John Devaney

True cost of becoming a mum highlighted in new data on pay New figures reveal mums in England see their earnings drop after having a first, second and third child.

BBC News - True cost of becoming a mum highlighted in new data on pay - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Very pleased to have joined @sallyannkelly1.bsky.social at celebrations to mark 150years of @aberlourcharity.bsky.social supporting children, young people and families in Scotland.

ECDV Early Career Researchers (and practitioners!) Meet-Up! The Gender Violence Research and Collaboration Network (gvrcn.org) is hosting an early career researcher/practitioners informal lunch meet up on the 5th of September at 12:30pm. If you are interested ...

🌟 Join Us for an Informal GVRCN Meet-Up at ECDV 2025! 🌟

We are excited to host an informal lunch meet-up during the European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV)!

📅 When: 5th September 2025
🕧 Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

🔗 Registration is required. More details shared soon.
@jdev65.bsky.social

The Irish diaspora need their snacks, at any price!

‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’ Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid, was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association Mohamed Salah has criticised Uefa for failing to state how a footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” died in a tribute it posted. Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said. Continue reading...

‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Apology for S Korean woman convicted of biting man's tongue as he attacked her Choi Mal-ja, now 78, has campaigned for years to overturn her sentence, after she was attacked when she was 18.

Apology for S Korean woman convicted of biting man's tongue as he attacked her
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

Keynote on involving children in research on trauma by the fantastic Prof Helen Beckett at the JUSWA conference.

Hotel view, Preston

Yesterday's view

Dr Isang Awah opening this year's staff and student conference with a keynote on cross-sector partnerships to advance child protection @uoe-sps.bsky.social @dspi-oxford.bsky.social #SWConfEd25

Vivien McCree on the use of oral history and auto/biography in social work research to investigate childcare history
#SWConfEd25

Today's view - Tallinn, Estonia

JRF policy assistant roles. Of interest to social policy graduates perhaps? jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c...

A brilliant discussion at @uoe-sps.bsky.social on the role and use of AI in the social sciences.

@profharryferguson.bsky.social It will never be resolved 😅

Join us for this webcast hosted by the The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research in follow-up to 2023 webinar on state-of-the-art methodology in meta-analysis of single-case experimental designs (SCEDs). July 17 2-3:30pm ET

ktdrr.org/training/web...

Aaaaand I think we're done here #TACO

Today's view- Kyoto, Japan

decorative image with text reading: Professor Lotte Hoek: For an anthropology of the screen. 4.15 - 6.30pm, Friday 9 May 2025. Adam House Basement Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers St, Edinburgh, EH1 1HR, https://edin.ac/3FQIL1O

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Lotte Hoek

Join us to celebrate Lotte Hoek's professorship at her inaugural lecture, titled 'For an anthropology of the screen'.

Friday 9 May
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Basement Lecture Theatre, Adam House
Followed by a reception

Book tickets here: edin.ac/3FQIL1O

View for today, New College, Edinburgh

Today's view in London

At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up How Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and other health-related benefits could change under government plans.

Proposed changes to disability benefits in UK are less about reform and more about rationing. A very limited and myopic approach to a complex issue - reform is needed, but this isn't it. BBC News - At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today's view

Intimate Partner Violence in Young People’s Relationships – Care and Justice for Whom? - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science This study will explore the role of education, and the place of schools in both seeking to prevent and address IPV amongst young people. It will consider how the issue of IPV among young people is und...

Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...

Intimate Partner Violence in Young People’s Relationships – Care and Justice for Whom? - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science This study will explore the role of education, and the place of schools in both seeking to prevent and address IPV amongst young people. It will consider how the issue of IPV among young people is und...

Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https://...

Definitely- great vibe Susan

Michael Kiwanuka in Edinburgh tonight 13 years to the day of the release of his first album