How to harness the power of #humanconnection and potential of #technology in #antipoverty programming? . If you're at #Skoll forum in Oxford this month, join myself and colleagues on a conversation about #algorithms and #empathy . Spaces are limited, register now >> forms.office.com/e/Ph189SnAzX

How to harness the power of #humanconnection and potential of #technology in #antipoverty programming? . If you're at #Skoll forum in Oxford this month, join myself and colleagues on a conversation about #algorithms and #empathy . Spaces are limited, register now >> forms.office.com/e/Ph189SnAzX

📢 PODCAST ALERT! 🎙️ . Listen to our newest episode with @b-daponte.bsky.social and @keetieroelen.bsky.social about #socialsecurity #welfare in #US . Learn about #foodassistance #SNAP and the system's fragmentation and reliance on charitable support . Listen 👉 poverty-unpacked.org/2026/03/22/e...

📢 PODCAST ALERT! 🎙️ . I was joined by @b-daponte.bsky.social for conversation about #socialsecurity #welfare in #US on episode 55 of @povertyunpacked.bsky.social . Learn about #foodassistance #SNAP and system's fragmentation and reliance on charitable support . 👉 poverty-unpacked.org/2026/03/22/e...

I'm celebrating #poverty #changemakers 🤩🥳 . I started new bi-monthly series on @povertyunpacked.bsky.social #podcast with shout outs to individuals, groups, initiatives that do incredible work to make the world 🌎 a better place . Check it out 👉 poverty-unpacked.org/2026/03/02/e...

🎧 New podcast out! @keetieroelen.bsky.social talks to Shakil Ahmed, educator, storyteller, and futurist at Ridiculous Futures. He unpacks different approaches to future studies and shares his thoughts on the role of various methods to explore the future. open.spotify.com/episode/5Fxf...

Number of zero-hour contracts reaches record-high in UK . >> I discuss how this rise in insecure #employment and #work increases risk of #poverty in the #podcast The WorkPlace . >> Listen here: shows.acast.com/the-workplac... . #workplacennd @resonancefm.bsky.social . www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Celebrating International Women's Day by discussing how #empathy and #hope can contribute to #social #change >> join me at the #DutchCentre on Thursday 5 March . Tickets 🎟 👉👉 www.dutchcentre.com/events/inter...

Listen to my fascinating conversation with @esmahlahlah.bsky.social on @povertyunpacked.bsky.social about how to make #welfare more dignified AND smarter 👉 poverty-unpacked.org/2026/01/18/e...

Missed our recent seminar with @keetieroelen.bsky.social? In this talk, she asks: what can the lens of empathy and dignity bring to our understanding of poverty and the policies that seek to tackle it? Watch it here ⬇️

Why empathy matters in tackling poverty. @keetieroelen.bsky.social from @oucsgd.bsky.social writes for @eadi.bsky.social on how dignity- and agency-centred approaches can improve anti-poverty policy — and avoid cycles of blame and shame. Read more: buff.ly/ia7fKK6

Still time to register for my seminar tomorrow @lseinequalities.bsky.social on examining #poverty and anti-poverty policy through #empathy lens 👇👇

"Instead of offering supportive and compassionate pathways towards improved livelihoods, (these policies) have become a means for policing and punishing the poor 🔎 Read our related blog post by @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social) here: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

How do empathy and dignity reshape anti-poverty policy? Join @keetieroelen.bsky.social, @oucsgd.bsky.social at the Inequalities Seminar. 📚 Based on her book The Empathy Fix 📅 Feb 10th, 2026 📍 LSE Centre Building 2.04 and on Zoom Find out more: buff.ly/1VecjVM

Thought-provoking piece by my colleagues Julia Chukwuna and Kevin Deane with critical reflections on targeted #cashtransfers through lens of #coloniality . Based on research @oucsgd.bsky.social at @theopenuniverse.bsky.social in collaboration with @idos-research.bsky.social

How can we develop a more empathetic and dignified approach to anti-poverty and welfare policies? In our next seminar, @keetieroelen.bsky.social explores the double standards and myths that underpin attitudes to poverty. 💻️ Attend online: buff.ly/GgEC13T 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/fNtpaAX

What can the lens of #empathy bring to understanding #poverty and #policies that seek to tackle it? . Excited to be holding seminar next week at @lseinequalities.bsky.social . 10 February 12.30 GMT - in person or online . 👉 www.ticketleap.events/tickets/iiil...

Great to see our research on experiences of living im new estates in #MiltonKeynes making #BBCnews once more . @openuniversity.bsky.social @oucsgd.bsky.social #CommunityActionMK . BBC News - Milton Keynes residents 'cut off by lack of transport links' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thrilled to receive Josh Seim’s new book THE WELFARE ASSEMBLY LINE. This is the BEST book on the administration and delivery of welfare programs I’ve read in years. Totally changed how I think we should think about the delivery of social services. www.ucpress.edu/books/the-we...

About 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago - @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

🚨 Social protection isn’t just about the future. Colonial legacies and postcolonial power still shape who is protected - and who is left behind. ✍️ New blog: Social protection and coloniality 👉 buff.ly/g1VzvmK 📚 First post in a new #BlogSeries @openuniversity.bsky.social

"While poverty rates and the contexts in which they play out are different across country contexts, there is one common denominator in the existence of poverty and the stagnating fight against it: a lack of empathy." ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

What happens when education works WITH communities, not around them? . This story of PLACE in Tees Valley offers an insight! . Lots here for anyone interested in place-based working, collaboration, and impact beyond the school gates . www.teesvalleyeducation.co.uk/place-impact... . #PLACE #TVEd

Delighted to drop this #podcast episode of @povertyunpacked.bsky.social with Dutch MP @esmahlahlah.bsky.social 🇳🇱 about how to change #welfare towards #trust #dignity and #solidarity . 👉 poverty-unpacked.org/2026/01/18/e...

Good news - let's hope that people needing this #cash don't have to jump through multiple stressful and undignified hoops to get it . BBC News - Government to offer cash payouts for people in financial crisis - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why do we need #empathy to tackle #poverty? . Read my new blog post for @eadi.bsky.social on the need to place #dignity #trust #empathy front and centre in anti-poverty policy. . 👉 www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

"If we want to move the needle on stagnating poverty rates, we need anti-poverty policies that break rather than reinforce the cycle of blame and shame. For this, we need empathy." ✍️ @oucsgd.bsky.social's @keetieroelen.bsky.social in our first blog of the year www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

Super chuffed with this endorsement for #TheEmpathyFix from amazing writer and columnist Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social 🤩

Social development organisation #QuietNetherlands have a unique approach to softening #poverty . Learn more from its founder and director in Episode 52! . 👉 poverty-unpacked.org/2025/12/14/e...

Excellent piece about Dutch #digital #ID and grave concerns about who holds control over #data - plus implications for #UK . By @georginasturge.bsky.social . #DigID

Efforts to tackle homelessness in 2026 will see the Vagrancy Act finally scrapped. But politicians must make it more than a symbolic gesture.

2025 >> 6 insightful conversations @povertyunpacked.bsky.social #podcast . 👉 tackling #homelessness 👉 organising to fight #poverty 👉 #solutions to #childpoverty 👉 #disadvantage in #schools 👉 #housing policy 👉 #softening poverty through #community . poverty-unpacked.org

The Empathy Fix is recommended by @projectsyndicate.bsky.social in their newsletter this week 🤩 . #empathy #poverty #socialchange #bookrecommendation . 👇👇👇

Submit your paper to #DSA2026 on topics below AND new ways of understanding and tackling #poverty . Deadline 30 December . 👇👇

📢 PODCAST ALERT! 🎧 . Time for another #PovertyUnpacked chat! . This month: 👉 #childpoverty @unicef.org 👉 #welfare and #farright @olivierdeschutter.bsky.social 👉 #psychosocial interventions and #agency by Catherine Thomas et al 👉 #housing @theconversation.com . poverty-unpacked.org/2025/12/01/e...

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel Innovating Methods to Find (G)local Solutions for Global Challenges Conv. by Laura Camfield (@kings-sga.bsky.social) & @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social) 📍 @iobua.bsky.social www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Join me in #Edinburgh on Saturday 29 November for a conversation on how #empathy is crucial in tackling #poverty . Tickets free, register via Eventbrite . 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-empath...

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel: What’s next for analysing, understanding and tackling poverty? 📍 @iobua.bsky.social Conv. by @keetieroelen.bsky.social ( @oucsgd.bsky.social ) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

If we want to tackle #poverty, we need to start trusting people in poverty - my #opinion piece for @volkskrant.nl in Netherlands Lees dit artikel op de Volkskrant www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Poverty increases household stress, draining caregivers' time and access to vital services. . This leaves #children more vulnerable to #mentalhealth challenges and #violence. . Join Global Coalition to End Child Poverty on 17O Oct for the #IDEP2025 webinar 👉 shorturl.at/bSb1R . #EndChildPoverty

My thoughts on things #poverty in last month >> newest episode @povertyunpacked.bsky.social 👇

Challenges faced in new #housing estates is an issue that resonated with many, as responses to #BBC coverage of our research at #OpenUniversity made clear . Delays to/ lack of #services #amenities #publictransport lead to #isolation and undermine #community, especially for residents on #lowincome

Proud to see Dr @keetieroelen.bsky.social featured in this BBC piece on building community in new housing estates—part of our work with Community Action: MK via Open Societal Challenges, @openuniversity.bsky.social 🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93dzy2941eo 💡 povertyinmk #ResearchImpact #CommunityLed

Fantastic to see our research on living on #lowincome in new #housing estates in #MiltonKeynes on #BBC today . New estates require more than brick and mortar - they need #publictransport #services and #community . www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✨ What inspires us to become who we are? Join @oucsgd.bsky.social at @openuniversity.bsky.social for an online seminar with futurist Shakil Ahmed 📅 Thurs 25 Sept | 🕥 10:30–12:00 BST 💭 Explore origin stories & futures thinking 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1658915985... #FuturesStudies #Storytelling

📢 Trinity College Dublin is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology. Full-time, fixed-term role (maternity cover). Early career researchers, including those who’ve just submitted, completed, or are about to complete their PhD are welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 6, 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOP688/a...

How can #empathy and #experience shine light on #rights of people in #poverty . Join this webinar @atd4thworld.bsky.social on 2 October where I will be in conversation with youth activist Kaydence . And more! . All welcome - sign up here 👇 . www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/atd-fourth...

Want to be inspired as new #school year #UK gets underway? . Check out my conversation with @thatpovertyguy.bsky.social for lots of insight and practical suggestions on addressing #poverty and #hardship in school and beyond . 👇👇

Perfect example of how those with deeper pockets also benefit from support provided by the government... i.e. taxpayers' money It's not just 'people on benefits' #debunkingmyths #doublestandards Electric cars eligible for £3,750 discount announced - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tickets for Berwick Literary Festival @berwicklitfest now on sale! 📚 🎟 . Join me on Sunday 12 October for a conversation about how #empathy is vital for tackling #socialinjustice, including #poverty . I'll be speaking about my book #TheEmpathyFix 📗 and more! . berwickliteraryfestival.com