Are you a qualified lawyer and want to help us legally support the trans community?

We are looking for you 👀

Come along to the Progressive Economics 2025 conference to be inspired to make a difference!

“The supreme court refused to hear me, or my evidence, to provide them with information about the impact on those trans people affected by the judgment and failed to give any reasons.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

The Barkley Marathons has started. I love this weird and brutal test of human endurance (from the comfort of my own home!)

Celebrate World Social Work Day with us as we join via Zoom with the Jordanian Association of Social Work & continue to discover the differences & similarities of social work practice in Jordan & NI.

Attendance is open to all social workers. Register at basw.co.uk/events/learn...

TUESDAY 17 DECEMBER, 12.30pm - 1.30pm (teams)

FREE: This support session seeks to explore the views & experiences of newly qualified social workers on working with increasingly complex needs & demand with limited resources.

▶️ basw.co.uk/upcoming-bas...

@basw-uk.bsky.social | @swu-uk.bsky.social

Do you want to find out more about the Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boaters Pledge that schools can take to support pupils?

Join our webinar on 23 January at 3:45pm to hear examples of good practice and how you can get involved!

Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1088546274...

Are you interested in a one-day-per-week paid research internship? 📚

@ljmuofficial.bsky.social is looking for an intern to research cancer inequalities among Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Showmen and Boater communities.

Email yhirst@uclan.ac.uk by 16 December for more info.

I’m looking for academic researchers who research mental health and also (like me) have lived experience of mental ill health! Please share and get in touch if that’s you ❤️#academicsky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @mhrincubator.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social

Today we've launched a report with University of York and York St John University on ‘Right Care, Right Person’, aimed at reducing avoidable police involvement in incidents where there is a mental health need. It explores health & care staff views on its implementation. Find out more:

Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani families are up to 5x more likely to be living in severe poverty for a long time compared to white families in the UK 📢

We've carried out new research to understand what these families experience and why they have this elevated risk 1/6

Our latest report with Gingerbread finds single-parent families are less likely to live in poverty when they get the right child maintenance.

Reforming the Child Maintenance Service must be part of plans to tackle child poverty 📢

Read this latest report with Gingerbread #FixtheCMS: bit.ly/4eUWjFv

Thoroughly enjoyed this on my commute today.

Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...

This is very exciting! It feels good to make a move to a different community. I'm looking forward to making connections with people about all things #socialwork #socialresearch and lots of other stuff too.