📸 Community Insights Exhibition Inverclyde Launching today, we share young people’s lived experiences of finding work in Inverclyde. Created with Project SEARCH it brings real voices into conversations about policy, opportunity, & health. Open to all Parklea Community Hub, Port Glasgow until 28 Feb

New @centrehealthpolicy.bsky.social blog by @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & me summarises what lived experience insights show us that traditional research evidence misses about housing and health: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/c...

I'm really pleased to see this work published. Working alongside colleagues at Scottish Parliament has been a great experience and massive thanks to everyone involved. spice-spotlight.scot/2025/11/05/g...

Enhancing Policy Through Lived Experience in Scottish Parliament

Discover how the Scottish Parliament utilizes lived experience in policy-making, enhancing public participation and understanding crucial issues.

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Our new analysis shows how many children could be lifted out of poverty by 2029/30 if the two-child limit on Universal Credit would be abolished: England: 626,022 children Scotland: 51,036 children Wales: 54,722 children NI: 9,791 children #EndChildPoverty

This week @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & are presenting at the Scottish Government's Public Participation Learning Network our paper on lived experience as evidence. Info on the paper available here in this SKAPE @uoe-sps.bsky.social blog: www.skape.ed.ac.uk/skape-lived-...

New paper with @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social finds housing 3Cs (context, cost, condition) are recognised by researchers, policymakers & publics but only lived experience accounts centre a 4th C—control: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Thanks to everyone who has already read and engaged with mine and @haylesben.bsky.social new paper ‘Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective’ Thought I'd give a summary of the paper here, I've found it useful when others have done this, so here goes

This is great- particularly ‘just basically not being a dick’ - we could do with a bit more of that all round!

Ariadne Vromen@ariadnevromen.bsky.social · last yr.

Love this cartoon from the brilliant @fionakatauskas.bsky.social ❤️ hopefulness ❤️

Help please: we're trying to recruit some more parent research participants in Scotland for our #FamilyFinances project. Specifically: parents who are receiving #UniversalCredit and #ScottishChildPayment and who have at least one baby (0-12months) in the household. Can you help spread the word?

It's publication day! Very excited to share this article co-authored with @haylesben.bsky.social Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

I'm delighted that this paper has been accepted. @haylesben.bsky.social and I started discussing the ideas in the paper many, many moons ago. Two babies, three reviewers, two rounds of revisions and lots of coffee (me) and tea (Hayley) later I'm excited to be to share this asap!

Dr Hayley Bennett@haylesben.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited that a paper @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & I have written has been accepted by Policy & Politics journal. "Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policymaking: a governance-driven perspective" hopefully we can share e-prints later this month. Lots of work & we're very happy!

Delighted to be joining the Exec Committee of the Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social I've been lucky enough to benefit from involvement in the SPA over the years and excited to get into the work of supporting our great Social Policy community.

Urban Studies & Social Policy@uofgussp.bsky.social · last yr.

Hats off! 3️⃣ of our team just got elected at the Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social AGM 2025 💪 @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social was elected as Exec Committee Member 👏 @serena-pattaro.bsky.social & @markwong.bsky.social as Editorial Board Members for the Journal of Social Policy 🙌

Last morning of @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social conference and what a few days it’s been! Returning to Glasgow feeling grateful for fantastic colleagues and the important work they are doing #york2025

Delighted to be at @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social - a packed programme with lots of fantastic looking options. Been a struggle to choose which sessions to attend #york2025

Dr Hayley Bennett@haylesben.bsky.social · last yr.

Kicking off the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social conference at York #york2025 with @aroumpakis.bsky.social & @enricoreuter.bsky.social giving the welcome speeches

More from me on my work exploring the role of lived experience in the Scottish Parliament. Some early findings I recently presented to parliament staff spice-spotlight.scot/2025/06/25/g...

Guest blog: Where does lived experience sit in the work of the Parliament?

This guest blog gives introduces and shares interim findings from a SPICe fellowship by Dr Clementine Hill O’Conner (University of Glasgow) on the role of lived experience within scrutiny at …

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New #openaccess publication in Youth & Society: Based on focus group research, this paper explores how young people politically active for #ClimateChange, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and #queerfeminism think about personal, collective and institutional agency. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“It’s Like Getting Someone Who’s Been Hit by a Car to Run a Speed Awareness Course”: How Young Activists in the UK Make Sense of Personal, Collective and Institutional Agency - Silvia Behrens, 2025

Current research into youth activism places emphasis on agency, but few empirical studies have looked into how the perception of agency impacts young people’s e...

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🚌 Deadline 5pm tomorrow! We all need freedom to travel - but too often our buses are too dear for people on low incomes and don't take them where they need to go. We support public control and ownership of our bus services - you can too! www.getglasgowmoving.org/campaign/srbs/

Really pleased to be able to share this intro to my research as part of an Academic Fellowship with Scottish Parliament. I'm in the midst of data generation and analysis at the moment so was good to return to my initial ideas and motivation. Watch this space for more outputs over the coming months

UofG Centre for Public Policy@uofgpolicy.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: How do lived experience perspectives impact decisions in the Scottish Parliamentary process?💡🗣️ @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social writes about her research which aims to better understand how this evidence is used and how it influences policy decision making. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... 1/2

Check out our newest blog reflecting on our most recent piece of research on social care. The findings of the research highlight urgent challenges in pay, retention & recognition of care as vital, skilled work. A message that's worth repeating this week. www.swbg.org.uk/news/blog/vo...

Just announced by a coalition of Glasgow groups - lunchtime protest outside the local office of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, opposing their call for trans segregation. Friday 2nd May, 12pm-2pm.

Advertising new @unistrathclyde.bsky.social PhD studentship (covers fees + stipend), as part of new ESRC Centre @equalise.bsky.social. We've kept the application as broad as possible as we're keen to support someone to undertake research that they have designed: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... 1/2

[OPEN-ACCESS] Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce & Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our latest issue, on challenges to global community development practice in the Second Trump Era, on bottom-up organising and information-sharing, and the excellent content available in this issue #CDJ #Editorial

Community development in the second Trump era

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Fantastic funded PhD opportunity @uofgussp.bsky.social with two incredibly supportive supervisors @profellenstu.bsky.social and Prof Sotiria Grek

Ellen Stewart@profellenstu.bsky.social · last yr.

Just advertised, funded PhD available in @uofgussp.bsky.social to study city arts festivals, public engagement & policy. Part of Prof Sotiria Grek's exciting POLART ERC award, and I'll be second supervisor. A great interdisciplinary PhD opportunity in our thriving Division. tinyurl.com/4zjktmvy

No government or court ruling can legitimately decide who I am - or, indeed, who I am not.

"In every system that tried to erase us, we created new forms of life" - Dinah Bons

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · last yr.

The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.

And here is the second thread that is a useful read as we try and work out what on earth all this means.

Harvey Humphrey@harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · last yr.

Trans academics, lawyers, word nerds, (I am not a lawyer but I do research about words and language) does anyone else think the definition of “biological sex” the judgement adopts (‘Terminology’ section) in para.7 of “the sex of a person at birth” is not consistently applied in para. 172? 🧵/1

One of two threads that I have read today that is helping me get my head around what all this means. My heart is heavy and send love to everyone impacted by this ruling.

In response to today's supreme court ruling, we want to urge any researcher in Trans Histories to consider a proposal to our new Queer & Trans Histories series - because research into Trans histories will help to shape Trans futures: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer... #TransRights

Deadline for this fully funded PhD opportunity is 5pm on 10th April. Great chance to work with @profsharonwright.bsky.social and @charlp.bsky.social and me!

Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 2y ago

Funded PhD @uofgussp.bsky.social with Professor Sharon Wright, Professor Charlotte Pearson (and me!) - Exploring the Lived Experience of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability. Deadline 10 April - please get in touch if you want to discuss this opportunity www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...

And while I’m recommending reading- take a look at this. I think lessons for all of us in academia whether we are directly involved in doctoral supervision or not. Care and collegiality is key and feels like an increasingly radical act

Kay Guccione@kayguccione.bsky.social · 2y ago

“The absence of care during doctoral education in neoliberalised academia is a form of violence (Castelao-Huerta, 2025).” Here’s a new 5min read by Isaura Castelao-Huerta bringing a number of her recent papers together. supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/f...