Duncan U Fisher

Today is the LAST DAY to complete the government's consultation on 'earned' settlement.

If you think these plans are wrong - make your voice count now.

www.workrightscentre.org/our-campaign...

This stands the test of time, top drawer stuff

Futures of Work A space for radical critiques of the changing world of work

🔶New issue of Futures of Work.

This issue explores how borders shape workers’ lives, treating them not as neutral lines but as contested and ideological forces. The articles show how bordering practices structure labour mobility and inequality.

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Pleased to announce publication of a new article with Liam Foster on paid care workers in England's attitudes towards organising bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

The article is based on analysis of 45 interviews with paid care workers and key actors representing their interests, including unions and campaign groups. It brings together scholarship on paid care workers' wider work orientations and the burgeoning literature on organising among paid care workers

Pleased to announce publication of a new article with Liam Foster on paid care workers in England's attitudes towards organising bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Happening @yorkuniversity.bsky.social next Friday! Come listen to powerhouse speakers talk abt migrant justice and care work!

StAnza 2026 - Stanza StAnza Poetry Festival returns to St Andrews from 8-10 March 2024 with Warp and Weft: a tapestry of poetry.

StAnza 2026
13–15 March, St Andrews & online

Tickets are on sale for StAnza 2026, Scotland’s award-winning poetry festival dedicated to bringing poetry in all its forms & many languages to audiences around the world
#poetry
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We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility. Deadline: 6 Feb 2026

We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you...
Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline?
A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility?
Experienced in data management and analysis?
If so, apply:
https://ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz

Great stuff. I do enjoy walking in Glasgow - walked the subway route not long back which was cool

Looks great Les, congratulations

BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...

Logos of the Robertson Trust, The Poverty Alliance, and Living Wage Scotland. Social Care Workers Survey. Pathways to Progress Website. The project team are looking for insight from those working in the care sector. Visit the website to share your experience. www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved

We want to help build fair work in social care, with better pay, more job security, and improved working conditions. Our new #PathwaysToProgress project has launched a survey for #socialcare workers in #Scotland. Please fill it in and share!

www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved

Bedside Books for December - The Sociological Review Collage of book covers for the titles I Who Have Never Known Men, At the Pond, Demon Copperhead, A Woman's Job, Becoming Young Men in a New India, All Fours and Climbing the Ladder

Our new Bedside Books column offers brief insights into titles our readers can’t put down, from books on men’s inner lives and women’s aspirations in today’s Delhi to volumes on the opioid crisis, perimenopause and swimming in Hampstead Ladies’ Pond.

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Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social

we're back, it is now 2026, our January issue is out now 🤖

FREE copies doing the rounds as we speak, sign up to our newsletter for an early look at what's in this month's mag

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Community and Care in Independent Union Organising of Paid Care Workers - Duncan Uist Fisher, Liam Foster, 2025 Paid care work persists as a site of low pay, insecurity, and exploitation globally, with ‘decent work’ elusive. In England, the adult social care (ASC) workfor...

We focus on community and care in a small-scale campaign by @uvwunion.bsky.social to improve pay and conditions at a London nursing home journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social

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Sorry to hear that, Rob

I greatly enjoyed presenting my work at the PSA Parliaments conference at the University of York last week.

It was nice to make new contacts and learn about the latest research in the field.

Thanks to @psa-parliaments.bsky.social for the organisation and the photo! ⬇️

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.

Please share widely.

Congratulations - hope you'll be with us for many more years

Thanks for sharing all of this, Tim, so generous and beautifully put

Sign the Petition An Open Letter to Waterstones Regarding a Sixth Edinburgh Branch in Leith

@argonautbooks.bsky.social has put together a letter to Waterstones, which you can read and sign here:

c.org/BW7b88mRSw

My Finnish friends send me an advent card/calendar every year - this year's is gorgeous as ever! Lucky and grateful

Ending extraction in the UK care system How our care system facilitates the extraction of value and wealth from places and local public service budgets

The profit motive should have no place in any provision of care, healthcare or social care.

When it does, it is often the most vulnerable who pay the price for #privatisation.

Important work from @neweconomics.bsky.social

neweconomics.org/2025/11/endi...

Strengthening collective voice: engaging paid care workers in organising Ahead of Unions21’s conference on Strengthening Collective Voice, Dr Duncan U Fisher and Professor Liam Foster from the University of Sheffield...

Centre for Care's @duncfsh.bsky.social and Liam Foster explore practical strategies for supporting the Adult Social Care (ASC) workforce in this blog post for Unions 21: unions21.org/ideas/all-id...