Isle of Wight council are currently consulting on their updated housing allocations policy. Rewarding to see that one of these changes is to exempt domestic abuse survivors from housing-related debt disqualifications. www.iow.gov.uk/article/4181...

Help shape our Housing Allocations Policy - Isle of Wight Council

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This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

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Are you a social science society looking for small scale funding to support work to pilot or scale up inclusivity initiatives or interventions? As part of the Academy’s collaborative EDI Project, the 2026-2027 funding round for the EDI Small Grants Fund is open.

EDI Small Grants Fund – Academy of Social Sciences

As part of the Academy’s collaborative EDI Project, the Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have small scale grant funding available to support inclusivity initiatives and…

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Good editorial from the FT saying our new PM must take a strategic approach to universities www.ft.com/content/1419...

The saddest news of all. A business there for just shy of 90 years. And a casualty of the closure of St David’s College. This is going to happen all over the country where and when universities and colleges start closing down due to the higher education funding crisis.

The Leverhulme Trust, as part of its major (£100 million) centenary investment in UK research, has announced 3 new partnerships designed to enhance opportunities for underrepresented groups at the early stages of research careers. @leverhulme.ac.uk Terrifically good news, and sorely needed. 1/3

This is a great piece - avoids the hysteria that rent controls often seem to induce & takes a more balanced look at critiques & solutions. Points out that 23 of the 38 OECD nations have some form of rent controls Was a pleasure to talk to the FT about our work on this: www.ippr.org/articles/hou...

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.

Can rent controls ever work? ft.trib.al/ZHXLFni

Who said it couldn't get any worse: 12% of London properties originally intended for private sale sold in bulk deals this past year. Housing as an asset class, it's coming home.

Investors snap up bundles of UK properties as housebuilders offer discounts

Bulk buyers win double-digit reductions while cautious consumers stay on sidelines

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Families in London temporary housing told they cannot use in-built air conditioning - leading to hospitalisations. This is inhumane. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Families in London temporary housing told they cannot use in-built air conditioning

Exclusive: Two children taken to hospital during heatwaves after residents told units in glass-fronted block ‘not offered as amenity’

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👏Congratulations to three geographers who are new Fellows welcomed to the British Academy in 2026. Professor Neil Adger, Professor Katherine Brickell and Dr Brett Christophers are recognised for their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. 👇 https://ow.ly/S79p50ZpXeq

92 New Fellows welcomed to the British Academy in 2026

92 distinguished scholars have been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship this year in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

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It's a tremendous honour to have been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. I am deeply grateful for its support over the years and look forward to giving back as a Fellow.

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 3w ago

The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations to all those elected today. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4f64C4x

Calls for radical action as Burnham told homelessness in England may rise 25% by 2030

Calls for radical action as Burnham told homelessness in England may rise 25% by 2030

Exclusive: Report warns an additional 50,000 people could be added to current record figure without bold policies Andy Burnham has been warned that an additional 50,000 people in England will become homeless in the next four years without a radical “housing first” agenda of government. The incoming prime minister’s leadership team is understood to have been briefed on projections, due to be published on Monday, showing the current record levels of homelessness rising 25% by 2030 to more than 230,000 people. Continue reading...

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It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/

Are you a researcher in the humanities or social sciences looking to work with a policy partner for 12 months. Appy for the Innovation Fellowships 2026-27 – Route B: Policy-led. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3S0rNEg

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Crackdown on profiteers through children’s social care shake-up

Expansion of dynamic new model for children’s social care, cracking down on profiteering more local support for foster carers and children in care

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Fantastic afternoon meeting at Camden Council's offices to discuss the findings of a joint-designed intervention to financially support families in temporary accommodation with a neurodivergent child. The 'test and learn' combined a one-off cash transfer with income maximisation advice and support.

So proud of Dr Jasmine Joanes who passed her PhD viva last week for “Seeing Red: the intimate geopolitics of menstrual justice in the United Kingdom” It's been an honour to supervise Jasmine's PhD alongside @squirerachael.bsky.social

Part of the joy – and privilege – of an academic conference is travelling to an amazing part of the world. After the European Network for Housing Research in Oslo, I got to experience cabin life in Rondane National Park #geographyrocks #ENHR2026

Burnham should combine health and housing in one government department again, Clarion's chief executive Clare Miller argues in a comment piece for Inside Housing today. This recalls the earliest days of the health service www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/clar...

Clarion’s Clare Miller: Government should combine housing and health in one government ministry

Health and housing are inseparable, argues Clare Miller, chief executive of 125,000-home association Clarion, and should once again be part of one integrated government ministry as they were when the ...

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First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵

University of Aberdeen's plans to cut modern language degrees were 'rushed' - review

The University of Aberdeen says it accepts there were "missteps" in its process in 2023.

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‘Universities that aren’t fully committed to arts and humanities as a flourishing part of their science offering aren’t committing to the future.’ @christophersmith.bsky.social anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...

Why an industrial strategy needs arts and humanities (and why UKRI are funding us to deliver it)

I joined UKRI six years ago because I was deeply attracted to the ambition of unifying curiosity led research and strategic or mission led interventions with the power of science to drive a just ec…

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This. johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/the-crisis...

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

University of Exeter cuts an ‘existential threat to humanities’

Russell Group institution cites changing student demand as it puts 500 staff at risk of redundancy, with 150 jobs set to go

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Today I made it to Manchester and back to speak at #Housing2026 on a panel focused on dignity and temporary accommodation – or more accurately the stripping of dignity – not just from the conditions families face in much TA but how systems and people treat, judge and categorise them.

Fantastic evening at the National Portrait Gallery meeting supporters of the charity Greater Change. @rosalie-warnock.bsky.social and I here in front of a suffragette portrait.

First introduction to an Oxford College. Meeting Baylie, St John's 🐈‍⬛

This weekend we invited visitors to step inside The Playhouse Tent, an interactive installation shaped by the lived experiences of neurodivergent children and their families navigating life in Temporary Accommodation. Next stop, Manchester! Tickets: www.sensorylivesproject.org/events

@local.gov.uk has come out in support of @pollyneate.bsky.social's amendment to the Social Housing Bill so that people who have incurred debt, e.g. rent arrears, from domestic financial abuse are not prevented from bidding for social housing. www.local.gov.uk/parliament/b...

LGA briefing: Social Housing Bill, House of Lords Committee Stage, 15 June 2026

This briefing outlines the LGA’s views on the Social Housing Bill ahead of its Committee Stage in the House of Lords on 15 June 2026.

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Legal equality duty for public services should be scrapped, says Badenoch. Tories chasing Reform vote. Apparently, equality is bad as some push for return of age, gender, race, disability discrimination. Rights hard-won by our ancestors to be reversed. What next?

Kemi Badenoch to call for scrapping of legal equality duty

The Conservative leader will argue that the rules have become a "minefield that exposes almost every significant public decision to legal challenge".

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No one wants this. Not the families. Not the receiving areas. Not London boroughs. It’s a nightmare all round. But if London councils can’t fund homelessness accommodation locally, due to Local Housing Allowance freezes and budget pressures, they will procure elsewhere. This isn’t complicated.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Vulnerable families illegally ‘dumped’ hundreds of miles away by London councils