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Leanne McIver
@leannemciver.bsky.social
Education + children's social care researcher @celcis.org/Strathclyde Uni 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. PhD. Mum 💕😺 🐱🐈‍⬛. Ace🏳️‍🌈🖤🩶🤍💜. She/they. Personal account.
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📢 Read the latest issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, online now, to learn more about topical issues, research, and practice: buff.ly/MHXEcBW #SJRCC
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📢 Read the latest issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, online now, to learn more about topical issues, research, and practice: buff.ly/MHXEcBW #SJRCC
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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It's September and so the Queer Minds Scotland online seminar series returns!

This month we're excited to have @kevinguyan.bsky.social presenting the 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'

Please join us 25th September 4-5

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Queer Lives, Data and the Dangers of Inclusion
Join author Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion
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September 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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WE'RE HIRING! We have a new opportunity to join CELCIS as a Communications Manager. Come and help us tell the story of what matters to children and families needing support:
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August 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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What's your favourite text book, which was published over a decade ago, on residential child care that you refer to over and over again? Why not write a book review for the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care explaining why it made a difference in your practice: buff.ly/ricbEdT
August 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Little Star and I made an experimental chocolate cake to celebrate my 10-year anniversary of working at @celcis.org but sadly due to the storm we can't take it to the office and instead have to eat it all ourselves. Apologies colleagues 😘
August 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Call for participants! I am doing a research about how ADHD affects the experience of performing music. I am therefore looking for ADHD musicians to fill in a survey about their experiences of performing. Please take part or share if you can!
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July 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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We have a great opportunity for someone to join CELCIS as our Communications and Engagement Assistant to support the delivery of high-quality communications for our programmes of work which respond to the needs of children and young people, and their families: buff.ly/Tebez5Z
July 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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It was great to be joined by the Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise, ‪@nataliedon-innes.bsky.social‬ as Scotland celebrates ten years of Virtual School Head Teachers and all they are doing to drive improvements in educational outcomes and experiences for care experienced learners.
June 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Call for articles: Could you write a short article for the spring issue of the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care? This could be a brief account of practice or research, a short critique of policy, or an essay about care experience: Find out more: https://buff.ly/4bJgKor
February 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Join us tomorrow for the second of our webinars exploring themes from the Children's Services Reform Research, in which we discuss what the study tells us about GIRFEC and its implementation. Sign up now: https://buff.ly/3CcWTRz
January 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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"It's Dr, actually"

I'm very excited to share this new pin with you all! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...
January 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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🎉 WIN 1 of 10 signed hardback copies of Shattered Paths, releasing Jan 2025! 🌟

It is a powerful story of resilience & hope.

How to Enter:
1️⃣ Repost or Quote this post.
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Winners announced Dec 22nd. Let’s share this journey together! 🙏✨

#ShatteredPaths #Giveaway
December 2, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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ICYMI: CELCIS has brought together examples of adoption services in Scotland, the UK, and internationally, to understand how recent developments can contribute to improving adoption policy and practice in Scotland and better meet the needs of all involved: https://buff.ly/40U2Xbo
December 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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During this #AdoptionWeekScotland, catch up on our look at how recent developments in adoption services could contribute to improving adoption policy and practice in Scotland and better meet the needs of all involved: buff.ly/40U2Xbo
November 25, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at Uni Strathclyde funded through the Charlotte Lythe bequest. I'm new here, so appreciate your help in getting the word out! The jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below in my first bsky thread (drumroll please...)
November 20, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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ND adults, please help me with some research for my next book. I want to hear about your experiences of burnout as a neurodivergent adult (esp when autistic, ADHD, PDA, AuDHD)

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Experiences of neurodivergent burnout
Every ND individual’s experience of burnout can be different and that is linked to your personal profile, neurotype, differences, etc. Please use this form to anonymously describe your experiences of...
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November 23, 2024 at 12:43 PM
First snow of the season for Rainbow's first birthday 🌨️
November 23, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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Please share! Reminder that most questions are optional, so you can come and say as little or as much as you'd like, I just really want more Black voices in this research cos ace communities/research/representations are far too white, and that needs to change...
Black asexuals and aces of colour in the UK and Ireland, I need you...to fill out a questionnaire about asexual tv/media representations and their impacts on you. Go to tinyurl.com/acetvquestions and help me make my research not be yet another look at white asexuals... Please share!
November 22, 2024 at 4:37 PM
So far, the 🦋 seems to have decided I might like corgi dogs. A high proportion of the things in 'Discover' is corgis. Am baffled. Are they a good default 'you might like'? Akin to making the letter 'e' your first guess in hangman?
November 16, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Well, here I am, signed up to another social media platform where I'll probably spend too much time reading, a bit of time sharing other people's stuff, and hardly any time at all saying anything interesting 👍
November 16, 2024 at 3:09 PM