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This Thursday (05.03) at noon, we will be chairing a guest seminar by @johnmacartney.bsky.social (Warwick), in our Durham Health & Social Theory* research group lunchtime series. He will talk on end-of-life research and “On permeant ethnography: Reflections of a sociologist in a medical school”.
A group of volunteers walk along the wall on which are displayed photos of lost loved ones.
If your loved one died from covid-19 in the UK and you would like their photo included in our display on the Wall on Sunday March 29th (5th anniversary of the Wall), please send it to us by this Friday February 27th. We automatically display photos sent previously; no need to resubmit. ❤️
Still time to sign up to this FREE online event (recordings will be available) to hear from people who use Men's Sheds explain why they are important for supporting their wellbeing in end-of-life care contexts.
Oh and I may be saying a few words also... But don't let that put you off 😊
This is not your usual research presentation!
We have some amazing people who will talk about the important difference Men's Sheds have made to them and the people they care for.
If you work in an end-of-life care context, you will want to make sure you are signed-up for this FREE ONLINE event!
OOoo sounds great! Good luck!
I do enjoy drawing on historians work on dying and death, not least to remind my clinical colleagues people had interesting insights about dying before palliative care came along 😄
Long time follower, first time replying... just to say I really appreciate your (and @hagenilda.bsky.social) commentary on all things UCU - as someone invested in the issues, but pretty clueless about those involved. So thank you!
A picture of Parliament across the Thames. The text reads: Covid-19 Day of Reflection, 8th March 2026.
On Sunday March 8th, we will be observing the Covid-19 National Day of Reflection quietly at our beautiful memorial in central London.
The team will be there from 11.00-3.00, with paint and pens available for anyone who would like to help us with the work of maintaining the Wall.
I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.
This is not your usual research presentation!
We have some amazing people who will talk about the important difference Men's Sheds have made to them and the people they care for.
If you work in an end-of-life care context, you will want to make sure you are signed-up for this FREE ONLINE event!
As @jimdickinson.bsky.social explains in today's @wonkhe.bsky.social, there has been progress in attitudes towards disability and disabled students (about time - this stuff has been the law for decades, but #UKHE is positively glacial)
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We've actually LOST ground since Covid. Many of those adjustments brought in to ensure that education could continue amid a global pandemic were also super useful and accessible to disabled students. But we've rolled back on many of them, often using arguments about 'belonging'
It's @disabledstudentsuk.bsky.social Access Insights Report Publication Day! This is always a big one, as it gives us so much insight into the experiences of disabled students on the ground in #UKHE. And, for the same reasons, it's pretty depressing for a career disability practitioner like me 🧵
Thank you! 😀
Very interesting talk - thanks for sharing! In the Q&A you mention a paper (2021?) comparing public health to engineering, which is not in the slide deck. Would you mind sharing here?
Policy on health is clearly broken - politicized, out of touch, reactive and slow. My recent keynote at the Canadian Biosafety Symposium took a big-picture look at how and why that's happening, and how we can turn things around.
Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.
The implicit use of the deficit model is rife in health and medical paper recommendations, especially the go-tos of "raising awareness" and "improving communication".
Next step is to develop those understandings of "values" and "identity"... Anyone know a discipline that could help with that?! 👀
The implicit use of the deficit model is rife in health and medical paper recommendations, especially the go-tos of "raising awareness" and "improving communication".
Next step is to develop those understandings of "values" and "identity"... Anyone know a discipline that could help with that?! 👀
If you have lost someone to covid in the UK and would like their photo displayed on the 29th, please email us at info@nationalcovidmemorialwall.org. (Please don't send a photo if you've done so in the past - looking for duplicates is massively time consuming!)
We will never forget them. ❤️
... Was in a meeting with policy types a while ago advocating for a deep and established Soc Sci literature on an area. Was told they wouldn't be taken seriously if they cited work over 5 yrs old.
The demand for immediate "impact" is also perverse. The importance of some things take time (decades) to recognise. On the other hand...
A post saying "Academics are far too relaxed about writing for two years and having three people read it."
Unpopular no doubt, but I find this stuff tedious beyond belief - not least because it bolsters an idea that the university (especially the humanities) is some kind of pointless, idiosyncratic endeavour. Reactionary shite disguised as self-deprecation.
This is a seriously good article, a must read.
Some of my work this week has reminded me of the initial analysis of data on higher education staff's experiences of bereavement, including unclear policies, workload and support at work. Link to report here: oro.open.ac.uk/88719/
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Mass or celebrity deaths not my area, but if you want to unpack the psychodynamic /transference angle you may recall Vic Seidler wrote "Remembering Diana" and "Remembering 9/11"? There's the pets-death literature too. And, of course, @deathandculture.bsky.social for all things celebrity death
Really looking forward to seeing where you go with this work! Have been reflecting on the wider normative infrastructure of the "talk-about-dying" movement for a while, although in healthcare and adjacent spaces. So much critical work to be done in this space...
2 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5
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