Carrie Purcell
@drcarriep.bsky.social
Professional nosy parker | Enthusiastic Glaswegian | Qual sociology & interdisciplinary repro health | Reproduction, Sexualities & Sexual Health Research Group @openuniversity.bsky.social | She/her
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Carrie Purcell
@drcarriep.bsky.social
· Apr 7
📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
Reposted by Carrie Purcell
📢 Our new paper taking a critical look at how post-abortion contraception is framed as a 'problem'.
srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
‘Problem representations’ in post-abortion contraception: a critical review of UK literature
Objective To critically review post-abortion contraception literature from the UK based on Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach.
Methods A systematic search of six electron...
srh.bmj.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
📢 Our new paper taking a critical look at how post-abortion contraception is framed as a 'problem'.
srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
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A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales
Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole
Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole
British MPs recently decriminalised abortion-seekers. But this success occurred in a Bill that threatens to criminalise poverty and restrict protest rights.
RUTH FLETCHER explains on what a holistic legal approach to reproductive freedom ought to look like.
verfassungsblog.de/decriminalis...
RUTH FLETCHER explains on what a holistic legal approach to reproductive freedom ought to look like.
verfassungsblog.de/decriminalis...
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Settling in to a day of thinking about reproductive rights, politics & activism hosted by @carolina-topini.bsky.social & @maudannebracke.bsky.social Looking forward to presenting our work on a feminist abortion framework this afternoon.
May 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Settling in to a day of thinking about reproductive rights, politics & activism hosted by @carolina-topini.bsky.social & @maudannebracke.bsky.social Looking forward to presenting our work on a feminist abortion framework this afternoon.
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🎉 Tickets are now available for this year’s International Creative Research Methods Conference!
Don’t miss keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social
Secure your spot 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com
#ICRMC
Don’t miss keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social
Secure your spot 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com
#ICRMC
Creative Research Methods Conference 2025
The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.
creativeresearchmethods.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🎉 Tickets are now available for this year’s International Creative Research Methods Conference!
Don’t miss keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social
Secure your spot 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com
#ICRMC
Don’t miss keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social
Secure your spot 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com
#ICRMC
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"While scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing. Redundancies in one place damage us all"
@academicdiary.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
@academicdiary.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
UK university redundancies: latest updates
As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"While scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing. Redundancies in one place damage us all"
@academicdiary.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
@academicdiary.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
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Just here feeling quietly heartbroken for Virginia Giuffre and her family, on news of her death by suicide. And quietly raging at all who get away with (men's) abuse of women and girls, and a society that doesn't care enough to stop it - but yeah, trans women in loos.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
'Deeply loving, wise, and funny': Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, has died
"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," the family said in a statement.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Just here feeling quietly heartbroken for Virginia Giuffre and her family, on news of her death by suicide. And quietly raging at all who get away with (men's) abuse of women and girls, and a society that doesn't care enough to stop it - but yeah, trans women in loos.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l
Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
goodlaw.social
April 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l
Dear @theguardian.com Please could you not refer to a pregnant person seeking abortion as 'the mother'. Thanks
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK woman accused of illegal abortion did not look pregnant, friend tells court
Witness says nothing to indicate Nicola Packer was pregnant in weeks before she delivered foetus
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Dear @theguardian.com Please could you not refer to a pregnant person seeking abortion as 'the mother'. Thanks
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
📢 Dignity in Maternity Care: latest ep. of Sex, Research & Resistance (via @openuniversity.bsky.social) is now online.
What do we really mean when we talk about dignity? Who is entitled to it? Panel discussion feat. Lisa Käll, Shanthi Gunesekera, Sarah Hamed.
open.spotify.com/episode/3S06...
What do we really mean when we talk about dignity? Who is entitled to it? Panel discussion feat. Lisa Käll, Shanthi Gunesekera, Sarah Hamed.
open.spotify.com/episode/3S06...
E11 Part 1: Dignity in Maternity Care
open.spotify.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
📢 Dignity in Maternity Care: latest ep. of Sex, Research & Resistance (via @openuniversity.bsky.social) is now online.
What do we really mean when we talk about dignity? Who is entitled to it? Panel discussion feat. Lisa Käll, Shanthi Gunesekera, Sarah Hamed.
open.spotify.com/episode/3S06...
What do we really mean when we talk about dignity? Who is entitled to it? Panel discussion feat. Lisa Käll, Shanthi Gunesekera, Sarah Hamed.
open.spotify.com/episode/3S06...
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With its coverage in the last few days, the Telegraph has now passed 500 articles attacking trans people since I began tracking their print edition on 16 April 2024.
508 in 371 days.
508 in 371 days.
April 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
With its coverage in the last few days, the Telegraph has now passed 500 articles attacking trans people since I began tracking their print edition on 16 April 2024.
508 in 371 days.
508 in 371 days.
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The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people after a Supreme Court ruling defined sex as 'biological sex'
This is everything you need to know about the ruling 👇
Reporting by @jessothomson.co.uk 🧵🏳️⚧️
This is everything you need to know about the ruling 👇
Reporting by @jessothomson.co.uk 🧵🏳️⚧️
April 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people after a Supreme Court ruling defined sex as 'biological sex'
This is everything you need to know about the ruling 👇
Reporting by @jessothomson.co.uk 🧵🏳️⚧️
This is everything you need to know about the ruling 👇
Reporting by @jessothomson.co.uk 🧵🏳️⚧️
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If men want to rape us they do not need to “pretend” to be women to get into our toilets or our changing rooms. They can just…rape us, in those spaces or other public spaces or in our workplaces or our homes, and they can be statistically pretty certain that they will never face punishment for this.
April 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If men want to rape us they do not need to “pretend” to be women to get into our toilets or our changing rooms. They can just…rape us, in those spaces or other public spaces or in our workplaces or our homes, and they can be statistically pretty certain that they will never face punishment for this.
📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
April 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
Brilliant episode - well worth a listen 👇
Episode 2 of our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch is out today with Dr Monique Botha: why is the funding agenda for autism research so far from what the communities concerned want?
#CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent
www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...
#CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent
www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...
Neurodiversity Matters: Monique Botha on funding priorities and community justice | QUAHRC
This month, Sohail interviews Dr Monique Botha about funding and priority setting, citational justice, emotion in research, and why letting community-led neurodivergence research out of its silo would...
www.quahrc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Brilliant episode - well worth a listen 👇
Reposted by Carrie Purcell
Episode 2 of our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch is out today with Dr Monique Botha: why is the funding agenda for autism research so far from what the communities concerned want?
#CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent
www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...
#CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent
www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...
Neurodiversity Matters: Monique Botha on funding priorities and community justice | QUAHRC
This month, Sohail interviews Dr Monique Botha about funding and priority setting, citational justice, emotion in research, and why letting community-led neurodivergence research out of its silo would...
www.quahrc.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Episode 2 of our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch is out today with Dr Monique Botha: why is the funding agenda for autism research so far from what the communities concerned want?
#CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent
www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...
#CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent
www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...
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My article 'What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis' is now in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Vol 14 Issue e3) [but online first a few years ago] spcare.bmj.com/content/14/e...
What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis
Objective The concept of a good death is a motivating factor for end of life care policy; this article examines what English end-of-life care (EOLC) policy defines as a good death.
Methods Critical d...
spcare.bmj.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
My article 'What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis' is now in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Vol 14 Issue e3) [but online first a few years ago] spcare.bmj.com/content/14/e...
🥳 Thank you @alcs.co.uk! 👏
Happy #ALCSDay to our members! We’re so proud to have once again paid more money, to more members than ever before.
March 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🥳 Thank you @alcs.co.uk! 👏
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
Reposted by Carrie Purcell
Independent SAGE @independentsage.bsky.social - so important during the pandemic - has de-retired with this report on "Why we must defend science, social science and medicine from attacks on diversity"
independentsage.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Independent SAGE @independentsage.bsky.social - so important during the pandemic - has de-retired with this report on "Why we must defend science, social science and medicine from attacks on diversity"
Reposted by Carrie Purcell
Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
March 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
But it is???
NEW: Google's "experimental" AI service has been caught out for telling web users that the traditional Scottish dish of haggis is in fact an animal
Google AI claims haggis is a real animal in embarrassing blunder
www.thenational.scot
March 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
But it is???
In 'Shifting discourses, changing interests?' @aioshaug.bsky.social & I look at how language choices in #BMJSRH have changed over the journal's first 50 years. There's still much do, but we saw a welcome shift toward inclusivity in that language.
📖 Paper 👉 srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
(OA link 👇)
📖 Paper 👉 srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
(OA link 👇)
March 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
In 'Shifting discourses, changing interests?' @aioshaug.bsky.social & I look at how language choices in #BMJSRH have changed over the journal's first 50 years. There's still much do, but we saw a welcome shift toward inclusivity in that language.
📖 Paper 👉 srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
(OA link 👇)
📖 Paper 👉 srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
(OA link 👇)
Reposted by Carrie Purcell
Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
voice.cymru
February 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
👏A huge thank you to everyone who has already taken the time to complete our #PainfulProcedures consultation.
🕛 It closes at midnight tonight so, if you fit the criteria below & haven't yet had your say, please follow the link.
🔗https://openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cv8Sg9L4c4FKSRE
🕛 It closes at midnight tonight so, if you fit the criteria below & haven't yet had your say, please follow the link.
🔗https://openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cv8Sg9L4c4FKSRE
📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK).
Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures.
openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!
Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures.
openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!
January 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
👏A huge thank you to everyone who has already taken the time to complete our #PainfulProcedures consultation.
🕛 It closes at midnight tonight so, if you fit the criteria below & haven't yet had your say, please follow the link.
🔗https://openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cv8Sg9L4c4FKSRE
🕛 It closes at midnight tonight so, if you fit the criteria below & haven't yet had your say, please follow the link.
🔗https://openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cv8Sg9L4c4FKSRE