Ellie Makri

Write to David Lammy: Gaza is starving to death

When struggling to find suitable words, or action, I'm grateful that others manage to.

Here's an action, & words, to send to David Lammy.

Sign, send & share:

palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/demandsancti...

Recruitment ad looking for parents/carers to participate in a study exploring aspects of menstruation in autistic girls with learning disabilities.

Please support this research if you can. 🙏

I'll edit:

"Nearly 20 councils at risk of insolvency due to a decade of austerity, rising citizen poverty levels, a developmentally inappropriate curriculum, an exclusionary and within child cultural understanding of SEND, and a decimated teaching workforce"

@theguardian.com

#edpsychs

"We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good" - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lawyer / Jurist www.neurodiversityweek.com

I’m ending Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025 with this brilliant quote 💫

Please repost if you agree ✅

#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #NeurodiversityWeek #NCW #ThisIsND #edpsychs

Hi! I am calling on Tavi-trained EPs for my doctoral thesis. I've attached information to the flyer. I look forward to hearing from you! Silvia 😊
#Edpsychs

I’m researching autistic girls’ experiences at the moment and finding that their particular experiences tend to be under-researched. There is research on autistic YP but not specifically for girls…

💡 Thought-provoking ideas on how to talk about neurodiversity without relying on medical/deficit language - a model for us from Sonny Jane Wise in the form of the Neurodiversity Smorgasbord 🤩

How do you speak of difference?

#EdPsychs #edusky

‘When pupils feel like they belong, they want to stay…’

@sophietales.bsky.social and Dr Leanne Cort with a teacher and ed psych perspective on challenging decisions in school.

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Repost for your chance to win a copy of Sophie's book, 'Creating adversity-aware schools'.

BBC Radio 4 - Life Changing, Excluded Marginalised his whole life, aged 24, Tier demands a reckoning with the education system.

This inspirational story of an educational journey, that started at a PRU but ended with a DPhil from Oxford, is food for thought around closing doors, systemic injustice and second chances:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#edpsychs

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence, Does Trauma Cause Violence? Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if trauma causes violence.

Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead delivers 4 lectures as part of Radio 4 ‘s Reith Lectures, where she reconstructs violence and evil as a human response to - among other things - childhood trauma. Relevant implications for EP practice #edpsychs
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Sadly, history shows that many humans (in this case, children) must suffer before we, as a society, learn our lessons… Let’s hope we can learn quicker this time.

Detentions do nothing good. They do plenty of harm, though.

In my opinion, it infringes personal freedom by attempting to modify behaviour, so that it conforms to someone else’s norm. So, no, it is not ethical.

It did the job: she is now a TEP!

My friend did it at Brunel University London, online course.

Is this report disseminated to the DfE? Not that things would then necessarily change, but it would be a start…

Calling all families impacted by parental imprisonment!

I am recruiting children and young people to discuss their experiences of parental imprisonment as part of my doctoral thesis.

Please see the attached poster for more information and feel free to share.
#edpsych #parentalimprisonment #Edusky

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence, Does Trauma Cause Violence? Forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead asks if trauma causes violence.

Psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead delivers 4 lectures as part of Radio 4 ‘s Reith Lectures. She reconstructs violence and evil as a human response to - amongst other things - childhood trauma. Extremely relevant implications for EP practice. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this:

Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

“Why did the Hungry Caterpillar make a cocoon?”

#EYFS child: “So no one bothers him.”

“Sorry?” I ask.

EYFS child: “He needs time to THINK himself INTO a butterfly.”

“Wow!” I respond.

EYFS child: “Well, he didn’t do it by magic.”

Thank you for the music Bristol NOYO Ensemble (noyo.org.uk/the-orchestra/). Your joy and wonderful energy were contagious!

A small example of the valuable and inspiring contributions young disabled people can make to our world.

Just finished Katriona O’Sullivan’s #POOR. It is excellent! Its main strength lies in its ability to convey so vividly the reality of growing up in poverty. If every professional working with children knew the problem in such detail, one would hope that outcomes for the children would improve.

I do find it interesting when 'evidence informed' meets evidence that doesn't fit with the narrative. There's loads of evidence that movement supports learning. Just because that doesn't match how some people think education should look doesn't make it untrue. 🤷‍♀️

In Greece we say that, when that happens, “you are drenched with good luck”!

It is so true… Thank you for sharing. I have a daughter with disabilities and yet I hadn’t thought of that aspect of life for people with disabilities (possibly because my daughter gets anxious around people she doesn’t know).

Disturbing contemplations… Perhaps humility, integrity and constant reflection can go some way in counteracting such a direction…?

Hello!
I’m a Y1 EP trainee at the University of Birmingham (2024-27). Prior to that, I worked as a LSA and a Pastoral Care Lead at primary schools. Interested in relational approaches to behaviour challenges, inclusion and autism (particularly masking).

There is a discount on Council Tax if you’re a full time student.

Great initiative @viola-jane.bsky.social and @edpsydan.bsky.social to move to a kinder, gentler space. Thank you.