Duncan U Fisher

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...

Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works | the Centre for Care This briefing proposes recommendations for successfully engaging care workers in organising.

This follows on from their recent research briefing, 'Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works', where they investigated what paid ASC workers & those representing their interests do to drive positive change: centreforcare.ac.uk/publications...

📣Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop.

This one-day workshop in Glasgow explores how welfare institutions, labour markets, and systems of care can be re-imagined to ensure equity and wellbeing within ecological limits.

📅Deadline: 12 December 2025

▶️ social-policy.org.uk/events/call-...

43% of adult social care workers in England earn below the real #LivingWage.

This week, we, alongside @livingwageuk.bsky.social, published an open letter, urging the Gov't to pay all social workers at least the real #LivingWage.

Read the coverage 👇
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Amazing in I Swear, yet another wonderful performance

Early Career Workshop on Comparative Social and Public #Policy in back! Join us in Barcelona in april. Open to PhD students and early postdocs. Please submit your abstract by
completing this questionnaire #REPS docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Whether you’re up for the school run, taking Mum to a doctors appointment or helping a neighbour with their shopping, we all want to care and be cared for.

But in the economy we have millions who care are struggling to survive, left to worry about how to care for someone and look after themselves..

Enjoyable day in Manchester capped by seeing Welch and Rawlings at the Apollo - magical show

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

False starts • Resolution Foundation Nearly one million young people are now NEET (not in education, employment or training). Tackling this crisis requires stronger enforcement of participation requirements for 16-17-year-olds and an exp...

And please major new RF research that set the context for today's discussion.

False starts: What the UK’s growing NEETs problem really looks like, and how to fix it. By @louisemurphy.bsky.social & Julia Diniz.

www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Scotland's capital in the mist this morning

This, it's different gravy

New #book by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al.

Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...

Chapter and verse: our Books Editor @emmacraddock.bsky.social‬ is seeking contributions to our regular Bedside Books column.

If you've recently read a good book, why not share a brief comment on what makes it noteworthy?

Send your 100-word review via our quick online form: buff.ly/Fr28pvl

"This thoroughly researched book is essential reading for all those concerned with understanding who needs care and - most importantly - who provides this care." Marian Baird, The University of Sydney

Publishing #OpenAcess: buff.ly/CHg8WN4

🚨We're hiring a Policy Manager

Do you have substantial public affairs experience, a deep understanding of how immigration and employment laws can perpetuate exploitation, and a genuine passion for social justice?

Yes? ➡️ Apply now!
No? ➡️Send to a friend 😉

www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

The implications of population ageing for social policy The UK population is ageing, with some ageing better than others. This has implications for health and social care, housing, pensions and education policies.

Centre for Care Director, Kate Hamblin, has contributed to a new House of Commons Library briefing entitled 'The implications of population ageing for social policy'.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

@houseofcommons.parliament.uk @commonshealth.bsky.social @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social

If I'm already on the list am I automatically entered?

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

'Introducing sector bargaining has the potential to be transformative. But without robust enforcement and sufficient funding, the first Fair Pay Agreement risks being remembered less as a turning point and more as another missed opportunity.' Lucinda Allen, Policy Fellow at the Health Foundation

As the government puts a figure on how much it will provide for the first Fair Pay Agreement (FPA) for social care in England, Lucinda Allen looks at what we know about how FPAs will work and whether investment matches scale of Labour’s ambitions of fair pay in the sector ⬇️

https://bit.ly/4mFa5jb

Beta Band at the Barras the night wiz really gid

Sounds a lot, Jack. Where are you living now, mate?