Our aim was to showcase a range of theoretical perspectives and their novel application to care-experienced learners. Includes contributions from Matthew Bunn, Emily Fuller, Dr Samantha Child, Morten Frederiksen @[email protected], Peter Appleton, Dr Rachel Sandford, Dr Tom Quarmby, Dr Oliver Hooper and many others!

🚨 Sharing new special issue: 'Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care‐experienced people' in British Educational Research Journal (British Educational Research Journal). Nine great articles, edited by Dr Zoe Baker, Katie Ellis and me - please share!

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📚 BERJ SPECIAL SECTION: Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care-experienced people
British Educational Research Journal Dr Zoe Baker Katie Ellis Dr Neil Harrison

Volume 50, Issue 2
April 2024

Find out more: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14693518/2…

If you want to know what the UK health service will look like in years to come, look at the USA.

Lower-income US women more likely to miss key breast cancer test. Isolation & lack of health insurance correlate to reduced mammogram rates for breast cancer
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📢🎉Half Marathon completed in 2hrs 13 mins🎉📢 Thank you so much to everyone for sponsoring me- we raised a whopping £802 for Care Leavers' Assoc & 🌹SIBLINGS TOGETHER🌹🤩☺🤗! The page is still accepting donations if you wanted to donate but hadn't had the chance to givewheel.com/fundraising/24… (1/3)

📢🏃‍♀️It's the big day tomorrow!🏃‍♀️📢 I had temporary tattoos made of Care Leavers' Assoc and 🌹SIBLINGS TOGETHER🌹🤩☺🤗 's logos to wear on my arms to raise visibility and awareness 🙌 Donations are still being accepted here givewheel.com/fundraising/24…

Do you know a BA or MA history student/ graduate that might want to gain some paid research experience this summer? I’m running an internship to research and produce a public resource on ‘Sheffield’s Clean Air Movement: A Local Environmental History’. >> shu.ac.uk/research/degre…

Super interested in this article by Dr Sadie Parr tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My book, Thinking Through Family. Narratives of Care Experienced Lives is available from Bristol Uni Press - three chapters #OpenAccess here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook/book/…

Concerning lived experience...

I am one of those people often referred to as having ‘lived experience’ – a label given to those of us who are not professionally qualified to assert the things we do who are instead authenticated by the adversities we have suffered. If you spend…

2: Involving children & young people in health & care research with me & members of Herts YPAG, 30/5: learningforinvolvement.org.uk/content/traini…
Both in-person in Hatfield, including lunch, so places are limited.
Booking deadlines: 1. 29/3 and 2. 26.4.
#InvolveYoungPeople Generation R Rebecca O'Connell

The Howard League needs your help. You may have seen the disturbing HMI Prisons Wetherby report today.

We have started a petition calling on the government to move girls out of this prison immediately.

➡️ Sign it here: howardleague.org/move-girls-out…

An insightful comment piece on how SCYPHeR Initiative brings together clinicians, healthcare professionals & researchers from The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University & Sheffield Children's to tackle significant regional challenges in children's healthcare 👉bit.ly/3wxQP2H

#MadeTogether

Do I have any friends in child and family social work / child protection who might be willing to talk with an excellent masters student doing research on supervision and burnout? If you'd be willing, drop me a dm and I'll send you all the information so you can consider it.

Great to attend the launch of the Children’s Health Research Network SCYPHeR Initiative this week. Working with Sheffield Children's and Sheffield Hallam University, we're committed to delivering research and innovation that can help to shape the future of children’s health in our region.

Very pleased to be collaborating with our partners Sheffield Children's and The University of Sheffield through #SCYPHeR - we're committed to using our world-leading expertise in health research to help tackle this problem in our region

This week Sheffield Children’s, The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University came together to launch the SCYPHeR Initiative Initiative! This exciting initiative aims to shape the future of children’s health through research.

Find out more: sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk/news/south-yor…

Really proud to be part of this fabulous new initiative with Meena Balasubramanian. Follow SCYPHeR Initiative to hear more about the collaboration of child health researchers at Sheffield Children's The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University 🌟

“The enthusiasm when I come to meetings like this is incredible. There's no shortage of people who are committed to this goal.”

A powerful address from Mayor Oliver Coppard, outlining the challenges in making our region the healthiest in the country.

#MadeTogether #SCYPHeR

Great to be here for the launch of SCYPHeR Initiative the South Yorkshire Children & Young People’s Health Research, a collaboration between Sheffield Children's Sheffield Hallam University and The University of Sheffield to improve health outcomes for children.

#MadeTogether #SouthYorkshire #ChildHealth