Is public health getting to grips with problem gambling in Scotland? Our latest article by Chris Harkins looks at the factors contributing to problem gambling and its effects on individuals and communities. 🔍 Read the full article to learn about: 👉 The socioeconomic and

🎙️New podcast episode on sport, sponsorship and #publichealth with Honorary Research Fellow Robin Ireland #OlympicGames

With the launch of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain, our Gambling Research Glasgow experts have created guidance to encourage less stigmatising reporting on #gambling. ‘Words Matter’ was developed with journalists, policymakers and people with lived experience. tinyurl.com/4368s27r

The place set alight last night was Citizens Advice, Sunderland. Its manager this morning told me they’re devastated and now trying to figure out how to help the people they were supposed to see #sunderland

New. Bournemouth’s new shirt sponsor, betting brand bj88, offers the option bet on live cockfighting in Vietnam, where gambling is illegal. The brand also has links to Bavet, a Cambodian border city notorious for cyber slavery compounds. By Andy Brown josimarfootball.com/2024/08/06/blo…

Just a tiny number of the things we owned and the recent Tories sold off If I went back to 1980 and gave you the full list you’d feel sick about it None of us gained a thing except the super rich Inequality through the roof. #UKRiots

In Malawi, 5.7M people will face acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3) from October 2024 to March 2025. This includes 416,000 people in IPC Phase 4. Households will experience extreme lack of food and exhaustion of coping capacities. Malawi urgently needs humanitarian assistance.

📣 Racialised Capitalism and its Discontents II: registration open! Satnam Virdee and I are hosting the 2nd workshop in our The Sociological Review Foundation seminar series on Weds 4 Sept at the Roma Cultural Centre in Glasgow 🔥 Register here; ECR bursaries available too: tinyurl.com/racecap2

This is amazing reporting by Bloomberg. The amount of rubble that has to be cleared out before Gaza can be built. 42 million tonnes of debris that will cost $700 million just to clear out: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Duke Sociology is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. Area of specialization (actually) open. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28065

A secondary analysis of our Health and Demographic Surveillance Site data using sequence analysis demonstrates the different pathways young people take to adulthood, finding increasing access to school for some of the rural population, while many still married at a young age.

Excited to 📣 a post doc Urban Studies & Social Policy and CaCHE. The post is part of a new Economic and Social Research Council project, URBAN RETROFIT UK, conducting vital research on delivering place adaptation for net zero through planning and development systems. Come join us: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJN028/res…

Applications are invited for the Professorship of Sociology. Candidates will have an outstanding research record and the vision and enthusiasm to maintain and develop a leading research presence. Closing date: 28 October 2024 Further information: bit.ly/4dStvgV

For every £1 the government invests in higher education, higher education generates £14. Universities have a total economic impact of £265 billion. Each graduate generates an extra £75k for the country. In a country with a rational media, universities would be celebrated.

You don’t have to spend money to belong to something. You do have to make an effort. Great article by James Marriott that will make us all happier if we put it into action.

⏰ SAVE THE DATE ⏰: We are thrilled to officially announce that #CAGR2025 will be held in Glasgow on 16 and 17 June 2025. Our first confirmed keynote speaker is the illustrious Charles Livingstone from Monash University, Australia 🥳🥳

Spread the word Steve Sharman Henrietta Bowden-Jones UofG Social Sciences UofG Soc & Pol Sci Gerda Reith Virve Marionneau Chris Bunn Fiona Dobbie John Holmes Amanda Roberts simon dymond

Thus is very sad news, Catherine was a lovely person and an excellent sociologist

Really saddened by this news. Catherine was indeed lovely and brilliant. So generous with her conference chats. A great loss to sociology.

#JobFairy: Postdoctoral Researcher - Lung Cancer Screening @ Dept of General Practice, RCSI w/Patrick Redmond Closing date: 09 Sept my.corehr.com/pls/rcsirecrui… Ping SPHeRE HealthBehaviourUniversityofGalway UCC School of Public Health