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Cass Macgregor
@cassmacg.bsky.social
PhD student & Physiotherapist. Research interests: mechanisms of inequities in chronic pain experiences & potential responses to promote equity | intersectionality | qualitative methodologies | health systems
GCU & NHS Lanarkshire
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New Ideas about Ideas essay "The politics of recognition". This explores the politics of recognition: how status, institutions, and power shape whose ideas are taken seriously. Written with @sandrogalea.skystack.xyz and cross-posted on The Healthiest Goldfish. open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...
Ideas about ideas: The politics of recognition
Which ideas get heard? Why?
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January 10, 2026 at 11:04 AM
New publication: Who is providing pain care? Mapping chronic pain services across Scotland using freedom of information requests. #ChronicPain #PainCare journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Who is providing pain care? Mapping chronic pain services across Scotland using freedom of information requests - Cassandra Macgregor, Christopher Seenan, Sivaramkumar Shanmugam, David N Blane, 2026
Background The Scottish Service Model for Chronic Pain advocates multidisciplinary provision of care, stratified across sectors. However, there is lack of trans...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
January 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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NEW Tressa Burke of Glasgow Disability Alliance turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities
Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’
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December 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Check to see if your MP has signed to express their concern about the six hunger strikers and 'call upon the Secretary of State for Justice to intervene urgently to ensure their treatment is humane and their human rights are upheld'

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Palestine Action hunger strike - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House expresses its extreme concern that six prisoners associated with Palestine Action have felt that they had no other recourse to protest against their prison conditions but to launch a h...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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We are pleased to share a new article, based on a collaboration between GCPH, @commonhealthassets.bsky.social & others, on the economic evaluation of participation in community led organisations for individuals
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See also: www.gcph.co.uk/our-work/25-...
CommonHealth Assets
CommonHealth Assets
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December 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Criminologist and friend Fergus McNeill speaking to MSPs in the Scottish Parliament debating chamber today.

🔗 to watch @fergusmcneill.bsky.social's full speech, in Prisoners Week, to @scotparl.bsky.social 👇 #Criminology #CrimSky #Prison #PrisonersWeek
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November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It's almost full, but still a few tickets left for NRS Pain: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sparcnrs-p...
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Scotland Tonight featured a piece on 'Living with Chronic Pain,' now on youtube. We follow the stories of Marie and Kevin - David and I furnish the stories with our experiences of delivering care. #ChronicPain #PainCare
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Special report: Living with Chronic Pain #health #news #pain
YouTube video by STV News
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November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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'[I]f we refocus attention on elites, using the same measures that are often applied to migrants, we see a complete lack of integration. [...] Elites choose to segregate, but that choice is quietly normalised'. www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...
Who has a ‘duty to integrate’?
Gareth Mulvey argues that it is British elites who most stubbornly refuse to integrate.
www.gla.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Dr David Blane, GP and Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Glasgow calls for caution when discussing lifestlye approaches for chronic pain in his blog 'Chronic Pain and the Limits of “Lifestyle” approaches'.

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October 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
He talks about an under-recognised aspect of healthcare in many settings - to bear witness.
October 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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❗️Remember to submit your abstract before the 6th of October❗️
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis -'An Exploration of Acceptance of Chronic Pain: from Individual Journeys to Social and Political Contexts.' (passed with very minor corrections) 🎉 Wonderful to celebrate afterwards with some of the team🥂
September 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Prominent women, including cultural figures, politicians, and campaigners, have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence to asylum seekers and immigration.

"We reject the far right's racist lies... They are not defenders of women"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse
Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Come join me, @rozfoyer.bsky.social Tressa Burke from Glasgow Disability Alliance, Anne Marie Clements from Justice & Peace Scotland & Terry McTernan from the Darkwood Crew to talk about why the Scotland Demand Better Campaign is needed and how you can get involved
Glasgow Demands Better!
📆 7pm, Thu 4 Sept
📌 Renfield Centre, Bath St
Come along to find out how we make sure #Glasgow is well-represented at the march for all of us in #Edinburgh on #25Oct. #ScotlandDemandsBetter
September 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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As part of The Scottish Wellbeing Economy Strategy Group, we are launching a new webinar series aiming to generate energy and discussion around the concept of a #WellbeingEconomy and what this means for Scotland. First up will be
@gerrymccartney1.bsky.social

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August 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The bravery of these healthcare staff is incredible 💔
August 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Great piece by @danigaravelli.bsky.social

House in community - as for normal people
Close mass accommodation sites & detention camps
Lift the ban on work after 6 months if claims not processed
Process claims
Stop with the lies about ‘pull factors’ & ‘deterrents’
Use New Scots integration strategy
August 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Thanks to everyone who has already read and engaged with mine and @haylesben.bsky.social new paper ‘Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective’ Thought I'd give a summary of the paper here, I've found it useful when others have done this, so here goes
August 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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NEWS | New findings from @liverpooluni.bsky.social and @uofglasgow.bsky.social show socioeconomic inequalities in children’s mental health are already evident by age five and persist throughout childhood and adolescence.

Read more⬇️

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/06/r...

@livunihls.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Important and timely study from Roman-Juan & colleagues: 'Borders that hurt: the link between anti-immigration attitudes in Europe and the epidemic of chronic pain in immigrant adolescents' #ChronicPain #Intersectionality #Immigration journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...
Borders that hurt: the link between anti-immigration... : PAIN
grant peers. Anti-immigration attitudes, which are also rising in Europe, may contribute to this disparity by fostering social exclusion and discrimination, which can heighten psychological distress a...
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August 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM