th July 🏫 Balham, South London 🧑‍🍳 Free lunch Great line-up of speakers on a wide range of topics, come one, come all Free tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/summer-sch...

We visited pubs across the country, from the desi pubs of the West Midlands to a Rochdale Wetherspoons with pitstops at rural pubs and many more. It includes a family story taking us from my Great-Granddad's pub in Tanzania to my Dad's pub in Southall and back to the Midlands via the Punjab.

Pubs for the People by me & Vallu is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social in October. On how the pub can be salvaged as a space for the Good Life that goes beyond boring ideas of White England. A bargain at £18.99 in hardback (cant even get 3 pints for that!) www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

New open-access paper for @youthstudies.bsky.social from my @leverhulme.ac.uk lme.ac.uk project It explores how place influences working-class young people's transitions out of education in London, Rochdale & Morecambe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tcru-ucl.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

Some old photos of Glassy Junction from the 1990s, including a snap featuring Saeed Jaffrey pouring a pint

Will be presenting a broad-brush paper based on my current book project for @princetonupress.bsky.social at the @britsoci.bsky.social conf in Manchester next Thursday at 1.30pm, if anyone is about The book is based on 62 interviews with working-class young people in London, Rochdale & Morecambe

A provocation for sixth formers in Rochdale today for a session on 'culture', following constant invocations of the 'pub' as an example of 'English culture' and a wider sentiment that cultures are fixed... rather than hybrid/fluid... Ft amazing images from www.creativeblackcountry.co.uk/desi-pubs

Little table of how the working-class young people I interviewed in Rochdale & Morecambe identified their class in the initial demographic questionnaire I did with them. Of those who said working, very few could explain why (except A-Level sociology students in Rochdale) Am I a quant person now?

Nice to get a physical copy of the @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project booklet Was great working on this for four years. Some very good open-access resources on the website for teachers, students & academics 👇🏽 thesociologicalreview.org/projects/con...