Valeria Skafida
@valeriaskafida.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy; University of Edinburgh
๐ Key insights:
Child contact with social workers is socially stratified by income even when focusing in on families where mothers reported domestic abuse.
Also, boys were twice as likely as girls to have social worker contact โ raising questions about gendered perceptions of risk and need.
Child contact with social workers is socially stratified by income even when focusing in on families where mothers reported domestic abuse.
Also, boys were twice as likely as girls to have social worker contact โ raising questions about gendered perceptions of risk and need.
January 28, 2026 at 8:22 PM
๐ Key insights:
Child contact with social workers is socially stratified by income even when focusing in on families where mothers reported domestic abuse.
Also, boys were twice as likely as girls to have social worker contact โ raising questions about gendered perceptions of risk and need.
Child contact with social workers is socially stratified by income even when focusing in on families where mothers reported domestic abuse.
Also, boys were twice as likely as girls to have social worker contact โ raising questions about gendered perceptions of risk and need.
๐ข New paper with @evemull.bsky.social & @jdev65.bsky.social - we examine which children come into contact with social workers when mothers experience domestic abuse โ and which do not.
Open access article ๐https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70112
@growingupinscot.bsky.social
Open access article ๐https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70112
@growingupinscot.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 8:22 PM
๐ข New paper with @evemull.bsky.social & @jdev65.bsky.social - we examine which children come into contact with social workers when mothers experience domestic abuse โ and which do not.
Open access article ๐https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70112
@growingupinscot.bsky.social
Open access article ๐https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70112
@growingupinscot.bsky.social
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Just as I finish all my midterm marking where I point numerous students towards IAD resources, I read that the department has been axed. Ouch ๐ฉ thetab.com/2025/10/31/e...
Excl: Edinburgh University begins compulsory layoffs with department set to be axed
Seven staff in the Instute for Academic Development are set to lose their jobs when the department closes
thetab.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Just as I finish all my midterm marking where I point numerous students towards IAD resources, I read that the department has been axed. Ouch ๐ฉ thetab.com/2025/10/31/e...
Reposted by Valeria Skafida
Still time to share your views with us ๐
What role do hobbies play in your childโs life?
In Finland & Iceland, national policy supports children and young people to have free access to hobbies.
We want to know what parents & carers in Scotland think: could this work here?
Take our quick survey: forms.office.com/e/NzC7BS9yTB
#Hobbies
In Finland & Iceland, national policy supports children and young people to have free access to hobbies.
We want to know what parents & carers in Scotland think: could this work here?
Take our quick survey: forms.office.com/e/NzC7BS9yTB
#Hobbies
June 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Still time to share your views with us ๐
Amazing turnout at #ucuedinburgh strikes today and a good feeling of solidarity!
June 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Amazing turnout at #ucuedinburgh strikes today and a good feeling of solidarity!
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#ucuedinburgh huge turnout at Edinburgh Uni strike today. Numbers growing! No to compulsory redundancies!
June 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#ucuedinburgh huge turnout at Edinburgh Uni strike today. Numbers growing! No to compulsory redundancies!
Are you interested in a PhD studentship to explore social inequalities in attitudes towards school, work and post-school transitions? Then you may want to apply to our exciting new project!!
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
@sgsss.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
@sgsss.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Are you interested in a PhD studentship to explore social inequalities in attitudes towards school, work and post-school transitions? Then you may want to apply to our exciting new project!!
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
@sgsss.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
@sgsss.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social
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Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
Intimate Partner Violence in Young Peopleโs Relationships โ Care and Justice for Whom? - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
This study will explore the role of education, and the place of schools in both seeking to prevent and address IPV amongst young people. It will consider how the issue of IPV among young people is und...
www.sgsss.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
Aside from detecting cancer in scans, this must surely be the best use of AI I have seen so far: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
โDear, did you say pastry?โ: meet the โAI grannyโ driving scammers up the wall
Daisyโs dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Aside from detecting cancer in scans, this must surely be the best use of AI I have seen so far: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...
Reposted by Valeria Skafida
Positive to see new guidance to courts in England and Wales about the pseudo-science that is parental alienation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Family courts get new guidance on 'parental alienation' in family court battles
Family Courts should give more weight to allegations of domestic abuse than to claims of so called
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Positive to see new guidance to courts in England and Wales about the pseudo-science that is parental alienation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...