Sociology Lecturer at Univ. Stirling. Interests in SNA, stratification, social capital, elites, occupations, quangos, social advantage & social statistics.
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New BMJ Open paper out on 'Relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems among people experiencing social marginalisation: a scoping review' with @DrCConnell, @JessicaGreenha6 & Richard Kjellgren
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Social/relational influences identified included: fear of losing social capital, the risks of high bonding capital, service providers as social capital, selective help-seeking, trust and network culture. 3/4
The actual title of this should be 'Pizza Hut making efficiency savings after successful trial', or 'business does what it intended to regardless of budget changes'. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd0…
The next (Summer) Olympics are in Trump's America, four months before the next election. I wonder if it will be in the opening ceremony or the closing ceremony that he stands on top of the Olympic podium and awards himself a gold medal as best president ever.
Amazingly, there isn't any deeper meaning to this story. It's literally just that Helen Mirren is upset that Kurt Cobain never lived long enough to have a phone with GPS on it.
theguardian.com/culture/2024…
The right-wing conspiracy theorists are saying a deadly weather issue is man-made, but climate change scientists are saying it isn't and its just normal weather patterns. That's not how I would have predicted those opinions to go.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2l…
It sounds like the rumours of Oasis reforming might be true.
🚨 NEW: In his first major speech as Prime Minister on Tuesday, Keir Starmer will warn that life in the UK “is going to get worse” before it gets better
“Things are worse than we ever imagined”
[@SkyNews]
Best shows from the latter half of my #edfringe were @robinboot's rock-based comedy and @JokesWithMark's excellent one-liners.
Best show I've seen at #edfringe so far is Family Fortunes for very bad people - great fun and great questions tickets.edfringe.com/whats-o…
Fully-funded (with bursary) PhD studentship at @StirUni, supervised by Prof. Richard Simmons and myself, using #SocialNetworkAnalysis to examine a local water basin partnership findaphd.com/phds/project/op…
The @TeamGB athletics vest has serious @IronMaiden vibes.
Statement of intent from Keely Hodgkinson!
She controls her 800m semi-final to qualify for tomorrow's final in a time of 1:56.86.
#Paris2024
ALT Keely Hodgkinson in the 800m semi-final at Paris 2024.
Can we just act like Y2K is real and pretend the last 24 years never happened? It's great being 23 again.
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Interested in gender segregation in fields of study and occupations?
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If you want to get the results for a constituency during the gap between the candidates being told and the result being officially announced, just check on the change in bookmakers odds to find out the winner.
Without the Partygate journalists, such as @PippaCrerar, Johnson would have won a large majority by now. A big thank you to everyone who exposed what was going on.