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Soon heading out of the door for @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social new notebook and pencil in hand. Looking forward to lots of interesting presentations and catching up with old and new alike #York2025

A short explainer of FoodLadders. youtu.be/q9hbTXeBZjU?...

Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social

❓Political implications of labor market transformation

Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city.

Deadline: May 18, 2025.

tinyurl.com/postdoczurich

#polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

EU citizens' rights group @Settled.bsky.social has launched a new service for people who need help to make an application for British citizenship. settled.org.uk/settled-new-...

Spread the word! Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability.
Deadline: 10 April
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social

5. Student from Syria 🇸🇾 with Green Card

Detained and possibly deported

4. Business consultant from Canada 🇨🇦 trying to renew work visa

Detained for a week, work visa denied

7. Tourist from UK 🇬🇧

Detained and handcuffed - unclear why

Not uncommon for highly skilled and academics to struggle with this: you are recruited or hired for a job that requires travel (and holding this job is a requirement to keep your work permit) but then doing said travel will put you out of the country too long so you violate permit conditions.

This is important work - and highly relevant. Classism at elite institutions is alive and well. Having received an offer from Cambridge University last month, I find myself unable to pay for it and completely unsupported by the university, and I know that many others are in the same boat 💔

Delighted to share a new publication out today in the Journal of Marriage and Family w/ the brilliant @leahruppanner.bsky.social. In "A typology of US parents’ mental loads: Core and episodic cognitive labor" we assess underlying patterns in the domestic "mental load" among 3,000 US parents. 🧵 1/10

Fascinating report out today from @nyecominetti.bsky.social and @louisemurphy.bsky.social on low-to-middle income families' experience of work - many more people in these families are employed than they were in the 90s, but there's still big improvements to be made to their experience of work.

How cuts to youth clubs affected teen crime and education
@theifs.bsky.social

ifs.org.uk/articles/how...

- did not just serve as ‘holding spaces’
- also positive activities and structured support
- closures create greater societal costs than the sums saved from public spending by their closure

A quick heads-up to DWP wonks that a huge tranche of almost 30 research reports has been published today (presumably held back under the previous government?) covering Universal Credit, childcare, disability & pensions - lots of interesting stuff in there... www.gov.uk/search/resea...

I have recently finished my PhD where I used the capability approach to look at Universal Credit in-work progression. You can find it here: etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/35709/.

Just starting out here. Hello to old and new!