I'll be presenting on my research and time with at Documenting Disability: Preserving and Accessing Disabled Heritage on July 27th!
A really great line up of speakers/panel too!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/documenting-
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Just imagining the reaction if Angela Raynor did this.
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@MandOCLP @DailyMirror @guardian Andrea Jenkyns MP greeting the crowds at Downing Street today at 12:20pm. Gave everyone the finger…
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Need more survey dudes share pls.
If you are an adult with CP living in the UK, please can you help us gather info to im by completing this online survey meded.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/althea-project.
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🚨Are you a woman with two or more low-paid jobs?
Researchers at are looking to learn more about your experiences.
Text 'YES' to 07946 292 536 to participate, or find out more about how you can take part here 👇
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We have a 3 year PhD Studentship for a topic on English adult social care funded by based at the University of Birmingham. Start date Sept or Jan - get in touch for more info
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Excited to finally share details of this!
I hope people give this a look and consider presenting, as many of us are still virtual and working from home, this will be a nice way to meet other PGRs.
Please share with your circles!
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We're hosting a Twitter conference! This will be an event designed for #PGR students to tweet about their historic research and connect with one another!
We're so excited to hear about your research!
Please send in abstracts by the 22nd July.
#HistPer2022 #TwitterConference
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Such an important contribution to the post-pandemic recovery narrative. Vital that we stop labelling people with learning disabilities as 'vulnerable'. It's the indifference of clinicians, policy makers and service providers (public and private) that create the vulnerability.
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New open access paper: ‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02
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New open access paper: ‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic -
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📢A new full time job opportunity for the College of Social Science has been announced! The position is looking for a Professor of Public Policy.
The closing date is the 22nd of July‼️ So don't delay!
For more details follow the link and good luck!-
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Fully-funded PhD scholarships available at – see surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fundi Application deadline 15 July for a start of 1 October. Contact me if you’re interested in studying hate crime/policing/far right/prisons
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So we have an exciting new learning disabilities and autism group led by mmu.ac.uk/research/resea 1/4
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We would still love to hear from people with #learningdisabilities, and #Autistic people about your experiences of information on COVID since 2020 , . Please RT 🙂
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I am working with Robyn Steward on a project where we will interview #Autistic and #LearningDisabled people, about COVID information. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved: e-mail alison.wilde@durham.ac.uk.
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Please take a moment today to learn about #ThisIsMe22 👇🏻
Inequality, discrimination and stigma are not inevitable - we must and can do better.
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1. Today we're talking about valuing the lives of people with #learningdisabilities
In collaboration with @SCLDNews @PAMIS_Scotland & @DSScotland we are challenging inequalities, discrimination & #stigma
Here's @deborah_kinnear to introduce #ThisIsMe22 youtu.be/MKd5yLOc6aw
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1. Today we're talking about valuing the lives of people with #learningdisabilities
In collaboration with & we are challenging inequalities, discrimination & #stigma
Here's to introduce #ThisIsMe22
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Forty years! NASA advertised for disabled people to go on missions to the moon last year. What is wrong with our Governments that they can’t get disabled people across the country?!
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👇 This is a fantastic job! I highly recommend it. Only a few days to go to get those applications in …
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Academics need to start standing up for scholars who come under attack from pseudo-journalists like Grayzone. My friend Emma Briant was named in a story about someone else and is in a living hell. Don't retweet their insinuations, they harm people... #academictwitter
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PhD scholarship in the history of the Fair Trade movement in Scotland. We're looking for a candidate with an interest in modern Scottish history and experience in qualitative research qualified to either undergraduate or masters level. sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/th
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No to offshoring! Tell to stop plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. - Sign the Petition! chng.it/TrWSdfGC via
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📢There's still time to apply for the Research Manager and Research Officer roles we currently have advertised. Both posts are based in Glasgow.
If you’re interested, get your application in by the end of Friday 17 June 2022.
Find out more and apply at: equalityhumanrights.com/en/about-us/ca
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We’re recruiting a Senior Associate - Research Manager, and a Senior Associate - Research Officer, both based in Glasgow.
The successful candidates will help ensure robust research and accurate analysis underpins our work.
Find out more and apply
equalityhumanrights.com/en/about-us/ca
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My #WinterbourneView blogs have been full of numbers.
Here's your chance to read in depth about one person's story, in this free book published by . Matthew wants other people to learn from his journey, so please take him up on his invite.
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So they’ve found one scientist - one - who is prepared to argue, kind of, against Horizon. And he’s the one person given a platform on #r4today.
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Here's a magic wee film (and thread) about our project on youth and violence reduction in Scotland and London... huge thanks to all involved
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New video out now introducing our three-year, ESRC-funded project, “Public Health, Youth and Violence Reduction”:
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Do please share - we hope it will be a valuable resource for families living with inherited forms of #MND
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35 people have shared their experiences of inherited Motor Neurone Disease for a new resource launched today healthtalk.org/Familial-MND/o
Research by @JadeHoward0 @LLocock @hsru_aberdeen
Funded by @mndassoc
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It is senseless to shelter Putin from the sense that he is losing. He will figure that out for himself, and he will act to protect himself. 1/17
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We want to hear from Disabled young people on the current barriers to education and ways in which school could be more inclusive. This feedback will inform our response to the SEND Review Gov Consultation.
Email bethany.bale@disabilityrightsuk.org if you'd like to chat with us.
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There is an urgent need to better understand, increase awareness of, and address the profound and deeply concerning changes in life expectancy trends seen across the UK over the last decade. Two new resources aim to do that. #LifeExpectancy #poverty #austerity
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Our report out today explores why average life expectancy stopped improving, and got worse in the poorest 20% of areas, after 2012. #Austerity policies which cut social security and public services are the most important causes. gcph.co.uk/latest/news/10
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📢Job opportunities :
🔸Kentigern Research Fellow
🔸Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Transport Planning
🔸Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Transport Planning (Research & Teaching Track)
🔸Lecturer in Media, Culture & Society
🔸Tutor in Media, Culture and Society
➡️ gla.ac.uk/schools/social
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1. Report: 'Mental ill health and behaviours that challenge in adults with learning/intellectual disabilities: review of evidence' Read this report on the rapid review of evidence from via bit.ly/3z0Wgqi
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‘I don’t want sympathy and I don’t want affection
I want this country to head in the right direction’
#todayspoem
‘JORDAN’ by Nick Arnold. From Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. Published by Beacon Press, 2017.
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Edinburgh Uni Social Policy are looking for a Senior Lecturer specialising in Social Science Research Methods to work with the School’s to work on methods teaching and School-wide postgraduate methods training courses
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Job opportunity: Lecturer in Media, Culture and Society in Scotland. It's in Sociology where we're based, within the School of Social and Political Sciences
Vacancy 083916, closes 20 June 2022. More details & apply: my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit
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📢First article from my #PhD📢Now you can read my thoughts on #sibling #imprisonment without wading through 100,000 words! Check it out here👇
ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/frs
Lots of major then minor revisions but a really supportive & encouraging peer review process from
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We are looking for a new lecturer who can teach methods (quants, digital, and/or data science broadly defined) in our fantastic sociology and media studies department. Interviews in July, flex start date. please share.
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At Birmingham, we're recruiting for what I still call a Senior Lecturer in Social Care (Associate Professor). More info here, or get in touch with me:
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Support for those with intellectual disabilities has not returned to pre-pandemic levels says Roseann Maguire. Current pressures on families is unsustainable. She suggests there needs to be a national hub for best practice.
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Hugely important research and evidence assembled by on the disproportionate impact of #COVID19 on people with learning disabilities in terms of severe infection and mortality
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