"...fundamentally, period poverty exists because poverty exists. Women don’t have enough money to buy sanitary towels and tampons because they are not paid enough, because the living wage is not a liveable wage, because benefits are not survivable on... (1)
GOSSIP researcher @JK_Remnant is presenting at #gceg2018 tomorrow morning (8.30-9.50), stream 36, Labour Geographies of Work. She will be discussing how employees and employees negotiate ill health in the workplace.
Three new PhD opportunities available in GSD
New digital tools for using palaeoenvironmental records to understand longterm human ecodynamics in Iceland Supervisors: Dr Richard Streeter and Dr Althea Davies
Past... https://t.co/aj6Y5eO3rX
"it is still the task of those who wish to continue having a universal healthcare system to carry on unmasking the so-called ‘reform’ of the #NHS which inexorably leads us towards a dystopian future." important new blog from @Cost_ofLiving#NHS70#saveourNHS#healthcare
3rd year @StAndrewsSGSD student, Alice Chainey joined St Andrews Coastal Rowing club including Prof Nina Laurie & @JK_Remnant (coxing) https://t.co/VOCInWyMlI for her first taste of rowing. Alice is doing her dissertation on slow leisure and coastal rowing. @OfficialSCRA
Medical #sociology postgrads! You have the chance to win a £1,200 award to support your research. The Phil Strong Memorial Prize is now open for entries. Deadline - 17 August https://t.co/zsPV3QQP9Q @britsoci
Congratulations to all @univofstandrews students graduating today, and very special well-wishes to our own Geography & Sustainable Development students, and our Earth & Environmental Science friends! Enjoy the day - you've earned it!
PEAK INEQUALITY: An animation of inequality in the UK falling from its 1913 peak, to when Britain became most equal and created the NHS, through to today - when the NHS is under threat and income inequality appears to be peaking again. See here: https://t.co/KDmOmFHrWd
Can you hear the bells? Happy Graduation Day to our friends and colleagues across @univofstandrews! Hope our GG/SD students are excited for their big day tomorrow!
One year on from the Grenfell tower fire: It is scandalous that politicians are whittling down public housing budgets and failing to take action to keep residents safe. We need housing policy driven by the public interest, not by the market. https://t.co/WZ3VOi21sV