Mel Bartley

@zetkin.bsky.social

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🇪🇺🦔🦡🌹🕊Emeritus prof of medical sociology UCL. Posting on social inequality in health , work & health, commercial & political determinants of health. Relationship between research & policy. Sometimes post about badgers, trams & trains. Oublagea .. more

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Melanie Jane Bartley FBA is a medical sociologist and retired academic. She was Professor of Medical Sociology at University College London from 2001 to 2012.

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 8h

Thats the one-- thank you 🙏

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 14h

You have reminded me there was a survey which showed this massive correlation between support for death penalty & Brexit. Stronger than any other attitude.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 16h

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 16h

I always thought that destinations of PhD grads, post docs & other research assistants should be part project evaluation. This used to be called capacity building.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 16h

Good points

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 18h

Combine this with random allocation of funding and the circle is complete. Might not be a bad thing

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 21h

What is that science fiction film that ends up with the alien doing something similar?

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Yes but post WW2 there were so many jobs repairing the war damage that benefits were hardly needed. It's the disappearance of jobs that needs to be fixed.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's pretty remarkable how, despite the trillions of dollars we've spent and the century of constant campaigning we've been subjected to in order convince us otherwise, some part of us *still knows* that car dependency is a terrible way to live, and most people still don't want it.

Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA

Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.

usa.streetsblog.org

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Thats good.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

I never said I was for FoM. What was hopedmfor was that once Brexit had shrunk the size of the UK workforce (as seen with e.g. lorry drivers), wages for the remaining workers would rise. This does seem to have happened for some occupations. I hope it continues.

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, come on ...

Being computer illiterate is not an acceptable excuse for filling in your Universal Credit incorrectly or missing your council tax payment. The consequences are severe.

Only the wealthly allowed to be a "computer illiterate oddball"?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPs’ code of conduct

Reform UK leader, who failed to declare £380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate ‘oddball’

www.theguardian.com

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project.

Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months.

Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.

Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity

Intergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

I am sorry that their hopes were dashed. Without large scale secure well paid jobs formthe less educated, we will be prey to all kinds of extremist views.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

See my last post which gives a far better explanation.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

I failed yesterday. Hope to do better today though it looks hard.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a much betterexplanation for the Brexit vote.

Brexit vote explained: poverty, low skills and lack of opportunities | Joseph Rowntree Foundation share.google/uIFn49LWcwR3...

Brexit vote explained: poverty, low skills and lack of opportunities

This report provides unprecedented insight into the dynamics of the 2016 vote to leave the EU, showing how a lack of opportunity across the country led to Brexit.

share.google

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

I would never defend the levels of racism in EU nations.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

People thought they were . See other posts in this conversation. I do have sympathy with people who voted for less immigration (which was clearly part of Brexit manifesto) only to see the massive Boris-wave of nearly 1m after 2020.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

I was once invited to join the editorial,boardnof a journal which will remain nameless. It turned out that I was asked to rewrite endless Chinese papers so they could be charged the publication fee without it looking too embarrassing. Resigned.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

You could have a look at this
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

Racism rising since Brexit vote, nationwide study reveals

Survey shows 71% of people from ethnic minorities faced discrimination, up from 58%

www.theguardian.com

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 1d

Muslims, Poles, Romanians, Indians, Africans and lets face it Black people. They thought all these would be chased out. One reason why so many people say Brexit was never done properly.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d

It makes me think about a famous study of cholera vaccination, which only worked well in societies that also had introduced sanitation.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d

BBC has an item about hedgehogs.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d

That's good! We desperately need to figure out a way to eat less. If we can do that without side effects, all the better.

Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good point. The weight loss drugs deal with that by making you feel sick a lot of the time.

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