📢 New paper with @evemull.bsky.social & @jdev65.bsky.social - we examine which children come into contact with social workers when mothers experience domestic abuse — and which do not. Open access article 👉https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70112 @growingupinscot.bsky.social

Very honoured to be speaking at Child First Japan seminar on child death review, and the Barnahus approach @uoe-sps.bsky.social

Very interesting new book on domestic abuse by Valeria Skafida from @uoe-sps.bsky.social

Property porn with a difference: two children’s homes for sale, boasting an underlying profit margin of 48% (!!) despite being judged to require improvement to be good’

Born Connected: how Gen Z navigate their digital lives - contains powerful insights from young people across the UK ‪‪- take a look at this thread @donnamolloy.bsky.social @thecyberpsyche.bsky.social @internetmatters.bsky.social @youthfutures.bsky.social @childrenssociety.bsky.social @ncb.org.uk

BBC News - True cost of becoming a mum highlighted in new data on pay - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Very pleased to have joined @sallyannkelly1.bsky.social at celebrations to mark 150years of @aberlourcharity.bsky.social supporting children, young people and families in Scotland.

🌟 Join Us for an Informal GVRCN Meet-Up at ECDV 2025! 🌟 We are excited to host an informal lunch meet-up during the European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV)! 📅 When: 5th September 2025 🕧 Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM 🔗 Registration is required. More details shared soon. @jdev65.bsky.social

‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’

Apology for S Korean woman convicted of biting man's tongue as he attacked her www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

Keynote on involving children in research on trauma by the fantastic Prof Helen Beckett at the JUSWA conference.

Hotel view, Preston

Yesterday's view

Dr Isang Awah opening this year's staff and student conference with a keynote on cross-sector partnerships to advance child protection @uoe-sps.bsky.social @dspi-oxford.bsky.social #SWConfEd25

Vivien McCree on the use of oral history and auto/biography in social work research to investigate childcare history #SWConfEd25

Today's view - Tallinn, Estonia

JRF policy assistant roles. Of interest to social policy graduates perhaps? jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c...

A brilliant discussion at @uoe-sps.bsky.social on the role and use of AI in the social sciences.

@profharryferguson.bsky.social It will never be resolved 😅

Join us for this webcast hosted by the The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research in follow-up to 2023 webinar on state-of-the-art methodology in meta-analysis of single-case experimental designs (SCEDs). July 17 2-3:30pm ET ktdrr.org/training/web...

Aaaaand I think we're done here #TACO

Today's view- Kyoto, Japan

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Lotte Hoek Join us to celebrate Lotte Hoek's professorship at her inaugural lecture, titled 'For an anthropology of the screen'. Friday 9 May 4:15pm - 5:30pm Basement Lecture Theatre, Adam House Followed by a reception Book tickets here: edin.ac/3FQIL1O

View for today, New College, Edinburgh

Today's view in London

Proposed changes to disability benefits in UK are less about reform and more about rationing. A very limited and myopic approach to a complex issue - reform is needed, but this isn't it. BBC News - At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today's view

Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...

Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https://...

Michael Kiwanuka in Edinburgh tonight 13 years to the day of the release of his first album

The first signs of spring

Today's view from Singapore

Technology, harms and security in public and personal life Feb 14, 3pm - 5.30pm Part of CONTROVERSIES in the DATA SOCIETY Seminar Series Hybrid seminar Info and Booking: https://bit.ly/CDS-Technology

Pleased to be at an event to mark the first anniversary celebration of the University of Edinburgh Education Beyond Borders programme, supporting displaced students to achieve postgraduate degrees. @uoe-sps.bsky.social

it feels like we’re in the middle of a shift from accommodation (through corporate ‘social responsibility’ and sustainability initiatives) to more confrontational forms of corporate power Coca-Cola backtracking on plastic pollution; BP and Shell scaling back net zero commitment and now this

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

Chair of child sexual abuse inquiry calls Tory response ‘awful, inconsequential’

Domestic abuse charity @refugecharity.bsky.social has appointed Gemma Sherrington as its new CEO. With over 20 years in the sector, including as interim CEO of Save the Children, she vows to fight the “intolerable epidemic” of violence against women and girls ⬇️

Tonight's view - Caen, Normandy, France

Once again, we should not be taking insight into grooming/rape gangs from a man who had a child with his stepdaughter whom he helped raise from the age of FOUR...

Delighted to be at the 24th ICSD conference at Rajagirri College of Social Sciences in Kochin, India

I can’t love this more.

The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news. This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them. Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda

An important, but depressing statistic to end the year on - and every number is a life cut short, usually by a man known to them: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Merry Christmas from Edinburgh 🎄

I knew it!!!! The socks!!!

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