David Betts
@dnbetts.bsky.social
Social work researcher. University of Newcastle, Australia. Gerontology, queer studies, social policy. He/Him. "I'm bisexual and I'm irritable." 🏳️🌈
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I find my cat annoying because she spends all day screaming, yowling, and begging for a pinch of Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend, but one day no one in this home will scream, yowl, or beg for Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend and I will be sad
July 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I find my cat annoying because she spends all day screaming, yowling, and begging for a pinch of Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend, but one day no one in this home will scream, yowl, or beg for Mexican Style Four Cheese Blend and I will be sad
Getting my course material ready for semester two, and it's been pointed out to me that the fake tutor bio I wrote for my cat is longer than my own, supposedly real, academic bio...
July 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Getting my course material ready for semester two, and it's been pointed out to me that the fake tutor bio I wrote for my cat is longer than my own, supposedly real, academic bio...
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Hi friends, @dnbetts.bsky.social and I are looking for 2 more social work educators/academics to interview for our study on the relationship between hope and burnout for social workers. Are you a social work educator in Australia? If so, we want to talk to you!! Please message me for more info 👩🎓👨🏫
May 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Hi friends, @dnbetts.bsky.social and I are looking for 2 more social work educators/academics to interview for our study on the relationship between hope and burnout for social workers. Are you a social work educator in Australia? If so, we want to talk to you!! Please message me for more info 👩🎓👨🏫
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This morning, in my rearview mirror, I saw another driver take down an entire hardboiled egg in one gulp, maybe one chew. I've been thinking about it ever since, and I've come to the conclusion that it was a threatening power play.
May 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This morning, in my rearview mirror, I saw another driver take down an entire hardboiled egg in one gulp, maybe one chew. I've been thinking about it ever since, and I've come to the conclusion that it was a threatening power play.
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📣 Registration open: 6th International Sexuality and Social Work Conference - sexualityandsocialwork.com/conference #SWSexuality25
March 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
📣 Registration open: 6th International Sexuality and Social Work Conference - sexualityandsocialwork.com/conference #SWSexuality25
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... Americans I know it's hard but you gotta learn to say 'Kiwifruit' because this is a COMPLETELY different sentence
March 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
... Americans I know it's hard but you gotta learn to say 'Kiwifruit' because this is a COMPLETELY different sentence
New article out in the Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Journal - "Exploring the role of pets in social work research: Enhancing qualitative methodologies through the researcher-participant-pet dynamic" - with Annika Herb.
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Exploring the role of pets in social work research: Enhancing qualitative methods through the researcher-participant-pet dynamic
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March 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
New article out in the Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work Journal - "Exploring the role of pets in social work research: Enhancing qualitative methodologies through the researcher-participant-pet dynamic" - with Annika Herb.
anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/articl...
anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/articl...
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Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . .
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵
Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵
Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted with Pride: queer craft and activism - LGBTQ+ History Month lecture - Oxford Brookes University
This lecture delivered by Dr Daniel Fountain explores how LGBTQ+ communities have utilised craft processes to explore identities, bring communities together, and encourage social and political change.
www.brookes.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Super event at my uni (Oxford Brookes) for LGBTQ+ History Month . . .
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵
Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
Crafted with Pride: Queer Craft and Activism with @danielfountain.bsky.social. 12 February, 6-7pm. Free. Online. Everyone welcome. 🌈🧵
Register here: www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...
#LGBTHM #LGBTQHM #LGBTplusHM25 #queer #gay
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Once again desperately wishing the Culture would just contact us and give us the chance to live in the luxury automated gay space communist utopia we all deserve
January 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Once again desperately wishing the Culture would just contact us and give us the chance to live in the luxury automated gay space communist utopia we all deserve
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Thrilled to be working with Dr Jamie Budnick (Cornell University) on a new research project:
Gay Numbers: The Use and Misuse of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in the UK and US 📊
#LGBTQ #data #UK #USA #queer #sexuality #stats www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/n...
Gay Numbers: The Use and Misuse of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in the UK and US 📊
#LGBTQ #data #UK #USA #queer #sexuality #stats www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/n...
New Research Project Investigates LGBTQ data in the UK and US
How many people identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer? Why does this figure matter? And how is data about LGBTQ communities used (and misused) by governments, companies and communit...
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January 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Thrilled to be working with Dr Jamie Budnick (Cornell University) on a new research project:
Gay Numbers: The Use and Misuse of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in the UK and US 📊
#LGBTQ #data #UK #USA #queer #sexuality #stats www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/n...
Gay Numbers: The Use and Misuse of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in the UK and US 📊
#LGBTQ #data #UK #USA #queer #sexuality #stats www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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🔔 Out now: Handbook of Research Methods in Social Work by Margaret Alston, @pennybuykx.bsky.social, Wendy Foote & @dnbetts.bsky.social
🆓 chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
#SocialWork #Sociology #SocialPolicy #ResearchMethods
🆓 chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
#SocialWork #Sociology #SocialPolicy #ResearchMethods
January 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🔔 Out now: Handbook of Research Methods in Social Work by Margaret Alston, @pennybuykx.bsky.social, Wendy Foote & @dnbetts.bsky.social
🆓 chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
#SocialWork #Sociology #SocialPolicy #ResearchMethods
🆓 chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
#SocialWork #Sociology #SocialPolicy #ResearchMethods
Really excited to see that our latest book, the Handbook of Research Methods in Social Work, is now published @elgarpublishing.bsky.social!
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Handbook of Research Methods in Social Work
‘With so many new challenges facing social work globally, this excellent book provides a timely guide to the uniqueness and strengths of the profession’s diverse research paradigm. While firmly linked...
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January 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Really excited to see that our latest book, the Handbook of Research Methods in Social Work, is now published @elgarpublishing.bsky.social!
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...
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“Quick burg at the hospital before we take grandpa off life support” is one of those phrases I know is going to stick with me the rest of my life
(From r/burgers)
(From r/burgers)
December 14, 2024 at 3:19 AM
“Quick burg at the hospital before we take grandpa off life support” is one of those phrases I know is going to stick with me the rest of my life
(From r/burgers)
(From r/burgers)
I'm really happy to share - as we start to wrap up for the year - that I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer! My time so far at the University of Newcastle has been really rewarding, and I'm hoping to continue my work with queer social work studies when we pick things back up in 2025. 🌈 🎄 🎉
December 11, 2024 at 7:04 AM
I'm really happy to share - as we start to wrap up for the year - that I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer! My time so far at the University of Newcastle has been really rewarding, and I'm hoping to continue my work with queer social work studies when we pick things back up in 2025. 🌈 🎄 🎉
Spotify Wrapped calling me out for being the absolute worst and annoying person you know
December 5, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Spotify Wrapped calling me out for being the absolute worst and annoying person you know
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I will repeat myself and say: Better Call Saul where everyone‘s a Muppet except Bob Odenkirk
December 4, 2024 at 7:28 PM
I will repeat myself and say: Better Call Saul where everyone‘s a Muppet except Bob Odenkirk
My parents carefully positioning my old, dirty, and run-down childhood soft-toy dog when I come to visit them serves as a depressing reminder of how old, dirty, and run-down I've become myself
December 3, 2024 at 8:42 AM
My parents carefully positioning my old, dirty, and run-down childhood soft-toy dog when I come to visit them serves as a depressing reminder of how old, dirty, and run-down I've become myself
Getting ready to head to the SAANZ conference next week and I think I've finished packing
November 29, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Getting ready to head to the SAANZ conference next week and I think I've finished packing
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Join the super friendly and supportive LGBTQ+ Research Network for people researching LGBTQ+ topics. We meet regularly online to share ideas and research. Share your username in the comments to be added.
@dradambrett.bsky.social
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@dradambrett.bsky.social
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November 17, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Join the super friendly and supportive LGBTQ+ Research Network for people researching LGBTQ+ topics. We meet regularly online to share ideas and research. Share your username in the comments to be added.
@dradambrett.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/S2RmnYf
@dradambrett.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/S2RmnYf
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Hey academics! There's a new LGBTQ research feed for you to follow thanks to @philjones.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 27, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Hey academics! There's a new LGBTQ research feed for you to follow thanks to @philjones.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...
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