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Dr AlisonBriggs

@TheAlisonBriggs

Research Associate @GeographyUOM | Research areas: Food Insecurity & Charitable Food Aid. Views my own. She/her

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Verso Books(@VersoBooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are proud to publish this free essay collection in collaboration with Haymarket Books, which includes testimonials from doctors in Gaza.

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Dr AlisonBriggs(@TheAlisonBriggs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These are the shocking consequences of policy choices made by Conservatives
- the return of malnourishment, scurvy, stunted growth, children with bowed legs & teeth falling out because they’re so deficient in vitamins. Appalling & avoidable.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/d…

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Seasonal entreaties to put foodbank donations on Xmas to-do lists risks further entrenchment of charitable food aid as a response to .
If you're making a donation, cash allows foodbanks to purchase vouchers to give to guests & please email your MP to demand change.

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IFAN(@IFAN_UK) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'We need to be collectively shouting from the rooftops that baby banks, like warm banks, fuel banks and food banks, shouldn’t be needed.'
Sabine Goodwin Graham Whitham Greater Manchester Poverty Action Ames Taylor Sally Weale
ifanuk.org/47KBh9D

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Policy@Manchester(@UoMPolicy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

😷 4.1m people were asked to shield from COVID-19

🩺 What did this mean for their physical & mental health?

✍ Read Charlotte Sharp & Lynn Laidlaw (she/her)'s article, w/Versus Arthritis, on shielder's experiences & what policymakers must learn

👇blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2023/10/…

😷 4.1m people were asked to shield from COVID-19 🩺 What did this mean for their physical & mental health? ✍ Read @sharpcharlotte & @lynn_laidlaw's article, w/@VersusArthritis, on shielder's experiences & what policymakers must learn 👇blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2023/10/…
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡(@alison_phipps) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No words. How many lives have to be lost. What level of collapse is required? This is darkest of days as international protections fail millions, at will. We are
witnessing carnage beyond anything we’ve seen so far, with US and U.K. participation & encouragement.

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Medical Aid for Palestinians(@MedicalAidPal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment and siege is making it impossible to sustain human life in .

Our political leaders must heed the call from 36 UN human rights experts to take action to prevent genocide against the people. (1/9) 🧵

map.org.uk/news/archive/p…

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Dr. Deepti Gurdasani(@dgurdasani1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Imagine cutting off a hospital's oxygen supply, forcing staff to evacuate and abandon ill babies in intensive care - left to die alone without care. Found dead when doctors returned 19 days later. This is what has been fully sanctioned by the US, the UK, and many European govts.

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Daniel Edmiston(@daniel_edmiston) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢ECR JOBS📢 We're recruiting 2 postdocs to work on a new European Research Council (ERC) project looking at who counts in poverty research across Europe IGOP Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i deSociologia UAB Pls get in touch if you’re interested or share with anyone who might be! 🙏🙏 shorturl.at/hlCFV

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Dr AlisonBriggs(@TheAlisonBriggs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No surprises here, but important findings nonetheless. Authors rec expanding access to Healthy Start Vchrs, a living wage that covers cost of a healthy diet, fruit & veg educ in schools & greater regulation of misleading front-of-pack health claims. city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

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Please join us for our 7th seminar on creative methods of sharing research findings 📚🎭🎨🖼️🗣️

🗓️Tues 6th February 2024
13:30-15:00 GMT

Featuring 5 brilliant speakers: Dr Jenna C. Ashton Leah Gilman Jo Richardson FCIH Michael J Richardson (((Sarah Wilson))) 💫

All welcome! bit.ly/3uIi2z2

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Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer(@tricyclemayor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

When I first got ill, I desperately needed non-medical literature on enteral feeding to help me make sense of my experiences.

It didn't really exist. So I've been writing my own.

Here's 3 publications on my experiences of living (not just surviving) with an NJ tube.

1/4

When I first got ill, I desperately needed non-medical literature on enteral feeding to help me make sense of my experiences. It didn't really exist. So I've been writing my own. Here's 3 publications on my experiences of living (not just surviving) with an NJ tube. 1/4
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Dr AlisonBriggs(@TheAlisonBriggs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exactly this 👇🏻
'Perpetuating the myth that food surplus redistribution can possibly solve food poverty suits stakeholders with a vested interest in perpetuating the status quo. These happen to include a government stubbornly ignoring a poverty catastrophe in our midst'

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NEF(@NEF) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Inequality costs the UK £128.4bn a year in damage to the economy, communities and individuals.' - shocking new research from The Equality Trust! We need a wealth tax and more investment in public services to address this imbalance.

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That Sociologist (Dave Beck)(@ThatSociologist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢Are you interested in pursuing a PhD examining , or - Things I'm interested in?

University of Salford is offering 10 fully funded PhD scholarships (plus stipend etc.) and I would love to supervise your PhD! 👇🏼

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Dr AlisonBriggs(@TheAlisonBriggs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thoroughly enjoyed reading Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter's excellent book 'Reactionary Democracy' which documents the role played by mainstream media and politics in the rise of far-right politics. This short piece in The Conversation offers some additional thoughts 👍🏻

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Dr AlisonBriggs(@TheAlisonBriggs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Failing to uprate the benefit cap with inflation was a major omission in the Autumn Statement. What we really need to see, is the complete abolition of this pernicious cap, a policy which has no place in any country that takes the work of reducing & preventing poverty seriously.

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Graham Whitham(@GrahamWhitham) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The team IFAN play such an important role in highlighting that charitable food aid is not a solution to financial hardship. At a time when food insecurity & food waste continue to be conflated & destitution is at record levels, this message has never been more important.

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Fawcett Society(@fawcettsociety) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today is , the day when, because of the gender pay gap, women overall in the UK stop being paid compared to men.

Our new report shows that the inequality of flexible work fuels the gender pay gap.

Read it now: buff.ly/3R3iNv5

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Today is #EqualPayDay, the day when, because of the gender pay gap, women overall in the UK stop being paid compared to men. Our new report shows that the inequality of flexible work fuels the gender pay gap. Read it now: buff.ly/3R3iNv5 🧵1/7
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