Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
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Research Fellow, yoga teacher, allotment gardener, cyclist, mum. Health, wellness, equity, inclusion #actuallyautistic
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Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Apr 23
We’re off! Welcome to the BSA 2025 Annual Conference at the University of Manchester! Hashtag is #britsoc25 Registration is now open at the Drum, University Place
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Apr 23
3 days, 15 streams, 700 presentations, our annual conference is our biggest UK sociology event – this year on the theme of Social Transformations #britsoc25
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Mar 20
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Mar 19
UK Govt to cut benefit spending by more than £5bn a year by 2029/30. Poor/Disabled hit.
Silence on corporate welfare, ending tax perks of the rich.
Aligning tax on dividends and capital gains with wages, and charging national insurance on the same can create £20bn surplus.
Why hurt the poor?
Silence on corporate welfare, ending tax perks of the rich.
Aligning tax on dividends and capital gains with wages, and charging national insurance on the same can create £20bn surplus.
Why hurt the poor?
Liz Kendall promises to fix 'broken' benefits system
Measures including restricting eligibility for disability payments are expected to save £50bn by 2030.
www.bbc.co.uk
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Mar 17
A diagnosis is a diagnosis
There is not over diagnosis there is an increase in those people suffering with mental illness who need support
For someone who says he follows the evidence @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social seems to be struggling to grapple with the diagnosis here
There is not over diagnosis there is an increase in those people suffering with mental illness who need support
For someone who says he follows the evidence @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social seems to be struggling to grapple with the diagnosis here
Wes Streeting says there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. #bbclaurak
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Mar 17
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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Feb 17
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Feb 15
Sally SJ Brown
@sallysjbrown.bsky.social
· Feb 15
UK govt data on annual median state pension.
For retirees before April 2016
Male £11,436
Female £9,934
Post-2016 retirees
Male £11,490
Female £11,467
Median state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage.
2m pensioners live in poverty.
In 2022, 110,000 died in fuel poverty.
What future?
For retirees before April 2016
Male £11,436
Female £9,934
Post-2016 retirees
Male £11,490
Female £11,467
Median state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage.
2m pensioners live in poverty.
In 2022, 110,000 died in fuel poverty.
What future?
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