If you're in the UK I'm going to be on Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (Tues 17 Feb) afternoon - talking about gentrification in Detroit and London with the wonderful Laurie Taylor and @sjccorn.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

👌 venue to give a book talk - thanks to @britishacademy.bsky.social and their 'Lates' evening on the theme of the 'Age of Self'. www.debt-trap-nation.org/book

Such an important question here from @paulabarkermp.bsky.social on the number of people over 65 owed a statutory homelessness prevention and relief duty by local authorities in England since July 2024. As ever with these answers, no direct answer!

Brilliant to see this out!

Incredible to see @changingrealities.bsky.social named as one of the @bigissue.com Change Makers. So much more change to be made & no one better to do it with than the over 200 parents we work with and @cpaguk.bsky.social & @lshtm.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk

Ministers “treading very carefully” on SEND: “MPs are aware parents fear any legal rights erosion with an active campaign underway, Save Our Children's Rights "…if a parent shows their child has fewer rights today than yesterday, it'll be the killer blow" www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It takes a village... Welcoming 4 MSc students into research fold – supporting 2 England-wide FOI requests. 🔎 💷 Debt & homelessness 🔎 🧸 Neurodivergent children in temporary accommodation The data is important for our evidencing and influencing work together with @sharedhealthgm.bsky.social

Latest in ‘nothing works anymore’ news. Colleague went to issue an interim injunction application at a County Court for an urgent emergency hazard under Awaab’s Law (where the landlord should make safe in 24 hours). Given a hearing date in two week’s time.

Today I had the pleasure of giving a book talk at Cardiff University on Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State On my walk there I passed the Mother and Son / Mam a Mab statue by Robert Thomas (1963) – a beautiful piece that felt fitting for a book about family & mothering ❤️

🌟 Thrilled to share some exciting news 🌟 I have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which I will be carrying out at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social in collaboration with @kbrickell.bsky.social, Westminster City Council, and @justinkadi.bsky.social. More details here ⤵️

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs. This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Yesterday in Parliament we launched the report: “It’s Like Torture”: Life in Temporary Accommodation for Neurodivergent Children and Their Families. 📖 www.sensorylivesproject.org/policy 📯Please share!

🚨 Major NEW research published today 🚨 Our book Unsung Britain reveals that squeezed families now face waiting more than a lifetime for the doubling of living standards we used to enjoy every 40 years. Full findings here 👉 buff.ly/7WcqrbQ

Grateful to The Landmark Trust for the space + time to come together through their "Futures" programme to prepare for the parliamentary launch of our report today. 📘 Report: www.sensorylivesproject.org/policy 💡 Landmark Futures: www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved... Highly recommend applying!

Some colleagues in my old department in Trondheim are recruiting a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and/or STS on the "Imagining Positive Energy Futures" project. 3 years, fully funded. Norway's a good place to do a PhD and Trondheim's a nice place to live!

“Children living in homes with wood burners could be exposed to over three times more pollution than those in non-wood-burning homes.” Article by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/06/children-living-homes-wood-burners-exposed-pollution

If you were interested in @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to the “Sullivan Review” yesterday, make sure you read @kevinguyan.bsky.social’s very recently published “Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⚠️ Government has got it wrong, scrapping flooring from the Decent Homes Standard. 💷 When a home comes without floors, it comes with debt – esp. for people after homelessness + domestic abuse. Read more on my thoughts @insidehousing.bsky.social www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/chariti...

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

A question on #TemporaryAccommodation #Neurodiversity tabled by Adam Dance on 27-01-2026 has been answered by Alison McGovern. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-01-27/108930

Helpful thread here on UKRI + strategy. Vital in any cross-disciplinary calls that arts, humanities + social sciences have a central and transformative role, and hopefully aren't seen as 'service sciences' stuck on at the end of the pipe to assess public opinion or 'convince' the public about tech.

Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

⚠️ What is happening to neurodivergent children in temporary accommodation is a SAFEGUARDING FAILURE ⚠️ 📕 'It's like torture' report: www.sensorylivesproject.org/policy 🗞️ Read our Inside Housing "comment": www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/we-n...

Good grief. Do people who don't go to uni not benefit from doctors, librarians, researchers, lawyers, architects, artists, writers, archivists, historians, designers, programmers, etc etc etc...? What is this weird unjoined up world she imagines?

⏰ This Friday ⏰ Do come to this @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social event if you are interested to learn more about the links between problem debt and homelessness. I'll be speaking about my book "Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State". www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/homelessne...

The housing crisis is killing us.

My book Feeling at Home is out in paperback today! It's a call for a more radical struggle for housing and a transformed vision of home www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... @versobooks.bsky.social

“It’s like torture”: our new report reveals how Temporary Accommodation is harming neurodivergent children and families across the UK. Based on a nationwide call for evidence, it sets out urgent policy asks for change. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Geographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.

CfP for @rgsibg.bsky.social annual conference just dropped! Organised by @geogdurham.bsky.social 's Leah Edwards and myself: The Family as Site of Environmental Politics. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Last week, @rosalie-warnock.bsky.social and I met Oliver Persey (Barrister, @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social) to discuss our research on experiences of neurodivergent children in Temporary Accommodation. A key topic – speed is a justice issue, particularly for children moved out of area.

Hello Bluesky! We’re the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Follow us here for department news, events, research highlights, and opportunities. 🔗 lse.ac.uk/geography-and-environment

In "When Home Is a Photograph," Leigh Raiford asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world through an exploration of the practices of Black American activists and artists. #BlackStudies Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/lMkphrj

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals. What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

172,000 children in UK are homeless - Dan Hewitt from ITV outlining this is a systemic, political choice and @kwajo.bsky.social that the narrative shift to see housing as an asset not an essential at heart of crisis @kbrickell.bsky.social @policyatkings.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

I’m determined to help London’s families cope with the cost of living and help put more money back into household budgets. That’s why I’m investing £2.2 million to ensure parents and carers across the capital can access the support that they’re entitled to but aren't receiving.

Excessive heat is a serious problem in quite a few new build flats/blocks. But this is definitely not the ‘first time a claim has been filed’ for excessive heat under fitness for human habitation. We’ve got a few underway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looking forward to chairing the panel discussion with such brilliant speakers at tomorrow's event on child homelessness. What question would you ask the panellists @kwajo.bsky.social @danielhewittitv.bsky.social ? 🎟️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/no-pl...

New campaign urges Starmer not to diminish legal rights of Send children

This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."

If you’re looking to update your cities content for 2026, there’s lots of great urbanists in this list!

StepChange's website had 3,958 visitors on Christmas Day, and 15,401 on New Year's Eve and 1 January combined.

The @britishacademy.bsky.social are kicking off their season on 'The Age of Self?' with a fantastic LATE event on 12 February. It’s open to all. 🎟️ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a... As part of it, I'll be talking about 'Homeless Families, Stigmatised Mothers: Survival in the age of self'

🧸 ‘It’s Like Torture’: Life in Temporary Accommodation for Neurodivergent Children and their Families 🧸 Yesterday I met with our @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social partner, @sharedhealthgm.bsky.social in Oldham, to finalise publication of our hard-hitting report, out 27 January. More to follow...

"The junkification of research" "Our essay explores the political economy of academic publishing ... in terms of how the commodification of academic research has opened avenues for the same mechanisms that underpin the deterioration of digital marketplaces to infiltrate online academic publishing."

Start the year with compassion & empathy. And with a commitment to go further for lasting change on child poverty. Please read & share this powerful blog from Beauty, a mother and campaigner working with us on @changingrealities.bsky.social