What a great time participating/ speaking at this today. Organised by Petra Makela and colleagues.

Sutton Trust article on social class and “top jobs”. As the Guardian article says, class often left out of EDI conversations. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Basic income is bold but necessary” Dr @ianrobsons.bsky.social, a community development worker with 30+ years in working-class communities shares how #BasicIncome could transform people's lives in Blyth, Northumberland. 📖 Basic Income OUT NOW: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/basic-...

#deleuzeandguattari #becomeimperceptible

In response to today's #SpendingReview, our CEO @keithareed.bsky.social has welcomed commitment to expanding the Family Hubs programme, but is disappointed by the lack of clarity around funding for #StartForLife services, particularly during #IMHAW2025 Full statement 👉http://bit.ly/4kCwYDN

🔥 Over a quarter of a million people have now signed this petition. Sign and share everywhere.

Urgh. No posts for forever as I just lost the will. Real connection, real creation, materials, walking. Anyway, no hate for Bl*esky, just need less noise. Love to you all in the meantime.

We're delighted to announce we've been awarded more than £1 million from The National Lottery Community Fund to create a new National Parent-Infant Relationship (PAIR) Framework! Working with delivery partners Ideas Alliance & Anna Freud, we can't wait to get started! Details👉 bit.ly/4jF3G75

The 2025 national #ARCseminar series on: The healing power of creative arts 💃🏾🎷🎵 7 May: Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts 🎭🎤🖌️ 11 June: Exploring lived experience with creative arts 🎵🕺🎭 9 July: Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs...

I coached two wonderful colleagues today on how to make show & use the full range of their research activity. Most of us downplay the full extent of our ‘invisible’ work. Make the invisible, visible & lift one another up! #highereducation #qualitative #research @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Reached peak teaching experience today covering questions of ontology and epistemology with Donkey Kong. He has so much to teach us. #teachingandlearning #highereducation @northumbriauni.bsky.social

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

Off to teach and learn with professional doctorate students this weekend. My module is about your workplace as a site of research. I work especially hard to help them make their work environment strange. Love it. @northumbriauni.bsky.social

Had a small part in the project but get hold of this new book built on excellent scholarship. We HAVE to look to alternatives to giving up to poverty and tweaking unjust systems. 👉🏾 policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/basic-income #basicincome #poverty #publicpolicy

For anyone working on action research as SoTL - ‘What Does Good Look Like? Quality in Pedagogic Action Research’ lydiaarnold.net/2025/04/14/w...

Great to make this work visible. So much work still to do across disciplines to expand our appreciation of what counts as inquiry and knowledge.

Some playful bird related art from my studio last night. Create something today. #painting #creativity #joy

Story today on BBC news about restraint of autistic boy. This was our life, and our battle for years with the schooling system that abused our child then blamed him for it. / 'Brutal' restraint of autistic boy in calming room www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not only have I been working on a research project today, but ALMOST of equal importance I have acquired a Donkey Kong model for free I saw in a charity shop window. Bet you can’t say that, can you?

The Health and Social Care Committee has launched a new inquiry on the first 1000 days of life, the period from a child’s conception to age 2 – widely recognised as a critical period for development which fundamentally shapes long-term health, well-being, & life outcomes. ihv.org.uk/news-and-vie...

Studio messing about.

Thanks @northumbrialibrary.bsky.social for adding this book to your collection. Loving it, and it will be so helpful to my research. #libraries #deleuze #design

📢#IMHAW2025 Theme launched! This year's Infant Mental Health Awareness Week (9th-15th June) will be asking, Who is holding the baby? #IMHAW2025 will shine a light on the gaps in services that support vulnerable babies & their families. Details👉bit.ly/42nUI63 🧵1/2

Great plotting with Insights NE about a participatory action research project I’m shaping up for social housing partners. Want to mix up bureaucratic thinking with Deleuzian concepts and board game geeks. Of course.

Trump’s War on 'Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

WE ARE NEWCASTLE UNITED CARABAO CUP WINNERS #wedontdoquiet

Oh yes. This is so connected to what gives power culturally and politically to extreme right authoritarianism. The Tate brothers are contributing to this - their dangerous self-proclaimed misogyny should be taken off our media. It's bad enough with the normalised mainstream toxicity without them.

So pleased I can run my studio practice in my own time. It acts as a constant provocation to my academic work, and the black hole of bureaucracy. #innovation #academia #practice

Working with colleagues to develop alternative format outputs for the UK’s REF. It feels freeing and more inclusive to recognise practice, creative and activist research as it is, instead of squashing it all into academic journal articles. #academia #REF @northumbrialibrary.bsky.social

'Children and young people are being asked by the government to give their views on what matters to them. For those aged 10-21 years old, and up to 25 years old for those with special educational needs and disabilities. SURVEY LINK: ➡️ www.iwill.org.uk/NYS-Deliver-... www.bbc.com/newsround/ar...

The sun is out so we NEED to get a pint in. 😉

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#deleuze #qualitative #visualmethods #reflexivity #experimentation #research 🤘🏽

Ah man, I spent a few minutes talking about the good stuff to combat all the negative challenges and it was such a relief. We must resist despair and go be ourselves credit for showing up, working with others and making small changes. Be hopeful friends, even amongst hard times.

Voices to be heard that can inform the whole schooling system. As a parent of a trans young person, I stand with them.

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

Studio composition work. #sketching #art #painting #studio

Wet pavement.

Nothing like drawing and hand written notes to shape project ideas. How we work matters. Creating some cartoon frames to test ideas with partners before I get to detail on a funding bid. Working with fandoms to transform public design. 🤔

Ah, the irony of having to remix my own proposal about remixing public design practices. Always good to taste your own medicine, will make for a better research bid…

@maltedold.bsky.social has written a very generous review of my book for Utilitas: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Structuring a document that will turn into shared paper on a Department research culture project. We completed a participatory staff project and we want to keep it alive. Participants deserve to have their passions and frustrations addressed!

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President Trump appeared to claim overnight that Ukraine “started” the war with Russia. On our politics blog, our CEO Chris Morris addresses Mr Trump’s claim - and explains why his comments may have lasting implications in Westminster and beyond.

One and o my #Tr*mp post. Is this guy actually insane? Is he really just parroting Russia’s propaganda? Despairing for those working for the public good in the states and beyond. He wants this confusion.

Glad to work with Northumberland County Council and housing partners today as we pilot the first study for their longitudinal qualitative study of residents’ health and wellbeing. Great commitment to including honest voices of lived experience. @northumbriauni.bsky.social

I am drafting notes for a prospective Arts & Humanities Research Council project using my new red #ink. Let you eyes rest upon its amazingness. That is all, carry on.

Parrot/back lane event.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Looking up.