Sandra Sinfield

Associate Teaching Professor #studychat #LoveLD #creativeHE. For playful pedagogy; creativity as liberatory practice; making, drawing & animation for learning.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

This is what we've come to.

A retired couple had to spend £1m of their own money taking both the @EnvAgency and @NaturalEngland to the High Court simply to force both of these charlatans to do their job, safeguard one of our nation's most legally heavily protected bits of countryside.

And the environment charities does what exactly?

https://t.co/TmLhlRyN4X

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Almost 9 MILLION people across the UK are at risk of needing a food bank in the next year.

One in five people have run out of food in past year and been unable to afford to buy more.

This cannot continue. The government must act ahead of the Budget to make essentials like food and bills affordable.

[SEDA @Seda_UK_]

Read our latest blog post: "From participation to progression: why employability must be designed, not assumed" from Yaz Osho and Supin Hussain.

https://t.co/hIAsmrwByh

[U Calgary @UCalgary]

The Werklund School of Education has become the first education faculty in Canada to receive a Canada Research Chair (CRC) from the @CIHR_IRSC. Learn how newly appointed CRC, Dr. Carly McMorris, is breaking down barriers that neurodivergent people face when accessing supports.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

We are supposed to be a democracy, aren't we?

It's time to end this madness. Thames Water's creditors are meeting on Thursday 29th Oct to decide on yet another bailout at our expense

Andy Burnham MUST block the bailout. Sign the petition NOW: https://t.co/QxsOteyM4a

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water.

Here are some
Enforce laws.
Prosecute execs for harming health, environment.
Cancel licence to operate.
Put TW into special administration.
Nationalise at knockdown price.
https://t.co/eXMJFDMHvF

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

On 22nd September 1934 at Gresford Colliery, Wales, an explosion killed 266 men & boys underground. 6 survived and only 11 bodies were ever recovered.
The wages of all were docked by half a days pay by the owners because the men had 'failed to complete their shift.'

[U Calgary @UCalgary]

18 PhD students recognized as UCalgary’s 2026 Killam Scholars, including Olivia O'Neill, whose research focuses on why stress in adolescence can shape mental health for life https://t.co/QelyQ61EIo @UCalgaryArts @KillamTrusts

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

It's insulting that Ofwat has offered £2.87 to Thames Water households as compensation for poor performance

Water privatisation costs every household in England £176 a year

Open letter below: block the water bill hikes and take back Thames Water NOW

https://t.co/0mmqSTdoIy

[Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant]

The @ChildrensComm report 'the childhood lottery' is sad reminder of inequality based on where you live as a child. https://t.co/VzoogWEzST #Children #Lives #UK #Society

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK govt can get information about your bank accounts if you receive universal credit, pension credit, employment support allowance.

You won't be told. Court order not needed. You can't appeal.

No financial privacy for old, poor, sick, unfortunate.
https://t.co/8eyuIpYhDG

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Ofwat is making Thames Water pay back *£2.87* to each household for dumping sewage

This is a distraction from the *£176* privatisation of water costs each household EVERY YEAR

Take our water into public ownership. Our report explains how.

Send it to your MP: https://t.co/1bKtR4Ok0D

[CILIP @CILIPinfo]

#GreenLibraries Week starts on Wednesday and the map is looking greener than ever! There's still time to get your plans in place. Just use our FREE resources and add your events to the map. Share your activities using #GreenLibraries & we'll repost.
https://t.co/J8cDywqHdY

[SOS Whitstable @SOSWhitstable]

Kent is looking like a petri dish today after @SouthernWater poured sewage into our sea and rivers following the rain.

Whitstable has seen 17 hours of sewage in the last 24 hours.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

90% of England’s water industry is foreign owned.

The result has been low investment, high customer bills, raw sewage in rivers, over 1,200 criminal convictions, and harms to nature, health and national security.

Public ownership is needed.

Watch the Minister's reply.

[Sandra Sinfield @Danceswithcloud]

#LoveLD - love this week's #LTHEchat on AI and agency: https://t.co/WfmpgVx7aX - Weds 8-9 in Blue Sky. Follow the hashtag. Join the conversation. Share what you know! #EdChat #studychat #phdchat

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

CLEARED, DEAD AND STILL UNPAID

A man runs a post office on a Scottish island for 14 years. Then a computer calls him a thief. Courts later decide the computer could not be trusted. Bill never hears the news. He died 11 years earlier.

Meet William Quarm, known as Bill. He ran the Paible Post Office and shop in Bayhead, North Uist, for almost 14 years. In 2008 investigators from the @PostOffice arrived to question him. Their accounting system, Horizon, built by Fujitsu, showed around £40,000 missing.

Facing jail, Bill pleaded guilty to embezzlement at Lochmaddy Sheriff Court in 2010 and got 150 hours of community service. He was a father of 5.

That is the Horizon scandal. Fujitsu's software made money look missing in branches across the UK and hundreds of branch managers were prosecuted. Around 100 were in Scotland, where the Crown Office did the prosecuting using Post Office evidence.

Bill died in 2012, aged 69. His widow Anne Quarm says it broke his health, nearly broke hers and they lost everything.

In 2023 the Appeal Court in Edinburgh quashed his conviction. Anne brought the appeal for him.

In January 2024 former Post Office investigator Raymond Grant told the Horizon IT Inquiry @PostOffInquiry that he still believes Bill stole the money.

A court quashed the conviction. Raymond Grant did not get the memo.

The government says people with quashed Horizon convictions can claim £600,000. As of 2024, Anne had received nothing. Her MSP @alasdairallan said the couple also got no pension payout after 14 years of service.

Everyone has said sorry. Sorry costs nothing, which explains the supply. Anne Quarm was still waiting for the version with a bank transfer.

[CILIP @CILIPinfo]

🟩What’s on this week? #GreenLibraries Week starts on Weds 21 October, and we also have a great schedule of online and in-person events.

🆓Many sessions are FREE or discounted for CILIP members - explore what’s coming up and book your place: https://t.co/7HZeWxESBC

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Our NHS has been hollowed out over the last few decades. Thank you, @premnsikka, for speaking out

The UK has 2.4 NHS beds PER 1,000 people

Japan: 12.6
Germany: 7.7
Austria: 6.6
France: 5.4
OECD average: 4.2

This is why we have the disgrace of corridor care. It's time to invest and rebuild our NHS

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

NHS bosses say smaller maternity units may have to close.

It would force pregnant mothers to travel long distances to give birth.

How safe would that be? Local services are always more timely.

Financial numbers must not override human considerations.
https://t.co/1I97szdUAP