Megan Armstrong
@drmegs.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Primary Care Research @UCL-PrimaryCare.bsky.social Passionate about reducing health inequalities. A socialist and a bit East London. Free Palestine 🍉
Evidence for health promotion interventions to improve cognitive and physical functioning outcomes in older adults with MCI: A state-of-the-art review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ucl-caps.bsky.social @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social @drmegs.bsky.social @tasminrookes.bsky.social
"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...
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...
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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/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Why is there always money for war, but never for the poor? I know which side I’m on.
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/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
ucl.ac.uk
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?"
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/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
ucl.ac.uk
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...
Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a deathly warning
In this documentary, Theroux allows ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers to speak with perfect openness. It is chilling.
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The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before
The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before
The documentarian manages to stay calm and polite as guns are repeatedly pointed at him in the West Bank. Then someone shoves him …
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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.
Sky News@news.sky.com · last yr.World Athletics to introduce mandatory sex testing for female competitions
🚨 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.
Unequal Treatment? - The Sutton Trust
Unpacking the problems with access to medical degrees and careers.
suttontrust.com
Lecturer in Sociology | UCL - Faculty of Education and Society #Edujobs #EduSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI116/l...
Lecturer in Sociology at UCL
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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...
Research Fellow in Behavioural Epidemiology at UCL
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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
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
