Great news. Rural GP Fellowships launched, please share.
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The General Election is called for the first week of the Scottish School holidays. Also likely to be when university students are away from term-time addresses.

Register for your postal vote here. 👇

I have.

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📢📢📢 Another fabulous opportunity here at the University of Glasgow UofG Social Sciences. We are looking for a Tutor in Quantitative Methods. *Please repost*

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHT861/tut…

New article with summary 🧵 from Katherine Smith 🧡. We were preparing to submit to JCPH the day JCPH editors announced
the new journal. Slight panic at the time! But we’ve had an excellent experience of peer review and responsive, humane editing. 10/10 recommend.

🎉🎉It's finally pub day for my book, Crowded Out! 🎉🎉
I wrote this book to help people understand what crowdfunding for healthcare is really like, but also to help us all imagine better ways to care for each other and build just health futures. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744353/c…

Attend our FREE zine-making workshop, to discuss and imagine the future of women’s healthcare in Scotland and beyond: edin.ac/3ystAs5

🗓️Saturday 8 June
🕑2 - 4pm
📍The Wee Museum, Ocean Terminal.

No creative experience required, all welcome.

New JCPH lit review w. Ellen Stewart asks what qualitative accounts tell us about public understandings of health inequalities, social determinants of health (SDH) & excess mortality in Scotland: doi.org/10.55016/ojs/j… (Funded by The Health Foundation) Key findings summarised in🧵1/5

Infinity pool in Fife, Scotland
And anyone can swim there for free (no sewage)

Join us to share, hear and learn about doing participatory research and the university environments needed to do it well! Half-day workshop on 27 June, open to researchers and professional services. Travel funding available. Find out more and register: tinyurl.com/45t5sksw

Looking forward to our health and care research summer school, 24-26 June Academy for Health Equity, Prevention & Wellbeing Bangor University in beautiful North Wales. Warm and welcoming, would suit PhD, early career researchers or anyone taking their first steps in research bangor.ac.uk/events/health-…

Calling social policy peeps! Remember to register for the Social Policy Assoc Conference in Glasgow, this July. Join us at University of Strathclyde for three days of cutting-edge research and networking!

Our Social Policy Assoc funded StrathHealthPolicy Witness Seminars on 25 Years of Devolved Health Policy in Scotland are happening today. It's been been over 6months since Ellen Stewart proposed idea & I'm really intrigued to see how discussions & method play out, if a tad nervous... 1/3

We've heard a lot about private healthcare growing inside and outside the #NHS . In a new briefing Sally Gainsbury, Stuti Bagri and I look at what is really happening - and why it does raise some difficult questions for a country still in love with the NHS nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/how-…

Exciting new f/t permanent post University of Glasgow in Medical Humanities (Narrative Medicine), open to any A&H Disciplines. Deadline 7 June.

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHQ050/lec…

How do we place a greater focus on equity in improvement research? Our new #THISFellows cohort bring new perspectives & expertise to projects addressing different aspects of equity, diversity & inclusivity in healthcare improvement research. Read the story hubs.ly/Q02xncP_0

That's the plan.

Check out this exciting role based in the Glasgow City Region Intelligence Hub working on our new Enhancing Policy Modelling project. Please share Improving Health Glasgow Centre for Population Health Katherine Smith 🧡 UofG School of Health & Wellbeing SIPHER Consortium WEAllScotland Ellen Stewart Graeme Roy Nicola McEwen @ScotPHN Public Health Scotland

🚨New video promoting social policy🚨

The Social Policy Association (SPA) has produced a new animation to raise awareness of social policy among a wide range of audiences.

View below and please do share and use to help spread the word! ⬇️

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🚨SPA Opportunity Grants Spring 2024 are OPEN🚨

💷> £1K to > £5K available to support social policy activities.

🗓️Deadline Fri 31 May 2024.

🗣️Showcase research, build networks, hold events, engage stakeholders, promote teaching, and more.

Info ⬇️social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/gra…

👋 from the only person in Scotland who didn’t see the Northern Lights last night.