Great to speak to a brilliant audience of educational psychologists and trainees at DECAP QUB in Belfast.

Plus a wee scone for a mid way snack.

POSCUPI British Psychological Society professions engagement.

Full house for our DECAP QUB CPD for all of the Education Authority Educational Psycholology Service. Focus on EDI. Bridgette Rickett speaking on the psychology of social class

Thanks Bridgette Rickett, we're looking forward to it too!
There are spaces available for anyone who is interested.

Lady Aiko is a Japanese street artist based in Brooklyn, New York #WomensArt #Monday

We wrote about this, using an intersectional focus on working class heritage women academics and the commodification of emotional labour to deliver student support.

Get in touch if you would like a copy.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Really looking forward to this seminar. Thank you Simon Goodman for inviting me to talk about our research on the classist ideals in U.K. based health discourse around mothering, food work and body governance.

British Psychological Society seminars

POSCUPI

I'm happy to be hosting a British Psychological Society seminar at DMU Psychology on:

#Gender , #consumption and #wellbeing

With Bridgette Rickett, Philippa Carr, DMU Psychology's Lis Ku and me

Monday 15th April, 11-4

Free! On campus and online

Message me if you'd like to attend

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So excited to be at Rose Capdevila at her inaugural professorial lecture #OUTalks The Open University

My book (coming July 2024) has recently been made open access, meaning it will be freely available for anyone to read online. Additionally, the PB version of the book will be at the affordable price of £20. School of History, Law & Social Sciences Bangor bangor.ac.uk/history-law-so…

Universities need to become as radical as the right wing press claim we are. We need to be as woke as we accused of. We need to be as concerned about inequalities as the pejorative states. We need to be as rigorously inclusive as our critics argue. Then there would be change

Just 7% of the UK population go to private school.

The vast majority are educated at state schools.

Yet, nearly 40% of those in top jobs were privately educated.

More on how the privately educated are overrepresented in the most competitive sectors ⤵️

buff.ly/37jnvuK

Schools serving more disadvantaged pupils have seen larger spending cuts over time since 2010.

Paul Johnson on how this pattern is repeated across the education system, from our annual report on education spending in England.

Read the report: ifs.org.uk/publications/a…

These are heroes.

Working class women activists who strive for peace.

Against a rhetoric of war-mongering, revenge and hate, let’s celebrate the peace makers and the social reformists

Today, I’m joining Working Class History to celebrate Mary Brooksbank.

stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8655/m…

For the first night, I chose נשים עושות שלום & Women of the Sun. Together, they've formulated the Mothers’ Call, where mothers of Palestinian and Israeli children call upon leaders on both sides to begin negotiations for the sake of their children.

womenwagepeace.org.il/women-partners…

Clarion call for action from UNICEF on child poverty, where UK shows the largest increase of the countries considered between 2012-14 and 2019-21. I have slight quibbles* with some of their methodology so here's my version of one of their charts. UK still bottom of league. 1/5

Our #ClassPayGap campaign has been covered across the media.

People from working-class backgrounds work six weeks for free every year.

We also featured in the The Guardian, Bloomberg, Personnel Today, The Mirror and on BBC Radio 5 Live among others ⤵️

linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Call for papers on exploring economic inequality in qualitative research!

Deadline 26 April 2024

Very excited to be guest editing this special issue with Simon Goodman
Adam Jowett, Jackie Abell and Mirko Demasi

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

If you want to do a PhD that uses social psychology to understand and reduce educational inequality, get in touch! We have new PhD studentships advertised at Sussex Psychology:
sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…
sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fun…