Air pollution is the leading environmental health risk factor worldwide, & results in significant health, economic, & societal impacts.

Learn more about global progress towards #CleanAirForAll in our panel discussion hosted at #HEIAC24 !

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#AirQuality

Clean Air Fund and Uni of Birmingham are seeking four exceptional students from the UK, Central & Eastern Europe to pursue a master’s degree in #AirPollution Management and Control as McCall MacBain Clean Air Fellows. Deadline for applications is 5 July 2024. birmingham.ac.uk/caf

look away now if you have zero interest in employment law, because this thread is going to compare and contrast - in minute detail - the 2021 Labour New Deal For Working People and the new, rewritten version which I got hold of yesterday.....

Our research published today in Environmental Pollution puts new figures to the health burden of #AirPollution in the West Midlands birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/west…

Good communication is key to driving progress on clean air.

📄📢 New #AirQuality communications resource: C40 Cities toolkit compiles tools and insights to help cities develop an effective #comms strategy on local #AirQuality ⤵️
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Help those households who most need support with energy bills by extending the Warm Homes Discount, and funding it by cutting the wasteful Winter Fuel Payment. Great article making the case by SMF senior researcher Sam Robinson

politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

Stoke-on-Trent voting area (Staffordshire PCC)

Lab 53% (+16)
Con 36% (-16)
LD 12% (+9)

No Reform this time (2%)

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Delighted our paper is published: An evidence-based approach to re-engaging students by re-framing support for success
JPower, S Jones-Devitt, AGriffiths Assoc Prof Alison L Griffiths (Dr)
Stella Jones-Devitt Sam Grogan David Hawkins martin jones Minhua Eunice Ma Jon Fairburn - Emeritus Professor Salford Uni Learning & Teaching Enhancement Centre Chris Little IPiHE

🖥️👫'Who was more likely to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic?'.

New research in Regional Studies, Regional Science (RSRS) from Switzerland published by Moreno Baruffini Moreno Baruffini & Frederica Rossi looks to answer this question from the gendered perspective:

doi.org/10.1080/216813…

#Teachers - what do you want to know about your pension?

This week we’re hosting a Q&A session with one of our Scheme experts, Louise.

Simply drop your question below and she’ll reply asap during our open hours with an answer 👇

📣Join us for the next #mwp Lecture “The Global Tax Evasion Report 2024” by Prof. Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics), at the European University Institute :
🗓️8 May 2024
⏰5 pm CEST
📍Refectory, Badia
Info & Registration⤵️
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Green line: Thatcher
* The top 50% did very well
* The 25-50% bottom income groups did ok
* The bottom 25% did terribly

Blue line: Blair
* The bottom 30% did well
* Everyone else did OK

Teal Line: Lib / Tories
* Every group did badly
* Best results don't match Blair's worst

Grateful to Emmanuel Saez for this generous discussion of my work, putting it in the broader perspective, out today in JEP🙏

The JEP commissions such pieces every year, which can serve as useful introduction to a literature (here on inequality, tax etc)

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NEW oped from GOP Lt. Governor of Georgia

'Why I’m voting for Biden and other Republicans should, too'

ajc.com/opinion/geoff-…

latest Opinion on the water disaster…Martin McKee 🇺🇦 Anthony Costello Dr Gabriel Scally Jon Fairburn - Emeritus Professor @fph Amber Hamilton greg fell FFPH Jim McManus OCDS,FFPH 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 Ash Paul Kevin Fenton ASPHER Prof Alice Roberts💙 Alison McCallum Kit Yates Feargal Sharkey Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing John Ashton ( you, us, I)

Latest from me. Here's the possible key to the end of 14 years of Tory rule: For almost the entirety of the party’s time in office, millions of people have felt the effects of turbulence, shocks and disasters. What did people get in return?
Nothing. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Airlines: 'Air travel activity is going to boom *no matter what*. Forget about taxes, demand is completely inelastic. This is why we need technology and technology only'

Also airlines: 'A 3€ ticket tax will suppress demand so much that it will put the industry in a crisis'

In 2023 pay for British graduates in their early thirties was staggeringly still 16 per cent below 2007 levels

“Of the following three things—national self-determination, political democracy and hyper-globalisation—we can have at most two' Our 2010 interview with Dani Rodrik on globalisation. Has what's happened since then proved him right?
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