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Thanks for Typing
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.
Podcasting since 2024 • 7 episodes
Thanks for Typing
Latest Episodes
The academic wife: who is she today?
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 a...
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Episode 6
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Slivers and footnotes: recognising wives and women in sociology
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 Departmen...
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Episode 5
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The contributions of wives: questions of class
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 w...
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Episode 4
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Wives in the archives: researching wives’ contributions to their husbands’ work
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
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Episode 3
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Wifedom: how are wives incorporated in their husbands’ work?
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 ...
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Episode 2
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