Dr Elisabeth Garratt

Lecturer @shefmethods, previously @NuffieldCollege. Mental health, homelessness, poverty & food poverty. Swimmer, feminist, soup enthusiast, (lone) mother.

[Dr Elisabeth Garratt @eagarratt]

My research in @Independent today: Growth in people using #foodbanks 'warns of unfolding public health crisis' https://t.co/NjR0RsH1GT

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Austerity with a red rosette is not the “change” people voted for.

[Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney]

I cannot say this enough. Schools cannot hold up the whole world. Housing, jobs, dentistry, doctors: we need other policy areas to work if there’s any chance at improving children’s lives.

[Dr Christian Reynolds @sartorialfoodie]

🚨 We're hiring! Join us as a Research Fellow at the @FoodPolicyCity , City St George’s, University of London. Lead impactful research on healthy, sustainable diets. Apply by 19th Feb 2025. Salary: £42,632 - £60,321. More info: https://t.co/RM5OqgMAt0 #ResearchJobs

[UCC School of Food and Nutritional Sciences @fnsucc]

We're hiring! PhD position available on the Sustainable Food Systems research team.

[Jez Fredenburgh @overthefarmgate]

Individual responsibility – that’s the reason people are #obese, #unhealthy & eating #unsustainable #diets, right? Actually there’s growing recognition that environment is the main driver. Can political discourse be encouraged towards leadership/action? 👇https://t.co/SR58BMJwMz

[Dr Elisabeth Garratt @eagarratt]

@PilsonAnna The Information Commons is open 24/7 (but please don't stay that long!). Parts can be quite noisy but there are also silent study areas. Also the Diamond is open until 10pm https://t.co/XN0jlJ7OjZ

[Dr Elisabeth Garratt @eagarratt]

🍕🍔🍉 Amazing looking PhD opportunity with @PollyRussell1 & @britishlibrary colleagues on the impact of the USA on UK food culture, 1945-2010 https://t.co/skXPLdHB3D
deadline Friday 29 November 2024, 12pm

[Institute for Sustainable Food @susfoodshef]

Findings from a new paper, co-authored by researchers Dr @eagarratt and Dr @MBArmstrong1, show that lone parents and people with long term health conditions are more likely to be experiencing severe forms of food insecurity.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/zjaVRtEd1m @sheffielduni

[Sheffield Uni News and Views @ShefUniNews]

Researchers from @sheffielduni @susfoodshef have found lone parents and people with long term health conditions are more likely to be experiencing severe forms of food insecurity

Read more 👇
https://t.co/RrNLiVAMo5

[Dr Elisabeth Garratt @eagarratt]

This 👇

[Dr. Anna Artyushina 🇨🇦 @socioanna]

Why has peer-review become so weird?
Over the past 12 years, I've been serving as a reviewer for several academic journals, including the top two you all know. What I see is a visible decline in both the quality of the papers and the quality of the reviews.
Here's my top 7 advice:

1. Many authors keep their methodology sections too thin and expect the reviewers to search for the method and data descriptions within the body of the text. Don't do that. You want to put all your research flaws and limitations in the method section, and explain them in detail.

2. Some reviewers see peer-review as a way to promote their own work. It's not ok to insist that the authors cite several of your articles!

3. Some reviewers enjoy humiliating the authors. When you see an article that requires a lot of work, the chances are it was written by a Ph.D. student. If you see stylistic oddities, the article has likely been submitted by someone for whom English is a second language. No one is born knowing how to write academic texts, and peer-review is the way for you to teach them.

4. Confusing the genres is a huge issue for many authors. An essay is a well-established form, yet one simply can't pass an essay for the research article.

5. Make your article accessible for the readers from different research fields. Out of 5 reviewers, 1 or 2 come from an adjacent field. Every concept you use should be unpacked as if you were explaining your work to a taxi driver.

6. Some authors intentionally make their articles unreadable by adding the layers of academic terms and repeating the main argument several times. The reviewers see this, folks. You don't need to sound complicated to be seen as academic. Following scientific method is what makes you an academic. In fact, the reviewers will thank you if they don't have to decipher your writing.

7. For the young academics: don't be scared to submit your work to the best journals in your field! It's a learning experience and you may see your work published sooner than you expect.

#science #peerreview #academicpublishing #academicjournals #AcademicWriting #academiclife

[Nuffield College @NuffieldCollege]

📢 We're hiring!

Two Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology and related fields (e.g. demography, social policy), open to recent PhD graduates and those soon to complete their doctorate

Deadline: Mon 23 Sept
More info & apply at: https://t.co/PKmE4iCP7M

[Pinsent Tailoring 🌈 @zackpinsent]

Trans people didn’t burn down a library
Gay people didn’t burn down a library
Black people didn’t burn down a library
Muslim people didn’t burn down a library
Protesters didn’t burn down a library
Immigrants didn’t burn down a library

White thugs did burn down a library

[sianushka @sianushka]

I keep thinking how 3 little girls were killed & more were hurt & traumatised, & instead of talking about their precious lives, we are being forced to focus on violent entitled white men burning cars & towns, who don’t give a shit about women’s & girls’ safety.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

The academic job market in the good ol' days vs the academic job market today.

[Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social @JenniferACooke]

We have just hired a 10-month teaching post to replace me while I am on my Leverhulme Fellowship. A thread of advice for applicants in this difficult UK landscape right now: 1. get in touch with the named person on the job spec. Ask a Q, get your name under their eyes.

[David Challen @David_Challen]

As a child bereaved by fatal domestic abuse, headlines calling a man who killed three women a “nice guy” and “normal person” have felt personally traumatic.

The media called my father a “gentle man” and “nice chap”, which misrepresented the controlling reality that myself and my family experienced for years. It compounded our trauma.

Reporting like this causes so much damage – both to victims’ families, and to public understandings of coercive control. It has to stop. Now.

We need every single newsroom trained in how to report domestic abuse deaths, and to lobby the regulator for stronger rules. The press has the power to prevent further deaths and save women’s lives.

Please support this crowdfunder I’ve started to support @we_level_up’s crucial work to train journalists in their Dignity For Dead Women guidelines.

This takes all of us ➡️ https://t.co/iPJGFUs7Qn

[Abtisam Mohamed @Abtisam_Mohamed]

Thank you to everyone in Sheffield Central – those who voted for me, those who voted differently, and those who stayed home – I promise to represent you all and be your voice.

It's an absolute honour and privilege to be your Member of Parliament 🌹

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Rishi Sunak has offered his resignation to The King but Keir Starmer has yet to be appointed as Prime Minister, so who's in charge? Me.