I’m sorry to announce that our event today will not be moving forward, as our chair, a SOAS student, was raided and arrested at 7 am for giving a speech at the SOAS Palestine protest. I strongly ask everyone to show solidarity & help spread the word.

Our publication is out! Sincere thanks and gratitude to Dr Leeza Osipenko, who allowed me to be a part of this project during the pandemic.

Food insecurity is a serious problem in London. Help us understand it better by participating in our study and help us unpack how food insecurity can be tackled and reduced.

Time to celebrate! “DID estimators of intertemporal effects” accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat), and very very fast did_multiplegt_dyn Stata & R commands available from SSC & CRAN, thanks to Mélitine Malézieux Felix K. Diego Ciccia & Doulo! Celebratory thread! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🧮NEW ANALYSIS FROM NEF🧮 The poorest households will receive just 3% of the chancellor's #SpringBudget2024 giveaways. The cut to national insurance and changes to child benefit mean the richest 20% of households will get 13 times more than the poorest.

"In Gaza, we are no longer on the brink of famine. We are in a state of famine. It is not a flood. It is not an earthquake. It is entirely man made. By whom? Let's dare to say it, by whom? Israel is provoking famine." ~EU foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell

Is famine in Gaza "looming" or "imminent" or "underway?" What do terms like that mean in practice? A quick primer on famine terminology, technical jargon, and plain language.

By ⁦Leela Barham⁩ on our recent publication at ⁦BMJ_Open⁩. ⁦LSE Health Policy⁩ ⁦Marina Kousta⁩ ⁦HTAi⁩ ⁦ABPI⁩ ⁦NICE⁩ ⁦Eric Low⁩ ⁦Wija Oortwijn⁩ pharmaphorum.com/market-access/…

Changing Realities parents provided evidence to recent Work&Pensions Committee report, shining a light on benefit inadequacy: "Some parents reported often going without food themselves, to ensure they were able to prioritise the needs of their children" committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…

Very excited to present my working paper on the mental health effects of the £20 uplift during Covid-19 using Understanding Society data in the CLOSER 2024 ECR conference. Sincere thanks to @BenBaumberg who made this paper possible. ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health King's Global Health & Social Medicine (GHSM)

BREAKING: UCL and King's College London King's College London students have set up their encampment calling for the end of Israel's #genocide in #Gaza and demanding our universities to divest from Israeli institutions and war machine. #CeasefireNOW

Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza is intensifying. 35k+ civilians murdered. Are you a KCL member of staff wandering how you can support Palestine solidarity efforts? Here's what you can do: 1) SIGN the open letter in support of the KCL student encampment docs.google.com/forms/d/1VTEcD…

New vlog 👇@TrussellTrust research out today: lays bare shocking truth about the crisis of hunger & hardship across the UK, and the utter failure of Universal Credit to fulfil its most basic duty. Key findings: 🧵

BREAKING 🚨 Almost half of people claiming Universal Credit ran out of food in the last month and did not have enough money to buy more. Universal Credit is falling short and pushing people to food banks. People cannot wait for an economic turnaround to improve their current

💜 We had a fantastic day at our conference yesterday at Science Gallery London discussing research on society & mental health. Huge thanks to all attendees and our panellists including Claudia Hammond KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner Centre for Mental Health Fairness Foundation Black Thrive Global BIGKID Foundation for taking part!

⚠️ People facing food insecurity are more than twice as likely to be living with a mental health condition. Our latest report finds families across the UK are stuck in a cycle of poverty, food insecurity and poor mental health - with children particularly affected. Read more:

📢 Coverage of our report highlighting the links between #MentalHealth and #foodinsecurity in today's Forbes 👇 forbes.com/sites/katherin…

If you are a beginner researcher, this paper will help you.

As DWP launches review on “how to urgently support people with long-term illnesses or disabilities back into work” they must remember that people’s lives are more than their health issues. Health matters, but its not the whole story health.org.uk/features-and-o… health.org.uk/features-and-o…

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323