Robert Pralat

Join us at Birkbeck! We’re recruiting for a Lecturer in Sociology. It’s a permanent research and teaching post. Looking for someone with experience and interests in mixed methods, science and society, and work-related learning. Deadline 5 November. Please share! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

I’m very happy to have joined Birkbeck, University of London, as Lecturer in Sociology and Public Health. Looking forward to meeting new colleagues and students, and it feels great to be back in Bloomsbury after 15 years!

🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work? Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Great to see our research published in Social Science & Medicine, with findings from a study exploring a new role in the English NHS: patient safety specialist. Drawing on the sociology of expertise, we reflect on the changing system of professions in healthcare.

The patient safety specialist role was introduced in 2020, bringing new forms of expertise to improve safety in the NHS. We looked at the challenges specialists faced in trying to define their role and advance their status. Full paper: ths.im/47jOmI8 THIS summary: ths.im/47l8t8A

THIS Space 2025 programme is now live! Join us virtually on 25 November. The event is free to attend, but booking is essential and space is limited. View the full programme and register here: ths.im/4nGd5wJ #THISspace2025

Sociology of Health & Illness is recruiting three new Editorial Board members, with particular interest in quantitative sociology, global contexts and health inequalities. Please do help us get the word out: closes this week (Fri 2nd). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

New opinion piece in @bmj.com by me and @janekohara.bsky.social: whither patient and staff voice in the NHS post-Dash? Decluttering the safety landscape is necessary but will NHS organisations listen to patients and staff without independent advocacy? www.bmj.com/content/390/...

New reproductive technologies have had a major impact on the ideas and practices surrounding fertility, infertility, fertility control, and fertility decline—that is, on reproduction itself. Sarah Franklin and Marcia C. Inhorn discuss this new reproductive order on the blog.

Always an essential networking event for medical sociology academics and professionals – Call for papers by 2 May for the BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference 2025, 10-12 September, Northumbria University tinyurl.com/mpk8y5yy #cfp

For frank & honest conversations unpacking what works (and what doesn’t) in healthcare improvement, the Listen to THIS podcast from @thisinstitute.bsky.social explores current and enduring challenges and the work to address them. First episode launches 26 February. Learn more https://ths.im/3Qy2e9B

New article now out in Culture, Health & Sexuality! "Asked to be a sperm donor: Disclosure dilemmas of gay men living with HIV" doi.org/10.1080/1369...