@profharryferguson.bsky.social
Social work, child protection, research into practice, fatherhood, ethnography, gender-based violence. Liver transplant recipient 2004 and 2023 and advocate for organ donation - https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/social-policy/ferguson-harry
🎙️ New episode out today 🎧
In this week's episode Matt and Hannah are then joined by Harry Ferguson to talk about his latest book, ‘Making Child Protection Work’, exploring the importance of relational and intimate child protection practice.
Listen now on any major podcast platform 💗
Yes indeed Jo. No shock here !! The mystery is that he’s been indulged for so so long.
Tactically, Burnham has played his hand very badly. He should never have signalled his leadership ambitions, quietly gained the party’s support to stand, re-entered parliament and then taken on Starmer. His strategic stupidity does him no good. And he and the party now paying the price.
If you're excited for universal child care and you know it, clap your hands! 👏🏽
A recap of 2025 at Bristol University Press and Policy Press. Milestones, events, achievements, celebrations and, most of all, a thank you to everyone involved in our publishing.
We wish you the best for 2026! 🎉❤️
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Really good discussion around the power of lived experience in this Messy Social Work podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rich-and-tim-discuss-the-trauma-industrial-complex/id1651861448?i=1000736739275
It really makes me want to read Darren McGarvey’s The Trauma Industrial Complex! […]
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Wonderful to find #Tayto crisps for sale in Melbourne, but at $6 (£3) a packet - THREE QUID😱😡.
Australia, how could you 🥲🥲
@jdev65.bsky.social @jojofinchers.bsky.social
Brilliant analysis by @cwarzel.bsky.social of the socio-political dynamics surrounding a blue denim jeans ad campaign and the production of Sydney Sweeney as a cultural object. Applies to how so many cultural moments are confected internet / social media driven spectacles.
😂😂😂 That’s brilliant John!!
And very true. No amount of negotiation, processes, summits … will ever sort it.
Moreover, it’s a conflict waged within the self as we swing between favouring one over t’other. At least I do!!!
🎉 Campaign success!
The Scottish Government announces an uplift in bursary support for postgraduate social work students in Scotland!
Well done to @scotssocialwork.bsky.social and @swu-uk.bsky.social for all their campaigning on this issue.
🔗 Read more: gov.scot/news/social-work-bursary-increase
A jackpot of £129 million and the “You’ve won” email arrives.
… 3 minutes of anticipation as you log in to see the prize, 3 mins of fantasising about all the charities you’d give it to (and ok houses and cars … to buy)
And then it happens: “You’ve won £2.80”
Closes Rightmove. Buys tissues
My second journal article is out in Culture, Health & Sexuality. It is the final paper of the MANFOKUS project. Our paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2025.2458719
This is a great paper, based on excellent research that deserves to be widely read by all in social work.
Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually.
Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party.
I ask again, what is he playing at?
Utterly appalling and so so disappointing Lisa. All hope has gone now 😭😭
Spot on Zoe.
Just when you think Starmer and this Labour Party/ government can’t lurch any further to the right, injustice and sheer stupidity, they go and unleash a ton more anti-migrant - ‘foreigner’ hate and inflict further damage on adult social care. It’s absolutely sickening.
Wish I could be there. To congratulate you in person and be back in the wonderful city where I did my SW degree and that I loved. Have a great celebration 🎉
If this is the case, we know this man is on an all fluoride diet.
And that is what Adrian should have said, really.
The Greens have good, popular policies on taxing the hyper-rich.
That is the 1% with actual power, the 1% making us all poorer & using trans people & migrants as wedges to divide us & stop us noticing them. #r4today
I’ve had 2 liver transplants- one in 2004 and the other in 2023. The generosity of my donors and their families has kept me alive. Please support #OrganDonation and let your wishes be known.
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#TrumpOut
I'd suggest reading this while wearing your inflatable T-rex costume and eating cookies. You can find The Roots of Buddhist Psychology on Hoopla through your local library. I promise, this lecture series is a profound hoot and a half! therevealer.org/meeting-chao... #psychology #philosophy #Buddhism
Never thought I’d be applauding Ronald Reagan’s wisdom!
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Well done Kim! And what a piece to present it!!!
Do psychiatrists as a rule do home visits? Or is it down to individual psychiatrists?
Is there a literature on it Matthew?
New research on what happens to older people, families and care staff when care homes close - policy and practice guide & training video via www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci...
Wel played, Ikea.
‘Staff assessed the moral worth of families through inspection and case-work, often relying on local gossip and judging families on their ability to keep up appearances. A dirty home meant a deviant family life.’
Mary Hannity on the Waifs and Strays Society: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...