We're still recruiting for this study: Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey: forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent

Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent

Welfare cuts are a political choice. 685,500 Britons (1%) have wealth of £2.8trn. 48m (70%) have £2.4trn. Richest four have more wealth than 20m people combined. Govt could have taxed the rich, chose to cut benefits of the disabled/poor. Not acceptable. Tell your MP to oppose the cuts.

Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Ch...

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Improve a first line by substituting Mrs Dalloway: “Last night I dreamed Mrs Dalloway went to Manderley again”

Iain AF Fleming 🐧@legalweasel.uk · last yr.

Improve a first line by substituting Mrs Dalloway: "It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking Mrs Dalloway."

I keep seeing the press describe benefits cuts as a 'crackdown'. Other crackdowns we hear about usually reference crime or anti-social behaviour. What does that imply about benefit claimants? Claiming the benefits you're entitled to isn't a crime - these are cuts, not a crackdown

What we wear can be a projection of how we want to be percieved. In my series for Wellcome Collection Stories Sinéad Burke shares why she is so passionate about the fashion and why the industry can be a transformative space for disability justice. wellcomecollection.org/stories/fash...

Fashion, identity, and the need for community

Sinéad Burke’s love of fashion has driven her to campaign for change and, ultimately, establish a consultancy that aims to transform the way the industry includes and represents Disabled people.

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“If you are reliant on Pip, it is truly terrifying to witness, but it should terrify all of us, because a government that can front out this kind of denial is one that is not listening, not curious, not realistic and not humane.” @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all | Zoe Williams

The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe Williams

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Meanwhile, staff stress is skyrocketing and all the OU has done is to offer senior managers a training course and ask the rest of us if we feel better yet?

The Open University Library@oulibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

For University #MentalHealth Day we'll be sharing articles from the OU’s research community exploring student wellbeing in #HigherEducation. Let’s start with ‘Participatory digital approaches to embedding student wellbeing in higher education’ by Lister et al: oro.open.ac.uk/84158/ #ThesisThursday

Hey folks a lot of you are sharing big blocks of text on coloured backgrounds with all sorts of big claims/news and yet providing no link to any actual source. This is how propaganda & disinformation spreads. Provide sources. It's absolutely critical And alt text because almost none of you are.

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan

Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Government wants more people to return to work, but at the same time, is consciously eliminating the jobs that offer the best paths back into work:

Government’s employment reforms clash with its welfare plans

Jobs market policies could threaten the part-time vacancies that ease people back into work

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Relevant to the 'disabled people need to work' discussions: A contact of mine applied for a job. They asked for one small cost-free 'reasonable adjustment'. The employer promptly told them they couldn't have this. No discussion. It's Not The Disabled People Who Are The 'Problem', #Labour Party.

I was supposed to write from 7am - 9am this morning, but was on a roll so didn't stop until 9:40. Wrote 750 words. It's part of my literature review for my PhD - writing about different models of disability (I've identified 14) and how they shape discourse

Writing is so anxiety-inducing. I start to write something & then I think "Where did I find that idea from?" & search for an article/book to cite. Then I realise I never read the whole article or book, I read about it in a "...for beginners" title, or I read a review of it, or something I read

I persuaded my partner, who gets up by 7 on weekdays, to bring me a coffee every morning so I can get a couple of hours writing done in bed before I start "work" work. 364 words this morning. I love this plan.

Oral health and learning disability: common conditions made complex

Oral health and learning disability: common conditions made complex - Learning Disability Today

Poor oral health is more common in people with a learning disability, which can have physical, psychological and social consequences and a major impact on people’s quality of life.

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Got up early to do some writing on my Lit Review. Endnote had a massive tantrum and needs to be reinstalled. Thinking about just going back to bed

There is an urgent need for equality and improvement of clinical care for people with a learning disability in Northern Ireland, delegates at a conference have heard.

I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but: If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present. Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover

Kasibba spent 45 wrongly locked up in a mental health hospital. Hundreds of other autistic people and people with learning disabilities are still wrongly detained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years

“Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.

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If you are a fellow ADHDer, I highly recommend Dusty’s offerings. I’m going to do her Bootcamp this time- join me!

Dusty Chipura@dustychipura.bsky.social · last yr.

hey #adhd friends! Tomorrow is the last day to get the early-bird discount to the ADHD Bootcamp! It's a set of mega-body doubling sessions with a bit of structure from me to help you de-chaosify your home (YES EVEN THE DOOM BOXES!). Read on for more context! www.adhdstudio.ca/plans/150117...

Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.

I've pre-ordered this. Looks like essential reading

Stephen Unwin@stephenunwin.bsky.social · last yr.

History, culture, philosophy, politics. HUMAN BEINGS. Couldn't be happier that this is coming out on June 5th published by Wildfire. Available for preorder now on Amazon. @wildfirebooks.bsky.social

Poor NHS admin is harmful to people with a learning disability

Poor NHS admin is harmful to people with a learning disability

A new report from the King's Fund says that 64% of patients have experienced problems with NHS admin, with carers amongst those most affected.

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Shocking statistics #LearningDisabilities

Learning Disability Today@learningdisability.bsky.social · last yr.

News. Young adults with learning disabilities are nine times more likely to die of treatable causes, according to new research from the University of Glasgow www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/prematu...

An easy way for social science undergraduates to write much better essays by changing how they think about paragraphs at the planning stage: Make Points, not Topics. new study skills video at youtu.be/C42cX_uO428

Make Points, not Topics

YouTube video by Melanie Rimmer

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Seeking asylum is legal. As a child I learned about Jewish refugees in Britain in WW2 and the Kindertransport. I was taught to be proud of how Britain helped people fleeing dangerous places and gave them somewhere safer to live. I was taught it was a good thing to do.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last yr.

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you work directly with people who draw on care and support, or have lived experience yourself, we'd love to hear from you. Your insights will help develop a new well-led theme for Making It Real, and influence how leadership is assessed by the Care Quality Commission. Sign up now bit.ly/4aStMzK

How can psychology enhance high-performance sports coaching? This PhD at Sheffield Hallam @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social, in collaboration with UK Sport Institute, explores coach development and performance psychology. Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Sheffield Hallam University: Psychology Demonstratorships - Enhancing Sports Coaches’ Psychological Growth and Performance at Sheffield Hallam University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Sheffield Hallam University: Psychology Demonstratorships - Enhancing Sports Coaches’ Psychological Growth and Performance at Sheffield Hallam University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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