Ian Robson

Session w/ students on the MA in Childhood &Early Years Studies on feminisms & childhoods. 👉🏽theory-action as troubling, materiality & embodiment, & the challenge to thinking about positionality, policy & practice as never neutral. www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-nor... @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Debate and action needed. Will be reading.

Joining colleagues from the NIHR Innovation Observatory and Edinburgh University at today’s Horizon Scanning and Innovations for Health in Coastal Communities held at Edinburgh Futures Institute. We’re looking at research innovation capacity and capabilities, a subject I am passionate about! 👁️👂🏼🌊

Public Involvement and Community Engagement in Applied Health and Social Care Research The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Chapters provide insight into critical concerns and innovative practices on the process of developing and delivering Public Involvement and Community Engagement in a range of research settings.

Pleased to have a chapter on The Theory and Practice of creative Public Involvement and Community Engagement (PICE) in PICE in Applied Health and Social Care Research. Great Open Access resource, Edited by William McGovern, Alderson, Bareham & Lhussier. bookstore.emerald.com/public-invol...

Great to meet up with @drhelenkara.bsky.social on her visit to Newcastle to talk about writing, sci-fi, conferences, pizza and all the things. Lovely to see you, Helen.

If we took out far right billionaires out of social engineering hatred, imagine how much would change?? Must funding legal fees for racists, billionaires funding (non) Christian nationalism gatherings in Soho. Get in the sea.

Ok, officially reached “too much” on the jobs, planning, communication. #overstimulated

State of Play: A history of Playful Learning in 10 Video Games State of Play: A history of Playful Learning in 10 Video Games

Going to my mate @nicwhitton.bsky.social public lecture this week and SO excited. Come along if in Newcastle Upon Tyne! 👉 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Got a #teaching session coming up that gives me a chance to do something new with @northumbriauni.bsky.social Professional Doctorate students (www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-nor...). #Art installation and textual propositions to encounter Deleuze’s #concepts. These cards are some examples.

A person’s hands arranging piles of post-it notes.

I often find “going away” to workshops and conferences hard work socially, but the recent #ESRC funded RE:PLAY workshop for learning designers was great. Investigating #playfullearning in Higher Education. In this case, developing a design process and resources for educators.

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument "We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

Congratulations North East Bylines on your 5,000th article! 👏😮

“In Newcastle there was a complete reversal with over 3500 anti-right-wing demonstrators to the UKIP-Advance UK gathering of between 150 and 200.”

And make sure you’re supporting the Bylines Network…

A Logo for the RE:PLAY project with images of a toy giraffe and two tumbling dice.

Setting off later in the UK’s first Playful Learning in Higher Education study. @nicwhitton.bsky.social leading wonderfully as Principal. We will be co-designing the Playful Learning design process and resources for designers with colleagues from across the country. Woop! 🙌

A monitor showing a presentation slide titled “Innovative and Inclusive Methods in Sociology of Health and Medicine (Funded by the British Sociological Society)”.

What a great time participating/ speaking at this today. Organised by Petra Makela and colleagues.

Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds

Sutton Trust article on social class and “top jobs”. As the Guardian article says, class often left out of EDI conversations. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Basic income is bold but necessary”

Dr @ianrobsons.bsky.social, a community development worker with 30+ years in working-class communities shares how #BasicIncome could transform people's lives in Blyth, Northumberland.

📖 Basic Income OUT NOW: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/basic-...

An edited image of a Roman marble statue with the phrase “Become Imperceptible” fragmented across it. The reference is to a concept in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari in their text, A Thousand Plateaus.

#deleuzeandguattari #becomeimperceptible

In response to today's #SpendingReview, our CEO
@keithareed.bsky.social has welcomed commitment to expanding the Family Hubs programme, but is disappointed by the lack of clarity around funding for #StartForLife services, particularly during #IMHAW2025
Full statement 👉http://bit.ly/4kCwYDN

🔥 Over a quarter of a million people have now signed this petition.

Sign and share everywhere.

You remain the best virtual friend I wish I COULD meet 😂

Urgh. No posts for forever as I just lost the will. Real connection, real creation, materials, walking. Anyway, no hate for Bl*esky, just need less noise. Love to you all in the meantime.

We're delighted to announce we've been awarded more than £1 million from The National Lottery Community Fund to create a new National Parent-Infant Relationship (PAIR) Framework!
Working with delivery partners Ideas Alliance & Anna Freud, we can't wait to get started!
Details👉 bit.ly/4jF3G75

NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research #ARCseminar (background picture: silhouette of an adult and a child singing and dancing)

The 2025 national #ARCseminar series on:
The healing power of creative arts

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7 May: Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts

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11 June: Exploring lived experience with creative arts

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9 July: Creative arts for #dementia

eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs...

I coached two wonderful colleagues today on how to make show & use the full range of their research activity. Most of us downplay the full extent of our ‘invisible’ work. Make the invisible, visible & lift one another up! #highereducation #qualitative #research @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Reached peak teaching experience today covering questions of ontology and epistemology with Donkey Kong. He has so much to teach us. #teachingandlearning #highereducation @northumbriauni.bsky.social

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

A person emerging from a puddle in what looks like a zero gravity environment. Liquid floats around them.

Off to teach and learn with professional doctorate students this weekend. My module is about your workplace as a site of research. I work especially hard to help them make their work environment strange. Love it. @northumbriauni.bsky.social

A book titled “Basic Income: the policy that changes everything”.

Had a small part in the project but get hold of this new book built on excellent scholarship. We HAVE to look to alternatives to giving up to poverty and tweaking unjust systems. 👉🏾 policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/basic-income #basicincome #poverty #publicpolicy

What Does Good Look Like? Quality in Pedagogic Action Research I recently led a class on action research quality which motivated me to write up a summary answering the question: What does good quality action research look like?  This is not a straightforw…

For anyone working on action research as SoTL - ‘What Does Good Look Like? Quality in Pedagogic Action Research’ lydiaarnold.net/2025/04/14/w...

Great to make this work visible. So much work still to do across disciplines to expand our appreciation of what counts as inquiry and knowledge.

Some playful bird related art from my studio last night. Create something today. #painting #creativity #joy