I have a whole PhD in the making that says otherwise, Prime minister ✨

PIP assessments are brutal, humiliating processes that cause actual harm, both physical and mental to disabled people who are just trying access the financial aid they need

Can a museum exhibition contribute to science? Yes!!!! More than 12,000 people visited our exhibition, Endometriosis: Into the Unknown. Visitors were invited to contribute data to a pain scale. Thousands of responses were made throughout the exhibition...

Thanks to everyone who joined our workshop today- we really enjoyed all presentations and learned a great deal from this day! Collective Encounters Jonathon Prasad 4Wings CIC and thanks to Social Policy Assoc for making this workshop possible!

Amazing opportunity to study an important topic and work with a wonderful human being! Hannah Madden

Lovely to hear about the vital community work being done at AsylumLinkMerseyside which provides a safe space for people to get together- this work allows people to feel safer, be healthier, create a better environment for future generations, and learn new skills and hobbies

In all the (shitty) news reporting I’ve witnessed today - this is important 👇

We are just getting started, feel free to join us online if you're available!

A second article from my walking football project has been published today:

'The boots will be on the coffin!': multiple meanings of ageing for older people playing walking football (cambridge.org/core/journals/…)

Published open access at Ageing&Society 📑🔓⚽️

It was so wonderful to have you present this research to us - so much to think about and take forward into teaching, and looking forward to reading more of your work! Prompted some brilliant discussions and hopefully some new connections made. Thank you so much!

Big thank you to Jon Garland for joining us yesterday at our British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network discussion group and providing some reflections and insight for PGRs and ECRs. It was lovely to chat to some fab emerging scholars in Hate Studies!

Still time to sign up for this discussion group which is happening at 2pm today (17th April). Join us if you can!

Submissions for the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network 'Sophie and Sylvia Lancaster Prize 2024' are currently open. Details on the eligibility criteria and the nomination process can be found in the flyer below. Please send submissions to me at [email protected] by 5pm on Tues 30 April 2024. Thanks!

RT This looks like us then Paul Ridley reann Rachel Adam-Smith Beth 💙 SEND Warrior Mum making a difference! Mother of 6 Autistics. Autistic Mother. Frances Ryan Dr Leah Burch (she/her) Disability Rights UK parent of pugs We Care Campaign

April 17th. Martha Babbs discussing research into juries at hate crime trials. Another talk in our fascinating series. Listen, learn and contribute for free. Dr Leah Burch (she/her) INHS The Centre for Hate Studies Victim Support Hate Crime Team Bradford Hate Crime Alliance Glos Hate Crime Stop Hate UK Jon Garland

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Frances Ryan Dr Leah Burch (she/her)
A/Prof Siobhan O'Dwyer
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This is one reason why disabled people are trapped in our homes, made to feel worthless & suicidal.... we dare not go out because we might lose our benefits
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Rachel Adam-Smith

The next talk is happening soon (17th April) as part of our brilliant PGR/ECR discussion group. Link in the original tweet to sign up

Brilliant, (& devastating) podcast with respiratory paediatrician Ian Sinha (wheezylikesundaymorning) on the health impacts of poverty on children in the UK- please listen. Childhood poverty gets under your skin, into your lungs, and even into your genes, and impacts on the whole life course.