Duncan U Fisher
@duncfsh.bsky.social
Glaswegian based in Newcastle/Sheffield, UK. University researcher of paid care work at @centreforcare.bsky.social Other interests include all things books, music and gigs, art, football, walking
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Community and Care in Independent Union Organising of Paid Care Workers - Duncan Uist Fisher, Liam Foster, 2025
Paid care work persists as a site of low pay, insecurity, and exploitation globally, with ‘decent work’ elusive. In England, the adult social care (ASC) workfor...
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We focus on community and care in a small-scale campaign by @uvwunion.bsky.social to improve pay and conditions at a London nursing home journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We want to help build fair work in social care, with better pay, more job security, and improved working conditions. Our new #PathwaysToProgress project has launched a survey for #socialcare workers in #Scotland. Please fill it in and share!
www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved
www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved
January 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM
We want to help build fair work in social care, with better pay, more job security, and improved working conditions. Our new #PathwaysToProgress project has launched a survey for #socialcare workers in #Scotland. Please fill it in and share!
www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved
www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved
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Our new Bedside Books column offers brief insights into titles our readers can’t put down, from books on men’s inner lives and women’s aspirations in today’s Delhi to volumes on the opioid crisis, perimenopause and swimming in Hampstead Ladies’ Pond.
Find your page turner: buff.ly/3EfwkNl
Find your page turner: buff.ly/3EfwkNl
January 9, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Our new Bedside Books column offers brief insights into titles our readers can’t put down, from books on men’s inner lives and women’s aspirations in today’s Delhi to volumes on the opioid crisis, perimenopause and swimming in Hampstead Ladies’ Pond.
Find your page turner: buff.ly/3EfwkNl
Find your page turner: buff.ly/3EfwkNl
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Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social
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we're back, it is now 2026, our January issue is out now 🤖
FREE copies doing the rounds as we speak, sign up to our newsletter for an early look at what's in this month's mag
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FREE copies doing the rounds as we speak, sign up to our newsletter for an early look at what's in this month's mag
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January 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
we're back, it is now 2026, our January issue is out now 🤖
FREE copies doing the rounds as we speak, sign up to our newsletter for an early look at what's in this month's mag
mailchi.mp/theskinny/za...
FREE copies doing the rounds as we speak, sign up to our newsletter for an early look at what's in this month's mag
mailchi.mp/theskinny/za...
Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social
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Recruiting and keeping great staff is essential for every social care organisation — and we’re here to support you every step of the way 💙
👉 https://bit.ly/4pAw1OS
Find practical tips, strategies, and helpful tools to attract & retain talented people who can deliver high-quality care and support.
👉 https://bit.ly/4pAw1OS
Find practical tips, strategies, and helpful tools to attract & retain talented people who can deliver high-quality care and support.
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Recruiting and keeping great staff is essential for every social care organisation — and we’re here to support you every step of the way 💙
👉 https://bit.ly/4pAw1OS
Find practical tips, strategies, and helpful tools to attract & retain talented people who can deliver high-quality care and support.
👉 https://bit.ly/4pAw1OS
Find practical tips, strategies, and helpful tools to attract & retain talented people who can deliver high-quality care and support.
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I greatly enjoyed presenting my work at the PSA Parliaments conference at the University of York last week.
It was nice to make new contacts and learn about the latest research in the field.
Thanks to @psa-parliaments.bsky.social for the organisation and the photo! ⬇️
It was nice to make new contacts and learn about the latest research in the field.
Thanks to @psa-parliaments.bsky.social for the organisation and the photo! ⬇️
➡️ @ewanrobo.bsky.social from @uoe-sps.bsky.social is now presenting his paper on stakeholder patterns in committees of the Spanish and Catalan parliaments
💥 Ewan works within the SPARK project: www.project-spark.net
#PSAParl25
💥 Ewan works within the SPARK project: www.project-spark.net
#PSAParl25
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I greatly enjoyed presenting my work at the PSA Parliaments conference at the University of York last week.
It was nice to make new contacts and learn about the latest research in the field.
Thanks to @psa-parliaments.bsky.social for the organisation and the photo! ⬇️
It was nice to make new contacts and learn about the latest research in the field.
Thanks to @psa-parliaments.bsky.social for the organisation and the photo! ⬇️
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
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@argonautbooks.bsky.social has put together a letter to Waterstones, which you can read and sign here:
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c.org/BW7b88mRSw
Sign the Petition
An Open Letter to Waterstones Regarding a Sixth Edinburgh Branch in Leith
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@argonautbooks.bsky.social has put together a letter to Waterstones, which you can read and sign here:
c.org/BW7b88mRSw
c.org/BW7b88mRSw
My Finnish friends send me an advent card/calendar every year - this year's is gorgeous as ever! Lucky and grateful
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My Finnish friends send me an advent card/calendar every year - this year's is gorgeous as ever! Lucky and grateful
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The profit motive should have no place in any provision of care, healthcare or social care.
When it does, it is often the most vulnerable who pay the price for #privatisation.
Important work from @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/11/endi...
When it does, it is often the most vulnerable who pay the price for #privatisation.
Important work from @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/11/endi...
Ending extraction in the UK care system
How our care system facilitates the extraction of value and wealth from places and local public service budgets
neweconomics.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The profit motive should have no place in any provision of care, healthcare or social care.
When it does, it is often the most vulnerable who pay the price for #privatisation.
Important work from @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/11/endi...
When it does, it is often the most vulnerable who pay the price for #privatisation.
Important work from @neweconomics.bsky.social
neweconomics.org/2025/11/endi...
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Centre for Care's @duncfsh.bsky.social and Liam Foster explore practical strategies for supporting the Adult Social Care (ASC) workforce in this blog post for Unions 21: unions21.org/ideas/all-id...
Strengthening collective voice: engaging paid care workers in organising
Ahead of Unions21’s conference on Strengthening Collective Voice, Dr Duncan U Fisher and Professor Liam Foster from the University of Sheffield...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Centre for Care's @duncfsh.bsky.social and Liam Foster explore practical strategies for supporting the Adult Social Care (ASC) workforce in this blog post for Unions 21: unions21.org/ideas/all-id...
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This follows on from their recent research briefing, 'Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works', where they investigated what paid ASC workers & those representing their interests do to drive positive change: centreforcare.ac.uk/publications...
Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works | the Centre for Care
This briefing proposes recommendations for successfully engaging care workers in organising.
centreforcare.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This follows on from their recent research briefing, 'Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works', where they investigated what paid ASC workers & those representing their interests do to drive positive change: centreforcare.ac.uk/publications...
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📣Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop.
This one-day workshop in Glasgow explores how welfare institutions, labour markets, and systems of care can be re-imagined to ensure equity and wellbeing within ecological limits.
📅Deadline: 12 December 2025
▶️ social-policy.org.uk/events/call-...
This one-day workshop in Glasgow explores how welfare institutions, labour markets, and systems of care can be re-imagined to ensure equity and wellbeing within ecological limits.
📅Deadline: 12 December 2025
▶️ social-policy.org.uk/events/call-...
Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop - Social Policy Association
Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop 12th March 2026 The University of Glasgow We are living in a time of polycrisis, where related and interdependent [...]
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November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
📣Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop.
This one-day workshop in Glasgow explores how welfare institutions, labour markets, and systems of care can be re-imagined to ensure equity and wellbeing within ecological limits.
📅Deadline: 12 December 2025
▶️ social-policy.org.uk/events/call-...
This one-day workshop in Glasgow explores how welfare institutions, labour markets, and systems of care can be re-imagined to ensure equity and wellbeing within ecological limits.
📅Deadline: 12 December 2025
▶️ social-policy.org.uk/events/call-...
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43% of adult social care workers in England earn below the real #LivingWage.
This week, we, alongside @livingwageuk.bsky.social, published an open letter, urging the Gov't to pay all social workers at least the real #LivingWage.
Read the coverage 👇
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
This week, we, alongside @livingwageuk.bsky.social, published an open letter, urging the Gov't to pay all social workers at least the real #LivingWage.
Read the coverage 👇
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
43% of adult social care workers in England earn below the real #LivingWage.
This week, we, alongside @livingwageuk.bsky.social, published an open letter, urging the Gov't to pay all social workers at least the real #LivingWage.
Read the coverage 👇
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
This week, we, alongside @livingwageuk.bsky.social, published an open letter, urging the Gov't to pay all social workers at least the real #LivingWage.
Read the coverage 👇
chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Early Career Workshop on Comparative Social and Public #Policy in back! Join us in Barcelona in april. Open to PhD students and early postdocs. Please submit your abstract by
completing this questionnaire #REPS docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
completing this questionnaire #REPS docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Early Career Workshop on Comparative Social and Public #Policy in back! Join us in Barcelona in april. Open to PhD students and early postdocs. Please submit your abstract by
completing this questionnaire #REPS docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
completing this questionnaire #REPS docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Whether you’re up for the school run, taking Mum to a doctors appointment or helping a neighbour with their shopping, we all want to care and be cared for.
But in the economy we have millions who care are struggling to survive, left to worry about how to care for someone and look after themselves..
But in the economy we have millions who care are struggling to survive, left to worry about how to care for someone and look after themselves..
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Whether you’re up for the school run, taking Mum to a doctors appointment or helping a neighbour with their shopping, we all want to care and be cared for.
But in the economy we have millions who care are struggling to survive, left to worry about how to care for someone and look after themselves..
But in the economy we have millions who care are struggling to survive, left to worry about how to care for someone and look after themselves..
Enjoyable day in Manchester capped by seeing Welch and Rawlings at the Apollo - magical show
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Enjoyable day in Manchester capped by seeing Welch and Rawlings at the Apollo - magical show
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CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”
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And please major new RF research that set the context for today's discussion.
False starts: What the UK’s growing NEETs problem really looks like, and how to fix it. By @louisemurphy.bsky.social & Julia Diniz.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
False starts: What the UK’s growing NEETs problem really looks like, and how to fix it. By @louisemurphy.bsky.social & Julia Diniz.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
False starts • Resolution Foundation
Nearly one million young people are now NEET (not in education, employment or training). Tackling this crisis requires stronger enforcement of participation requirements for 16-17-year-olds and an exp...
www.resolutionfoundation.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
And please major new RF research that set the context for today's discussion.
False starts: What the UK’s growing NEETs problem really looks like, and how to fix it. By @louisemurphy.bsky.social & Julia Diniz.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
False starts: What the UK’s growing NEETs problem really looks like, and how to fix it. By @louisemurphy.bsky.social & Julia Diniz.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
Scotland's capital in the mist this morning
October 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Scotland's capital in the mist this morning
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New #book by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al.
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
www.bloomsbury.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New #book by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al.
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
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Chapter and verse: our Books Editor @emmacraddock.bsky.social is seeking contributions to our regular Bedside Books column.
If you've recently read a good book, why not share a brief comment on what makes it noteworthy?
Send your 100-word review via our quick online form: buff.ly/Fr28pvl
If you've recently read a good book, why not share a brief comment on what makes it noteworthy?
Send your 100-word review via our quick online form: buff.ly/Fr28pvl
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Chapter and verse: our Books Editor @emmacraddock.bsky.social is seeking contributions to our regular Bedside Books column.
If you've recently read a good book, why not share a brief comment on what makes it noteworthy?
Send your 100-word review via our quick online form: buff.ly/Fr28pvl
If you've recently read a good book, why not share a brief comment on what makes it noteworthy?
Send your 100-word review via our quick online form: buff.ly/Fr28pvl
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"This thoroughly researched book is essential reading for all those concerned with understanding who needs care and - most importantly - who provides this care." Marian Baird, The University of Sydney
Publishing #OpenAcess: buff.ly/CHg8WN4
Publishing #OpenAcess: buff.ly/CHg8WN4
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"This thoroughly researched book is essential reading for all those concerned with understanding who needs care and - most importantly - who provides this care." Marian Baird, The University of Sydney
Publishing #OpenAcess: buff.ly/CHg8WN4
Publishing #OpenAcess: buff.ly/CHg8WN4