Ellen Stewart
@profellenstu.bsky.social
probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
Sunrise over Edinburgh, from Fife. Making the most of all the daylight on a mercifully dry day.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Sunrise over Edinburgh, from Fife. Making the most of all the daylight on a mercifully dry day.
Lunchtime and I’m eating soup while dreaming sadly of last week’s lunch in a restaurant where they served us croquetas in a giant ceramic croqueta.
October 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Lunchtime and I’m eating soup while dreaming sadly of last week’s lunch in a restaurant where they served us croquetas in a giant ceramic croqueta.
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.
October 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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.
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-...
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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-...
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Nearly two years I’ve worked at UoG and still never not lost when in the Gilbert Scott
September 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Nearly two years I’ve worked at UoG and still never not lost when in the Gilbert Scott
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.
There’s a very energetic kids pirate disco on the ferry, and I’m listening to them screeching Pink Pony Club in unison.
September 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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.
There’s a very energetic kids pirate disco on the ferry, and I’m listening to them screeching Pink Pony Club in unison.
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?
September 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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?
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.
September 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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.
Quite shocked, and genuinely confused, to see the saltire hanging the length of a street in Yoker today. Quality of photo reflects how perturbed I was.
September 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Quite shocked, and genuinely confused, to see the saltire hanging the length of a street in Yoker today. Quality of photo reflects how perturbed I was.
Unclear whether this is from the poster authors or a passing H-index hater
September 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Unclear whether this is from the poster authors or a passing H-index hater
The Relatoscope is building…
September 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The Relatoscope is building…
Morning set up at @css-conference.bsky.social for @anamelopsi.bsky.social session on mixed methods for complexity. In a conference heavy in CS and maths am excited to be in a room with COLOURFUL STUFF!
September 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Morning set up at @css-conference.bsky.social for @anamelopsi.bsky.social session on mixed methods for complexity. In a conference heavy in CS and maths am excited to be in a room with COLOURFUL STUFF!
Milan, Lucca and Siena by train has been wonderful, but my phone photos are almost exclusively train bins (which delight my son), and a chronicle of hotel coffee machines I have failed to produce coffee from.
September 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Milan, Lucca and Siena by train has been wonderful, but my phone photos are almost exclusively train bins (which delight my son), and a chronicle of hotel coffee machines I have failed to produce coffee from.
Plans for finishing conference slides on the 7 hour train to Milan looking ambitious, as the uni travel agency managed to book me a seat in an ‘area allegro’ where we are encouraged to ‘travel joyfully with positive mood’.
August 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Plans for finishing conference slides on the 7 hour train to Milan looking ambitious, as the uni travel agency managed to book me a seat in an ‘area allegro’ where we are encouraged to ‘travel joyfully with positive mood’.
So close to York and @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social but so far. zooming past this morning as we take advantage of being able to go on holiday in first week of school holidays for first time since I joined the Exec pre-covid!
July 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
So close to York and @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social but so far. zooming past this morning as we take advantage of being able to go on holiday in first week of school holidays for first time since I joined the Exec pre-covid!
Beautiful York in the sunshine, during an impromptu team outing to visit Criminally Good Books at lunchtime.
March 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Beautiful York in the sunshine, during an impromptu team outing to visit Criminally Good Books at lunchtime.
Joining @lizzysuch.bsky.social webinar for the SIPHER Consortium: really value the opportunity to reflect on what we have learned at the end of our 5 year system science consortium.
February 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Joining @lizzysuch.bsky.social webinar for the SIPHER Consortium: really value the opportunity to reflect on what we have learned at the end of our 5 year system science consortium.
The most January-ish of Januaries is finally done. With an early February birthday I always find it a more cheerful month. Plus, snowdrops.
January 31, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The most January-ish of Januaries is finally done. With an early February birthday I always find it a more cheerful month. Plus, snowdrops.
An upgrade from the predatory publisher emails. One from Wiley (who I do edit a journal for) welcoming me as an editor of… a different journal. Operations Management, here I come!
January 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
An upgrade from the predatory publisher emails. One from Wiley (who I do edit a journal for) welcoming me as an editor of… a different journal. Operations Management, here I come!
Morning! Love a wintry sunrise over my personal favourite industrial wasteland in Fife
January 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Morning! Love a wintry sunrise over my personal favourite industrial wasteland in Fife
My daughter has been sewing these festive scrunchies in aid of our local cat shelter. She’s a wee Bobby dazzler, and this has melted my heart. (All sewing skills come from her dad).
December 17, 2024 at 9:13 PM
My daughter has been sewing these festive scrunchies in aid of our local cat shelter. She’s a wee Bobby dazzler, and this has melted my heart. (All sewing skills come from her dad).
St Cyrus beach sunset (am sadly on a train, not on the beach). Best beach in Scotland.
December 10, 2024 at 3:43 PM
St Cyrus beach sunset (am sadly on a train, not on the beach). Best beach in Scotland.
Mine is exceptionally dignified
November 23, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Mine is exceptionally dignified
Sunrise over Edinburgh on my Friday morning walk.
November 22, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Sunrise over Edinburgh on my Friday morning walk.