Dr Gemma Hughes

A quick overview of our industrial action:
What we are doing, why we are doing it, and how you can support us.

Journal of Health Services Research & Policy - Volume 30, Number 4 Table of contents for Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 30, 4

But there is also health services research and policy journals.sagepub.com/toc/HSR/curr...

Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning

Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...

I had a swim and felt 9 million times better for it

“I will tell you, my daughter, of your worth”

‘Reach for the book: it is a weapon’ Leicester UCU banner

Birds-eye image of police officers with the statement "the metropolitan police is irredeemable" over the top

We are outraged by the findings of this evening’s BBC Panorama investigation into the Metropolitan Police.

There can be no other logical conclusion than that the Met Police is irredeemable.

A statement from us 👇
www.runnymedetrust.org/news/the-met...

Are you ready to join us on the pickets?
Check out our activities for week 1, starting tomorrow:

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.

In London, hate will never win.

Ooh - my new paper on case study is out! What’s a case study, how do you do one, how do you spot a good one? Includes niche examples like the REF impact case study (though it’s mainly about research case studies).

This is a really helpful post as I try to think through how to engage public/patients in critical discussions about AI

Participation at the core: AI, ELSI and community engagement Alondra Nelson, a sociologist, STS scholar and expert on AI policy and ethics, recently published a letter in Science proposing that artificial intelligence (AI) should adopt the Ethical, Legal, an…

In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...

David Walsh and I will be presenting the findings of our book, 'Social Murder? Austerity and life expectancy in the UK', at the Scottish Parliament at 6pm on Tuesday 16th September. If you'd like to come, message me and we can add you to the invitation list!

What Ifá, an Indigenous binary knowledge system can teach us about AI - Impact of Social Sciences Uyiosa Omoregie argues, Indigenous knowledge systems, such as Ifá, provide an alternative lens through which to understand AI & its impact on society.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I’m constantly referring to this book as a (witty and well-written) explainer to anyone I have a conversation with about AI

Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline. The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.

Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐

Carved wooden sculpture of the front of a person swimming in mid stroke with arm raised in rippled water

'The Swimmer', wooden sculpture by contemporary New York based sculptor Stefanie Rocknak #womensart #Monday

Fom the 'Water Women' series by Sonia Alins, contemporary Spanish artist and illustrator #WomensArt

Turquoise sea and blue sky over St Ives

Out of office

Congratulations ❤️

My eyes are rolling so hard they hurt ffs football but it’s women so we have to talk about their hair

Announcement on the Weaver Line: Good luck to the Lionesses in the Euros final - Bring it home! At 10.59:56

Handknitted baby cardigan in natural wool with a rainbow stripped yoke

Here’s one I made earlier

Please give them both a massive congratulatory squeeze from me 🎉❤️🎓

An engine for economic growth? Why it won’t be a piece of cake for the NHS With the newly published Life Sciences Sector Plan coming soon after the 10 Year Health Plan for England, Sally Gainsbury reflects on the government’s gamble on the NHS as a driver of economic growth ...

Growth or bust. The one where the purpose of the NHS is to rescue capitalism: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/an...

Sounds interesting Neil - I’d be interested in hearing more if you’d like to chat about it?

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It’s easy to see Trump’s health policies as a problem mostly for Americans, but there are some big direct and indirect effects Europe is going to need to face 1/4

"Educational polarization, opposition to vaccines, strong radical right parties, elite political dysfunction, aggressive misinformation, and xenophobia might have produced a particularly combustible situation in the United States, but they are all international."

Yes and also the way you ‘finish’ cooking once it’s all gone in the oven so you can relax* for a while before you eat
* or do something else that needs doing but ideally relax