Valeria Skafida
@valeriaskafida.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy; University of Edinburgh
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Just as I finish all my midterm marking where I point numerous students towards IAD resources, I read that the department has been axed. Ouch 😩 thetab.com/2025/10/31/e...
Excl: Edinburgh University begins compulsory layoffs with department set to be axed
Seven staff in the Instute for Academic Development are set to lose their jobs when the department closes
thetab.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Just as I finish all my midterm marking where I point numerous students towards IAD resources, I read that the department has been axed. Ouch 😩 thetab.com/2025/10/31/e...
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What role do hobbies play in your child’s life?
In Finland & Iceland, national policy supports children and young people to have free access to hobbies.
We want to know what parents & carers in Scotland think: could this work here?
Take our quick survey: forms.office.com/e/NzC7BS9yTB
#Hobbies
In Finland & Iceland, national policy supports children and young people to have free access to hobbies.
We want to know what parents & carers in Scotland think: could this work here?
Take our quick survey: forms.office.com/e/NzC7BS9yTB
#Hobbies
June 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Amazing turnout at #ucuedinburgh strikes today and a good feeling of solidarity!
June 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Amazing turnout at #ucuedinburgh strikes today and a good feeling of solidarity!
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#ucuedinburgh huge turnout at Edinburgh Uni strike today. Numbers growing! No to compulsory redundancies!
June 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#ucuedinburgh huge turnout at Edinburgh Uni strike today. Numbers growing! No to compulsory redundancies!
When you no longer know if news is real news, or 'the onion' news!
March 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When you no longer know if news is real news, or 'the onion' news!
Are you interested in a PhD studentship to explore social inequalities in attitudes towards school, work and post-school transitions? Then you may want to apply to our exciting new project!!
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
@sgsss.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
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March 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Are you interested in a PhD studentship to explore social inequalities in attitudes towards school, work and post-school transitions? Then you may want to apply to our exciting new project!!
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
@sgsss.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
@sgsss.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
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Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
Intimate Partner Violence in Young People’s Relationships – Care and Justice for Whom? - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
This study will explore the role of education, and the place of schools in both seeking to prevent and address IPV amongst young people. It will consider how the issue of IPV among young people is und...
www.sgsss.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...
#Trump priorities
"Their flight to the US comes after the Financial Times reported that Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, had spoken to the Romanian foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, about the Tate brothers at this month’s Munich Security Conference."
#Trump priorities
"Their flight to the US comes after the Financial Times reported that Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, had spoken to the Romanian foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, about the Tate brothers at this month’s Munich Security Conference."
Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted
Self-styled ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother Tristan had been banned from leaving Romania since December 2023
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...
#Trump priorities
"Their flight to the US comes after the Financial Times reported that Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, had spoken to the Romanian foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, about the Tate brothers at this month’s Munich Security Conference."
#Trump priorities
"Their flight to the US comes after the Financial Times reported that Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, had spoken to the Romanian foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, about the Tate brothers at this month’s Munich Security Conference."
As the old adage goes: when people tell you who they are, listen.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump faces Truth Social backlash over AI video of Gaza with topless Netanyahu and bearded bellydancers
Users of president’s own social media site criticise video showing reimagined Gaza featuring Trump and Israeli PM sipping cocktails
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
As the old adage goes: when people tell you who they are, listen.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Aside from detecting cancer in scans, this must surely be the best use of AI I have seen so far: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall
Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Aside from detecting cancer in scans, this must surely be the best use of AI I have seen so far: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
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Positive to see new guidance to courts in England and Wales about the pseudo-science that is parental alienation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Family courts get new guidance on 'parental alienation' in family court battles
Family Courts should give more weight to allegations of domestic abuse than to claims of so called
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Positive to see new guidance to courts in England and Wales about the pseudo-science that is parental alienation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...