Delighted to be returning to our UK campus next week to deliver a talk on the Kindness Fix. If you’re around, please do join us on Thursday 8th May for a conversation about the power and potential of compassion. thekindnessfix.com/events
Dr Jason Pandya-Wood
@jpandyawood.bsky.social
Social policy academic and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Nottingham Malaysia. Author of The Kindness Fix, out in all good bookshops on 19th Nov 2024. Interests: politics, policy, food and running.
Ivor Daniel. Rest in power, my guide, philosopher and friend: jjwood01.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/d...
Dear Ivor, you’ll never know the impact you had.
On Monday, I received a message from an old friend to let me know that Ivor Daniel had passed away following a freak accident. I am still in shock at this news. I was trying to recall the last tim…
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I had such a wonderful time launching The Kindness Fix in Malaysia last weekend with an event hosted by University of Nottingham. Thanks to friends, colleagues and students for joining me! ❤️🙏Pleased the book is now available here from litbooks.com.my/product/the-...
Thank you so much to all those who came along to the first of my book launch/talk events at De Montfort University yesterday! It was so lovely to be able to share thekindnessfix.com story with you all 🙏. Looking forward to doing more of this in 2025!
So excited to be returning to my alma mater for the first of my 2025 book events. If you’re around on 9th January, please do come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kindne...
Hundreds of thousands hit by ruinous carer’s allowance penalties, audit shows
Hundreds of thousands hit by ruinous carer’s allowance penalties, audit shows
Campaigners say NAO report shows impact of DWP staffing decisions and failure to address flaws in benefit’s design Hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers were hit with ruinous penalties for minor breaches of carer’s allowance rules in the five years…
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So excited to be returning to my alma mater for the first of my 2025 book events. If you’re around on 9th January, please do come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kindne...
Can my students pitch a policy problem in the time it takes to cross half the bridge at West Lake? With no tech, and only what they have in their hearts & heads, they rose to the challenge. it’s good to remember that a great teaching and learning moment can happen anywhere we want it to happen.
With climate change in focus following COP29, our Malaysia node wrote two articles for 360info one on what the Loss and Damage Fund means for Indigenous communities, and the other on the vital role of women in climate change adaptation across Southeast Asia 👉https://www.monash.edu/mcccrh/news
I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health. And all this goes on unacknowledged. Long read for The i Paper: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
'I quit to fight for my son': how the SEND crisis is wrecking women's careers
Four in 10 parents of children with special educational needs have stopped working, and mothers are hit the hardest
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It's arrived! Looking forward to reading my old work colleague @jpandyawood.bsky.social new book. Available in your usual book places. Met Jason 20 years ago, right at the start of my career. Such a kind hearted, compassionate man who deeply cares about the most vulnerable people in society.
Dr Jason Pandya-Wood@jpandyawood.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Kindness Fix is out today! 🎈 Please spread the word! This book comes from a place of frustration with the state of our politics and the ways in which we often mistreat those most in need. But we can do things very differently… bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-kindness...
The Kindness Fix is out today! 🎈 Please spread the word! This book comes from a place of frustration with the state of our politics and the ways in which we often mistreat those most in need. But we can do things very differently… bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-kindness...
The Telegraph has managed to get a 14 word headline & a news story out of a 4 word tweet, in their continued attempt to treat any impulsive Musk utterance as newsworthy
The Kindness Fix - out in just a few days time! thekindnessfix.com
The X-it is wonderful. Nice to see my timeline starting to fill up with familiar faces. Hope we reach the tipping point.
NEW: The closure of youth clubs in the 2010s led to increased offending and worse GSCE results. Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected. Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: https://buff.ly/4fIiRK7 Read the working paper: https://buff.ly/3APnHq6
So many thoughts swirling around in my head right now but two are chief amongst them. 1) Pre election punditry is a dead art form. 2) There is a deep and entrenched grievance manifesting in different ways across the world that we are failing to fully understand.
For some years now, many media academics have been convinced the internet and social media do not polarise people. I think they need to ask themselves what, then, is going on. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-02...
Social media and internet not cause of political polarisation |
New Oxford University research suggests that social media and the internet are not the root of today’s fragmented society, and echo chambers may not be the threat they are perceived to be. In
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Micah@rincewind.run · 2y agoI think this is the key we are all sitting here asking how the fuck THIS campaign - this awful fucking campaign - from a visibly declining Trump results in quite possibly not only an EC victory but a PV victory and the answer is that most people no longer see what we see
Very much looking forward to reading this, by @jpandyawood.bsky.social - not least what he has to say about how kindness and trust feed off each other.
My latest piece for Transforming Society on this week’s UK budget. A mixed affair but at last some lamplights that may guide a direction of travel. Thank you Bristol University Press and Policy Press. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/11/01/t...
The UK Budget: Cautious steps in the right direction - Transforming Society
Jason Wood, author of 'The Kindness Fix', discusses the newly announced UK Budget and the cautious hope it offers.
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It feels more *real* now. So pleased to get the advance copies of The Kindness Fix. V. grateful to the publishers for turning my words into something pickupable! And humbled to have endorsements from people who I have long admired. ——— Pre-order TKF from your usual bookseller - out 19th November.
Took him less than 2 minutes to whack immigrants. Hideous and odious.
Entering the final weeks of prep for the Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered Marathon on 6th October. I’m raising funds to support the amazing work of Kechara Soup Kitchen who support to the most vulnerable. If you can spare a bit to spur me on, please visit: www.kl-marathon.com/charity/run-...
One of my very favourite podcasts - do listen!
Ros Taylor@rostaylor.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you a bit weary of the same two (perfectly affable) blokes talking about history? Do you like immersive listens where you can hear the sonic boom and almost smell the green belt? Then you need Jam Tomorrow - postwar British history as you’ve never heard it before. link.chtbl.com/JamTmrw