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This blog from the editors of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence issues a call for urgent feminist action to recognize digital violence as a critical and rapidly expanding component of the continuum of violence against women harmandcrime.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/category/new...
#GBV #EndVAWG #EndVAW
Blog – Bristol Social Harm and Crime Research Group
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February 4, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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I am happy to share that my article: Family Feelings: affective ties and the reproduction of wealth in super-rich families was among the five most read articles in Emotions and Society in 2025!
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February 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Pleased to announce publication of a new article with Liam Foster on paid care workers in England's attitudes towards organising bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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📰 Hold the front page! CLS' @dominicpkelly.bsky.social is to join Longitudinal and Life Course Studies as section editor, with Larissa Pople and Liam Wright as associate editors – big news for CLS colleagues! @sllshome.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social Find out more: bit.ly/49RmEDQ
January 23, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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Evidence & Policy 2025 Carol Weiss Award!

We're thrilled to announce the latest Carol Weiss Award winning paper!

Read the full details:
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Evidence & Policy 2025 Carol Weiss Award
We are thrilled to announce the prize for the 2025 Carol Weiss Award winning paper published in Evidence & Policy. The Carol Weiss Prize is in honour of Dr Carol Weiss, the first North American…
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January 19, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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📖 Great to see a new VSR @brisunipress.bsky.social article by VSSN trustee @caitlinmcmullin.bsky.social on refugee social integration and the role of voluntary organisations in creating meaningful connection and belonging beyond service delivery.

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January 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Anton Roberts makes a compelling argument for Housing First support to tackle homelessness.

Read Anton's research to learn more wider structural constraints facing people in poverty. Co-authored by Joanne Massey doi.org/10.1332/2635...
January 19, 2026 at 8:52 AM
This new special issue from Critical and Radical Social Work details the practices and experiences of Palestinian social workers living and working amidst occupation and genocide.
‘Social Work in a time of genocide’ is available to read for free bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
This new special issue details the practices and experiences of Palestinian social workers living and working amidst occupation and genocide.

‘Social Work in a time of genocide’ is available to read for free. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

#SocialWork #Gaza #Palestine
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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'Motivational Interviewing risks becoming a conduit for the neoliberal values of autonomy and responsibility echoed in the words of Michael Gove' - Powerful new article from Nina Kyriacou & @henrytsmith.bsky.social reflecting on use of MI in SW.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Have you read the latest Evidence & Policy blog?

'Supporting effective collaboration in large transdisciplinary research teams' by Taru Silvonen and Ges Rosenberg

evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/11/26/s...

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November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I’m excited to share a new open access paper that explores how psychosocial methods can help foster more connected, care-based, and imaginative research in problem-focused fields.
Durrant, R. 2025. Re-enchanting the research encounter... J of Psychosocial Studies. www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...
Holding enchanted conversations with ecofeminist methods
Dr Rachael Durrant shares her thoughts on how psychosocial methods can foster conversations that foreground interconnectedness and care.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Aging women experience a larger share of vision loss compared to men-- but risk factors that shape this disparity vary. New, cross-national HRS analyses by @shanedburns.bsky.social et al suggest education and healthcare make a difference.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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How are environmental activists using TikTok to express their emotions relating to the climate crisis? View my latest article here⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A year ago, I published my article "We need a global language rights movement" in @gscjournal.bsky.social. Since then, it's been viewed 85,000 times. Here's a short thread on the article's key arguments and a few other things...

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November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer reveals how social work keeps alive the memory of society’s deepest conflicts, gender, class, race, and acts as an open archive of our shared past. www.scipod.global/professor-dr...
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Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer | How Social Work Functions as Living Memory of Society's Deepest Conflicts • scipod.global
Research from Professor Dr Susanne Maria Maurer, former chair of social pedagogy at the Philipps-Universität Marburg, reveals how social work institutions and practices serve as repositories of knowle...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Vol 9.4 of the International Journal of Care & Caring is out now! This new issue features the themed section:
Innovation in #caring: social and technological innovation in long-term care.
Guest edited by Georgia Casanova & Blanca Deusdad Ayala bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Ryan @burnsr77.bsky.social and I published a second paper looking at digitization and extractive labour. Urban futures of digitalized fossil labour tinyurl.com/3hba7hy3 Thanks to N. Ebner, B. Bragg, and H. Schling SI on the future of industrial work tinyurl.com/yt3cbpnd and brisunipress.bsky.social
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October 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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New paper out! Two new instruments devoted to assess social support among animal welfare volunteers: Support Towards Animal Protection Labour (STAPL) & Support in Animal Care Organisations (SACO)
Nueva publicación! Presentamos dos cuestionarios para valorar el apoyo percibido por el personal voluntario de las protectoras de animales doi.org/10.1332/2040...
Un artículo compartido con @franriveraphd.bsky.social, Jesús García y Rafael Martos
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October 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
You can read more in topic in this new special issue of the International Journal of Care and Caring, guest edited by Dan Taylor, along with Jitka Vseteckova and Jodi Wainwright
'Care, poverty and inequalities' bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Did you know that the estimated cash value of unpaid care in 2021/22 was about £184 billion a year – equivalent to the annual spending on the NHS.
This is just one of many shocking figures in Dan Taylor's new blog on unpaid care in the UK www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/10/28/w...
#Carers
What we get wrong about unpaid carers - Transforming Society
The UK’s failure to provide universal social care, despite the immense value of unpaid care, reflects a deep political neglect and lack of recognition for carers' needs and rights.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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A ‘double disadvantage’: neurodevelopmental profile and poverty confer synergistic risk of youth justice involvement
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November 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Why do so many children in the youth justice system have special educational needs?
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies author Hope Kent answers this question in @theconversation.com

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Why so many children in the youth justice system have special educational needs
Children may have complex needs and overlapping conditions.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
New special issue from Justice, Power and Resistance
Expanding global conversations: prisons and punishment in Latin America

Guest edited by @fanoavila.bsky.social & @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social
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@europeangroup.bsky.social #Prisons #LatinAmerica
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM