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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 14h

A great intro to @uofgussp.bsky.social's Dr Jane Cullingworth's new @evidencepolicy.bsky.social article.

Evidence & Policy @evidencepolicy.bsky.social · 14h

New on the Evidence & Policy Blog:

'Against unanimity: the perils of negotiating collective policy recommendations across a diverse third sector' by Jane Cullingworth

evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/10/15/a...

@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

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Aimee Middlemiss @almiddlemiss.bsky.social · 21d

New paper from the SIMCA project: Moral Regime of Midwifery Continuity of Carer Implementation in England. Discusses the consequences of a moral regime for an NHS maternity care intervention, & links evidence use to moral & truth regimes in healthcare. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Moral Regime of Midwifery Continuity of Carer Implementation in England

Since 2016, the National Health Service (NHS) in England has been aiming to implement midwifery continuity of carer (MCoC), a model of maternity care in which the same midwife or small group of midwi...

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Catherine Pope @cjpope.bsky.social · 1d

Our paper about GP access is out now (TLDR patients and receptionists are engaged in a quest to get the prize of an appointment but are thwarted by digital barriers and practice systems) doi.org/10.1111/1467...
#NIHR @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

Bugbears in the Waiting Room: Revisiting Arber and Sawyer's Classic Study of GP Reception Work Using Ethnography in Eight English General Practices

In 1985, Arber and Sawyer described the discretionary rationing power of general practice receptionists. Our paper revisits this territory. Much has changed in the intervening decades. Digitalisation...

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 15h

WFH in school holidays was always carnage of tearful holiday camp drop offs and endless prepping of snacks. Taking a moment for the fact that kid 1 just made and delivered a cinnamon bun to my desk. Now to train him to make decent coffee and I think he's finally a net benefit to my writing process.

Photo of a tray of cinnamon buns fresh from the oven

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 16h

Absolutely. Relatedly, am very much enjoying that all my targeted ads are currently for contactless travel on Transport for Wales...

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 16h

'rate like coffee shops' sounds *horribly* flippant (and also like a view from someone used to central belt levels of provision). But I am in favour of these ads, personally. VAWG *is* distressingly normal, and encouraging victims to get support and challenging perpetrators isn't an either/or.

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ESCoE @escoeorg.bsky.social · 1d

How can we improve measurement of wealth and assets in the UK?

ESCoE and @experian-us.bsky.social recently ran a workshop to explore this important question.

Find out more in this blog by ESCoE's Paul Mizen and Darren Morgan: tinyurl.com/yj6m3sjc

How can we improve measurement of wealth and assets in the UK? - ESCoE

ESCoE's Darren Morgan and Paul Mizen reflect on ESCoE's wealth and assets workshop and the future of wealth and assets data in the UK.

tinyurl.com

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 2d

Next week, we're launching our BMJ Medical Humanities Topic Collection on charity and children's hospitals. Thrilled to include authors from PhD to Prof, and studies from Finland & Mexico as well as the NHS. All the details are on the flyer and all the papers online now:
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

Flyer for launch event, with image of child holding placard and loudspeaker. Text reads: Join us for an online discussion celebrating the launch of the new Medical
Humanities journal Topic Collection, ‘Charity and Children's Hospitals:
Exceptionalism, Experiences, and Welfare’. Bringing together contributions
from scholars spanning a range of disciplines and regions, the collection
examines how children's hospitals, and children in hospital, became (and
remain) exceptionally popular recipients of charitable support and cultural
attention.
23 OCTOBER, 3PM
HTTPS://BMJ.ZOOM.US/J/89920901259

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

Scottish Social Attitudes report a dramatic dip in British identity in Scotland in 2024

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 6d

I have a vivid memory of the first social policy lecture of my Masters, when the (sadly late) John Hills said most redistribution is across the lifecourse, not across the population. It is such a basic message, and seems increasingly poorly understood.

Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social · 6d

Print and send this chart (from your newsletter on Tuesday) to every household in the country.

A graph from the FT showing government spending by age cohort. Over-70s have more spent on them than any other age cohort.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 7d

This afternoon I'm researching codes of practice/guidance to try and reduce gender (and other) biases at conferences and in meetings. Interested in suggestions for chairing, especially. Suggestions very welcome: any leads @merylkenny.bsky.social @agomoni.bsky.social

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 8d

Upcoming lunchtime webinar from Policy Modelling for Health @healthmod.bsky.social on 23 October, midday: What Makes a ‘Good’ Policy Simulation Model? www.phiuk.org/news/events/...

Policy Modelling for Health lunchtime webinar: What Makes a ‘Good’ Policy Simulation Model?

www.phiuk.org

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 9d

Long overdue writing day with @profkatsmith.bsky.social today, including lots of discussion about failure and implementation.

Aided by this excellent new-ish article from @catherineneedham.bsky.social and Emily Burns:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 19d

Brief respite from my usual
Today programme gripes: Michael Palin describing York-Edinburgh as his favourite UK rail journey and Nick Robinson picking crossing the silvery Tay to Dundee.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 22d

Lost students kept asking me for directions, so I clearly look less lost than I feel.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 22d

Nearly two years I’ve worked at UoG and still never not lost when in the Gilbert Scott

Photo of a door to turret, marked H, along with a sign directing away from the door, also marked turret H.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 25d

Final journey of my (ill-advised, but fun) 4 confefences in 4 weeks is the ferry home from ESA midterm conference in Belfast.
There’s a very energetic kids pirate disco on the ferry, and I’m listening to them screeching Pink Pony Club in unison.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 26d

Seagull attacks are an inordinately divisive issue in every local Facebook group I've ever been part of in Scotland.

But yeah, the country also just made a fundamental change to the justice system

James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 26d

I have to say I was not expecting SeagullGate to get more coverage than abolishing the not proven verdict (pic via @dennynews.bsky.social)

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 26d

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 26d

I know there are worse toilet situations these days but good lord, how am I meant to discern that this is the ladies? Even when wearing a skirt I… also have two legs?

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Ben Baumberg Geiger @benbgeiger.bsky.social · 28d

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high? My new post open.substack.com/pub/inequali... , and also my take on More or Less this morning at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high?

The official statistics are wildly misleading - I've now made some new estimates that show just how wrong they are

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 28d

It was awful wasn’t it Bob. Just letting him spout lies and nonsense.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 29d

Everything in the news and on here feels quite awful just now, but after the school run this morning I stood still for a minute and a bunch of long-tailed tits started shouting at each other and it was lovely. So here‘s a hasty photo of one of them.

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