🚨🚨🚨The CfP for the 2025 BSA #Death, #Dying and #Bereavement symposium is now open! This year's theme is #Care and #Caring, and the University of Nottingham is hosting us. Please submit your abstracts by Tuesday 30th September to [email protected]. We're looking forward to reading them!

📢Registration now open: Building Inclusive Practices around Mental Capacity & Consent in Palliative Care Research ✅Hear research findings ✅Identify research gaps & priorities ✅Opportunities to collaborate & contribute 📆 17th Oct 📍 RCP, London 🔗 www.capacityconsentresearch.com/palliative-c... 1/2

Introducing Alissia Rae Harrad-Hyde, born Wed 2nd July 2025, weighing 6lb 4oz. Thank you to my wife for carrying our beautiful daughter 💕 We were able to come home 24 hours after Alissia’s arrival and we are enjoying settling into this long awaited new chapter of our lives.

I’m excited to share a podcast I took part in for THIS institute, we discuss why it’s so hard to do less in healthcare.You can find it on Spotify, Apple Poscast or Amazon music. Just search ‘listen to THIS’ I’m episode 6. Or here’s the link to the website www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/podcast/why-...

⭐️ Beatrice Godwin Memorial Lecture Free talk for #dyingmattersweek on the need for radical dementia research, with James Fletcher and chaired by Diana Teggi 8th May 6-7pm BST Online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-mid...

Lovely to return to ENRICH Care Home Research Advisory Group at @nihr.bsky.social RDN West Midlands this morning. Thanks for the opportunity to talk to a fantastic group of care home managers and to seek crucial feedback on a new study that we are planning!

HAPPENING TOMORROW! 📣 Join @adelinacohe.bsky.social, @blimeysimon.bsky.social, Janine Dizon, Nicky Baker, and Sarah Gilbert for this exciting session on care #Workforce retention. 💼 REGISTER NOW to join at 9am BST: lse.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #CareWorkforce #WorkforceRetention #Webinar

New paper in which we argue that at times of deterioration care home residents are seen as ‘out of place’ in both care home and hospital settings. doi.org/10.1016/j.so... [1/5 🧵]

Places are filling fast for our Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement summer school! 3 days 23-25 July, get expert training, networking, mentoring and support for your current and planned ethnographic work in healthcare. See shop.le.ac.uk/product-cata... for more details!

If you're looking for photos of older LGBT+ people then be sure to check our our #AgeingWithPride collection. The photos are free to download and can be used for both online and print. Browse here: buff.ly/jyUJ00B

Is it possible to donate unused, sealed needles anywhere? I have ~45 of these 600 IUI/ml syringes with fixed needles from a round of IVF and it seems wasteful to throw them away (especially given that we paid for our meds!) Applogies if the description is incorrect - best guess based on packaging

New open access paper out in which @jennikburton.bsky.social and I problematise the concept of ‘inappropriate’ transfers / admissions from care homes. doi.org/10.1093/agei...

I cannot recommend the SAPPHIRE Ethnography Summer School highly enough for those interested in using ethnography in healthcare setting. For many of us in the group it is a real highlight of the academic year, but given that baby Harrad-Hyde is due that week I think it’s best I sit this one out 😂

It's on again! Bigger and better than ever, SAPPHIRE's Ethnography for Healthcare Improvement Summer School will be held July 23-25 here at College Court, Leicester. 3 days of workshops, insights, networking, mentoring and support. Places limited, book now! shop.le.ac.uk/product-cata...

Do you work in #socialcare? Are you interested in research? Did you know that research is for everyone and you don't have to leave the job you love? You can wear multiple hats! Pathways between practice and research in Adult Social Care youtu.be/VVi1Fp7dmww?si… via @YouTube