Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Policy Modelling For Health @healthmod.bsky.social · 06/02/2026📸 Community Insights Exhibition Inverclyde Launching today, we share young people’s lived experiences of finding work in Inverclyde. Created with Project SEARCH it brings real voices into conversations about policy, opportunity, & health. Open to all Parklea Community Hub, Port Glasgow until 28 Feb 001
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 05/02/2026New @centrehealthpolicy.bsky.social blog by @lisagarnham.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social & @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & me summarises what lived experience insights show us that traditional research evidence misses about housing and health: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/c...strath.ac.ukHousing, Health, and What Lived Experience Shows Us that the Evidence-base Misses | University of Strathclyde 065
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I'm really pleased to see this work published. Working alongside colleagues at Scottish Parliament has been a great experience and massive thanks to everyone involved. spice-spotlight.scot/2025/11/05/g...spice-spotlight.scotEnhancing Policy Through Lived Experience in Scottish ParliamentDiscover how the Scottish Parliament utilizes lived experience in policy-making, enhancing public participation and understanding crucial issues. 130
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Our new analysis shows how many children could be lifted out of poverty by 2029/30 if the two-child limit on Universal Credit would be abolished: England: 626,022 children Scotland: 51,036 children Wales: 54,722 children NI: 9,791 children #EndChildPoverty 157
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · 29/09/2025This week @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & are presenting at the Scottish Government's Public Participation Learning Network our paper on lived experience as evidence. Info on the paper available here in this SKAPE @uoe-sps.bsky.social blog: www.skape.ed.ac.uk/skape-lived-...skape.ed.ac.ukLived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective – SKAPE 034
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2025New 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...journalhosting.ucalgary.ca Housing as a social determinant of health: System perspectives from lived experience, policy and evidence | Journal of Critical Public Health 0146
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Thanks to everyone who has already read and engaged with mine and @haylesben.bsky.social new paper ‘Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective’ Thought I'd give a summary of the paper here, I've found it useful when others have done this, so here goes 196
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 17/08/2025This is great- particularly ‘just basically not being a dick’ - we could do with a bit more of that all round! 020
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Help please: we're trying to recruit some more parent research participants in Scotland for our #FamilyFinances project. Specifically: parents who are receiving #UniversalCredit and #ScottishChildPayment and who have at least one baby (0-12months) in the household. Can you help spread the word? 027
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 12/08/2025It's publication day! Very excited to share this article co-authored with @haylesben.bsky.social Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...bristoluniversitypressdigital.com 072
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I'm delighted that this paper has been accepted. @haylesben.bsky.social and I started discussing the ideas in the paper many, many moons ago. Two babies, three reviewers, two rounds of revisions and lots of coffee (me) and tea (Hayley) later I'm excited to be to share this asap! 0100
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Delighted to be joining the Exec Committee of the Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social I've been lucky enough to benefit from involvement in the SPA over the years and excited to get into the work of supporting our great Social Policy community. 081
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Last morning of @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social conference and what a few days it’s been! Returning to Glasgow feeling grateful for fantastic colleagues and the important work they are doing #york2025 052
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Delighted to be at @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social - a packed programme with lots of fantastic looking options. Been a struggle to choose which sessions to attend #york2025 051
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 30/06/2025More from me on my work exploring the role of lived experience in the Scottish Parliament. Some early findings I recently presented to parliament staff spice-spotlight.scot/2025/06/25/g...spice-spotlight.scotGuest blog: Where does lived experience sit in the work of the Parliament?This guest blog gives introduces and shares interim findings from a SPICe fellowship by Dr Clementine Hill O’Conner (University of Glasgow) on the role of lived experience within scrutiny at … 062
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Silvia Behrens @silviab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025New #openaccess publication in Youth & Society: Based on focus group research, this paper explores how young people politically active for #ClimateChange, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and #queerfeminism think about personal, collective and institutional agency. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.com“It’s Like Getting Someone Who’s Been Hit by a Car to Run a Speed Awareness Course”: How Young Activists in the UK Make Sense of Personal, Collective and Institutional Agency - Silvia Behrens, 2025Current research into youth activism places emphasis on agency, but few empirical studies have looked into how the perception of agency impacts young people’s e... 152
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor The Poverty Alliance @povertyalliance.org · 28/05/2025🚌 Deadline 5pm tomorrow! We all need freedom to travel - but too often our buses are too dear for people on low incomes and don't take them where they need to go. We support public control and ownership of our bus services - you can too! www.getglasgowmoving.org/campaign/srbs/ 023
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Really pleased to be able to share this intro to my research as part of an Academic Fellowship with Scottish Parliament. I'm in the midst of data generation and analysis at the moment so was good to return to my initial ideas and motivation. Watch this space for more outputs over the coming months 053
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Scottish Women's Budget Group @swbg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Check out our newest blog reflecting on our most recent piece of research on social care. The findings of the research highlight urgent challenges in pay, retention & recognition of care as vital, skilled work. A message that's worth repeating this week. www.swbg.org.uk/news/blog/vo... 001
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Just announced by a coalition of Glasgow groups - lunchtime protest outside the local office of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, opposing their call for trans segregation. Friday 2nd May, 12pm-2pm. 10280149
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Advertising new @unistrathclyde.bsky.social PhD studentship (covers fees + stipend), as part of new ESRC Centre @equalise.bsky.social. We've kept the application as broad as possible as we're keen to support someone to undertake research that they have designed: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... 1/2strath.ac.ukPhD in the ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity | University of Strathclyde 146
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Community Development Journal @cdjplus.bsky.social · 26/04/2025[OPEN-ACCESS] Our Co-Editors Ruth Pearce & Kirsty Lohman write in the Editorial for our latest issue, on challenges to global community development practice in the Second Trump Era, on bottom-up organising and information-sharing, and the excellent content available in this issue #CDJ #Editorialbuff.lyCommunity development in the second Trump era 001
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Fantastic funded PhD opportunity @uofgussp.bsky.social with two incredibly supportive supervisors @profellenstu.bsky.social and Prof Sotiria Grek 030
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025No government or court ruling can legitimately decide who I am - or, indeed, who I am not. 122944
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025"In every system that tried to erase us, we created new forms of life" - Dinah Bons 04312
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025And here is the second thread that is a useful read as we try and work out what on earth all this means. 000
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025One of two threads that I have read today that is helping me get my head around what all this means. My heart is heavy and send love to everyone impacted by this ruling. 000
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 16/04/2025In response to today's supreme court ruling, we want to urge any researcher in Trans Histories to consider a proposal to our new Queer & Trans Histories series - because research into Trans histories will help to shape Trans futures: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer... #TransRights 1210130
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Deadline for this fully funded PhD opportunity is 5pm on 10th April. Great chance to work with @profsharonwright.bsky.social and @charlp.bsky.social and me! 021
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025And while I’m recommending reading- take a look at this. I think lessons for all of us in academia whether we are directly involved in doctoral supervision or not. Care and collegiality is key and feels like an increasingly radical act 011
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I second this!! Well worth a read 010
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/03/2025We've been talking a bit about this powerful and intense article in our meeting today. It's open access, so is free for anyone to read. 172
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Govt impact assessment estimates that the decisions made today will push an additional 250,000 adults into poverty. I can’t fathom the conversation that was had where they looked at that assessment and said ‘Yep, that’s the plan we’ll go with’ 020
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Government’s own analysis shows single women are the largest group to be hit by disability benefit cuts in the #SpringStatement Read our immediate response 👇 www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-... 03615
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · 26/03/2025New article: Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi-Level Maze? In Social Policy & Administration. I argue that greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. (OPEN ACCESS) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comNavigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?Greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. This article explores how existing concepts such as welfare systems, subsidiarisatio... 01715
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Happy ALCS day indeed! It’s my second year and it’s great. Wholeheartedly recommend to any UK writer who hasn’t signed up yet alcs.co.ukalcs.co.ukALCS 010
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Funded PhD @uofgussp.bsky.social with Professor Sharon Wright, Professor Charlotte Pearson (and me!) - Exploring the Lived Experience of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability. Deadline 10 April - please get in touch if you want to discuss this opportunity www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... 11212
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Another grant rejection, and yet a lot easier to handle because 1) it was explicitly a lottery (as opposed to the implicit lottery that other grant funding is 2) the email read like it was written by an actual human with feelings and not a one-liner 3) they let me know when they said they would 110
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Some people’s hard work matters more than others. Anyway PIP is an in-work benefit for a lot of people. It’s keeping people in work. It is often also keeping them alive. We are all more than our hard work. Some work is harder for some body minds than others. PIP makes it possible. Makes life livable 031
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"Anyone who isn’t a cishet able bodied white man who thinks that phrase [hard-working people] includes them hasn’t been paying attention" Couldn't agree more @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social -this is language that plays out time and again and is always divisive, stigmatising and totally misses the point 000
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Its been quite the varied day - bovines, followed by a fantastic seminar with Akwugo Emejulu courtesy of @uofgussp.bsky.social and ending with the observation of a meeting as part of SPICe Fellowship looking at the role of lived experience in the Scottish Parliament 020
Clemmie Hill O'Connor @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Sentences I never thought I’d say - I’m off to observe a bovine clinical examination this morning. Was encouraged to go out of my comfort zone as part of a teaching qualification I’m working towards. This feels a bit too far though… 000
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Seminar alert 📣 Join us on Wed this week to hear from Prof. Akwugo Emejulu, Sheffield University, who will present her work on why & how solidarity fails in white-dominated centre & radical left activist spaces in Europe. 🗓️ Wed, 5 Mar, 3:30-5pm 📍 386AB, Adam Smith Business School (in person) 033
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Urban Studies and Social Policy March Seminar Drawing on 167 interviews and focus groups with women of colour activists in six European cities, Akwugo Emejulu explores why and how solidarity fails in white-dominated centre and radical left activist spaces in Europe. www.gla.ac.uk/events/listi...gla.ac.ukUniversity of Glasgow - University events - Event listings - The vibes are off: Understanding racialised atmospherics in left activismSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon ... 004
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Community Development Journal @cdjplus.bsky.social · 22/02/2025A companion piece to "University ‘dude walls’ must fall has been published in the Irish Times: excellent reading buff.ly/4hkhfHy #CDJ #IrishTimesbuff.lyÓrla O'Donovan: ‘What’s up with the dude wall?’ Rows of portraits of men should have no place in Irish institutionsThe problem with academic portraiture is that it sustains the myths of meritocracy and obscures privilege 032
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · 18/02/2025What a time to be currently teaching our social policy UGs about administering social security via digital welfare (including discussion data sharing, privacy, rights, etc). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comActing social security head who denied access to Musk team leaves agencyMichelle King opts to retire after 30 years rather than grant request by ‘department of government efficiency’ 173
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Prof Catherine Happer @catherinehapper.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Media outlets all reporting 'welcome news' for the government as GDP grows - actually most people don't care about this, and this is not going to change the current position in respect of declining approval and the challenge from Reform at all. 124
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · 06/02/2025If you're in Edinburgh tomorrow, we have our 2nd social policy seminar of the semester. This one focussed on 'No Recourse to Public Funds' with Dr Lucy Lowe and Prof Beth Watts-Cobbe. 1-3pm, VLR, CMB. No booking required. www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...sps.ed.ac.ukExamining the impact of the UK’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ policy | School of Social and Political Sciencelogo 032
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Community Development Journal @cdjplus.bsky.social · 04/02/2025[OPEN-ACCESS] Pushpesh Kumar, Sayantan Datta & Neha Mishra contributed the Editorial for Vol. 59, Issue 2, presenting a critical reflection on queer and trans community-building in post-NALSA and post-337 India buff.ly/3KmAXDQ #CDJ #Editorialbuff.lyQueer and trans community building in post-NALSA and post-377 India: a critical reflection 001
Reposted by Clemmie Hill O'Connor Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Great (PAID) writing opportunity here for #livedexperience folks from the wonderful @nsunnews.bsky.social 155