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Jack Head
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Social research - wider / social determinants of health, health inequalities, and housing
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Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social · 1d
📅 Centre for Cities on: The New Towns Taskforce report

Our housing and planning experts @antbreach.bsky.social and @mauricelange.bsky.social will introduce key takeaways from the report and what they mean for the Government’s housing delivery plans.

Register here👇
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Centre for Cities on: The New Towns Taskforce report - Centre for Cities
Centre for Cities' housing and planning experts break down the New Towns Taskforce report and answer your questions on what it means for where and how we deliver housing.
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Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 5d
Rather extraordinary to publish this. “We wrongly thought the government’s case was going badly, so we increased our offer, which the government rightly rejected and went on to win far more”
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 6d
This is the confidential settlement offer Barrowman/Mone made to the Government, offering to settle the litigation for £23m.

(We'd never normally see this, but for unfathomable reasons, Mone posted it on X.)
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 6d
In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.
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Dr Rosamund Lily West @rosamundlilywest.bsky.social · 6d
My next @opencity tour of Canary Wharf and East India is Saturday 18th October. Booking and details here: open-city.org.uk/events/c-wha...
Canary Wharf and East India Docks Walking Tour — Open City
Join Open City for a walking tour exploring the Isle of Dogs, Canary Wharf and East India Docks
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d
I would need some convincing that the badness of this is discontinuous with the long history of methodological and conceptual badness that generally constitutes the history of the behavioural/psychological sciences.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 7d
A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 7d
To celebate the launch of 'Up in the Air: A History of High-Rise Britain', join author Holly Smith and C20 in conversation with architectural historian Neal Shasore on the future of public housing.

🗓️ Fri 14 Nov 2025, 6.30pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Image © Keystone Press Photo shows Mrs. Ingeboug Paine with her daughter 7 year old Diane, standing on their 19th story balcony overlooking the collapsed block of flats Ronan Point, taking a last look before leaving for their new home in another block of flats in Canning Town [Jan 20 1969].
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 9d
Horribly bleak
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 9d
But one of the consequences of this way of doing things was that in first year, during contracts, nobody had the faintest clue what was going on when we covered equitable aspects of mistake and performance
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 9d
Interesting - I do think it should be compulsory, but I’m unsure whether it should be taught alongside / as part of land/property. I had to study ‘Land Law’ in year 1 and ‘Trusts and Equitable Obligations’ in year 2. I’m not sure I’d have understood much of trusts without some land law knowledge
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 9d
You’re right though of course - hard to know how to improve understanding of an area of law that’s so fundamental to so many aspects of life, and which intersects so much important social policy issues
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 9d
It’s funny, I was objectively quite bad at equity and trusts compared to other subjects - I just really struggle to write well about those particular issues - but found it endlessly interesting
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 9d
This whole thread is very interesting, and worth a read.

It poses an important point for me: when the public talk about ‘ownership’ they really use the word very differently to lawyers, who will possibly be thinking about things like legal and equitable interests
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 10d
Why not just let his parents use it? We don't know, but we can speculate that it meant his parents really owned the field themselves, as opposed to just being permitted to use it. That is sometimes important to people.
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 11d
Excellent trailer for what looks to be a brilliant film on the commercial determinants of health from @cdoh-rg.bsky.social at @lshtm.bsky.social !
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Commercial Determinants Research Group @cdoh-rg.bsky.social · 12d
Corporate profit is being prioritised over public health. Discover how corporate power is driving public health crises in the upcoming documentary, Unmasking Influence. #CDOH #CorporatePower @maizie333.bsky.social
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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 12d
New CDOH documentary upcoming on 3rd Nov, led by the redoubtable @maizie333.bsky.social ...
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Commercial Determinants Research Group @cdoh-rg.bsky.social · 12d
Corporate profit is being prioritised over public health. Discover how corporate power is driving public health crises in the upcoming documentary, Unmasking Influence. #CDOH #CorporatePower @maizie333.bsky.social
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 11d
There’s a tendency (I suspect in lots of places, but especially in local govt) to view any form of criticism as some sort of personal affront, the result of which is that bad work rarely gets critiqued - this is obviously….not massively conducive to doing things well
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 12d
This is fascism - no two ways about it
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social · Jul 25
CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
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Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social · 15d
A short post about the Modern British City, out in November: www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/featur...
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 15d
Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism

Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 18d
That’s one way of looking at it
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 18d
Yup, and the (numerous) academics ‘authoring’ hundreds of publications a year in the pursuit of ‘impact’ would do well to remember this (as would the institutions / funders that encourage it!)
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 18d
I don’t entirely agree. This report by Shelter sets the issue out well I think: england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_...
Private rentals in almost half of England unaffordable to new NHS nurses - Shelter England
Shelter warns of impact to economy as key workers priced out due to lack of genuinely affordable homes
england.shelter.org.uk
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 18d
Yes yes yes! The act of reading is itself such a fundamental part of the intellectual process, and makes all of us better thinkers and writers
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Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social · 18d
In fact, the £39 billion they’ve committed (I assume that’s what you’re referring to?) is for social and affordable housing so includes homes that cost 80% of market rate (so not affordable at all?
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