Positive Communities

Positive Communities Research Group is a group of researchers interested in social justice allied to Manchester Metropolitan University. Views of group members.

[rebeccalawthom @rebeccalawthom]

@PlaceAge @PosCoMMU https://t.co/WkIC32MtMZ

[Eva Anna Duda @DrEvaAnnaDuda]

Look at this beautiful drawing by @robinsukatorn of our #ESRCfestival #McrESRCFest event from last night hosted by @PosCoMMU @HPSCResearch

[Prof Angharad Beckett, FAcSS, FRSA. @AngharadBeckett]

@DrEvaDuMik @DrMelChapman @PosCoMMU Yes indeed. Your use of Bauman's work also struck me as so apt: 'wasted humans'. Just a horrendous state of things

[Prof Angharad Beckett, FAcSS, FRSA. @AngharadBeckett]

@DrMelChapman @DrEvaDuMik @PosCoMMU This is so important. Wish I'd been there to hear this presentation.

[Positive Communities @PosCoMMU]

@AngharadBeckett @DrMelChapman @DrEvaDuMik We had some issues with live streaming but you should be able to watch all the talks - please see earlier tweets.

[Dr Francesca Ribenfors @FRibenfors]

@currie81 Being treated with dignity and respect far from reality for many disabled people #austerity #disabledmigrant

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@lisa_scullion ‘racist welfare state’ Craig 2007 @HPSCResearch #disabledmigrant #ESRCfestival

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@DrEvaDuMik citing @ShaunGrech work on need for dialogue disabilitystudies & migration studies #disabledmigrant @HPSCResearch

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@lisa_scullion documenting bleak stories of #WCA increasing anxiety #disabledmigrant @ESRC @HPSCResearch

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@currie81 #austerity has led to a new period of oppression of disabled ppl but also re-ignited DPM #disabledmigrant

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@currie81 disabled ppl have for too long been denied full citizenship #disabledmigrant @HPSCResearch @ESRC

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@feresht60750842 on experience of being called a liar as refugee #disabledmigrant

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@DrEvaDuMik #disabledmigrant experience ‘scripts or repertoires of invalidation’ (Hughes) #ESRCfestival

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

@currie81 #austerity has made disabled ppl its scapegoats #disabledmigrant @HPSCResearch

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

Person sanctioned becos missed job centre appt cos in hospital after suicide attempt @lisa_scullion #disabledmigrant #ESRCfestival

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

How can disability studies & migration studies be brought into conversation with each other? #disabledmigrant

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

Congratulations @DrEvaDuMik for organising #disabledmigrant #ESRCfestival today @HPSCResearch @mcrmetropolis

[Melanie Chapman @DrMelChapman]

Precarity, bonds& being human:@k_runswick_cole on @BigSocietyDis themes on employment https://t.co/HpMCa4gARE #disabledmigrant #ESRCfestival

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@lisa_scullion documenting hostility to migrants in policy #ESRCfestival @HPSCResearch #disabledmigrant

[Prof Katherine Runswick-C @k_runswick_cole]

.@lisa_scullion extension of welfare conditionality to those previously excluded #disabledmigrant #ESRCfestival @HPSCResearch