🧵 Today, we broke the news that the government paid more than £23k in legal fees relating to the Michelle Donelan libel case—in addition to a £15k settlement. It's now being widely reported.

Article (free): researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

Here's how we have followed the story...

Have you already registered for Care Opinion's upcoming Spring Online Conference 2024? If not, you can save you space, here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/88a8ca6b…
Check out our thread below for a sneak peek into the insightful sessions lined up! #COconf24

Graph showing consultants vs GPs 1950-2020. Prediction will be even more consultants per head of population vs GPs by 2040. This has to be reversed if we are to deal with needs of future population

📢 Job opportunity closes Sunday 14 April - Health Improvement Officer Glasgow City Region for Enhancing Policy Modelling theme Population Health Improvement UK. As an Embedded Researcher help to find policies that reduce health inequality. #publichealth Ref:GLA11691 Details: myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/glasg…

We are excited that Urban Studies colleagues Alison Heppenstall Ellen Stewart will play a part in this new UK Research and Innovation network to improve population-wide health.

The INSPIRE team is starting to recruit! Check out this post working with the amazing Marta Wojciechowska And you can learn more about the project here cop-demos.jrc.ec.europa.eu/blog/inspire-n…

Bleak reading from today’s British Social Attitudes results, analysed by my brilliant colleagues at Nuffield Trust and The King's Fund. bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

So what does it mean for whoever forms the next govt? 🧵

Funded SGSSS studentship on care and complaint in healthcare, collaborative with Care Opinion Scot, supervised at Edinburgh by two of my favourite scholars/people. Do pass on to great students.

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Miraculous actual paper copies in production right now. Rubles: A Curious History of the Gut is out May 9th with Wellcome Collection Profile Books. Official launch at the Wellcome Collection, will bother you with details of that soon.

University of Oxford Full paper by Anders Bach-Mortensen Michelle Degli Esposti and myself, available #openaccess at thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

Only the British could create a university system entirely dependent on foreign students, and then tell them all to clear off. Only the British.

I’m askin’… colleagues to join us at the Social Policy Assoc Conference in July for some fun, Scottish hospitality & the chance to share ideas with leading social policy scholars! Register here: social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/con…

As Downing Street condemns the 'racist and wrong' comments by Tory donor Frank Hester (but shows no sign of returning £10m in gifts from Hester and his company), the new Eye reveals the whopping profits and dividends he's made from government NHS IT contracts.

Permanent lectureship in Norwich Medical School, to teach medics and on new MA in Medical and Health Humanities 🤓
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/692/…

More brilliant work from my amazing colleague Prof Prof. Heejung Chung on workers’ experiences of hybrid… DYKT you can catch Heejung keynoting at Social Policy Assoc Conference at University of Strathclyde in July? Register to join us:
social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/con…

“How sad it is to manage decline” - powerful piece by Anoosh Chakelian charting the local real life consequences of council underfunding and how we seem to have ended up where we are…

newstatesman.com/politics/socie…