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             Soon heading out of the door for @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social new notebook and pencil in hand. Looking forward to lots of interesting presentations and catching up with old and new alike #York2025
               
            
            
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                YouTube video by Megan K Blake
                Introducing Food Ladders: A way of seeing community food provision
            
         
    
    
            A short explainer of FoodLadders.  youtu.be/q9hbTXeBZjU?...
               
            
            
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            Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility" 
authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray
is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
               
            
            
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            π¨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social 
βPolitical implications of labor market transformation
Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city.
Deadline: May 18, 2025.
tinyurl.com/postdoczurich
#polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo
               
            
            
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            Hello @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social I'm trying to register but am getting an error message when using the website contact email for a particular query. Anyone out there who can help?
               
            
            
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                                            https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/disabled-peoples-lived-experiences-of-benefit-reform-and-the-costs-of-disability/
ESRC-funded Supervisor-led Studentship
Disabled People's Lived Experiences of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability
University of Glasgow
Supervisors: Professor Sharon Wright, Professor Charlotte Pearson, Dr Clementine Hill O'Connor
Deadline 10 April, 5pm BST
References due 16 April, 5pm BST
To apply go to apply.sgsss.ac.uk
Picture of historic stone Glasgow University building with green grass, trees and sunshine.
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Spread the word!  Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability. 
Deadline: 10 April
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social
               
            
            
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            Not uncommon for highly skilled and academics to struggle with this: you are recruited or hired for a job that requires travel (and holding this job is a requirement to keep your work permit) but then doing said travel will put you out of the country too long so you violate permit conditions.
               
            
            
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            This is important work - and highly relevant. Classism at elite institutions is alive and well. Having received an offer from Cambridge University last month, I find myself unable to pay for it and completely unsupported by the university, and I know that many others are in the same boat π
               
            
            
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                                            Abstract for "A Typology of US parents' mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor"
                                                
    
    
    
    
            Delighted to share a new publication out today in the Journal of Marriage and Family w/ the brilliant @leahruppanner.bsky.social. In "A typology of US parentsβ mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor" we assess underlying patterns in the domestic "mental load" among 3,000 US parents. π§΅ 1/10
               
            
            
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            Fascinating report out today from @nyecominetti.bsky.social and @louisemurphy.bsky.social on low-to-middle income families' experience of work - many more people in these families are employed than they were in the 90s, but there's still big improvements to be made to their experience of work.
               
            
            
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                How cuts to youth clubs affected teen crime and education | Institute for Fiscal Studies
                Teenagers affected by austerity-induced youth club closures performed 4% worse in exams at age 16 and became 14% more likely to commit crimes.
            
        
    
    
            How cuts to youth clubs affected teen crime and education
@theifs.bsky.social 
ifs.org.uk/articles/how... 
- did not just serve as βholding spacesβ
- also positive activities and structured support
- closures create greater societal costs than the sums saved from public spending by their closure
               
            
            
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                Research and statistics
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            A quick heads-up to DWP wonks that a huge tranche of almost 30 research reports has been published today (presumably held back under the previous government?) covering Universal Credit, childcare, disability & pensions - lots of interesting stuff in there... www.gov.uk/search/resea...
               
            
            
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            Just starting out here. Hello to old and new!
               
            
            
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                                            Qualitative social researcher since 2002 | Mental health, employment, welfare reform | Learning the ropes as a lecturer since 2024β¦
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            We are the Social Policy Association's Tax and Social Policy Group.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Social Policy Association and East Asian Social Policy Research Network β Joint Annual Conference 2025: Go your own way? Social Policy in an era of fracturing solidarities
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            We're the Social Policy Association's employment policy group. Account managed by Hayley Bennett. Group convened by Sioned Pearce, Ceri Hughes, and Levana Magnus
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Postdoc Researcher, Studying Parliaments and the Role of Knowledge, University of Edinburgh (https://www.project-spark.net/)
Focused on the Spanish and Catalan parliaments | PhD in Social Policy
Exec member & comms at the UK Social Policy Association
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            SPA: the professional association for lecturers, researchers and students of social policy in the UK and internationally.
https://social-policy.org.uk/
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Senior Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
@jrf-uk.bsky.social https://www.jrf.org.uk/ 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. 
E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Senior Policy Researcher at Citizens Advice, researching welfare conditionality (she/her)
Formerly Demos, Southampton Uni, KCL
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Aspiring academic interested in intersectional identities (race, gender, sexuality and class) and systemic inequalities faced by young people
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Launched in 2020, the ESRC Centre at King's College London aims to transform understanding of how social, economic and cultural changes affect mental health. 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            School of Health and Society at the University of Salford @salforduni.bsky.social
We are a forward-thinking, dynamic school with a commitment to lifelong learning and real-world impact.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            A fully comprehensive Secondary School educating 11-18 year olds.
https://highstorrs.co.uk/
Follow us on Facebook (@HighStorrsSchool) and Instagram (@HighStorrsSheffield)
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            The International Inequalities Institute drives integrated research and teaching on inequality at LSE. Home of @afsee-lse.bsky.social.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Paul is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He mainly writes on poverty, benefits, social justice and social policy. Find his published work at https://observant-paulspicker.wordpress.com/paul-spicker/ 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Working on poverty in Scotland at the Poverty Alliance | Trustee at SPFLTrust | Fan of cats, books and Celtic | All opinions are my own
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Associate Professor of Political Science, UCL. Studying political economy, welfare reforms, public opinion, European and British politics. He/him π³οΈβπ
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Editor at Rightsnet | Advised on social security since 2010 | Life experience includes poverty & parenthood | Love reading stories, enjoy little adventures & genuinely curious about how aaaaanything works
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Former Deputy Director and Head of Research at Womenβs Budget Group. Former CEO The Equality Trust; Deputy Director of The Runnymede Trust. Member of Independent SAGE. Worked in government and think tanks. Views my own
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation and Labour Councillor for Brentford East