Calling all UK based doctors! Take part in our survey to improve Communication of Uncertain RecoVEry in acute care.
Follow this link to take part and please share widely with colleagues.
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@rcphysicians.bsky.social @acutemedicine.bsky.social
We're still recruiting!
If you are an academic in the UK, please consider getting in touch.
Thank you!
Study poster saying: Join our study! Are you a research academic based in higher education? If so, we would like to talk to you about your experiences of academic failure and what accommodations you think could be made to support researchers navigate non-success in higher education. What is the research about? “Failure” in academic research can include things such as research grant or paper rejections, non-promotion, or supervisor feedback. But despite it being a predominant feature of academia, it has often been treated as an individual problem or side issue. Recently, there has been an increase of initiatives to address experiences of non-success in higher education, from supporting individual academic’s wellbeing to seeking changes to wider research culture. This study is interested in hearing about academic researcher’s experiences of “failure”. We would like to talk to academics at any stage of their career – however you identify it, with any form of employment contract, in any department. What will I have to do? We would like to invite you to participate in an in-depth interview remotely over Microsoft Teams where you will discuss your experiences of non-success in academic research culture. You will be asked about: - Personal experiences and understandings of academic “failure”; - Experiences of coping with non-success, including what, if any, support has been useful, and; - Thoughts on what can be done to support academics experiencing “failure” in research. The interview will take approximately 60 minutes, and you will receive an e-voucher as a thank you for your time. For further information, please use your institutional email address to contact us (Dr Celia Bernstein, Dinesh Passi) via researchculturestudy@warwick.ac.uk
If you are an academic, could you please help?
We would like to speak with UK based academics about their experiences of "failure" or non-success in research.
We want to speak with people at ALL stages of their career, on ANY contract, in ANY department.
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So sorry we cannot include you at this time! Tl;dr - issues with funding and ethics. We know this is a serious limitation imposed on our study... 😒
Hope you get something soon!
Every academic I know has had either a paper rejected, grant refused, not got a post or promotion they wanted... Or all of the above and more...
So I think every academic researcher will qualify to take part in this study! So please can YOU get in touch?! 😊
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Study poster saying: Join our study! Are you a research academic based in higher education? If so, we would like to talk to you about your experiences of academic failure and what accommodations you think could be made to support researchers navigate non-success in higher education. What is the research about? “Failure” in academic research can include things such as research grant or paper rejections, non-promotion, or supervisor feedback. But despite it being a predominant feature of academia, it has often been treated as an individual problem or side issue. Recently, there has been an increase of initiatives to address experiences of non-success in higher education, from supporting individual academic’s wellbeing to seeking changes to wider research culture. This study is interested in hearing about academic researcher’s experiences of “failure”. We would like to talk to academics at any stage of their career – however you identify it, with any form of employment contract, in any department. What will I have to do? We would like to invite you to participate in an in-depth interview remotely over Microsoft Teams where you will discuss your experiences of non-success in academic research culture. You will be asked about: - Personal experiences and understandings of academic “failure”; - Experiences of coping with non-success, including what, if any, support has been useful, and; - Thoughts on what can be done to support academics experiencing “failure” in research. The interview will take approximately 60 minutes, and you will receive an e-voucher as a thank you for your time. For further information, please use your institutional email address to contact us (Dr Celia Bernstein, Dinesh Passi) via researchculturestudy@warwick.ac.uk
If you are an academic, could you please help?
We would like to speak with UK based academics about their experiences of "failure" or non-success in research.
We want to speak with people at ALL stages of their career, on ANY contract, in ANY department.
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🎉New paper out - Processes and partitions: Two logics of end-of-life care. In Anthropology Today, co-authored with Simon Cohn and Annelieke Driessen. rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#britsoc26 Special Event tomorrow!
🌆 Climate Affects and Liveable Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis
🗓️ 10 April 2026
🕒 15:15 - 16:45
📍 University Place, R4.213
📘 Panel + SI/Ed. Vol. Workshop
Join us in-person or virtually, if you must head home early!
www.britsoc.co.uk/media/27155/...
Infrastructure is load-bearing. It holds the weight of life over time.
Infrastructure enables dignity across natural human variations and lifespans.
Infrastructure is care. Make it accessible. Here’s how.
stimpunks.org/access/
Whoop Whoop! @remembermyhat.bsky.social and I are giving our inaugural lectures on June 3rd. More details in her post below, including how to register to attend.
As I write in my book Air-Borne, the word "airborne" has had a long history of having different meanings to different experts. Making things worse, some diseases can be both airborne and spread by other means. WHO is trying to clear things up, but it won't be easy: www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/h...
New edited available for pre-order! Doing Death Research: Interviews and Career Reflections with Death Studies Scholars
www.routledge.com/Doing-Death-...
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This Thursday (05.03) at noon, we will be chairing a guest seminar by @johnmacartney.bsky.social (Warwick), in our Durham Health & Social Theory* research group lunchtime series. He will talk on end-of-life research and “On permeant ethnography: Reflections of a sociologist in a medical school”.
A group of volunteers walk along the wall on which are displayed photos of lost loved ones.
If your loved one died from covid-19 in the UK and you would like their photo included in our display on the Wall on Sunday March 29th (5th anniversary of the Wall), please send it to us by this Friday February 27th. We automatically display photos sent previously; no need to resubmit. ❤️
Still time to sign up to this FREE online event (recordings will be available) to hear from people who use Men's Sheds explain why they are important for supporting their wellbeing in end-of-life care contexts.
Oh and I may be saying a few words also... But don't let that put you off 😊
This is not your usual research presentation!
We have some amazing people who will talk about the important difference Men's Sheds have made to them and the people they care for.
If you work in an end-of-life care context, you will want to make sure you are signed-up for this FREE ONLINE event!
OOoo sounds great! Good luck!
I do enjoy drawing on historians work on dying and death, not least to remind my clinical colleagues people had interesting insights about dying before palliative care came along 😄
Long time follower, first time replying... just to say I really appreciate your (and @hagenilda.bsky.social) commentary on all things UCU - as someone invested in the issues, but pretty clueless about those involved. So thank you!
A picture of Parliament across the Thames. The text reads: Covid-19 Day of Reflection, 8th March 2026.
On Sunday March 8th, we will be observing the Covid-19 National Day of Reflection quietly at our beautiful memorial in central London.
The team will be there from 11.00-3.00, with paint and pens available for anyone who would like to help us with the work of maintaining the Wall.
I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.
This is not your usual research presentation!
We have some amazing people who will talk about the important difference Men's Sheds have made to them and the people they care for.
If you work in an end-of-life care context, you will want to make sure you are signed-up for this FREE ONLINE event!
As @jimdickinson.bsky.social explains in today's @wonkhe.bsky.social, there has been progress in attitudes towards disability and disabled students (about time - this stuff has been the law for decades, but #UKHE is positively glacial)
wonkhe.com/blogs/univer...
We've actually LOST ground since Covid. Many of those adjustments brought in to ensure that education could continue amid a global pandemic were also super useful and accessible to disabled students. But we've rolled back on many of them, often using arguments about 'belonging'
It's @disabledstudentsuk.bsky.social Access Insights Report Publication Day! This is always a big one, as it gives us so much insight into the experiences of disabled students on the ground in #UKHE. And, for the same reasons, it's pretty depressing for a career disability practitioner like me 🧵
Thank you! 😀
Very interesting talk - thanks for sharing! In the Q&A you mention a paper (2021?) comparing public health to engineering, which is not in the slide deck. Would you mind sharing here?
Policy on health is clearly broken - politicized, out of touch, reactive and slow. My recent keynote at the Canadian Biosafety Symposium took a big-picture look at how and why that's happening, and how we can turn things around.
Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.
The implicit use of the deficit model is rife in health and medical paper recommendations, especially the go-tos of "raising awareness" and "improving communication".
Next step is to develop those understandings of "values" and "identity"... Anyone know a discipline that could help with that?! 👀
The implicit use of the deficit model is rife in health and medical paper recommendations, especially the go-tos of "raising awareness" and "improving communication".
Next step is to develop those understandings of "values" and "identity"... Anyone know a discipline that could help with that?! 👀