@justinmadders.bsky.social MP, mentioned the government is working with groups such as @carers-uk.bsky.social and the Centre for Care. We look forward to engaging with developments for unpaid carers.
@circleshef.bsky.social

We often collaborate with our partners, @carers-uk.bsky.social and their counterparts in the other UK nations when producing research on unpaid carers. David Chadwick cites more of our work on the value of unpaid care in Wales @carerswales.bsky.social
@sheffielduni.bsky.social

Yesterday at a Parliamentary debate on Carer’s Leave, @wendychambld.bsky.social shared our research findings, including the Centre for Care’s recent work estimating the value of unpaid care to the UK economy- £162 billion a year.
@sheffielduni.bsky.social @houseofcommons.parliament.uk

Welcome to @maartenvanham.bsky.social ! Urban geog prof at TU Delft. With @gwilympryce.bsky.social we got to work w AMAZING Dutch microdata to analyse movement in Rotterdam. I recently used migration metrics from that & applied to business births/deaths for SYMCA: danolner.github.io/FirmAnalysis...

Our latest paper: a social frontiers RCT

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

A growing number of studies estimate "social frontiers" -- abrupt social boundaries between neighbourhoods.

But are these these statistical estimates meangful?

We propse a simple RCT to test this.

The most remarkable graphs I've seen in a long time.

“at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English

So why do Americans live shorther lives than the English?

Check out excellent thread by @jburnmurdoch here:

x.com/jburnmurdoch...

You may think "bookworm" is just a made-up term.

It's not.

Good article by Jenny Phillimore and Olivia Petie on what life is like for the asylum seekers in the hotels being attacked by far right groups, and the way forward for policy makers.

theconversation.com/what-life-is...

theconversation.com/asylum-seeke...