Thanks for Typing

May 28 2024 7 ep. 24 mins 2

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The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. In this 6 episode podcast series, they explore how wives helped to shape classic works that set foundations for how modern sociology was thought of and carried out including investigations of communities, class and family life.

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The academic wife: who is she today?

May 28 2024 23 mins

In Episode 6 we’re talking about contemporary gendered inequalities of academic labour. Our guests are Katherine Twamley, Professor of Sociology at UCL’s Social Research Institute and Charlotte Faircloth, Associate Professor of Social Science also based at UCL’s Social Research Institute. As well as discussing their recent study exploring how families with children experience

Slivers and footnotes: recognising wives and women in sociology

May 13 2024 28 mins

In Episode 5 we’re talking about the contribution that wives have made to the discipline of sociology in the past and how this has helped to shape the sociology of the present. We’re joined by Lebogang Mokwena, Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, and John Goodwin, Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of

The contributions of wives: questions of class

Apr 29 2024 30 mins

In Episode 4 Ros and Val talk about their own research looking at the contributions of wives to some of the most important social studies of our time. They’re also joined by Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford whose research focuses on the history of working-class life and women's lives. She is also the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Pe

Wives in the archives: researching wives’ contributions to their husbands’ work

Apr 15 2024 32 mins

In Episode 3 we’re talking about wives in the archives and asking where we can find out more about the contributions that wives have made to the work of their academic husbands. Joining us are Sophie Bridges, from the Churchill Archives in Cambridge and Chris Renwick, Professor of Modern History at the University of York. Sophie’s work has focused on the personal papers of peop

Wifedom: how are wives incorporated in their husbands’ work?

Apr 01 2024 30 mins

Have you ever thought about the contributions that the wives of academics have made to their husband’s work and how those contributions have been acknowledged? In Episode 1 we’re looking at the #ThanksForTyping that went viral in 2017, shining a spotlight onto the often hidden work of wives over the years. We’re joined by Bruce Holsinger, an author and academic based at the U

Thanks to my wife: gender and politics in the academy

Mar 19 2024 25 mins

Have you ever thought about the contributions that the wives of academics have made to their husband’s work and how those contributions have been acknowledged? In Episode 1 we’re looking at the Thanks For Typing hashtag that went viral in 2017, shining a spotlight onto the often hidden work of wives over the years. Ros and Val are joined by the hashtag’s originator, Bruce Hol

Welcome to Thanks for Typing

Mar 12 2024 2 mins

Welcome to Thanks for Typing, a podcast that uncovers the largely invisible contribution of social researchers’ wives to studies that laid the foundations of modern sociology. Presented by Ros Edwards and Val Gillies, with support from Research Podcasts and the Sociological Review Foundation, Episode 1 will be released on Tuesday 19 March, 2024.CreditsHosts: Ros Edwards and Val G