The NHS 10 Year Health Plan will only succeed with strong management and leadership. Our new long read with @unibirmingham.bsky.social explores why management matters, and what needs to change to help leaders deliver better care. Read more: bit.ly/437AuPW

Never too old to enjoy a sparkler on Bonfire Night

Interested in applying for our DPhil in Translational Health Sciences? Dr Laiba Husain, our first ever student to complete the DPhil, shares her experiences on the programme, how the DPhil has contributed to her career so far, and about her journey pre-DPhil in her blog here: ow.ly/gOkg50Xj6aw

📉 Calling all chart enthusiasts! 📢 The Resolution Foundation is hiring 👀 This is a rare opportunity to join our senior leadership team and take forward our work on productivity and growth. Applications close in a little over two weeks ⤵️ buff.ly/x40DZV1

Post-strike pay slip

UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!

The marketisation of higher education has been an abject failure, writes Prof Avi Shankar www.theguardian.com/education/20...

New qualitative (health services research) post with my old pal @gemhughes.bsky.social in Leicester. Good team, fun project jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/12...

This week's slightly delayed post is about #metonymy. I collected examples on my travels to Oxford, from a coffee cup to the White House. #linguistics makingsciencepublic.com/2025/10/26/a...

"It is in this random way that the universe is returned to its benign and hopeful axis, a reminder that you never know who you will meet on a picket line and how much that will mean. " New blog post from a colleague in the School of Business: www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo...

Why is research participation in free fall? Some thoughts, on @bsaecf.bsky.social @costoflivingblog.bsky.social Blog www.cost-ofliving.net/just-saying-...

Sharp observations

"Striking isn't just about disrupting operations; it's a costly signal of commitment to fair working conditions. By withholding cooperation, workers force a renegotiation of terms." www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

@bnerlich.bsky.social hi @jackiewalumbe.bsky.social you might like these blogs/ this work

A quick overview of our industrial action: What we are doing, why we are doing it, and how you can support us.

Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...

“I will tell you, my daughter, of your worth”

We are outraged by the findings of this evening’s BBC Panorama investigation into the Metropolitan Police. There can be no other logical conclusion than that the Met Police is irredeemable. A statement from us 👇 www.runnymedetrust.org/news/the-met...

Are you ready to join us on the pickets? Check out our activities for week 1, starting tomorrow:

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.

In London, hate will never win.

Ooh - my new paper on case study is out! What’s a case study, how do you do one, how do you spot a good one? Includes niche examples like the REF impact case study (though it’s mainly about research case studies).

In today's post I take a proposal by Alondra Nelson for AI ELSI as a springboard to reflect on obstacles and opportunities for community engagement with AI makingsciencepublic.com/2025/09/19/p...

David Walsh and I will be presenting the findings of our book, 'Social Murder? Austerity and life expectancy in the UK', at the Scottish Parliament at 6pm on Tuesday 16th September. If you'd like to come, message me and we can add you to the invitation list!

I’m constantly referring to this book as a (witty and well-written) explainer to anyone I have a conversation with about AI

Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐

'The Swimmer', wooden sculpture by contemporary New York based sculptor Stefanie Rocknak #womensart #Monday

Fom the 'Water Women' series by Sonia Alins, contemporary Spanish artist and illustrator #WomensArt

Out of office

Growth or bust. The one where the purpose of the NHS is to rescue capitalism: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/an...

It’s easy to see Trump’s health policies as a problem mostly for Americans, but there are some big direct and indirect effects Europe is going to need to face 1/4

"Educational polarization, opposition to vaccines, strong radical right parties, elite political dysfunction, aggressive misinformation, and xenophobia might have produced a particularly combustible situation in the United States, but they are all international."

"US science has been world-leading for decades, driving global innovation. It is currently being attacked and systematically destroyed by its own government through defunding, gutting of agencies and attacking universities." New paper from @chrischirp.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com...

An attack on science is an attack on everyone. Excellent piece on the meaning of what is happening.

A new editorial by me on the global implications of Trump's war on science - apart from the devastating cuts to global health, we must urgently build a more distributed science infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

What does the Trump administration mean for health services research and policy? @chrischirp.bsky.social gives an international perspective in this new editorial journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Important editorial published today from @scottlgreer.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

‘ Lots of what. Decidedly less of the how’. ‘There are plenty of good ideas, not many of them new’. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/nhs-...

My @bmj_latest piece this week Hard to distil 150 pages to 800 words - can never cover it all. So i will do a follow up on implications for medical workforce David Oliver: The NHS 10 year plan—more a set of ambitions than a plan www.bmj.com/content/390/...

So happy to say that our AI review paper has now been published in the Lancet eClinicalMedicine! Link below: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW: calling all those interested in use of #AI in #healthcare. Our review of use of AI in radiology diagnostics published in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Accompanying blog 'Curb your enthusiasm' www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/cu... @emmajourno.bsky.social

“I think that clothes show how we feel about ourselves and how we feel about life. If you wear something that you can move in and that you can feel attractive in, I think you feel much better about yourself, and I think you get things done faster.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/s...

Quick plug for our workshop starting in a few mins!!!

Really enjoying this presentation - fab use of sociological theory to make sense of health services