My article with PhD colleague Emilie McSwiggan has been published 'Older caregivers: challenging and enriching our assumptions about ageing and about caring'. We discuss the global issues arising for unpaid caregivers who are 'over pension age' @uoe-sps.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social

Having spent the day, much like every other day at present, listening to journalists and broadcasters restate unsubstantiated claims, and elide the fact of difference with a trigger for racist violence, here are simple rules even Chris Mason might grasp. ⬇️

My 500 year history of disabled people's political activism is out now! Thanks to The Independent for making it their non-fiction book of the month! www.penguin.co.uk/books/455782... #disabilityhistory

📢Just launched: fully funded interdisciplinary PhD @cfpjustice.bsky.social based @ulsterunischlaw.bsky.social & funded by AHRC @ukri.org. Areas of interest incl access to justice, migration & digital humanities plus projects on social security fraud & destitution. ➡️ www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcoll...

📢 We're hiring a Principal Policy Adviser to lead our Work and Care policy areas! Are you a visionary leader with the arguments, policies and ideas to address the challenges underpinning poverty in the UK? We'd love to hear from you! Full job description and application: https://bit.ly/4sTq807

📢 📢 📢 We are in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy and are recruiting for a research assistant (Glasgow University G7) to join us in our research using administrative data on inequalities in children and young people's education. Please do share this fantastic opportunity widely!

PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Read the ‘Carers and Poverty’ chapter of the report, starting on page 95. www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2...

Guess what the evidence shows? Disabled people pushed into deeper poverty are pushed *further from, not into, the workplace*. NEW REPORT, PACKED WITH EVIDENCE from community organisations. www.citizensadviceyork.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Poverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

📣 Call for Papers! Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library. Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners. Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... Deadline: 29 March 2026 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Two new jobs! We’re hiring for a Research Officer and a Lead Researcher. Are you passionate about conducting qualitative research on poverty and financial hardship? Do you have a strong commitment to ethical and inclusive research? Then these jobs might be for you! 1/2

NEW: Liz Kendall has told MPs that if a disabled person currently on PIP requests a reassessment after November 2026 because of worsening health, they will be assessed on the new tougher criteria. This confirms The Guardian’s report that those with fluctuating conditions will not be protected.

If your MP is vocal on women’s rights but less so on disability, send them today’s Guardian story. Tell them charities have warned the disability cuts will have a “devastating” impact on women and could even breach the Equality Act.

🔥Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR job vacancies now live working at @uofglasgow.bsky.social on @safety-nets.bsky.social @changingrealities.bsky.social with some amazing colleagues first: a research assistant post on Changing Realities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNQ284/r... 🧵for links to vacancies

Nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if the disability benefit cuts go ahead, new research by @trusselluk.bsky.social shows. No MP who votes for this can pretend they don’t know. www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

There are 4.5 million kids already in poverty and another 109 are pulled into poverty every day by the two-child limit alone. If this govt is serious in its commitment to the nation’s children, it can’t keep waiting for the stars to align before taking action. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Want a 3yr quali postdoc job leading the UK fieldwork for an amazing international project on how it feels to claim benefits? And also to do important work on benefits and mental health? Then see this job ad! Closing date being changed to 8th June www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/114985-...

Liz Kendall’s big speech on benefits has declared she wants to help disabled people “build a decent life.” I wonder how taking the disability benefits they need to wash and leave the house achieves that exactly?

We've published our full response to the proposed changes to sickness and disability benefits: 1. This is the biggest cut to sickness and disability benefits in a generation. It will push 50,000 children into poverty, and reduce living standards for many more.

My reaction on behalf of @jrf-uk.bsky.social, on today's labour market statistics and the Government's plans to cut disability benefits. The threat of widespread hardship among disabled people, unable to replace the incomes they lose out on through work, is even starker.

The Devastating Human Rights Impact of Social Security Failures in the UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-devast...

Great piece from @rjpartington.bsky.social @theguardian.com on new @trusselluk.bsky.social research out tomorrow. Hunger & hardship are costing UK economy & public services £billions. Slashing disability support & keeping 2 child limit will only make this worse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Great to see this new report from Scottish Commission on Social Security on accessibility and the Scottish social security system.

🚨 ICYMI: BASW and @swu-uk.bsky.social provide reaction to this week's Spring Statement, warning that welfare cuts will increase need and put pressure on already creaking services. Find out more ⬇️ basw.co.uk/about-social...

British authors: the Society of Authors has organised a petition re Meta's wholesale theft of millions of books and works. Sign here.

ESRC-Funded PhD Scholarship Open Collaborative Studentship. Pathway: Health, Wellbeing and Communities Intimate Partner Violence in Young People’s Relationships Care and Justice for Whom? Closing date for applications: 10 April Info: edin.ac/4jl7NET

Our new analysis shows child poverty will rise even higher on this government’s watch - to 4.8m by the end of this parliament (2029/30) - unless it takes urgent action including scrapping the two-child limit in its forthcoming child poverty strategy and stepping back from benefit cuts.

Spread the word! Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability. Deadline: 10 April @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social

Stealth social security cuts bring neither stability nor security to struggling families and will push child poverty even higher. Growth and better living standards are not achieved by taking money from families with the least...

ESRC-Funded PhD Scholarship Open Collaborative Studentship. Pathway: Social Inequalities Edinburgh Parents’ Panel: Transforming systems and practice with parents and families involved in social work services Closing date for applications: 10 April Info: edin.ac/4jl7NET

These cuts will impact children 🚸 Around 900,000 children are in a family where someone is unable to work for health reasons. These cuts could reduce family monthly income by almost £1,000 where 1 person is in work and the other unable to due to health reasons 3/4

Last week the government proposed cuts to disability and long-term sickness benefits. These cuts will leave some disabled people significantly worse off. 📢 By 2029/30, someone that loses PIP daily living and LCWRA will be over £800 per month worse off 1/4

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

📣The programme for our 2025 conference is out now! 👉Read it here (scroll down to 'Conference Programme'): socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe... ✨Take a look at the amazing array of social & cultural history on show!🗃️

I know coverage of disability benefits can be very distressing. So, I’ve worked with colleagues to make a range of support visible on The Guardian’s site. If you click on a relevant news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health help as well as benefits advice.

Many MPs think it immoral to slash disability benefits – and they’re right | Sonia Sodha

Without PIP, a further 700,000 more disabled households could be pushed into poverty 📢 We've joined Scope to urge the Chancellor to reconsider potential cuts to disability benefits. Read our open letter: www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op....

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A disproportionately high number of kids in poverty live in a household with a disabled person. Stripping essential support will be damaging to disabled people and risks undermining the government’s child poverty strategy. Government can’t cut its way to better living standards for all.

Kicking off his presentation @alexclegg.bsky.social looks at the internatioanal picture on child poverty. For a rich country the UK has a pretty terrible record. We are among the worst of advanced economies when it comes to the share of our children living below the poverty line. This must change.

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity. Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright. Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

Exciting opportunity to join the @changingrealities.bsky.social team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

A new PhD opportunity just landed with our good friends @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social who we've been working with alongside @savethechildrenni.bsky.social to understand the impact of #SocialSecurity on children's experiences of poverty. It's time to hear from children themselves: t.co/BtYhyM91Ms

Confirmed: All Council schools and early years settings will be closed on Friday 24 January. Schools will communicate directly with parents. www.edinburgh.gov.uk/emergencyclo...

88% of low-income households who receive disability benefits were going without the essentials in the 6 months to Oct 📢 59% had to take out a loan to cover the cost of essentials. 53% were in arrears. Our COL tracker: www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi... Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social

Here we are - the Disability History Association has officially moved to Bluesky! Please follow & share as we get ourselves acclimated ✨🗃️#dishist

Two new research jobs with a health inequalities focus currently being advertised at Strathclyde @centrehealthpolicy.bsky.social - both would suit qualitative researchers who like working in large, cross-disciplinary teams, who also enjoy community engagement and policy engagement. Thread 1/3

Macqueen Scholarship - PhD Social Work Practitioners, students, new graduates and alumni - considering returning to study / research? Includes PhD tuition fees and annual stipend. Find out more about this opportunity: https://bit.ly/sps-macqueen Applications open.

You still have a bit of time to book for Friday! Legal History in Unexpected Places: free, online conference taking us from eBay to outer space, sweet boxes to newsreels, and with a keynote by Erika Rackley and Sharon Thompson on finding feminist legal history in space