📣 Next week we’re starting a new 6-month project at @uofgussp.bsky.social We’ll be working with families across the UK to understand, in real time, how the US-Iran conflict and rising food, fuel and energy costs are affecting everyday life @changingrealities.bsky.social 1/2

Nuffield Foundation@nuffieldfoundation.org · 2w ago

'Budgeting for the basics: household impacts & policy interventions' led by Uisce Jordan (@glasgow.ac.uk)

🚨 We're announcing more than £350,000 of funding for eight rapid-response research projects that will examine the UK impacts of the conflict involving the US, Iran, Israel and the wider region. Find out about each of them below and via our website: ow.ly/ppOx50ZAVjS

"My child, and millions of others, cannot afford for this strategy to become another political promise." read Sahar's blog, with her message for the new Prime Minister: www.changingrealities.org/blog/new-pri...

Now I'm worried that all of that work could be pushed aside.

changingrealities.org

Action shot of the wonderful Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick sharing some developing work from All Island Social Security Network @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social

so brilliant to hear Ruth Lister share some big question responses from parents involved in @changingrealities.bsky.social on what gives them hope in dark times! @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social

hope the victims in this case are comforted by the verdict and know that women all over ni support them

Brendan Hughes@brendanhughes64.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Breaking: Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson is found guilty of sex abuse charges including one count of rape www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Actually welling up at the Donaldson verdict, I didn't dare to hope. Those women are incredible.

Great to hear one of our participants, Sarah, being quoted in Ruth Lister's speech on how the proposed Home Office reforms will impact refugee children living in poverty.

Ilona Pinter@ilonapin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great to hear Baroness Lister quote Sarah's words in her speech on the child poverty strategy during the Lords debate this afternoon (at 14:25) tinyurl.com/2rydys7s - from our blog post 'What do Home Office reforms mean for refugee children growing up in poverty?' ▶️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Family Finances report and briefing out today! Our research shows that the Scottish Child Payment is reducing child poverty but more investment is needed if children are to go beyond surviving to thriving. Similar investment is needed in the rest of the UK. familyfinances.study/findings-rep...

Lovely to get @changingrealities.bsky.social latest zine in the post! the digital copy with audio is online now too 👇 mh.changingrealities.org

Inspiring to be at @uofgussp.bsky.social participatory methods workshop today, share learnings and chat about funding landscapes - pic of just some of the work being showcased!

📣 Article alert! New, excellent piece by our own @uiscejordan.bsky.social & a colleague Marian Peacock uses psycho-social methods to highlight the central role of women, particularly mothers & partners, in the lives of men experiencing mental illness. Read it here: doi.org/10.1332/1478...

Legitimate dependency in austerity Britain: women supporting men experiencing mental illness

This article presents a psychosocial study of men unable to work due to mental illness and their encounters with the UK’s social security system, using the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) ...

doi.org

📣 Article alert Have been late to share my last (& favourite article) from my PhD. It sets out with detailed narratives, the central role of women, particularly mothers and partners, in the lives of men experiencing mental illness - 1/

@mariecurieuk.bsky.social and over 30 other organisations have written to Stephen Timms. We are calling for the Timms Review to put a stop to PIP reassessments for people with terminal and progressive life-limiting conditions. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Stop forcing terminally ill benefit claimants to prove illness, charities urge

Exclusive: The current system is ‘simply wrong’, more than 30 organisations write

independent.co.uk

Findings from the @safety-nets.bsky.social project - striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries, study finds

Scottish family on low income receives £15,000 more a year than identical household in England

theguardian.com

Join Changing Realities on an online launch of their mental health campaign and zine that explores the intersection of family poverty and mental (ill) health on 4th June.

Changing Realities@changingrealities.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us next Thursday for our Zine Launch where we'll hear from participants & artists. If you're interested in exploring the deep intersections between poverty and mental health please come along. Thanks to @impurbanhealth.bsky.social for supporting this event. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pieces-of-...

Join us next Thursday for our Zine Launch where we'll hear from participants & artists. If you're interested in exploring the deep intersections between poverty and mental health please come along. Thanks to @impurbanhealth.bsky.social for supporting this event. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pieces-of-...

Pieces of Hope Held Tightly in Tired Hands: Changing Realities Zine Launch

Changing Realities will be hosting a public-facing roundtable session from our mental health campaign

eventbrite.co.uk

One of our projects, @changingrealities.bsky.social is hosting an online event on Thurs 4 June to celebrate the launch of their Zine, highlighting the importance of creative methods in amplifying the lived experience of participants. Book your place 👉 tinyurl.com/379573fa

The latest episode of the CSP podcast is now live. In this episode, writer, researcher, and disability justice advocate Abbie Muchecheti discusses how systems of care and inclusion often reproduce harm, and what accountability and refusal can look like in practice open.spotify.com/episode/7gdB...

📅 Dates for the diary: On the 11th May at 1pm we will be joined by Dr Barra Roantree, Trinity College Dublin and Prof Stephen Sinclair, Poverty and Inequality in Scotland. This is the second webinar in the AISSN’s child poverty series. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cash-trans...

Cash Transfers for Children: The story in RoI and Scotland

Join us online to explore how cash transfers are changing kids' lives in RoI and Scotland!

eventbrite.com

another brilliant piece about the "cost of surviving crisis" from Mike @changingrealities.bsky.social read it here: www.bigissue.com/opinion/not-... @bigissue.com

It's no longer a cost of living crisis – it's a cost of surviving crisis

A working father describes how talk of a cost of living crisis misses the point that it’s now a cost of survival crisis for many in the UK

bigissue.com

Next week (16 April, 1pm) - an informative session with a strong lineup of speakers “Child Poverty on the Island of Ireland” - read more and sign up - www.eventbrite.com/e/child-pove...

Will the government listen & learn? This is now a cost of survival crisis for millions, w/ support urgently needed. Support must include reforms to UC & help for families w. children @resolutionfoundation.org @cpaguk.bsky.social Ella Michalski @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Struggling families like mine don’t talk about the cost of living any more – now it’s the cost of survival | Ella Michalski

Trying to make ends meet is an impossible effort, and things are rapidly getting worse. It’s time the government listened to people like us, says Ella Michalski of Changing Realities, a project workin...

theguardian.com

"families like mine don’t talk about the cost of living any more – now it’s the cost of survival" important and compelling piece by Ella from @changingrealities.bsky.social today - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Struggling families like mine don’t talk about the cost of living any more – now it’s the cost of survival | Ella Michalski

Trying to make ends meet is an impossible effort, and things are rapidly getting worse. It’s time the government listened to people like us, says Ella Michalski of Changing Realities, a project workin...

theguardian.com

Looking forward to @csp-journal.bsky.social online launch on 8th May! Event details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/building-k...

Building Knowledges of Solidarity for Critical Social Policy

Join us for the launch of our new website - criticalsocialpolicy.com

eventbrite.com

#TimmsReview #PIP Minister Stephen Timms has called for written evidence as part of the PIP Review - use the email to send in your thoughts timmsreview.callforevidence@dwp.gov.uk You have to 28.05.26 11.59pm to do so Link here: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment: Call for Evidence

This Call for Evidence is being administered by DWP on behalf of the Timms Review steering group and seeks to gather feedback and insight relating to the areas outlined in the Terms of Reference of th...

gov.uk

Over 300,000 children already living in the UK could face 5–10 extra years before they can settle permanently. Changing the rules mid-journey will likely increase child poverty. Latest from us 🔗 www.ippr.org/articles/far-from-settled-the-governments-earned-settlement-consultation

Great to see one of our @changingrealities.bsky.social articles is one of the most downloaded articles published in the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice in 2025! It shares parents' everyday struggles & recommendations for change/ read it here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

🧵 NEW: Our report 'Listen and learn' sets out how the Government should improve Universal Credit (UC) for the 15 million people who rely on it. 13 years after its roll-out began, it’s time to get UC right. We've co-produced recommendations with @changingrealities.bsky.social participants 👇

'Not one, not two, but 80 cleaners at Great Ormond Street Hospital have won a landmark legal case after the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled they were subjected to indirect racial discrimination over pay and working conditions.' www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive | Great Ormond Street Hospital cleaners win landmark racial discrimination ruling

Tribunal finds Black cleaners were kept on worse pay and conditions than other NHS staff

blackcurrentnews.co.uk