Dr AlisonBriggs
@TheAlisonBriggs
Research Associate @GeographyUOM | Research areas: Food Insecurity & Charitable Food Aid. Views my own. She/her
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14-09-2010 17:30:51
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We are proud to publish this free essay collection in collaboration with Haymarket Books, which includes testimonials from doctors in Gaza.
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…
Seasonal entreaties to put foodbank donations on Xmas to-do lists risks further entrenchment of charitable food aid as a response to #foodinsecurity .
If you're making a donation, cash allows foodbanks to purchase vouchers to give to guests & please email your MP to demand change.
'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 #CashFirst Sally Weale
ifanuk.org/47KBh9D
😷 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/…
📢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
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
'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.
📢Are you interested in pursuing a PhD examining #FoodPoverty , #Foodbanks #Poverty #SocialSecurity or #UBI #HEStudentPoverty - 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! 👇🏼
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 👍🏻
Must-read new essay here from Poppy Budworth and Dr Harrie Larrington-Spencer who discuss 'more-than-leaky' bodies and existence as resistance...
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
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