Dr Jason Pandya-Wood
@jpandyawood.bsky.social
Social policy academic and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Nottingham Malaysia. Author of The Kindness Fix, out in all good bookshops on 19th Nov 2024. Interests: politics, policy, food and running.
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The Kindness Fix is out today! 🎈 Please spread the word!
This book comes from a place of frustration with the state of our politics and the ways in which we often mistreat those most in need.
But we can do things very differently…
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-kindness...
This book comes from a place of frustration with the state of our politics and the ways in which we often mistreat those most in need.
But we can do things very differently…
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-kindness...
Delighted to be returning to our UK campus next week to deliver a talk on the Kindness Fix. If you’re around, please do join us on Thursday 8th May for a conversation about the power and potential of compassion. thekindnessfix.com/events
May 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Delighted to be returning to our UK campus next week to deliver a talk on the Kindness Fix. If you’re around, please do join us on Thursday 8th May for a conversation about the power and potential of compassion. thekindnessfix.com/events
Ivor Daniel. Rest in power, my guide, philosopher and friend: jjwood01.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/d...
Dear Ivor, you’ll never know the impact you had.
On Monday, I received a message from an old friend to let me know that Ivor Daniel had passed away following a freak accident. I am still in shock at this news. I was trying to recall the last tim…
jjwood01.wordpress.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Ivor Daniel. Rest in power, my guide, philosopher and friend: jjwood01.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/d...
I had such a wonderful time launching The Kindness Fix in Malaysia last weekend with an event hosted by University of Nottingham. Thanks to friends, colleagues and students for joining me! ❤️🙏Pleased the book is now available here from litbooks.com.my/product/the-...
February 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I had such a wonderful time launching The Kindness Fix in Malaysia last weekend with an event hosted by University of Nottingham. Thanks to friends, colleagues and students for joining me! ❤️🙏Pleased the book is now available here from litbooks.com.my/product/the-...
Thank you so much to all those who came along to the first of my book launch/talk events at De Montfort University yesterday! It was so lovely to be able to share thekindnessfix.com story with you all 🙏. Looking forward to doing more of this in 2025!
January 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Thank you so much to all those who came along to the first of my book launch/talk events at De Montfort University yesterday! It was so lovely to be able to share thekindnessfix.com story with you all 🙏. Looking forward to doing more of this in 2025!
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So excited to be returning to my alma mater for the first of my 2025 book events. If you’re around on 9th January, please do come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kindne...
December 7, 2024 at 10:47 PM
So excited to be returning to my alma mater for the first of my 2025 book events. If you’re around on 9th January, please do come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kindne...
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Hundreds of thousands hit by ruinous carer’s allowance penalties, audit shows
Hundreds of thousands hit by ruinous carer’s allowance penalties, audit shows
Campaigners say NAO report shows impact of DWP staffing decisions and failure to address flaws in benefit’s design
Hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers were hit with ruinous penalties for minor breaches of carer’s allowance rules in the five years…
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Hundreds of thousands hit by ruinous carer’s allowance penalties, audit shows
So excited to be returning to my alma mater for the first of my 2025 book events. If you’re around on 9th January, please do come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kindne...
December 7, 2024 at 10:47 PM
So excited to be returning to my alma mater for the first of my 2025 book events. If you’re around on 9th January, please do come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kindne...
Can my students pitch a policy problem in the time it takes to cross half the bridge at West Lake? With no tech, and only what they have in their hearts & heads, they rose to the challenge. it’s good to remember that a great teaching and learning moment can happen anywhere we want it to happen.
November 29, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Can my students pitch a policy problem in the time it takes to cross half the bridge at West Lake? With no tech, and only what they have in their hearts & heads, they rose to the challenge. it’s good to remember that a great teaching and learning moment can happen anywhere we want it to happen.
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With climate change in focus following COP29, our Malaysia node wrote two articles for 360info one on what the Loss and Damage Fund means for Indigenous communities, and the other on the vital role of women in climate change adaptation across Southeast Asia 👉https://www.monash.edu/mcccrh/news
November 26, 2024 at 10:18 PM
With climate change in focus following COP29, our Malaysia node wrote two articles for 360info one on what the Loss and Damage Fund means for Indigenous communities, and the other on the vital role of women in climate change adaptation across Southeast Asia 👉https://www.monash.edu/mcccrh/news
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I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health.
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
'I quit to fight for my son': how the SEND crisis is wrecking women's careers
Four in 10 parents of children with special educational needs have stopped working, and mothers are hit the hardest
inews.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 3:41 PM
I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health.
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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It's arrived! Looking forward to reading my old work colleague @jpandyawood.bsky.social new book. Available in your usual book places.
Met Jason 20 years ago, right at the start of my career. Such a kind hearted, compassionate man who deeply cares about the most vulnerable people in society.
Met Jason 20 years ago, right at the start of my career. Such a kind hearted, compassionate man who deeply cares about the most vulnerable people in society.
November 22, 2024 at 9:54 PM
It's arrived! Looking forward to reading my old work colleague @jpandyawood.bsky.social new book. Available in your usual book places.
Met Jason 20 years ago, right at the start of my career. Such a kind hearted, compassionate man who deeply cares about the most vulnerable people in society.
Met Jason 20 years ago, right at the start of my career. Such a kind hearted, compassionate man who deeply cares about the most vulnerable people in society.
Very sad news. Rest in power John.
John Prescott, British former deputy prime minister, dies aged 86
John Prescott, British former deputy prime minister, dies aged 86
Former trade union activist who had Alzheimer's died peacefully at care home, says family
The former British deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86, his family has announced.
His family said he had “spent his life trying to improve the…
dlvr.it
November 21, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Very sad news. Rest in power John.
@tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social welcome Tom!
November 19, 2024 at 12:08 AM
@tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social welcome Tom!
The Kindness Fix is out today! 🎈 Please spread the word!
This book comes from a place of frustration with the state of our politics and the ways in which we often mistreat those most in need.
But we can do things very differently…
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-kindness...
This book comes from a place of frustration with the state of our politics and the ways in which we often mistreat those most in need.
But we can do things very differently…
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-kindness...
November 19, 2024 at 12:05 AM
The Kindness Fix is out today! 🎈 Please spread the word!
This book comes from a place of frustration with the state of our politics and the ways in which we often mistreat those most in need.
But we can do things very differently…
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-kindness...
This book comes from a place of frustration with the state of our politics and the ways in which we often mistreat those most in need.
But we can do things very differently…
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-kindness...
Reposted by Dr Jason Pandya-Wood
The Telegraph has managed to get a 14 word headline & a news story out of a 4 word tweet, in their continued attempt to treat any impulsive Musk utterance as newsworthy
November 18, 2024 at 10:38 PM
The Telegraph has managed to get a 14 word headline & a news story out of a 4 word tweet, in their continued attempt to treat any impulsive Musk utterance as newsworthy
The Kindness Fix - out in just a few days time! thekindnessfix.com
November 16, 2024 at 6:09 AM
The Kindness Fix - out in just a few days time! thekindnessfix.com
The X-it is wonderful. Nice to see my timeline starting to fill up with familiar faces. Hope we reach the tipping point.
November 15, 2024 at 6:28 AM
The X-it is wonderful. Nice to see my timeline starting to fill up with familiar faces. Hope we reach the tipping point.
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NEW: The closure of youth clubs in the 2010s led to increased offending and worse GSCE results.
Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected.
Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: https://buff.ly/4fIiRK7
Read the working paper: https://buff.ly/3APnHq6
Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected.
Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: https://buff.ly/4fIiRK7
Read the working paper: https://buff.ly/3APnHq6
November 13, 2024 at 7:31 AM
NEW: The closure of youth clubs in the 2010s led to increased offending and worse GSCE results.
Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected.
Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: https://buff.ly/4fIiRK7
Read the working paper: https://buff.ly/3APnHq6
Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected.
Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: https://buff.ly/4fIiRK7
Read the working paper: https://buff.ly/3APnHq6
Counting down...
thekindnessfix.com
thekindnessfix.com
November 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Counting down...
thekindnessfix.com
thekindnessfix.com
So many thoughts swirling around in my head right now but two are chief amongst them. 1) Pre election punditry is a dead art form. 2) There is a deep and entrenched grievance manifesting in different ways across the world that we are failing to fully understand.
November 6, 2024 at 8:05 AM
So many thoughts swirling around in my head right now but two are chief amongst them. 1) Pre election punditry is a dead art form. 2) There is a deep and entrenched grievance manifesting in different ways across the world that we are failing to fully understand.
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For some years now, many media academics have been convinced the internet and social media do not polarise people.
I think they need to ask themselves what, then, is going on.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-02...
I think they need to ask themselves what, then, is going on.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-02...
November 6, 2024 at 6:50 AM
For some years now, many media academics have been convinced the internet and social media do not polarise people.
I think they need to ask themselves what, then, is going on.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-02...
I think they need to ask themselves what, then, is going on.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-02...
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Very much looking forward to reading this, by @jpandyawood.bsky.social - not least what he has to say about how kindness and trust feed off each other.
November 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Very much looking forward to reading this, by @jpandyawood.bsky.social - not least what he has to say about how kindness and trust feed off each other.
My latest piece for Transforming Society on this week’s UK budget. A mixed affair but at last some lamplights that may guide a direction of travel. Thank you Bristol University Press and Policy Press. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/11/01/t...
The UK Budget: Cautious steps in the right direction - Transforming Society
Jason Wood, author of 'The Kindness Fix', discusses the newly announced UK Budget and the cautious hope it offers.
www.transformingsociety.co.uk
November 2, 2024 at 12:18 AM
My latest piece for Transforming Society on this week’s UK budget. A mixed affair but at last some lamplights that may guide a direction of travel. Thank you Bristol University Press and Policy Press. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/11/01/t...
It feels more *real* now.
So pleased to get the advance copies of The Kindness Fix. V. grateful to the publishers for turning my words into something pickupable! And humbled to have endorsements from people who I have long admired.
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Pre-order TKF from your usual bookseller - out 19th November.
So pleased to get the advance copies of The Kindness Fix. V. grateful to the publishers for turning my words into something pickupable! And humbled to have endorsements from people who I have long admired.
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Pre-order TKF from your usual bookseller - out 19th November.
September 30, 2024 at 2:25 AM
It feels more *real* now.
So pleased to get the advance copies of The Kindness Fix. V. grateful to the publishers for turning my words into something pickupable! And humbled to have endorsements from people who I have long admired.
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Pre-order TKF from your usual bookseller - out 19th November.
So pleased to get the advance copies of The Kindness Fix. V. grateful to the publishers for turning my words into something pickupable! And humbled to have endorsements from people who I have long admired.
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Pre-order TKF from your usual bookseller - out 19th November.