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@wendycoxshall
Socialist, antiracist, feminist, climate activist, social worker, social anthropologist, Andeanist, Latin American researcher, and Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences (Social Work) at Liverpool Hope University.
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Lara, Brenda, Morena (aged 20, 20 & 15) tortured and killed by drug-traffickers.
This is narco-femicide!
It must stop and be prevented.
This makes the urgency for radical eco-social work, 'global contextual safeguarding' (Firmin) & Black feminisms so clear.
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📺 BASW Chief Executive, Dr Ruth Allen is currently giving evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry on adult social care.
Tune in on the link below! 👇
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Liverpool Hope UCU rally to defend staff jobs: Sat 28 June.
Many colleagues at risk of compulsory redundancy will spend next Saturday recruiting students tho bosses say their work may not be needed.
The rally is to support staff and tell Liverpool Hope to prevent the job cuts.
No Staff, No Hope!
Excited to be here at Uni of Manchester and to present tomorrow with Kayleigh Wharton and Maris Stratulis on the Role of Social Workers in Disasters @basw-uk.bsky.social
Liverpool Hope University has announced they will be making 39 redundancies, this would amount to 10% of all academic staff. I vehemently disagree with this course of action.
I will be writing to the Vice Chancellor to urge that she reconsiders this incredibly harmful decision.
BBC News - Liverpool Hope University staff threaten strike action over cuts - BBC News
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'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's house' (Audre Lorde, 1979).
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Susie Alegre, a barrister specialising in technology and human rights, cited the Post Office scandal “as a reminder of the dangers of putting too much faith in technology without the resources for effective accountability”.
Cited in Butler's article in the Guardian.