Michelle Addison
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Durham University | Editorial Board BJC #inequality #stigma #harm #intersectionality #marginalisation #health #criminalisation
Proud Northerner + First Gen Scholar 💛 she/her
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/michelle-addison/
Proud Northerner + First Gen Scholar 💛 she/her
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/michelle-addison/
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New website launch! 📣💫Check out our new multidisciplinary 'Health, Crime & Justice' research group healthcrimeandjustice.co.uk
We have an infographic about our ESRC Health & Justice research project & a video explaining what we're doing too 🙂👉 vimeo.com/1093243940/f...
@stephscott.bsky.social
We have an infographic about our ESRC Health & Justice research project & a video explaining what we're doing too 🙂👉 vimeo.com/1093243940/f...
@stephscott.bsky.social
New website launch! 📣💫Check out our new multidisciplinary 'Health, Crime & Justice' research group healthcrimeandjustice.co.uk
We have an infographic about our ESRC Health & Justice research project & a video explaining what we're doing too 🙂👉 vimeo.com/1093243940/f...
@stephscott.bsky.social
We have an infographic about our ESRC Health & Justice research project & a video explaining what we're doing too 🙂👉 vimeo.com/1093243940/f...
@stephscott.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New website launch! 📣💫Check out our new multidisciplinary 'Health, Crime & Justice' research group healthcrimeandjustice.co.uk
We have an infographic about our ESRC Health & Justice research project & a video explaining what we're doing too 🙂👉 vimeo.com/1093243940/f...
@stephscott.bsky.social
We have an infographic about our ESRC Health & Justice research project & a video explaining what we're doing too 🙂👉 vimeo.com/1093243940/f...
@stephscott.bsky.social
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Last week we hosted the #WomanOfTheNorth summit, from @healthequitynorth.bsky.social & @thenhsa.bsky.social. Data showed the inequalities faced by women in the North, and the Woman of the North Charter was announced: tinyurl.com/muarj8zv
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social @kimmcguinness.bsky.social
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social @kimmcguinness.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Last week we hosted the #WomanOfTheNorth summit, from @healthequitynorth.bsky.social & @thenhsa.bsky.social. Data showed the inequalities faced by women in the North, and the Woman of the North Charter was announced: tinyurl.com/muarj8zv
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social @kimmcguinness.bsky.social
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social @kimmcguinness.bsky.social
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Really insightful presentations from @louiseckenny.bsky.social & Suzanne White of @leigh-day.bsky.social discussing the wide ranging challenges faced by women from a health and legal perspective #WomanoftheNorth
@durham-university.bsky.social @leigh-day.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
@durham-university.bsky.social @leigh-day.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Really insightful presentations from @louiseckenny.bsky.social & Suzanne White of @leigh-day.bsky.social discussing the wide ranging challenges faced by women from a health and legal perspective #WomanoftheNorth
@durham-university.bsky.social @leigh-day.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
@durham-university.bsky.social @leigh-day.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Looking forward to the @nhsa Woman of the North event today talking about devastating health inequalities & a new woman’s charter.
Amy & I are leading a workshop this afternoon about representation of marginalised women #underheard #under_served
Hosted at Durham University
Amy & I are leading a workshop this afternoon about representation of marginalised women #underheard #under_served
Hosted at Durham University
Join us next week to hear from Amy Van Zyl from Her Circle and @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social in a workshop about how marginalised women can be better heard by decision makers.
Book your free place at our #WomanOfTheNorth Summit on May 7 – visit www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/woman-of-the...
Book your free place at our #WomanOfTheNorth Summit on May 7 – visit www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/woman-of-the...
May 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Looking forward to the @nhsa Woman of the North event today talking about devastating health inequalities & a new woman’s charter.
Amy & I are leading a workshop this afternoon about representation of marginalised women #underheard #under_served
Hosted at Durham University
Amy & I are leading a workshop this afternoon about representation of marginalised women #underheard #under_served
Hosted at Durham University
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Join us next week to hear from Amy Van Zyl from Her Circle and @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social in a workshop about how marginalised women can be better heard by decision makers.
Book your free place at our #WomanOfTheNorth Summit on May 7 – visit www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/woman-of-the...
Book your free place at our #WomanOfTheNorth Summit on May 7 – visit www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/woman-of-the...
May 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Join us next week to hear from Amy Van Zyl from Her Circle and @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social in a workshop about how marginalised women can be better heard by decision makers.
Book your free place at our #WomanOfTheNorth Summit on May 7 – visit www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/woman-of-the...
Book your free place at our #WomanOfTheNorth Summit on May 7 – visit www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/woman-of-the...
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New research shows that people in police custody with health issues are regularly put at risk because medication is delayed or unavailable.
Find out more 👉🏼 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social
Find out more 👉🏼 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New research shows that people in police custody with health issues are regularly put at risk because medication is delayed or unavailable.
Find out more 👉🏼 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social
Find out more 👉🏼 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
@drmichelleaddison.bsky.social
Findings from our ESRC funded research looking at 'healthcare in police custody' out now @gethrees.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
April 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Findings from our ESRC funded research looking at 'healthcare in police custody' out now @gethrees.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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The Independent have picked up the findings from our Police Custody Healthcare project. We identified significant delays and denials of people receiving medications in police custody. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... @stephmulrine.bsky.social @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social
Suspects detained by police denied insulin, cancer and epilepsy drugs, report claims
Exclusive: One patient experienced such bad withdrawal symptoms that they admitted to crimes they did not commit so they could be remanded to prison where they would be allowed their prescription agai...
www.independent.co.uk
April 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Independent have picked up the findings from our Police Custody Healthcare project. We identified significant delays and denials of people receiving medications in police custody. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... @stephmulrine.bsky.social @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social
💫Fantastic opportunity for students interested in social harm - enter the Social Policy Association's new student essay competition & be in with a chance to win prize money & be published 🙂 Closing date 30th April - get your entry in soon! Details below 👇 @durham-university.bsky.social
📣ALL STUDENTS -enter the Social Policy Association's new Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025, with a chance to win £100 in cash, £100 in book vouchers & a chance to be published! I'm on the judging panel 😀 social-policy.org.uk/policy-group... #socialharm #stigma @durhamsu.bsky.social RTs 🙏
Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025 - Social Policy Association
In 2024, over 120 million people have been displaced due to war and political instability, yet many countries, including the UK, have tightened their borders [...]
social-policy.org.uk
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
💫Fantastic opportunity for students interested in social harm - enter the Social Policy Association's new student essay competition & be in with a chance to win prize money & be published 🙂 Closing date 30th April - get your entry in soon! Details below 👇 @durham-university.bsky.social
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3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...
Research Fellow in Historical Criminology Ref: 40549 (Fixed term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
jobs.sussex.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...
📢NEW publication out! ‘If I Wasn’t on Drugs or I Didn’t Take Anything, I Wouldn’t Be Here’: Mental Health ‘Problems’ as an Unfolding Dimension of Social Harm Generated by Stigma, by me & @profmlhussier.bsky.social @drodurham.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
‘If I Wasn’t on Drugs or I Didn’t Take Anything, I Wouldn’t Be Here’: Mental Health ‘Problems’ as an Unfolding Dimension of Social Harm Generated by Stigma
This chapter discusses the impact of relational stigma on mental health as an unfolding dimension of social harm amongst people who use drugs (PWUD). In traditional models of Social Determinants of He...
link.springer.com
March 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📢NEW publication out! ‘If I Wasn’t on Drugs or I Didn’t Take Anything, I Wouldn’t Be Here’: Mental Health ‘Problems’ as an Unfolding Dimension of Social Harm Generated by Stigma, by me & @profmlhussier.bsky.social @drodurham.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Congratulations to all the #NorthInnovationWomen who have made the list this year – including our directors and member reps @hannahdavies.bsky.social @profkepickett.bsky.social @profbambra.bsky.social @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social 1/1
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If you’re included in the #NorthInnovationWomen list, why not share the good news with your followers using the downloadable social media card available here: www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/03/nort... #WomanOfTheNorth
OUR NORTH INNOVATION WOMEN:
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If you’re included in the #NorthInnovationWomen list, why not share the good news with your followers using the downloadable social media card available here: www.thenhsa.co.uk/2025/03/nort... #WomanOfTheNorth
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March 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Congratulations to all the #NorthInnovationWomen who have made the list this year – including our directors and member reps @hannahdavies.bsky.social @profkepickett.bsky.social @profbambra.bsky.social @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social 1/1
🎉Our Women of The North report won an award for SOCIAL IMPACT for significant societal change & exposing unequal challenges for northern women -just in time for international women's day! #IWD @healthequitynorth.bsky.social www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/health-equit... @durham-university.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🎉Our Women of The North report won an award for SOCIAL IMPACT for significant societal change & exposing unequal challenges for northern women -just in time for international women's day! #IWD @healthequitynorth.bsky.social www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/health-equit... @durham-university.bsky.social
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We are thrilled to be announced as a winner at last night’s @bionow.bsky.social awards, taking the trophy for the Social Impact Award for our #WomanOfTheNorth work – well done to all who contributed to this hugely impactful piece of work!
March 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We are thrilled to be announced as a winner at last night’s @bionow.bsky.social awards, taking the trophy for the Social Impact Award for our #WomanOfTheNorth work – well done to all who contributed to this hugely impactful piece of work!
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📣ALL STUDENTS -enter the Social Policy Association's new Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025, with a chance to win £100 in cash, £100 in book vouchers & a chance to be published! I'm on the judging panel 😀 social-policy.org.uk/policy-group... #socialharm #stigma @durhamsu.bsky.social RTs 🙏
Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025 - Social Policy Association
In 2024, over 120 million people have been displaced due to war and political instability, yet many countries, including the UK, have tightened their borders [...]
social-policy.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📣ALL STUDENTS -enter the Social Policy Association's new Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025, with a chance to win £100 in cash, £100 in book vouchers & a chance to be published! I'm on the judging panel 😀 social-policy.org.uk/policy-group... #socialharm #stigma @durhamsu.bsky.social RTs 🙏
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I wrote this for @bjsociology.bsky.social on organising in universities & the work we all need to do to defend & remake the university.
It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If You Want the University to Change, Don't Theorise—Organise!
Organising as workers to build industrial power within our universities is a key element of how we respond to redundancies, marketisation and other political pressures on higher education. This piece...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I wrote this for @bjsociology.bsky.social on organising in universities & the work we all need to do to defend & remake the university.
It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It's a reflection on being heavily involved in UCU with practical tips on what everyone can do, esp. now with redundancies.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📣ALL STUDENTS -enter the Social Policy Association's new Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025, with a chance to win £100 in cash, £100 in book vouchers & a chance to be published! I'm on the judging panel 😀 social-policy.org.uk/policy-group... #socialharm #stigma @durhamsu.bsky.social RTs 🙏
Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025 - Social Policy Association
In 2024, over 120 million people have been displaced due to war and political instability, yet many countries, including the UK, have tightened their borders [...]
social-policy.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📣ALL STUDENTS -enter the Social Policy Association's new Social Harm Student Essay Competition 2025, with a chance to win £100 in cash, £100 in book vouchers & a chance to be published! I'm on the judging panel 😀 social-policy.org.uk/policy-group... #socialharm #stigma @durhamsu.bsky.social RTs 🙏
⭐I'm nominating @joanne-mcgrath.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social for the amazing work she is doing around women impacted by homelessness, the criminal justice system, & harms to health⭐ #NorthInnovationWomen
Our #WomanofTheNorth report is being used to inspire social media users to recommend people for the #NorthInnovationWomen list - use the criteria below to get amazing women you know on @thenhsa.bsky.social list to be published on March 8
This #IWD2025 we will once again celebrate innovative women across the North with our #NorthInnovationWomen campaign
To collate our annual #NorthInnovationWomen list we need your help to tell us who should be featured
Full details 👇 and here 👉 bit.ly/3WRZLu4
To collate our annual #NorthInnovationWomen list we need your help to tell us who should be featured
Full details 👇 and here 👉 bit.ly/3WRZLu4
February 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
⭐I'm nominating @joanne-mcgrath.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social for the amazing work she is doing around women impacted by homelessness, the criminal justice system, & harms to health⭐ #NorthInnovationWomen
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We're so pleased to share this powerful new film from RIFT Social Enterprise, created as part of our recent collaboration with @mediatrust.bsky.social.
The message is simple. Women leaving prison deserve opportunities - believe in them.
🎥Watch now: www.riftse.co.uk/wise-project
The message is simple. Women leaving prison deserve opportunities - believe in them.
🎥Watch now: www.riftse.co.uk/wise-project
February 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We're so pleased to share this powerful new film from RIFT Social Enterprise, created as part of our recent collaboration with @mediatrust.bsky.social.
The message is simple. Women leaving prison deserve opportunities - believe in them.
🎥Watch now: www.riftse.co.uk/wise-project
The message is simple. Women leaving prison deserve opportunities - believe in them.
🎥Watch now: www.riftse.co.uk/wise-project
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We've been shortlisted for the Social Impact Award category at the 2024 Bionow Awards for our #WomanoftheNorth work! Best of luck to all the finalists and see you at the awards dinner on 6th March!
bionow.co.uk/event/BIONOW...
#BionowAwards #CelebratingSuccess #LifeSciencesAwards #LifeSciences
bionow.co.uk/event/BIONOW...
#BionowAwards #CelebratingSuccess #LifeSciencesAwards #LifeSciences
February 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We've been shortlisted for the Social Impact Award category at the 2024 Bionow Awards for our #WomanoftheNorth work! Best of luck to all the finalists and see you at the awards dinner on 6th March!
bionow.co.uk/event/BIONOW...
#BionowAwards #CelebratingSuccess #LifeSciencesAwards #LifeSciences
bionow.co.uk/event/BIONOW...
#BionowAwards #CelebratingSuccess #LifeSciencesAwards #LifeSciences
⭐'Stigma & the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions'⭐ FREE ACCESS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social #stigma #healthinequality #marginalisation
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social #stigma #healthinequality #marginalisation
January 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
⭐'Stigma & the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions'⭐ FREE ACCESS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social #stigma #healthinequality #marginalisation
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social #stigma #healthinequality #marginalisation
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Durham University has become the latest Russell Group institution to announce plans to cut jobs, stating it needs to reduce staff costs by £20 million over the next two academic years
#highered #EduSky
#highered #EduSky
Durham expects 200 jobs to go as it seeks to save £20 million
University becomes latest to announce staff cuts, saying it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📣⭐NEW PAPER: 'Stigma & the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions'⭐ with @profbambra.bsky.social @profmlhussier.bsky.social & @stephscott.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social
Stigma and the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions
This paper explores the connection between stigma and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) by focussing on the idea that people who have the greatest needs often have the least support from healthcare services...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
📣⭐NEW PAPER: 'Stigma & the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions'⭐ with @profbambra.bsky.social @profmlhussier.bsky.social & @stephscott.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social
@healthequitynorth.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social
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📉 How can Labour tackle poverty in the UK in 2025?
On 30 Jan, we'll be discussing our annual UK Poverty report - and how the government can create lasting change through access to good work, social security reforms and affordable housing.
Sign up here: events.zoom.us/ev/AlxlUn_TR...
On 30 Jan, we'll be discussing our annual UK Poverty report - and how the government can create lasting change through access to good work, social security reforms and affordable housing.
Sign up here: events.zoom.us/ev/AlxlUn_TR...
January 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
📉 How can Labour tackle poverty in the UK in 2025?
On 30 Jan, we'll be discussing our annual UK Poverty report - and how the government can create lasting change through access to good work, social security reforms and affordable housing.
Sign up here: events.zoom.us/ev/AlxlUn_TR...
On 30 Jan, we'll be discussing our annual UK Poverty report - and how the government can create lasting change through access to good work, social security reforms and affordable housing.
Sign up here: events.zoom.us/ev/AlxlUn_TR...
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This morning we published our key recommendations to the government to support the development of the 10 Year Health Plan and the need for transformational shifts in how health and care services are planned, delivered and accessed. Read the full piece. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
The 10 Year Health Plan: Our Recommendations | The King's Fund
In this long read, we set out the key recommendations The King’s Fund is making to government to support the development of the 10-year plan and realise these shifts.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
December 18, 2024 at 4:45 PM
This morning we published our key recommendations to the government to support the development of the 10 Year Health Plan and the need for transformational shifts in how health and care services are planned, delivered and accessed. Read the full piece. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...