Social Infrastructure in Context. International online symposium by the Social Infrastructure Research Group. Speakers: B. De Carli (Sheffield), J. Penny (UCL) and D. Ay (Bern), with intro by @alessiodangelo.bsky.social Follow the link for info and to book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-inf...

Social Infrastructure in Context

Understandings, experiences, and approaches. International online symposium by the Social Infrastructure Research Group (SIRGd)

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#Ethics in #SocialPolicy Research: what is it, how has it changed and why does it matter more than ever before? Latest blog by Colin Clark and me to introduce the new Social Policy Association (SPA) Code of Ethics. social-policy.org.uk/news/blog-no...

Blog: Not Just a Form to Fill In: Why the SPA’s New Code of Ethics Matters for Social Policy Research - Social Policy Association

Professor Colin Clark (University of the West of Scotland) and Professor Alessio D’Angelo (University of Derby) Ethics is not what happens before the research begins. [...]

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📣 Community and Social Infrastructure Conference - Research Impact as a Transformative Practice🏙️ Join us at the University of #Derby on 22/9 for this first public event of SIRG:D ( #SocialInfrastructure Research Group). For info and booking follow the link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...

CONFERENCE COMMUNITY & SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES

Community and Social Infrastructures: Research Impact as Transformative Practice. Join us at the University of Derby. Cavendish Campus.

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Huge congrats to @drdavidpatton.bsky.social 🎉for being awarded Researcher of the Year / Recovery Advocate at the Deidre Boyd Conference in London! David's work champions lived experience, and has supported 50 authors via New Central Media, redefining who gets to be seen as a knowledge creator.

Congratulations to Prof Nick Blagden and co-authors on this publication - a sensitive and methodologically rigorous piece of research making a genuinely important contribution to understanding intrafamilial offending. Well worth a read for anyone working in forensic/clinical contexts. bit.ly/4xUQeTW

Join us on May 8th for the launch of "Connecting Solidarities" - An exhibition Celebrating 30 Years of the #Derby Bosnia Herzegovina Community Association. This is part of an AHRC project by Larissa Allwork, Giulia Levi and @alessiodangelo.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting...

CONNECTING SOLIDARITIES Exhibition Launch

Connecting Solidarities, an exhibition celebrating 30 years of the Derby Bosnia Herzegovina Community Association (DBHCA).

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We're delighted to celebrate a milestone for one of our colleagues. On Friday, Kirsty Teague successfully passed her viva and is now officially Dr Teague. Completing a doctorate is a huge undertaking and the whole of CASSPPR is very proud. Congratulations Dr Teague - a brilliant achievement!🎉

2 years of #CASSPPR and counting! Yesterday we came together for a celebration of the amazingly diverse, impactful and groundbreaking research undertaken by our team - including academic staff and PhD students.

Last Friday we came together for another inspiring, though-provoking and seriously diverse conference of #IPHIR: the Interdisciplinary Partnership on Health Inequalities and Race. Find out more on iphir.wordpress.com

2 years of #CASSPPR and counting! Yesterday we came together for a celebration of the amazingly diverse, impactful and groundbreaking research undertaken by our team - including academic staff and PhD students.

If there is suspected human trafficking, police must investigate - this can otherwise violate victims’ defence that they’re a victim of trafficking under section 45 of ECHR. And this also means that article 6, right to a fair trial, has also been violated. This resulted in a £65k fine in this case.

Two cases Bernie Gravett worked on:

There are about eight bodies that can refer to the NRM. When cases are added, an automatic email is sent to the relevant police force for the reported case.

A reminder that if consent is fraudulently obtained, it’s not consent. #MSHT

…And we’re back. Bernie Gravett, who runs Specialist Policing Consultancy, is just starting a second #ModernSlavery & #HumanTrafficking presentation, this one with a focus for professionals.

Human trafficking is a serious crime and can be a life sentence. However, police try to get the trafficked person to say they’re trafficked which they are unlikely to admit to or even understand. Police need to use all the other evidence available outside of victim testimony. #HumanTrafficking

Many ways to control kids, not just use of explicit force - conversations in the margins are letting kids overhear discussion about how you have harmed other people for example #HumanTrafficking

So many ways that people can be exploited: construction labour, agricultural work, sex work, selling drugs, organ harvesting… #MSHT #HumanTrafficking

For #CountyLines, there are a lot of psychological coercion tactics that are employed by the traffickers - victims may look free, but it’s not the case, threats, debt bondage, etc all coerce the victim. #HumanTrafficking

The means of exploitation or trafficking can be varied, it might not look like trafficking to others #MSHT

The Palermo Protocol is not an easy to understand piece of legislation for most people. Bernie explains it more simply here. #MSHT

Most people’s understanding of #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking is from television and movies. And it’s not accurate…

Bernie Gravett giving us a potted history of drug trafficking before launching into discussions #MSHT #DerbyUni

Just about to start the expert seminar, “Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking in the UK Today” with Bernie Gravett. #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking #MSHT

Looking forward to tomorrow's expert seminar with Tracy Bradford, exploring the issue of Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking (MSHT). This is such an important conversation to have as MSHT thrives in silence. #MSHT #ModernSlavery #HumanTrafficking #Criminology #DerbyUni

The 4th Networking Conference of IPHIR (Interdisciplinary Partnership on #Health #Inequalities and Race) will take place on February 27th at the University of #Derby. Registrations are open and call for papers is out (deadline: January 18th). All the details on: iphir.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/4...

Fourth IPHIR Networking Conference: Free tickets and call for papers

Book your free tickets for the IPHIR conference below: Call for papers: IPHIR 2026 – Call for papersDownload

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"Please sir, can we have some more social justice?" Join us tomorrow at #Derby Theatre to talk about this latest Oliver Twist production, what Dicken's novel can still tell us about child poverty, and what the future of social mobility looks like in Derby. derbytheatre.co.uk/programme/fr...

From Dickens to Derby: Poverty, Power and Compassion Today - PANEL DISCUSSION - Derby Theatre

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Last week we had the pleasure of hosting a symposium on "Delivering Social Infrastructure", an exciting opportunity to bring together practitioners and researchers to explore approaches, methods and models of delivery, in the context of current policy interventions and societal challenges.

It's great to see the @socialpolicyblog.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Follow for insightful #SocialPolicy analysis from @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social authors and more!

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We’re now live on Bluesky! And we're back online and preparing for a full re-launch next week! We’re the companion blog to the SPA's journals — Journal of Social Policy, Social Policy & Society, and Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy. Follow us here and at socialpolicyblog.co.uk

📝 New publication out! Our co-authored article with Pia Falschebner "Navigating Non-Transition: Grassroots Victim–Survivor Mobilization and the Pursuit of Transitional Justice in Turkey and Morocco" is now out with the Journal of Human Rights Practice. academic.oup.com/jhrp/article...