Dr. Kate Mattocks

Agenda-setting success and the 2024 UK Birth Trauma Inquiry This article explores agenda-setting dynamics in the field of perinatal health care in England. Specifically, it analyses the 2024 Birth Trauma Inquiry, which launched after a high-profile campaign...

Anyone interested in #birthtrauma #feministpublicpolicy or #agendasetting - please check out my new article on agenda-setting success in the 2024 UK Birth Trauma Inquiry, in @policy-studies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There’s currently a 61°C temperature differential between the warmest and coldest places in Canada

Unpacking the multidimensional relationship between crisis and policy change: a systematic review Abstract. This article presents a systematic review of how the relationship between crisis and policy change is conceptualized, operationalized, and analyz

Just OUT in @policysociety.bsky.social: @gcapano.bsky.social, Stefania Profeti and my article presenting a systematic literature review of the relationship between crisis and policy change.

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Moose of the Far North
Eddy Cobiness ~ Ojibwe
1976

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Vaccination and Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated With COVID-19 in Pregnancy This study uses a population-level surveillance program to investigate maternal and perinatal outcomes associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy by vaccination status prior to and during pregn...

Covid vaccines = improved pregnancy outcomes.👇

"COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a lower risk of severe disease and preterm birth regardless of variant time period."

Study: Vaccination & Pregnancy jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#VaccinesWork

N.S. still below targets set in federal agreement for $10-a-day daycare: report The Nova Scotia government says the province needs more money from the federal government to reach their 2021 target of creating 9,500 new affordable childcare spaces.

The report from @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social says many parents across [ #NovaScotia] are paying much more for childcare services than a provincial goal set in 2021 of $10 per day... [and #NS has not] achieved its goal of creating 9,500 new childcare spaces. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

The only way to reduce traffic is to *reduce traffic*. We need to give people a way to get around the province without a car.

Nova Scotia needs to rebuild our train network. That's the real solution. It's actually obscene that we had better public transportation two centuries ago than we do today.

What?

'Something is terribly wrong': Baby formula among most stolen food items as costs spiral, researcher says | CBC News The price of baby formula in Canada has risen roughly 84 per cent since 2017, according to Statistics Canada, driving some parents to turn to strangers on social media for help. One researcher says fo...

The price of formula is a national public health scandal IMO! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This was one of the glaring omissions for me in this budget & discussions of priorities. Investment in mental health has so many positive ripple effects & can lower other costs

Nova Scotia Liberals urge government to prevent HRM infant feeding clinic closure - Halifax Examiner “The government should be strengthening this kind of community support, not taking it away,” Iain Rankin said.

Nova Scotia Liberals urge government to prevent HRM infant feeding clinic closure
By @mmughees.bsky.social

Liberals urge gov to keep H.R.M. infant feeding clinic open - Acadia Broadcasting Nova Scotia Liberals are urging the Houston government to save an infant feeding clinic in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The Halifax Primary Care Clinic announced that its publicly funded program...

This is outrageous. Breasfeeding is HARD and ppl need to be supported to establish & and keep going. Support is vital. Atlantic Canada already has the lowest rates of bf in the country. This will worsen it acadiabroadcasting.ca/liberals-urg...

The messaging around this, at least in the UK where I lived at the time, was unbelievably inconsistent & confusing. I hoped & trusted I was doing the right thing when I got my 2nd dose at around 4 months pregnant in early 2022.

As long as Canada is nation-building we should consider universal basic mouthguard care.

Policy Experimentation & Innovation Research Network launch sign-up Join us at the launch of the Policy Experimentation and Innovation Research Network, a thematic research network of the International Public Policy Association

Keynotes will be delivered by @howlettm.bsky.social (Oct 23) and Dr. Piret Tõnurist, Innovation Lead, OECD (Oct 24).

Participation is by sign-up only. If this theme aligns with your interests, please register for the session at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We are hosting two online sharing sessions on October 23 & 24, 2025, with a shared agenda designed for different time zones. Each session will introduce the Network and its planned activities, a distinct keynote speaker and insights from some of our core members.

Are you interested in #policyexperiments or #policyinnovation? @sreejanair01.bsky.social & I are excited to announce the launch of the Policy Experimentation and Innovation Research Network- a new Thematic Research Network under the International Public Policy Association.

Ha, would love to beam myself up to my alma mater for this panel!

New political science analysis of the renewed push for preventive health: ‘Can it be any different this time around?’ The idea that ‘prevention is better than cure’ is often treated as self-evident in health policymaking: who would not want to shift resources from mit…

Interesting (esp as I get more and more into public health research) & valuable piece by @paulcairney.bsky.social & colleagues on poli sci approaches to preventative healthcare. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Has anyone read Research Nova Scotia's new strategic plan? It is..... interesting, to say the least.

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Eternity
Tracey Metallic ~ Mi'kmaq
n.d.

20-23 January 2026, COPPR, University of Bern

The Conference on Policy Process Research 2026 is in Bern, Switzerland, January 20-23. You can submit your paper or presentation ideas here - policyprocessresearch.org - and can attend in person or online.

No words....

NHS facing ‘absolutely shocking’ £27bn bill for maternity failings in England Exclusive: Legal actions rise after death or injury of hundreds of babies and women in recent years

If arguments about care, ethics, morals, decency, humanity, dignity, etc do not make a difference, maybe ones about money will? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...