Lisa Morriss
@lisamorriss.bsky.social
Academic @ School of Social Sciences Lancaster, PI Keeping Mothers in Mind. Interested in Hope, Motherhood, Mental Health, Futures, Ghosts, Archives, Loss, Tattoos
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Really looking forward to this lecture with @academicdiary.bsky.social. Register now before all the tickets are gone!
Annual Lecture: The Paradox of Home by Les Back (11.12.25)
Home is a knife-edge word. Competing forces balance on its edge that either control or open the terms of belonging. It is why home is paradoxical tinyurl.com/3493r8e6
Home is a knife-edge word. Competing forces balance on its edge that either control or open the terms of belonging. It is why home is paradoxical tinyurl.com/3493r8e6
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Really looking forward to this lecture with @academicdiary.bsky.social. Register now before all the tickets are gone!
One for you @mbherbert.bsky.social 🌸
Annual Lecture: The Paradox of Home by Les Back (11.12.25)
Home is a knife-edge word. Competing forces balance on its edge that either control or open the terms of belonging. It is why home is paradoxical tinyurl.com/3493r8e6
Home is a knife-edge word. Competing forces balance on its edge that either control or open the terms of belonging. It is why home is paradoxical tinyurl.com/3493r8e6
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
One for you @mbherbert.bsky.social 🌸
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NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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In Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now.
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
Podcast of the Month - Thanks for Typing - Research Podcasts
This month’s Podcast of the Month is Thanks for Typing which uncovers the hidden contributions of Sociologists’ wives to their research. Behind many of the landmark studies that shaped modern…
researchpodcasts.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In Thanks for Typing, Ros Edwards and Val Gillies uncover these forgotten histories and ask what they reveal about gender and recognition - then and now.
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
🎧 Read more and listen via our blog: researchpodcasts.co.uk/podcast-of-t...
#ThanksForTyping #AcademicHistory #PodcastOfTheMonth
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This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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We're hiring! Research Fellow role focused on institutional ethnography and helping us to develop the lived and living experience hub. Applications open until 17th November!
💡Job Opportunity!💡
We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎
For more information, follow the link below:
We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎
For more information, follow the link below:
Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability)
Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We're hiring! Research Fellow role focused on institutional ethnography and helping us to develop the lived and living experience hub. Applications open until 17th November!
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If you teach research methods, this is an amazing resource for inspiring approaches 🤩
www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...
www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...
Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you teach research methods, this is an amazing resource for inspiring approaches 🤩
www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...
www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/tr...
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💡Job Opportunity!💡
We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎
For more information, follow the link below:
We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎
For more information, follow the link below:
Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability)
Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
💡Job Opportunity!💡
We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎
For more information, follow the link below:
We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎
For more information, follow the link below:
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It can't be underestimated how important this is.
Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals.
Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.
Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals.
Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.
The statement is also available as text on our website stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/l...
Lampard Inquiry Statement
[Visual description: Hat stands outside Arundel house, a fancy looking building in central London where The current Lampard Inquiry hearings are being held] [Note: entirely for reasons of managing …
stopoxevision.wordpress.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
It can't be underestimated how important this is.
Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals.
Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.
Like 'SIM', this scandal has been uncovered by survivors themselves, not professionals.
Anyone concerned about patient safety, the merging of the private sector & the state, misuse of technology, research ethics & human rights needs to read this.
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Both #ICRMC25 keynotes are now on YouTube – free to watch! 🎉
🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c)
🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk)
#CreativeResearchMethods #ICRMC
🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c)
🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk)
#CreativeResearchMethods #ICRMC
September 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Both #ICRMC25 keynotes are now on YouTube – free to watch! 🎉
🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c)
🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk)
#CreativeResearchMethods #ICRMC
🎤 @jacqpriego.bsky.social – Teaching and Learning Creative Research Methods (youtu.be/nAJC7vksV5c)
🎤 @amltaylor66.bsky.social – Postdigital Creative Research (youtu.be/KiL6c4m1fZk)
#CreativeResearchMethods #ICRMC
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Exciting #socialwork job with Social Workers Without Borders! Please take a look and share!
@socialworkerswb.bsky.social
socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/
@socialworkerswb.bsky.social
socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Exciting #socialwork job with Social Workers Without Borders! Please take a look and share!
@socialworkerswb.bsky.social
socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/
@socialworkerswb.bsky.social
socialworkerswithoutborders.org/vacancies/
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The statement is also available as text on our website stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/l...
Lampard Inquiry Statement
[Visual description: Hat stands outside Arundel house, a fancy looking building in central London where The current Lampard Inquiry hearings are being held] [Note: entirely for reasons of managing …
stopoxevision.wordpress.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The statement is also available as text on our website stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/l...
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Following the Lampard Inquiry hearings on the 13th and 14th Oct related to Oxevision, here is a statement provided by Hat Porter on behalf of Stop Oxevision.
youtu.be/bzugNOvOBWs?...
youtu.be/bzugNOvOBWs?...
Statement on the Lampard Inquiry
YouTube video by Stop Oxevision
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October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Following the Lampard Inquiry hearings on the 13th and 14th Oct related to Oxevision, here is a statement provided by Hat Porter on behalf of Stop Oxevision.
youtu.be/bzugNOvOBWs?...
youtu.be/bzugNOvOBWs?...
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BOOK GIVEAWAY
I have a spare author copy of my book ‘Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America’ and I’d love for it to find a home.
I’m happy to send it anywhere so just add your name here (www.linkedin.com/posts/cordel...) and I’ll pick a name at random :)
I have a spare author copy of my book ‘Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America’ and I’d love for it to find a home.
I’m happy to send it anywhere so just add your name here (www.linkedin.com/posts/cordel...) and I’ll pick a name at random :)
BOOK GIVEAWAY
I have a spare author copy of my book Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America (https://lnkd.in/e_eW5fQh) and I would love for it to find a home.…...
BOOK GIVEAWAY
I have a spare author copy of my book Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America (https://lnkd.in/e_eW5fQh) and I would love for it to find a home.
...
www.linkedin.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
BOOK GIVEAWAY
I have a spare author copy of my book ‘Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America’ and I’d love for it to find a home.
I’m happy to send it anywhere so just add your name here (www.linkedin.com/posts/cordel...) and I’ll pick a name at random :)
I have a spare author copy of my book ‘Magic Misoprostol: Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America’ and I’d love for it to find a home.
I’m happy to send it anywhere so just add your name here (www.linkedin.com/posts/cordel...) and I’ll pick a name at random :)
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I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs.
Please share!
Please share!
CALL FOR PAPERS! Broadly Conceived invite chapter proposals for an edited collection exploring new directions in Reproduction Studies.
Read the full call out: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/broadly-conc...
Submit a proposal: forms.office.com/e/csESr71mgv
Deadline: 30 November 2026, 23.59 UK time.
Read the full call out: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/broadly-conc...
Submit a proposal: forms.office.com/e/csESr71mgv
Deadline: 30 November 2026, 23.59 UK time.
October 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm excited to share this CfP for a Broadly Conceived edited collection. @bconceived.bsky.social has been such a rewarding project over the last 3 years & I can't wait to bring it all together in the pages of a book! We're particularly interested to hear from PhDs and ECRs.
Please share!
Please share!
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Recent blog post for BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health contextualising our birth doula project- with @annanelson95.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2025/...
Exploring the role of birth doulas as liminal actors in medical law and regulation - BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health blog
By Beverley Clough and Anna Nelson Birth doulas are not medically trained, but are seen as a source of physical and emotional support for the birthing person. Doula UK, the largest UK Doula Organisati...
blogs.bmj.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Recent blog post for BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health contextualising our birth doula project- with @annanelson95.bsky.social blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2025/...
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This coming Monday and Tuesday the Lampard enquiry will be hearing Stop Oxevision's evidence and Lio/Oxehealth and EPUT will be questioned live on their use of Oxevision and the deaths of patients. You can watch along on a live YouTube streaming link. #StopOxevision
Lampard Inquiry update: the Oxevision hearings due to be held in May have been rescheduled for the 13th and 14th October. This includes pre-recorded oral evidence given by Stop Oxevision and live hearings with a member of Oxehealth / LIO, and EPUT head of strategy, and digital
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This coming Monday and Tuesday the Lampard enquiry will be hearing Stop Oxevision's evidence and Lio/Oxehealth and EPUT will be questioned live on their use of Oxevision and the deaths of patients. You can watch along on a live YouTube streaming link. #StopOxevision
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October 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025
Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025
Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025
Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025
Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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I've run a peer support group around living with suicidal experiences for 18 months, we've had over 650 attendances in over 108+ hours of suicide themed conversation.
Not one meeting has gone by where benefits don't crop up as the reason people feel like they may end their life.
Not one meeting has gone by where benefits don't crop up as the reason people feel like they may end their life.
Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I've run a peer support group around living with suicidal experiences for 18 months, we've had over 650 attendances in over 108+ hours of suicide themed conversation.
Not one meeting has gone by where benefits don't crop up as the reason people feel like they may end their life.
Not one meeting has gone by where benefits don't crop up as the reason people feel like they may end their life.
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I'm excited to share that I passed my PhD viva yesterday! ✨
Thank you to my brilliant examiners Prof Vanessa May and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, my viva chair Dr Paul Gray, and my Director of Studies Dr @jennyvanhooff.com. It was an honour to share such a special moment with you all!
Thank you to my brilliant examiners Prof Vanessa May and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, my viva chair Dr Paul Gray, and my Director of Studies Dr @jennyvanhooff.com. It was an honour to share such a special moment with you all!
April 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I'm excited to share that I passed my PhD viva yesterday! ✨
Thank you to my brilliant examiners Prof Vanessa May and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, my viva chair Dr Paul Gray, and my Director of Studies Dr @jennyvanhooff.com. It was an honour to share such a special moment with you all!
Thank you to my brilliant examiners Prof Vanessa May and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, my viva chair Dr Paul Gray, and my Director of Studies Dr @jennyvanhooff.com. It was an honour to share such a special moment with you all!
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Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.
Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Please read our paper out now about the resistance, repurposing and reimagining of oppressive mental health technologies, such as Oxevision (now LIO), used on us against our will. And how we must dream them differently.
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We draw on concepts from crip technoscience together with abolitionist perspectives on technology to argue for the necessity of a Mad technoscience; an account of how Mad people – particularly those of us incarcerated – resist, repurpose, and (re)imagine technologies used on us against our will
August 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We draw on concepts from crip technoscience together with abolitionist perspectives on technology to argue for the necessity of a Mad technoscience; an account of how Mad people – particularly those of us incarcerated – resist, repurpose, and (re)imagine technologies used on us against our will
Reposted by Lisa Morriss
Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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The hearings will be held at Arundel House in London and livestreamed to Youtube. Following the hearings, transcripts and relevant evidence will be published online.
More information is available here and on the Lampard Inquiry website: lampardinquiry.org.uk/all-hearings/
More information is available here and on the Lampard Inquiry website: lampardinquiry.org.uk/all-hearings/
All Hearings - The Lampard Inquiry - investigating mental health deaths in Essex
Warning – Potentially distressing content. Please be aware that the hearings may contain descriptions of death and suicide, from the start and throughout, which some viewers may find distressing. Due ...
lampardinquiry.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The hearings will be held at Arundel House in London and livestreamed to Youtube. Following the hearings, transcripts and relevant evidence will be published online.
More information is available here and on the Lampard Inquiry website: lampardinquiry.org.uk/all-hearings/
More information is available here and on the Lampard Inquiry website: lampardinquiry.org.uk/all-hearings/