Peter Beresford
peterberesford.bsky.social
Peter Beresford
@peterberesford.bsky.social

Activist, writer, researcher UK interested in disability, mental wellbeing, sustainability and welfare state, wants to see a better more sharing, kind and cooperative world

Peter Beresford OBE, FAcSS, FRSA is a British academic, writer, researcher and activist best known for his work in the field of citizen participation and user involvement, areas of study he helped to create and develop. He is currently visiting professor and senior research fellow in the School of Health & Social Sciences at the University of East Anglia, emeritus professor of citizen participation at the University of Essex and emeritus professor of social policy at Brunel University London. Much of his work has centred on including the viewpoints, lived experience and knowledge of disabled people, mental health and other long term service users in public policy, practice and learning, and working for a more participatory politics. .. more

Education 31%
Public Health 22%

so sad to hear of death on christmas day of Robbo John Robertson great nottingham forest player RIP

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Google Search
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RIP Chris Rea
one of my favourites and such a help in difficult times
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Chris Rea obituary
Singer, songwriter and guitarist best known for his enduring hit Driving Home for Christmas
www.theguardian.com

So sad to hear that Chris Rea the great musician and songwriter has died
he won't be getting home for Christmas, or perhaps he will. sadly missed RIP xxx with love miss you Chris and thanks for all the music
please share so we can all remember him especially at this poignant time

this rubbish writing for children?
who was stupid enough ever to buy his books??
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
David Walliams dropped by publisher over alleged inappropriate behaviour
Successful children’s author denies allegations after he was reportedly accused of harassing junior female staff
www.theguardian.com

the perfect present for a loved one who wants to be depressed by neoliberalism
mind you it offers a way out!!!
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-antidote
The Antidote
The Antidote - How People-Powered Movements Can Renew Politics, Policy and Practice; The Antidote explores what we can learn from the equalisation of personal roles and relationships to make possible ...
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

RIP the lovely gutsy Billy Bonds
West Ham football legend
what a cup final 1980
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Billy Bonds obituary
West Ham captain and manager who held the club record for appearances and was voted by fans as the team’s greatest player
www.theguardian.com

the latest on the Salt Path Lies
- sounds like a rival to Farage porkies!!

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The Salt Path: Raynor Winn's 'confession' letter | The Observer
YouTube video by The Observer UK
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keep watching and we find the farage story is again a phoney
leopards or at least fourth rate fascists dont seem to change their spots but try to use the law against right of course!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyhH...
Farage Announces Legal Action Against His Accusers Except...
YouTube video by Political CUSTARD
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leopards or at least fourth rate fascists dont seem to change their spots but try to use the law against right of course!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyhH...
Farage Announces Legal Action Against His Accusers Except...
YouTube video by Political CUSTARD
www.youtube.com

its a lovely day here. i am in the warm, the sun is shining outside, nearly as good as summer

who is kidding who!!!!

please read this article and the whole issue of the journal
imsj.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/im...
View of Transformation in the academy by coming back a Mad person
imsj.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org

Assisted dying
good to get this update and sense of just how controversial this grim proposal actually is now being recognised to be
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What's happening with the assisted dying bill?
It's more than a year since MPs first backed the proposed legislation but it still needs to be approved by peers.
www.bbc.co.uk

Farage
everyone is wrong but me
the man unfit to be anything except a con artist
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Dulwich college head responds to claims of teenage racism by Nigel Farage
Robert Milne says he recognises the ‘seriousness of the behaviours described in the media’
www.theguardian.com

A human of immense quality as well as a novelist for fun
RIP Sophie Kinsella

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Sophie Kinsella obituary
Author whose Shopaholic series of romcom novels were global bestsellers and adapted into a Hollywood film
www.theguardian.com

today we are meeting to discuss our coedited book on the Politics of Participation.

we are getting there!!!!
will keep people in touch

P Susan Todd
feminist, director, actor
what a career
shall we see her like again!!!!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...
Susan Todd obituary
Director, actor and a co-founder of Monstrous Regiment, whose work would concentrate on women’s experience
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Peter Beresford

Italy's "Triangle of Death" - an area near Naples where criminals deposited so much hazardous waste, often on behalf of polluting industries, that the death rate is 9% higher than other parts of the region, as @investigate-europe.eu's @lorenzobuzzoni.bsky.social describes here:
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check out this important new report re carers

tinyurl.com/institutiona...
tinyurl.com

i think of my jewish grandparents and am so pleased about what i and others with similar roots have been able to achieve here - yet all the hate about immigrants and refugees like them now negates it so badly

I'm very pleased that another researcher is finding my book - The Antidote - helpful in association with other literature. this feels so positive. thank you
@policypress @SocialPolicyUK @SPSeditors

at the cafe pushing my brain cells hard to work out next steps in my thinking about participation and change
these are difficult times for such thoughts, which makee them all the more necessary

but at least the coffee is good!!!

when will government in Uk break out of the hold neoliberalism has over it despite its complete failures
look at universities our future intelligence, departments closing, staff made redundant
time for something different for gods sake