📢Online workshop forthcoming Feb 21 2025: "Welfare attitudes & deservingness in East Asia: Examining the potential for welfare systems based on solidarity". Registrations open! And best wishes for the Year of the Snake 🐍 @SundbergTrude@chungyangyeh@WARN_network
A Really good thread about how the normalisation of racist rhetoric by certain politicians and new media may have emboldened the far right in recent times
No racism on our campuses!
Kent UCU are horrified by the far right mobilisations and attacks on mosques, on community resources, on a refugee and migrant accommodation, and on working-class neighbourhoods, across the UK.
We say no to racism and islamophobia.
Had a great time talking about how we can produce better data and understanding of intersectional characteristics and experiences of homelessness at @HomelessLink research forum today with @CTunaker
‘It is not too late to rethink the cuts at Goldsmiths, Kent, Huddersfield, Lincoln, Hull and many other institutions - urgent action is needed to protect UK research capacity’ Read BSA current and past presidents: https://t.co/xyiUYy3s0U @_rachel_brooks @susanjhalford
What an evening @SocialPolicyUK conference. A dinner with lovely colleagues & a exit poll drinks debate on what the exit poll mean for the future of the welfare state. Are we optimistic or more pessimistic about what this all means? For more come to the 9am panel! #SPAconf2024
Kevin Farnsworth shows that Corbyn wasn't the radical turn to the left some claim, but Starmer's turn to the right is @SocialPolicyUK#spaconference2024
A quick and dirty chart based on HESA data for 31 July 2023.
This shows cash days at each established UK HEI. The ones on the left have cash too low for comfort. Potential "distress"
The ones on the right have "excess reserves" (CC19 guidance).
BREAKING: Norway’s second largest asset manager, Storebrand, divested holdings in @IBM_Corporation worth $141 million due to their supply of a biometric database to Israel "used to implement apartheid" and "discrimination and segregation of Palestinians". https://t.co/WdC4PVvzln
Explore 'Welfare Attitudes in East Asia', a comprehensive study that sheds light on cultural and social factors influencing attitudes towards welfare policies. @SundbergTrude#EastAsia#WelfareAttitudes
https://t.co/moPx0EQuMt
Explore 'Welfare Attitudes in East Asia', a comprehensive study that sheds light on cultural and social factors influencing attitudes towards welfare policies. @SundbergTrude#EastAsia#WelfareAttitudes
https://t.co/moPx0EQuMt
Our Hartlepool Poverty Truth Commission launch event is officially ONE WEEK AWAY📢🎉👏
It has been inspiring watching Hartlepool community members pulling this together and we are looking forward to working alongside decision makers to make Hartlepool a better place to live.
Are you aged 16 to 25? Want to be in with a chance of winning £100?
Help us by filling in our youth homelessness survey!
You don’t have to be LGBTQ+ or have experience of homelessness, we just want a wide range of experiences across society.
The survey takes 10-20 minutes!
This is very bad news. We read here that Universities UK has already written to the government requesting that post-92 universities be allowed to leave this defined benefit pension scheme, since the DfE has refused to fund the 5% rise in employers' contributions.
Hearing lots of peers & mentees struggling with rejection this time of year. I'm sharing my concrete, CBT-informed method for dealing with rejection: Rejection prizes! I swear by this system and lay it out here (1/5)