"In the end I gave up begging them to remove the handcuffs because I was so exhausted by the time I had to push my baby out.” Vital coverage of the barbaric practice of shackling imprisoned women during pregnancy and birth, and of the deeply flawed terms of the PPO's investigation. bit.ly/4cZqXzS

Publication day!! Thank you to @thesociologicalreview.org who awarded me the fellowship to turn my thesis into a monograph with @policypress.bsky.social

I’m honoured to be giving the Neudstadt Lecture in Leicester tonight. I’ll be talking about: How wives helped to shape the foundations for knowledge about society www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

We have published part two of the timeline of Oxford Health's installation of Oxevision. This part considers the origins of Oxevision, the initial Oxevision pilot study and the connections between Oxehealth and it's founder (Lionel Tarassenko) with the NIHR Oxford Health BRC

We raise concerns that the original Oxevision pilot study (funded by @nihr.bsky.social) was potentially conducted without requite ethical approvals despite it being high risk

The study is published in @bmj.com mental health and is published without details of ethics and the authors have failed to declare their conflict of interest. We are awaiting a response from the BMJ about this mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/23/1...

Untangling the threads: The installation of Oxevision by Oxford Health NHS Trust part two Following on from the piece earlier in the week we are now sharing part two of our deep dive into Oxford Health’s seemingly irrational decision to install Oxevision stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/u...

Such a joy to listen to @mbherbert.bsky.social and @smhall.bsky.social in conversation this afternoon ⭐️💫✨🌟

Zinemaking as a Trauma-Informed Creative Method A short practical guide I made with Asylum Link Merseyside + University of Liverpool. Originally a fold-out poster zine, it shares principles for trauma-informed zinemaking + collage, plus further resources. www.yumpu.com/xx/document/... #zines

Looking forward to tuning into the brilliant @jennashworth.bsky.social's ghost story, ‘The White Lady of Morecambe’, read by Julie Hesmondhalgh, on BBC Radio 4 next week! (Monday to Friday 10.45pm-11pm) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qrll

The family court will not carry out a wholesale review of cases involving the unregulated psychologist, Melanie Gill, @tbij.bsky.social can reveal. Meanwhile mothers who had their children taken away after Gill gave evidence in their cases demand a public apology. tinyurl.com/595ah2e5

So chuffed to be in this new book edited by Charlotte Bates and Emma Jackson, and my chapter is my first attempt at writing about life in Glasgow manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526184900/

There's an online launch for The Feminist Art of Walking Weds 28th Jan 6.30 on zoom. I'll be joined by some amazing artists and activists celebrated in the book so its gonna be special. More info TBC, sign up here for the link (free) tinyurl.com/FAoWONLINE @plutopress.bsky.social #NewBook #Feminist

Call for Abstracts: ‘Challenging Narratives: Creative Methodologies for Social Research” Deadline 31st January, see details below on how to submit an abstract ✨️ Please share, repost to your networks or get in touch with me www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-bo...

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

This is one of the most depressing, but important papers I've read in recent times. It's focus is Awaab Ishak, the 2 year old who died because of squalid housing, but brilliantly links this wider necropolitics enacted by neoliberalism. Please read. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Here’s the details off Ben Carrington’s talk next week. Ben gave our Frisby Lecture at the University of Glasgow a couple of years ago. His award is really well deserved.

The inaugural Stuart Hall Award lecture is next week December 10th 2025, 6pm UK time and given Dr. Ben Carrington (University of Southern California), the first winner of the award. Please register and attend the meeting via this zoom link: emory.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

www.bbc.com/news/article... Recent research by @hspandler.bsky.social (Professor of Mental Health), a leading historian of Psychiatry and LGBT+ health, suggests that [aversion therapy through electroshock] was far more widespread than previously documented

This also mentions your brilliant book @luciaoc.bsky.social observer.co.uk/style/featur...

Please come to our next seminar, online or in person. All welcome. 10th December 12-1pm 'Understanding Parent Blame' with Prof Luke Clements and Dr Ana Laura Aiello. @learningmet.bsky.social @charhar.bsky.social @itsadele.bsky.social @suecaton.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

We're all over the moon about #LostMothers win at last night's @cjalliance.bsky.social awards! Driven throughout by women with experience of maternal imprisonment & separation, this research really was ground-breaking. What a privilege to be involved. @midwifeteacher.bsky.social@cleanbrk.bsky.social

We're delighted that the Birth Companions Institute has secured significant funding from @impurbanhealth.bsky.social and the Henry Smith Foundation, allowing us to deepen and expand our work to achieve better care, equity and justice over the next three years. Find out more: bit.ly/4p4xFrL

Really looking forward to this lecture with @academicdiary.bsky.social. Register now before all the tickets are gone!

One for you @mbherbert.bsky.social 🌸

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In Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now. 🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t... #ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth

This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We're hiring! Research Fellow role focused on institutional ethnography and helping us to develop the lived and living experience hub. Applications open until 17th November!

If you teach research methods, this is an amazing resource for inspiring approaches 🤩 www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...

💡Job Opportunity!💡 We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎 For more information, follow the link below:

It can't be underestimated how important this is. Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals. Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.

Both #ICRMC25 keynotes are now on YouTube – free to watch! 🎉 🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c) 🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk) #CreativeResearchMethods #ICRMC

Exciting #socialwork job with Social Workers Without Borders! Please take a look and share! @socialworkerswb.bsky.social socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/

The statement is also available as text on our website stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/l...

Following the Lampard Inquiry hearings on the 13th and 14th Oct related to Oxevision, here is a statement provided by Hat Porter on behalf of Stop Oxevision. youtu.be/bzugNOvOBWs?...

BOOK GIVEAWAY I have a spare author copy of my book ‘Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America’ and I’d love for it to find a home. I’m happy to send it anywhere so just add your name here (www.linkedin.com/posts/cordel...) and I’ll pick a name at random :)

I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs. Please share!

Recent blog post for BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health contextualising our birth doula project- with @annanelson95.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2025/...

This coming Monday and Tuesday the Lampard enquiry will be hearing Stop Oxevision's evidence and Lio/Oxehealth and EPUT will be questioned live on their use of Oxevision and the deaths of patients. You can watch along on a live YouTube streaming link. #StopOxevision

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026) Closing date: 20 Oct 2025 Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’. @britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I've run a peer support group around living with suicidal experiences for 18 months, we've had over 650 attendances in over 108+ hours of suicide themed conversation. Not one meeting has gone by where benefits don't crop up as the reason people feel like they may end their life.

I'm excited to share that I passed my PhD viva yesterday! ✨ Thank you to my brilliant examiners Prof Vanessa May and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, my viva chair Dr Paul Gray, and my Director of Studies Dr @jennyvanhooff.com. It was an honour to share such a special moment with you all!

Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.

We draw on concepts from crip technoscience together with abolitionist perspectives on technology to argue for the necessity of a Mad technoscience; an account of how Mad people – particularly those of us incarcerated – resist, repurpose, and (re)imagine technologies used on us against our will

Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The hearings will be held at Arundel House in London and livestreamed to Youtube. Following the hearings, transcripts and relevant evidence will be published online. More information is available here and on the Lampard Inquiry website: lampardinquiry.org.uk/all-hearings/

Lampard Inquiry update: the Oxevision hearings due to be held in May have been rescheduled for the 13th and 14th October. This includes pre-recorded oral evidence given by Stop Oxevision and live hearings with a member of Oxehealth / LIO, and EPUT head of strategy, and digital

Fabulous job for a death studies ECR in Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...