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Andy Jolly

@andyjolly.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @SocialWorkUob | Honorary Research Fellow @ICRDwlv | Politics & attempts at humour my own

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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
4 days to go. HSE has told UoB to prioritise college‑level stress risk assessments in high‑pressure areas, including Arts & Law and Medicine & Health. Those hotspots can’t be ignored. #UoBStressBreach
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Here’s the link to donate 🥰🥰 Thank you so much to anybody who can give a little or even just share this appeal. Together we can make love win! ❤️ www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
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Together in Solidarity
At Calais Appeal, we come together with varied areas of expertise to provide essential support. We are committed to continuing this essential network of solidarity, but we need your support to do so.
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Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The reality for children and families living in deep poverty while receiving Home Office Asylum Support gets little attention. My article for @cpaguk.bsky.social Poverty Journal - 'Learning is an essential need' - looks at what this means for children's education cpag.org.uk/news/learnin...
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Learning is an essential need
Recent public narratives around asylum-seeking have focused on mostly men arriving by small boats and staying in Home Office commissioned hotels. However, what is the experience of the children and fa...
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David Strak @davescamp.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Lumpen: A Journal of Poor and Working Class Writers is open for submissions!
The upcoming issue’s theme will be Migration: a topic that is often weaponised, distorted and manipulated by the ruling classes. There is a lack of an honest discussion about migration in the mainstre...
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Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is pretty thought provoking for anyone involved in social work education...
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Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is terrible. Really ashamed of my union. @ucu.org.uk - what are you doing? This is no way to treat your staff.
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Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Get creative & explore the history of social work zines at our workshop on March 19th in Brum. Design & make our own collective zine for social work week. Don't miss out! #creative #ZineMaking #SocialWorkWeek2025 www.eventbrite.com/e/social-wor...
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Social Work Zine Making Workshop
Come and explore the history of social work zines and get creative by designing and making our own collective zine for social work week 2025
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Social Workers Without Borders @socialworkerswb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
tinyurl.com/4axcvz36 “The social work team accused her of misleading them about her circumstances and said she may not even have been Mazeedat’s real mother.” This tragedy lays bare how the hostile environment underpinned by a punitive, racist and suspicion-driven ideology, infiltrates social work.
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Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds
Social workers declined to provide short-term foster care for Mazeedat Adeoye whose mother had overstayed visa
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Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Yet another child death linked to NRPF. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #NRPF
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Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds
Social workers declined to provide short-term foster care for Mazeedat Adeoye whose mother had overstayed visa
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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is a significant ruling. Home Sec ruled to have breached her duties leaving people destitute without recourse. Need to abolish NRPF entirely. Leaving people utterly destitute, driving them to exploitation & costing an absolute fortune through its cruel impact. www.ein.org.uk/news/high-co...
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Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk heads up to any social work academics out there - UoB is recruiting for global 125th Anniversary Chairs and Fellows. Social care is one of their priority areas, so it would be great to get some social work academics on board #academicsky #socialwork
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125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs | University of Birmingham
This is 125 years of NobelPrize-winning research.This is your opportunity to become one of our 125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs.
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Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
If you are in the UK and are looking for Christmas cards, t-shirts or tote bags, and want to raise money for a small grassroots community organisation for sanctuary seekers in Brum, I have just the place for you: birchnetwork.org/shop/
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Christmas cards *NEW* card designed by Rawand, an artist and young refugee from Kurdistan. Rawand is also a peer support mentor for BIRCH Network, helping to support other young refugees. Gold pige…
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist." ~ Hannah Ahrendt
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Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
I love this story! "In one visitor’s video, one of the “pandas” was visibly panting while resting on a rock in a fence, while another clip had a panda with a long tail strolling about." #PanDog #Pandagate
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
the entire point of chatgpt is that it just spits out the most statistically probable next word in a sentence, which is literally the exact opposite of what good writing is
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
The asylum system ground to a halt in the lead up to the asylum system because ministers had failed to make decisions on how the Illegal Migration Act should work. Processing claims is not an “amnesty” - it’s performing the most basic function of an asylum system www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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Cleverly accused of aggravating asylum backlog by ‘dithering’ on key decisions
Exclusive: Ministers under last home secretary refused to empower caseworkers to tackle crisis, say sources
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
There has been a long link between poverty & healthcare provision GPs who fill the void are often left looking after 500 more patients than more affluent areas & people who live in poor areas require more care/support 20% cut in GP funding worse in poorer areas www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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The Relationship Between Poverty And NHS Services
This analysis explores the link between poverty and the prevalence of ill health, accessing health care services, health outcomes and delayed treatment.
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Andy Jolly @andyjolly.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
This place is going to take a bit of getting used to, but there's conspicuously less hate on here, which can only be a good thing!
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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
If you didn't already know that academic publishing is a racket - this beautifully outlines all the myriad ways in which it routinely extorts everyone involved with it.
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Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh
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