Our researchers suggest centring the voices of those most affected. Their experiences show us the human cost of policies designed around suspicion and scarcity.

This article explores these issues in detail. @blangry.bsky.social ‪‪@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social @find-bronwyn.bsky.social

Personal Independence Payment Claim form

This research highlights how benefits applicants are required to emphasize their limitations to guarantee the best chance of securing benefits.

The system creates a 'chronic identity' undermining recovery, makes future employment less likely, not more.

Press release Biggest shake up to welfare system in a generation to get Britain working Largest welfare reforms for a generation to help sick and disabled people who can and have the potential to work into jobs - backed by a £1 billion investment, unveiled by the Work & Pensions Secretary today [Tuesday 18 March].

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall recently announced changes to disability benefits that include more stringent eligibility criteria - narrowing eligibility to only the “most severely” disabled.

This divides, stigmatises, and ignores the realities of fluctuating or invisible illness.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Our researchers Esca van Blarikom, Nina Fudge, and Deborah Swinglehurst found people living with long-term illness experience a ‘double bind’ for work:

due to their ill-health, they felt unable to participate in today’s working culture

but the conditions of unemployment were equally unliveable.

Living “Out of the Loop”: Unemployment in the Context ofLong-Term Illness ABSTRACT: This article is part of the special issue “Laboring from Ex- Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work” (title of SI; AWR July2025; 46(1)) edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch. This paper examines the experiences of work and unemploymentamong residents of an East London borough living with multiple long-term health conditions. Through ethnographic research,we explore the psychopolitics of unemployment in an urban setting, focusing on the cyclical relationship between (un)employment and (ill-)health. Our findings show the double bind participants often experience regarding work: while they desired employment and could only imagine a fulfilling life through work, they found it impossible to remain in most workplaces they had experienced, as these environments worsened their health conditions. This contradiction created a sense of existential stuckness among our study participants. Additionally, our analysis highlights the moral and bureaucratic challenges involved in managing unemployment. The benefit assessment process, combined with social isolation, often reinforced a chronic identity among long-term unemployed participants, leading to a diminished sense of their own capabilities. By theorizing the seduction of labor in contemporary societies as a distinct form of psychopolitics inherent to neoliberal governance, we aim to highlight the troubling pressure governments place on individuals to work, even under conditions of long-term illness.

In May, the UK govt announced the biggest overhaul to the welfare system in over a decade.

A million people could lose disability benefits under the proposed changes.

Why does it matter? anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Good intentions, risks and missed opportunities: What the NHS plan means for health and care inequalities - Health Equity Evidence Centre In the 10 Year Health Plan there are notable wins for health inequalities advocates, especially in funding and tackling smoking and obesity, but there are risks of inadvertently increasing inequalitie...

Dr John Ford, leader of Queen Mary's Health Equity Evidence Centre, gives a run-down of the hits and the misses for health inequalities in the UK's 10 year Health Plan.
www.heec.co.uk/resource/goo...

Yesterday, we held our annual WIPH showcase! ⭐

This event was a fantastic opportunity for our staff and students to come together to celebrate our achievements over the past year.

Thank you to all who attended and presented!

📢 Join CEG as an Academic GP Advanced Fellow! We've launched a new programme, in collab with NHS North East London ICB, that offers a hybrid role, split 50:50 between clinical practice and academia. @qmulfmd.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social @qmulprimarycare.bsky.social 1/2

NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) (@nihrspcr.bsky.social) NIHR School for Primary Care Research is a partnership between 9 leading academic centres for primary care research in England. A/C managed by Directorate Team

Exciting opportunity! The @nihrspcr.bsky.social Summer Internship Programme 2025 has launched.

A fantastic chance for UK undergraduate students to gain hands-on experience in primary care research.

Apply now: spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel...

#PrimaryCare #Internship

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The SPCR Summer Internship Programme is live! Great opportunities available for undergraduate students to get involved in primary care research: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-development/spcr-undergraduate-programme Application deadline: 1pm, 25th March 2025 #PrimaryCare #undergraduate #Internship

The SPCR Summer Internship Programme is live! Great opportunities available for undergraduate students to get involved in primary care research: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel...

Application deadline: 1pm, 25th March 2025

#PrimaryCare #undergraduate #Internship

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Undergraduate Student Internship Programme

Are you an undergraduate interested in primary care research? 👀 We're excited to share that the Undergraduate Student Internship Programme is now open and we are hosting 2 positions! Closing date 1pm on 25/03. Find out more: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/career-devel...

YouTube video by NIHR School for Primary Care Research SPCR Masterclass | What Public Reviewers Look For (Part 1) - Plain English Summaries

In October, the @nihrspcr.bsky.social hosted a masterclass on Plain English Summaries. One of our wonderful core public partners, John McGavin shared an excellent presentation on plain English Summaries. (Fun fact, it is the most watched masterclass!) Take a look 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-8...

We’re proud to join the UK Health Data Research Alliance, strengthening our commitment to responsible, transparent, and ethical health data research. This collaboration helps drive innovation, improve accessibility, and ensure trust in health data use. #GenesAndHealth
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At the first year celebration of the Health Equity Evidence Centre. Using machine learning and data insights to generate evidence that can influence policy. heec.co.uk #healthequity @becksfisher.bsky.social

So delighted to be joining QMUL and Barts at the inaugural Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Predictive Medicine. One of the most technically advanced and largest NHS Trusts in the country in the culturally richest and most diverse parts of the UK

Rob Tucker

Many congratulations to our final year medical student, @rob--tucker.bsky.social, who has won a Top 100 Influential People award for his work chairing the Medical Students’ Committee of the British Medical Association. Well done, Rob! We can't wait to see where your career will take you next!

Sharing our big news with the community! Our latest research published in Nature Medicine reveals the genetic drivers behind early-onset type 2 diabetes in British South Asians.
Read more here: rdcu.be/d1vj0

We've created our first Starter Pack, collecting accounts from all our schools, faculties, institutes, research centres and departments.

We'll keep adding to this list as our university Bluesky community grows.

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Delighted to see this published in @cellpress.bsky.social review journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism (IF 11.4) 🙂

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@genesandhealth.bsky.social

Ok, folks, bear with us - this is the first video we're posting to BlueSky so the format may not be quite right... but it's Professor Sarah Finer and Dr Moneeza Siddiqui discussing their findings, so it's worth it!

Genetic basis of early onset and progression of type 2 diabetes in South Asians Nature Medicine - In a cohort of 50,556 South Asian individuals, partitioned polygenic scores helped identify genetic susceptibility to insulin deficiency and unfavorable fat distribution as key...

It’s a big day for @genesandhealth.bsky.social @samcbhodgson.bsky.social @moneeza-ks.bsky.social Genes & Health, with @ Sam Hodgson, Moneeza Kalhan Siddiqui and I, as we publish our paper rdcu.be/d1vj0 on the genetic basis of #type2diabetes & #gestationaldiabetes (#T2D and #GDM) in south Asians. A🧵

I'm really proud to share that my paper has been published online in the British Journal of Cancer!

Comparing cancer stage at diagnosis between migrants and non-migrants: a meta-analysis

www.nature.com/articles/s41...