If you're excited for universal child care and you know it, clap your hands! 👏🏽
Really good discussion around the power of lived experience in this Messy Social Work podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rich-and-tim-discuss-the-trauma-industrial-complex/id1651861448?i=1000736739275
It really makes me want to read Darren McGarvey’s The Trauma Industrial Complex! […]
A recap of 2025 at Bristol University Press and Policy Press. Milestones, events, achievements, celebrations and, most of all, a thank you to everyone involved in our publishing.
We wish you the best for 2026! 🎉❤️
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
🎉 Campaign success!
The Scottish Government announces an uplift in bursary support for postgraduate social work students in Scotland!
Well done to @scotssocialwork.bsky.social and @swu-uk.bsky.social for all their campaigning on this issue.
🔗 Read more: gov.scot/news/social-work-bursary-increase
Brilliant analysis by @cwarzel.bsky.social of the socio-political dynamics surrounding a blue denim jeans ad campaign and the production of Sydney Sweeney as a cultural object. Applies to how so many cultural moments are confected internet / social media driven spectacles.
Wonderful to find #Tayto crisps for sale in Melbourne, but at $6 (£3) a packet - THREE QUID😱😡.
Australia, how could you 🥲🥲
@jdev65.bsky.social @jojofinchers.bsky.social