paid, one-month online artist residencies with ESRC Digital Good Network - please share!

.ESRC Digital Good Network is seeking 4 digital artists to be part of a paid 1-month online artist residency in May 2024. The residency will explore the theme of “digital identities over time” and culminate in an online exhibition in June 2024 -pls share
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It's official. Thanks Sociology of Health and Illness Journal & SHI Foundation for appointing me Janice McLaughlin @janicemcl.bsky.social ros williams Nicky Hudson Tim Huijts Ellen Stewart Sarah Nettleton & Sally Brown as the editorial team for the Sociology of Health and Illness journal. Excited to work with such a brilliant team! 🥳

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I'm looking to hire a PT Research Assistant for the DigitalDC. Would suit a PGR interested in repro, digital or family sociology. Lots of flexibility on hours. And I want to make sure it's a career development opportunity for the post holder.
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🥳 thrilled that TWINKIND is published today! 🥳

'A visually fascinating study featuring dazzling photographs and artwork' - Kirkus Reviews

'an impeccably researched visual treat' - The Spectator

'a meticulous inquiry into a subject of perennial fascination' - Publishers Weekly

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'New dialogues between medical sociology & #disability studies' This landmark special issue of the Sociology of Health and Illness also has plenty to offer #MedHums researchers of all stripes.

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Łukasz Szulc asks us to think about our digital futures 'critique is not enough, we need to think about better digital futures both ourselves and what other people might imagine' #digitalgood

come do a PhD with us at Sheffield, as part of the ESRC Digital Good Network. Would love to supervise projects interested in the relationship between digital technologies and (in)equity broadly conceived -findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

🚨Applications for two ESRC Digital Good Network funded studentships are now open!🚨

Join Prof Helen Kennedy, @[email protected], ros williams and others in contributing to a good digital society.

Find out more and apply below:
findaphd.com/phds/project/t….

Are you a PhD student working on issues relating to the digital good?

Soon we will launch our research internships scheme, for PhD students to undertake funded three-month research placements.

Find out more 👇 and at our information session on 22 June: eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good…

Exciting PhD opportunity (with a master's option): jobs.ac.uk/job/CZG758/phd… Centre for Care Social Sciences | The University of Sheffield

Weds 8 March at 13:00, we will share more about the network and what we are looking for in funded projects, with Dr Millings, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Scott Hale and Dan Richards - chaired by Rhianne Jones

Sign up: eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good…

'Recalibrating Stigma: Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness'. FREE symposium at KCL on April 25th (11-4) organised by me, Amy Chandler, Oli Williams & @tanisha_jemma.

Details here docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Only 15 places. To register interest, email by March 31st!

Important paper from Prof Helen Kennedy Prof Helen Kennedy, @[email protected] on the potential for digital technologies to help us live good lives.

As a philosopher, I've always felt that the harms-based focus of policy in recent years means we've struggled to define the good life in a world mediated by tech.

Want to connect with other researchers or stakeholders to form bid teams for our new Digital Good Research Fund?
We are holding an online sandpit on 27 March, 2pm-4pm. Info on how to apply will be on digitalgood.net from 7 March (deadline 14 March). #digitalgood

From our 2022 DoRN symposium series: ros williams Wellcome The University of Sheffield 'An ethico-racial imperative: considering the consequences of how ethical action & racial identity are tied together in racially minoritised #stemcelldonor recruitment.' youtu.be/L4s1LNs5WTY

Looking for research funding?

On 7 March we will be launching a new fund for research on what a good digital society could look like and how we get there.

Find out more at our lunchtime discussion series 👇

Delighted the Special/Edited collection that ros williams and I edited for Sociology of Health and Illness Journal is now Online First! The theme is 'Complicity: Methodologies of power, politics & the ethics of knowledge production' and the abstract from our editors' intro is below:
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