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Ewen Speed
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Sociologist interested in health policy and inclusive involvement...and cycling. Current associate editor of Journal of Critical Public Health, a diamond open access publication https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/index
new commentary out with Russell Mannion on developing critical perspectives on health innovation www.ijhpm.com/article_4802...
Quid Quo Pro? A Critical Perspective on the Global Flow and Spread of Health Innovation
Over recent decades, the exchange of health innovations between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has grown significantly. Three main types of cross-border flow...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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We are delighted to publish @colinlorne.bsky.social & Michael Lambert's paper on place-based reform, Wigan, & rejecting the politics of responsibilisation for 'left-behind'places - now on online first:
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Articulating place: Towards a conjunctural analysis of public health | Journal of Critical Public Health
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July 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Health Communism is out in paperback today. It contains just one new endorsement, from RWG, which meant the world to us. “The authors are at once ahead of their time and right on time.”

Get it at the link below to donate to Sameer Project, or pirate it online and donate instead
July 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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New blog - "Disinformation, vested interest and the campaign against vegan diets" - Chris Till looks at the right-wing criticism of vegan diets and uncovers vested interests, anti-environmentalism and climate denialism #veganism #climatechange www.cost-ofliving.net/disinformati...
The Campaign Against Vegan Diets
Chris Till looks at the disinformation campaigns against the adoption of vegan diets
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May 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social‬ looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...
Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm
Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm
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July 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...
How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress
How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress
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July 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality
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Distress in Community Food Support
Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support
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July 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...
Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty” - Cost Of Living
Review: “28 Years Later” and “Shifty”
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July 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Brand new research out from @changingrealities.bsky.social today. It's time to get the Child Poverty Strategy right.

Please do give it a read and a share.
June 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
new article on bioethics and populist health policy out now, with me, @gabyarguedas.bsky.social, @drberger.bsky.social and Russell Mannion. Great to see this now in print journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Pandemics, populism and bioethics: A critical approach
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May 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New post from me up on health policy and redefinitions of who is (and isn't) eligible for welfare support www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s...
Creating a surplus - Cost Of Living
Creating a surplus
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April 24, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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New Blog Post - "Creating a Surplus" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social critically examines the concept of 'surplus' in healthcare systems and argues that it often makes people responsible for a whole set of structural conditions beyond their control www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s... #policy #deathpanels
Creating a surplus - Cost Of Living
Creating a surplus
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April 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Contributed to piece in Guardian on Streeting claims re MH overdiagnoses. It's part of sustained govt move to reduce ESA claimants.

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Does the UK have a mental health overdiagnosis problem?
Mental ill health has been cited as a factor in the welfare overhaul, and experts agree it has worsened since the pandemic
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April 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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New Commentary from @heathercame.bsky.social & colleagues on excuses for racism (& how to counter them)
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Linguistic enablers of Pākehā racism: Excuses from the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand | Journal of Critical Public Health
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March 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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We are pleased to announce that our new issue has just been published! Vol 2 (1). Read, enjoy, let your colleagues know!
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Journal of Critical Public Health
The journal is published by the international Critical Public Health Network in Edinburgh, UK (https://cphn.net/), ISSN 3033-3997.
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March 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Reminder to colleagues working in critical public health to submit to the community owned diamond OA journal when they can! We know not everyone has the academic capital to publish in new journals, but if you can, please do!
We are pleased to announce that Issue 1 (2) of the Journal is now published! Read, enjoy, let your colleagues know!
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024) | Journal of Critical Public Health
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February 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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BREAKING: The High Court has ruled the government's consultation into plans to slash billions of pounds from disability benefits claimants was unlawful

The case was brought by Ellen Clifford

Full report coming
January 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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New Blog - 'Catherine Will' - In our last blog of the year we remember Catherine Will, who died this year. Catherine was a founding member of the editorial collective and contributed numerous articles to the blog. Here is a short selection of her many articles.
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Catherine Will - Cost Of Living
Catherine Will, a founding member of the blog, died this year. To mark her contribution, we offer a short selection of the articles she wrote
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December 18, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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New Blog - 'Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies' - Veronica Heney reflects on the 'Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers' exhibition and the relationship between art and anxiety and how the non-verbal can convey a sensation #art #anxiety #mentalhealth
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Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies
Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies
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December 4, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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Under attack? Public accounts of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Scotland -
Ellen Stewart
University of Glasgow
JCPH Vol. 1 No. 2
doi.org/10.55016/ojs...
November 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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New blog - "Lived Experience and Social Welfare Policy" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social examines the democratic deficit caused by the discrepancy between healthcare policy and social welfare policy #healthcare #socialwelfare www.cost-ofliving.net/lived-experi...
Lived experience and social welfare policy - Cost Of Living
Lived experience and social welfare policy
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October 24, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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New Blog - "The NHS in Late Soviet Britain" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social examines the current state of the NHS and asks why Britain has become so unstable www.cost-ofliving.net/the-nhs-in-l...
The NHS in Late Soviet Britain - Cost Of Living
The NHS in Late Soviet Britain
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March 20, 2024 at 10:32 AM