"It’s important that working-class people who occupy positions of authority, or who have a public platform acknowledge how the politics of respectability work, and firmly reject methods to control working class people through judgement and shaming." journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/wo...

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Israel is a nuclear armed genocidal rogue state. It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West. Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV. Here's what I said this morning.

NEW: UK Government staff have been told to resign if they disagree with Labour's Israel policy. It comes after 300 staff warned Labour are aiding 'the erosion of global norms' by supporting Israel despite law breaches

Looking for a full-time post doc to join the PCPH team 🙌 leading on co-design and a feasibility study for management of MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Please share 🙏 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Why is there always money for war, but never for the poor? I know which side I’m on.

Pride is a protest 🌈 Happy pride month ❤️

Looking for a full-time post doc to join the PCPH team 🙌 leading on co-design and a feasibility study for management of MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Please share 🙏 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3

"Just one more thing, Mr Farage, you want to lift the child benefit cap so people can have more kids. But I thought we were full?"

This is what our governments are facilitating.

Looking for a part-time research assistant to join my amazing team at UCL to develop and test a digital intervention for MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Someone with mixed-methods experience would be ideal! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Great discussions at our Centre for Ageing Population Studies (CAPS) this week! We shared work on healthy ageing, Parkinson’s, dementia, carers & health inequalities. A pleasure to welcome Dr Jasmine Mah a geriatric medicine resident and post-doc fellow at Dalhousie University Halifax Canada !

Just finished watching Louis Theroux: The Settlers. It is truly truly horrifying. www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...

The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before

“You shouldn’t be indifferent”

Sunshine, drinks and lovely food with the wonderful @abiwoodward.bsky.social 🍸

"Morally repugnant" Labour www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’m old enough to remember when Angela Rayner mocked the use of “handouts” terminology against working class people and pointed out that it was corporations that really got the taxpayer funded handouts

This is not going to work out the way they think it will, but I feel deep sadness and solidarity for everyone caught in its cruel stupidity.

🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts. We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system. #StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive

10 years ago I completed a PhD to prove a council estate kid could do anything if just given the opportunity 🪜

👎 Only a fraction of medical students come from working class backgrounds, we have found. Our research shows that working-class people are still heavily underrepresented in medical profession, despite efforts to widen access.

Lecturer in Sociology | UCL - Faculty of Education and Society #Edujobs #EduSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI116/l...

Polly Toynbee 8 days apart. She should have just written one article that said: “If there have to be cuts, don’t let it affect me or anyone I know”

🌟 We're Hiring: Research Associate in Behavioural Epidemiology! 🌟 Lead a work package on Physical Activity Surveillance during Pregnancy as part of a UKRI-funded programme. 📅 Position: Postdoc (1.0 FTE, 4 years) 📆 Apply by: 17th April 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH390/r...

Keir Starmer & his Labour goons won't #TaxTheRich because they've been promised jobs worth £millions when the pendulum next swings to the (they hope) even further right If you don't believe me just look at Tony Blair and his luxury lifestyle soon after leaving office

#OtD 14 Mar 1883 Engels sent a wire to Friedrich Sorge saying simply "Marx died today!". Karl Marx died in London, aged 64. Marx's magnum opus, Capital, is still the most devastating critique of capitalist political economy. Works by and about him here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Karl Marx died on Mar. 14, 1883, in London at the age of 64. His critique of capitalism and vision of proletarian revolution articulated in The Communist Manifesto and Capital became the theoretical foundations of the working class and socialist movements. #KarlMarx

On international women’s day, a reminder, that if your feminism isn’t intersectional, it’s not real feminism

Love this article. A reminder International women’s day is a protest and celebration of all women not an opportunity to network. Give it a read 😊 tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/the-...

New collaborations on the horizon!

Lovely catch up and grant planning day with @ssarahbailey.bsky.social. Discussing all things cancer and deprivation. Here we are - just two Ass Profs on the beautiful Hampstead Heath 😎

Channel 4 on Tuesday, March 4 at 11.15pm

'No Other Land': Israeli-Palestinian film wins Oscar for best documentary feature - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-palestinian-film-no-other-land-wins-oscars-best-documentary-featur

Ramadan Mubarak! Wishing all our students and staff observing this holy month a time of peace, reflection, and spiritual growth. May this Ramadan bring you blessings, strength, and moments of togetherness. #RamadanMubarak #Ramadan2025

Students from working class backgrounds still make up only 5% of entrants to medical schools across the UK. This is what happens when widening participation is an activity rather than a central guiding mission. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“Students from working class backgrounds still only make up 5% of entrants to medical schools across the UK,a proportion that has doubled over the past decade” I wish someone would listen to the ways we continue to be disadvantaged way beyond being accepted to medical school #Inequalities baked in

📢 Participants Needed! Are you 21+ and living in the UK? Help us explore brain health & cognitive frailty by taking a short survey! 📍 Click the link or scan the QR code to participate. liveuclac-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

Congratulations to Professor Kate Walters and team on their latest publication! 📢 HomeHealth is highly likely to be cost-effective due to its impact on reducing unplanned hospital admissions. 👏👏https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266675682400196X

🎉 Congratulations! 🎉 Huge well done to Juan Carlos Bazo-Alvarez and all PCPH members—their article in @bjgp.bsky.social made the Top 10 list for 2024! 👏🎊 📖 Read it here: bjgp.org/content/74/7...

First day of my new job as an Associate Professor 😃 if you need me I’ll be associating with the Professors 💁🏼‍♀️

"I am an academic, a mother, no threat to anyone. Yet those I love have been injured and killed, and I have endured indescribable hardships". Thinking of Gaza today, #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

The WHO said Israel’s 'systematic dismantling' of Gaza’s health system is a 'death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians,' after Israeli forces stormed and burned Kamal Adwan Hospital and detained many of its staff. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/ojrpnn

A bug’s life - explains class consciousness to my 8 year old much better than I can ☺️

Fashion designer Katharine Hamnett throws her CBE away in disgust at the UK's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza.

UN Special Rapporteur EXPOSES Crime Of The Century

New publication exploring the role of #culturallyrelevant #socialprescribing in supporting Pakistani carers incl. complexities surrounding carer identity, family dynamics, #stigma, and lack of knowledge of social prescribing within #Pakistanicommunities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Saturday morning chats with Betty.

Really excited about these fantastic studentships at UCL. Happy to chat with anyone interested in applying (webinar on 5th Dec 12pm also): eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...