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Ellen Stewart

@profellenstu.bsky.social

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probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · Aug 21

Working with SIPHER's brilliant Community Panels to map their local housing systems (in Fife, Bury & Rochdale, and Manor & Castle in Sheffield) was my favourite SIPHER experience. This paper by @lisagarnham.bsky.social shows how their insights reshaped our understanding of housing & health.

Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · Aug 20

New paper with @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social finds housing 3Cs (context, cost, condition) are recognised by researchers, policymakers & publics but only lived experience accounts centre a 4th C—control: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Housing as a social determinant of health: System perspectives from lived experience, policy and evidence | Journal of Critical Public Health

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 15h

This afternoon I'm researching codes of practice/guidance to try and reduce gender (and other) biases at conferences and in meetings. Interested in suggestions for chairing, especially. Suggestions very welcome: any leads @merylkenny.bsky.social @agomoni.bsky.social

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 1d

Upcoming lunchtime webinar from Policy Modelling for Health @healthmod.bsky.social on 23 October, midday: What Makes a ‘Good’ Policy Simulation Model? www.phiuk.org/news/events/...

Policy Modelling for Health lunchtime webinar: What Makes a ‘Good’ Policy Simulation Model?

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 2d

Long overdue writing day with @profkatsmith.bsky.social today, including lots of discussion about failure and implementation.

Aided by this excellent new-ish article from @catherineneedham.bsky.social and Emily Burns:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 12d

Brief respite from my usual
Today programme gripes: Michael Palin describing York-Edinburgh as his favourite UK rail journey and Nick Robinson picking crossing the silvery Tay to Dundee.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 15d

Lost students kept asking me for directions, so I clearly look less lost than I feel.

Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 15d

Nearly two years I’ve worked at UoG and still never not lost when in the Gilbert Scott

Photo of a door to turret, marked H, along with a sign directing away from the door, also marked turret H.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 18d

Final journey of my (ill-advised, but fun) 4 confefences in 4 weeks is the ferry home from ESA midterm conference in Belfast.
There’s a very energetic kids pirate disco on the ferry, and I’m listening to them screeching Pink Pony Club in unison.

Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 19d

Seagull attacks are an inordinately divisive issue in every local Facebook group I've ever been part of in Scotland.

But yeah, the country also just made a fundamental change to the justice system

James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 19d

I have to say I was not expecting SeagullGate to get more coverage than abolishing the not proven verdict (pic via @dennynews.bsky.social)

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19d

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 19d

I know there are worse toilet situations these days but good lord, how am I meant to discern that this is the ladies? Even when wearing a skirt I… also have two legs?

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Ben Baumberg Geiger @benbgeiger.bsky.social · 21d

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high? My new post open.substack.com/pub/inequali... , and also my take on More or Less this morning at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high?

The official statistics are wildly misleading - I've now made some new estimates that show just how wrong they are

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 21d

It was awful wasn’t it Bob. Just letting him spout lies and nonsense.

Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 22d

Everything in the news and on here feels quite awful just now, but after the school run this morning I stood still for a minute and a bunch of long-tailed tits started shouting at each other and it was lovely. So here‘s a hasty photo of one of them.

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 22d

1/3. Three #equity/ #healthinequalities outputs from @ukhsa.bsky.social worth looking through, as part of HEHPI (health equity in health protection initiative). First this report on #inclusive approaches to #healthprotection. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Insights from people with lived experience to inform inclusive approaches to health protection

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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 23d

As he prepares to retire from @uofglasgow.bsky.social after nearly 40 years, @uofgvc.bsky.social Anton Muscatelli discusses HE leadership Scottish sector funding, and research culture. Interview by @jgro-the.bsky.social: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/anton-...

Anton Muscatelli: ‘I was quite happy being an academic’

The retirement of arguably the UK’s most politically adept university leader leaves big boots to fill. The Glasgow principal talks to Jack Grove about 40 years of sectoral evolution, his thoughts on S...

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 23d

I had no idea this was on the cards, thanks for flagging Mark. Remarkable how English policy never acknowledges the impact of constant churn in patient voice structures.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24d

I am concerned about silence of gvt ministers & others to defend basic anti-racism norms in last 6 weeks. They seem muted by their anxious inability to separate legitimate politics from prejudice & hate.

Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 27d

Emma Barnett with any trade unionist is especially painful to listen to.

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Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · 29d

Thrilled that our own @profellenstu.bsky.social has been appointed to the REF Main Panel C (Social Sciences) as an Interdisciplinary Expert for both the Criteria Setting & Assessment Phases 💪

The Panel will work to ensure that assessments of research are coherent across disciplinary areas 🤓

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · 29d

Conflation in Streeting's remarks btwn regaining public trust and informing patient choice makes no sense on any reading of the evidence about either public trust or patient choice in the NHS. I hoped to be further on in my career before I would start bleating about health policy groundhog day.

Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 29d

With today's publication of new NHS league tables, @theasrstein.bsky.social says that while the focus on winning back the public is understandable, "there's a risk that trusts will focus only on the measures that immediately boost their ranking, even if it's not necessarily best for patients."

Best and worst-performing NHS Trusts in England named

The new league tables score trusts on measures including finances and patient access to care.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thinking of my former colleagues today, having to strike in welcome week. It must feel particularly shit when they would much rather be properly welcoming the brilliant new students arriving.

University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Sep 8

📢 Staff at the University of Edinburgh are on strike against £140m cuts.

Show your support to colleagues at Edinburgh university ✊

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Sep 8

Rentier economy.

61% of England local authority budgets spent on social care, mostly privatised.

Adult social care providers profit margin up to 42%. Children's care homes, 23%.

Money buys less. Front line services suffer.

Political paralysis: No major party plans to end to privatisation.

How successive government have created a new rentier economy

Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few.

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Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social · Sep 6

Quite shocked, and genuinely confused, to see the saltire hanging the length of a street in Yoker today. Quality of photo reflects how perturbed I was.

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · Sep 5

New Scottish Parliament poll tracker, incorporating yesterday's @moreincommonuk.bsky.social polling. Thanks to 12 marginal holds and 3 marginal gains, the SNP match their 2021 result.

Seats (+/- 2021):

SNP: 64 (-)
Lab: 18 (-4)
Ref: 16 (+16)
LD: 11 (+7)
Con: 10 (-21)
Grn: 10 (+2)
Alba: 0 (-)

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University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences @uofgsocsci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Well done, Professors James Chalmers, Campbell Leith, Melanie Simms, Ellen Stewart and Michele Burman, who have been named as REF2029 Panellists.

They will play a key role in shaping the REF to support the higher education sector.

www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

University of Glasgow Gilbert Scott building with trees in front of the building

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