📢 New paper with @evemull.bsky.social & @jdev65.bsky.social - we examine which children come into contact with social workers when mothers experience domestic abuse — and which do not. Open access article 👉https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70112 @growingupinscot.bsky.social
Very honoured to be speaking at Child First Japan seminar on child death review, and the Barnahus approach @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Property porn with a difference: two children’s homes for sale, boasting an underlying profit margin of 48% (!!) despite being judged to require improvement to be good’
Born Connected: how Gen Z navigate their digital lives - contains powerful insights from young people across the UK - take a look at this thread @donnamolloy.bsky.social @thecyberpsyche.bsky.social @internetmatters.bsky.social @youthfutures.bsky.social @childrenssociety.bsky.social @ncb.org.uk
For our Grown Up? programme, we asked 14–24-year-olds how digital technology shapes their lives. For many, the line between online and offline life has blurred, particularly since the pandemic. But this isn’t how they want to live. They want a greater balance; to experience the best of both worlds.
BBC News - True cost of becoming a mum highlighted in new data on pay - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
True cost of becoming a mum highlighted in new data on pay
New figures reveal mums in England see their earnings drop after having a first, second and third child.
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Very pleased to have joined @sallyannkelly1.bsky.social at celebrations to mark 150years of @aberlourcharity.bsky.social supporting children, young people and families in Scotland.
🌟 Join Us for an Informal GVRCN Meet-Up at ECDV 2025! 🌟 We are excited to host an informal lunch meet-up during the European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV)! 📅 When: 5th September 2025 🕧 Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM 🔗 Registration is required. More details shared soon. @jdev65.bsky.social
ECDV Early Career Researchers (and practitioners!) Meet-Up!
The Gender Violence Research and Collaboration Network (gvrcn.org) is hosting an early career researcher/practitioners informal lunch meet up on the 5th of September at 12:30pm. If you are interested ...
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‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid, was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association Mohamed Salah has criticised Uefa for failing to state how a footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” died in a tribute it posted. Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said. Continue reading...
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Apology for S Korean woman convicted of biting man's tongue as he attacked her www.bbc.com/news/article...
Apology for S Korean woman convicted of biting man's tongue as he attacked her
Choi Mal-ja, now 78, has campaigned for years to overturn her sentence, after she was attacked when she was 18.
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Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
Keynote on involving children in research on trauma by the fantastic Prof Helen Beckett at the JUSWA conference.
Dr Isang Awah opening this year's staff and student conference with a keynote on cross-sector partnerships to advance child protection @uoe-sps.bsky.social @dspi-oxford.bsky.social #SWConfEd25
Vivien McCree on the use of oral history and auto/biography in social work research to investigate childcare history #SWConfEd25
JRF policy assistant roles. Of interest to social policy graduates perhaps? jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c...
Octo Candidates - Application Form - Vacancy Details
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Join us for this webcast hosted by the The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research in follow-up to 2023 webinar on state-of-the-art methodology in meta-analysis of single-case experimental designs (SCEDs). July 17 2-3:30pm ET ktdrr.org/training/web...
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Lotte Hoek Join us to celebrate Lotte Hoek's professorship at her inaugural lecture, titled 'For an anthropology of the screen'. Friday 9 May 4:15pm - 5:30pm Basement Lecture Theatre, Adam House Followed by a reception Book tickets here: edin.ac/3FQIL1O
Proposed changes to disability benefits in UK are less about reform and more about rationing. A very limited and myopic approach to a complex issue - reform is needed, but this isn't it. BBC News - At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up www.bbc.com/news/article...
At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up
How Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and other health-related benefits could change under government plans.
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