Liz Brewster
@lizbrewster.bsky.social
I lead research on NHS workforce, medical education and health inequalities. Academic, northern, gritty. Often found on the coast.
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Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
August 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
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From @hsph.harvard.edu on Instagram. In FY 25, 46% of the school's budget came from federal grants.
Thinking of the many friends I have at Harvard Chan right now who just want to do work that will make the world healthier.
Thinking of the many friends I have at Harvard Chan right now who just want to do work that will make the world healthier.
May 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
From @hsph.harvard.edu on Instagram. In FY 25, 46% of the school's budget came from federal grants.
Thinking of the many friends I have at Harvard Chan right now who just want to do work that will make the world healthier.
Thinking of the many friends I have at Harvard Chan right now who just want to do work that will make the world healthier.
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again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression
April 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression
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Tony ( @tonypickering.bsky.social ) did all the artwork for our Mapping Doctors project. Great style, worked rapidly on alterations and comments, even did this little self-portrait for one of our game cards! Need an artist? Get in touch!
April 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Tony ( @tonypickering.bsky.social ) did all the artwork for our Mapping Doctors project. Great style, worked rapidly on alterations and comments, even did this little self-portrait for one of our game cards! Need an artist? Get in touch!
It's been a full on few days but pleased to report we've solved the NHS workforce crisis by taking many young people through our accelerated training pathway.
Lots of kids playing my "Doctor's Training Pathway" game! I suspect they were attracted by the giant dice. Expect lots more surgeons and radiologists from Lancaster in about 15 years time. #CampusInTheCity #LancasterUniversity @lizbrewster.bsky.social masterful management.
April 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It's been a full on few days but pleased to report we've solved the NHS workforce crisis by taking many young people through our accelerated training pathway.
If your peer reviewers' comments, and your response to your peer reviewers' comments is not longer than the article itself, are you even doing peer review properly?
April 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If your peer reviewers' comments, and your response to your peer reviewers' comments is not longer than the article itself, are you even doing peer review properly?
At work, I keep apologising to people for things I have not done, but seem incapable of pointing out that the reason is because I've submitted three academic journal papers for peer review in the last three weeks.
I think I need to stop apologising.
I think I need to stop apologising.
March 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
At work, I keep apologising to people for things I have not done, but seem incapable of pointing out that the reason is because I've submitted three academic journal papers for peer review in the last three weeks.
I think I need to stop apologising.
I think I need to stop apologising.
It takes a village to finish a research project, it seems. To illustrate this fact, I've just called in a favour with our local MakerSpace colleagues for bespoke playing pieces for a board game. As you do.
March 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It takes a village to finish a research project, it seems. To illustrate this fact, I've just called in a favour with our local MakerSpace colleagues for bespoke playing pieces for a board game. As you do.
Productivity has dropped since I discovered I can watch the lambs from my office window.
March 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Productivity has dropped since I discovered I can watch the lambs from my office window.
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📣There's still time to apply! Closing date: 19 March 2025
BJGP Open is recruiting for an Associate Editor
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4hTHG7b
BJGP Open is recruiting for an Associate Editor
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4hTHG7b
March 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📣There's still time to apply! Closing date: 19 March 2025
BJGP Open is recruiting for an Associate Editor
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4hTHG7b
BJGP Open is recruiting for an Associate Editor
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4hTHG7b
When did government agencies and academic journals get so bad at document metadata and why is it the bane of my life?
March 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
When did government agencies and academic journals get so bad at document metadata and why is it the bane of my life?
Interrupting your regular broadcasting with this urgent update: the new spring lambs are here and they are cute as wobbly little buttons.
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Interrupting your regular broadcasting with this urgent update: the new spring lambs are here and they are cute as wobbly little buttons.
My MapDoc research project has been doing some cheeky little extra patient and public involvement co-design work in our communities, and I've been blown away by how much the issues in our research matter to people, and how committed they are to supporting solving them.
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
My MapDoc research project has been doing some cheeky little extra patient and public involvement co-design work in our communities, and I've been blown away by how much the issues in our research matter to people, and how committed they are to supporting solving them.
In the interests of self-promotion, I bring you: the Mapping Doctors podcast! Six episodes, 10-15 mins each, themed around an issue in our current research on medical training pathways and health inequalities.
I sound incredibly northern in them.
I sound incredibly northern in them.
mapdocpod.captivate.fm
February 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
In the interests of self-promotion, I bring you: the Mapping Doctors podcast! Six episodes, 10-15 mins each, themed around an issue in our current research on medical training pathways and health inequalities.
I sound incredibly northern in them.
I sound incredibly northern in them.
Your semi-regular reminder that if you like an academic paper enough to write to the author, it will make said author's day to know you a) read it b) found it useful.
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Your semi-regular reminder that if you like an academic paper enough to write to the author, it will make said author's day to know you a) read it b) found it useful.
I'm behind with my new paper klaxon 🎉 notifications, but here's the one we wrote about NHS staff experiences of trying to overcome health inequalities experienced by children and young people.
Burnout and staff experiences of health inequalities in children’s hospitals: a qualitative analysis
Objectives To identify burnout constructs from descriptions of staff experiences of health inequalities operating across paediatric specialist hospitals and to categorise the constructs according to L...
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February 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I'm behind with my new paper klaxon 🎉 notifications, but here's the one we wrote about NHS staff experiences of trying to overcome health inequalities experienced by children and young people.
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“The numbers don’t lie!” is something that is exceptionally obviously not true if you do any work with numbers at all. So anyone who works with numbers and says that is the one that is lying to you.
February 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“The numbers don’t lie!” is something that is exceptionally obviously not true if you do any work with numbers at all. So anyone who works with numbers and says that is the one that is lying to you.
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I have been stuck at 4.9k followers for a week, and it is killing me.
I'm witty, irreverent, I post nice pictures of loaves of bread, flowers and butterflies.
I am happy to beg for a few more followers if needed to get to 5k.
I have precious little shame.
I'm witty, irreverent, I post nice pictures of loaves of bread, flowers and butterflies.
I am happy to beg for a few more followers if needed to get to 5k.
I have precious little shame.
February 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I have been stuck at 4.9k followers for a week, and it is killing me.
I'm witty, irreverent, I post nice pictures of loaves of bread, flowers and butterflies.
I am happy to beg for a few more followers if needed to get to 5k.
I have precious little shame.
I'm witty, irreverent, I post nice pictures of loaves of bread, flowers and butterflies.
I am happy to beg for a few more followers if needed to get to 5k.
I have precious little shame.
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Evening all.
You'd be doing me a huge favour by following @sascollective.com. We are trying to make the world a better place for a marginalised and increasing group of doctors.
We are trying to maintain the momentum we had on other platforms, and we need your help!
#SASsix
You'd be doing me a huge favour by following @sascollective.com. We are trying to make the world a better place for a marginalised and increasing group of doctors.
We are trying to maintain the momentum we had on other platforms, and we need your help!
#SASsix
January 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Evening all.
You'd be doing me a huge favour by following @sascollective.com. We are trying to make the world a better place for a marginalised and increasing group of doctors.
We are trying to maintain the momentum we had on other platforms, and we need your help!
#SASsix
You'd be doing me a huge favour by following @sascollective.com. We are trying to make the world a better place for a marginalised and increasing group of doctors.
We are trying to maintain the momentum we had on other platforms, and we need your help!
#SASsix
At some point, I'm going to have to write the list of acknowledgements that thanks all the bands I've been listening to while finishing my big NIHR project outputs. Why don't academics do this? I can't be the only academic with go-to writing music.
January 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
At some point, I'm going to have to write the list of acknowledgements that thanks all the bands I've been listening to while finishing my big NIHR project outputs. Why don't academics do this? I can't be the only academic with go-to writing music.
Just looking at my diary and I'm quadruple booked on April 1st 2025. I think this shows the foolishness of academia at its finest.
January 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Just looking at my diary and I'm quadruple booked on April 1st 2025. I think this shows the foolishness of academia at its finest.
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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
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"The system was never broken, it was built this way"
In the medical workforce, this is illustrated well by the disparity in the experiences of resident doctors / consultants, mostly white, and SAS / LE doctors, mostly from ethnic minority communities.
#WSM2025
In the medical workforce, this is illustrated well by the disparity in the experiences of resident doctors / consultants, mostly white, and SAS / LE doctors, mostly from ethnic minority communities.
#WSM2025
January 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"The system was never broken, it was built this way"
In the medical workforce, this is illustrated well by the disparity in the experiences of resident doctors / consultants, mostly white, and SAS / LE doctors, mostly from ethnic minority communities.
#WSM2025
In the medical workforce, this is illustrated well by the disparity in the experiences of resident doctors / consultants, mostly white, and SAS / LE doctors, mostly from ethnic minority communities.
#WSM2025
New paper klaxon: 🎉
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on the patient journeys of those with a newly diagnosed paediatric brain tumours
A paper for life, not just for lockdowns - we provide suggestions for improving healthcare services to ensure an effective response in any time of crisis
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on the patient journeys of those with a newly diagnosed paediatric brain tumours
A paper for life, not just for lockdowns - we provide suggestions for improving healthcare services to ensure an effective response in any time of crisis
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on the patient journeys of those with a newly diagnosed paediatric brain tumour in the UK: a qualitative study
Objectives To explore the impact of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis, management and patient journey for children and young people with a newly diagnosed brain tumour in the UK.
Desi...
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January 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
New paper klaxon: 🎉
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on the patient journeys of those with a newly diagnosed paediatric brain tumours
A paper for life, not just for lockdowns - we provide suggestions for improving healthcare services to ensure an effective response in any time of crisis
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic on the patient journeys of those with a newly diagnosed paediatric brain tumours
A paper for life, not just for lockdowns - we provide suggestions for improving healthcare services to ensure an effective response in any time of crisis
Always good to meet your goal of getting one publication a year on 3 Jan. I get the rest of 2025 off right?
January 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Always good to meet your goal of getting one publication a year on 3 Jan. I get the rest of 2025 off right?