Had the most energising conversations and encounters with some superstars this week, who encouraged me in various ways 🙏🏿 Grateful for the mutuality, especially when every corner is full of seriously depressing news.

New publication! Our scoping review found a total of 282 different outcomes measured in 87 reports of support services and interventions for domestic and sexual violence and abue - a core outcome set is an important next step
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Research by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) in 2017 found it takes a victim-survivor, on average, $18,000 & 141 hours to extricate themselves from a violent relationship.
7 years later, that cost is no doubt much higher.

Great article by Natalie Brown on the…

Them: We need to inspire more women to get into STEM
Also them: *Gives a guy who was fired for sexual misconduct a whole shiny research lab*

In which place do you put the words 'sword' and 'lad' together to describe the murder of a child? How many journalists and editors saw this and thought it was ok? The racism in UK media is disgusting.

His name is #DanielAnjorin not 'sword lad'.
This is not only disrespectful but insensitive & no doubt hurtful to the family.
This crass headline is an example of how to dehumanise an innocent child murdered on his way to school.
Daniel Anjorin also deserves the entire front page.

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1. A few years ago I was co-Investigator in a 5 parts project funded by the AHRC ( UK) & LABEX (France). I wanted to show that despite the awful rhetorics in newspapers & politics, & their influence on citizens, the UK remained a beautiful country that welcomed and

Students start wave of protests over Gaza at UK universities after US crackdown independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Working on research or policy on violence against older people? Hear from Hourglass, ONS, Public Health Wales & VISION on some of the challenges & solutions at our upcoming annual conference. Registration⬇️ vision.city.ac.uk/vision-annual-… Hourglass (Safer Ageing) Office for National Statistics (ONS) Public Health Wales

Shameful authoritarian policing of debate and protest.

NEW: Met Police drop 'malicious' case against ‘traumatised’ former senior officer Novlett Robyn Williams - and she has now resigned from the Met Police with immediate effect, citing impact of ordeal on her health. independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

When you punish students for their love & compassion you teach them how powerful compassion truly is. You admit to them that you govern on a premise that cannot withstand love. Love prevails. We’re witnessing the soul growth of a generation. They deserve our care & respect.💜

🔔Today a landmark vote was passed in the Lords.

✅ Peers voted in favour of a firewall amendment to the #VictimsBill to stop police reporting migrant victims to immigration.

🗳️ Now the amendment must be reconsidered by MPs. I sincerely hope they vote in its favour. 1/2

Inspired by Prof Linda Villarosa’s lecture “Under the Skin: Understanding the Toll of Race & Inequity on Health of People”
🖤🖤🖤’d Michelle Browder’s powerful mural of Anarcha, Betsey & Lucy - enslaved Black women subjected to unethical surgical experiments by James Marion Sims

Dr Ruha Benjamin putting her words to action. If you don't know who she is, she's the amazing prof who gave a talk at Spelman where she talked abt sisterhood, liberation & more.

'Be careful with each other so you can be dangerous together.' Ruha Benjamin dropbox.com/scl/fi/54zjidq…