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Carrie Purcell

@drcarriep.bsky.social
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Professional nosy parker | Enthusiastic Glaswegian | Qual sociology & interdisciplinary repro health | Reproduction, Sexualities & Sexual Health Research Group @openuniversity.bsky.social | She/her

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 13/08/2026
Erica Millar, Carrie Purcell, Fiona Bloomer & Emma Campbell's "Framing a Feminist Abortion" proposes seven principles for feminist abortion care: supported, informed, safe, stigma-free, decriminalized, autonomous, & accessible.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 13/08/2026
See how care, abortion, and other feminist aims can be co-opted and weaponized by the state. Our new issue pushes past easy binaries to show what feminist analysis can do in dark political times.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 4
This article offers a critical feminist analysis of the perversions of care that appear in moments when care is instrumentalized by neoliberal and fascist states to cover for financial cuts and…
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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dive deeper into Reproductive Justice! Under each of our Body Politic topics, we have provided a curated collection of films, podcasts, articles, presentations and more. 🔗 thebodypolitic.ie/library/
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Professor Jason Arday. As a former Trustee, we knew him as a caring colleague who expressed his gentle kindness in every interaction, and who was passionate about creating more inclusive spaces and opportunities. 1/2...
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Catherine Pope @cjpope.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NHS advice - help for for #suicidal thoughts. Someone out there might need this right now. Pass it on. www.nhs.uk/mental-healt...
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Help for suicidal thoughts
Where to get help if you are having suicidal thoughts, and what to do if you are worried about someone else.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 05/08/2026
The Summer issue of Signs is out now! As fascism accelerates in the US, this issue addresses some of the questions feminist scholarship tackles best: trans rights, abortion, care, socialist histories, feminist businesses & digital activism.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 4
This article offers a critical feminist analysis of the perversions of care that appear in moments when care is instrumentalized by neoliberal and fascist states to cover for financial cuts and…
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I'm excited to share a new paper that's now available OA in Signs: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... We put forward a framework for a “feminist abortion,” which aspires to centre the person seeking abortion and their needs & to factoring in the power structures in which they are situated.
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Framing a Feminist Abortion | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 4
Abstract With reproductive health and rights actively under attack, it is critical to support researcher and activist communities in pushing beyond basic access. In this article we propose a framework...
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Tom Witney @twiterney.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Another direct importation from the homophobia of the early 1990s…
A clipping of The Daily Mail in 1993 with the headline “Abortion hope after ‘gay genes’ findings”
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Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Autumn Thomson followed up with this great post reflecting on how issues of bodily autonomy and temporality played out in media coverage of Lindsey Vonn's crash in the Olympic downhill skiing. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tempor...
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The Temporality of Bodily Autonomy
I recently took part in the February BARE seminar on Temporalities and Bodily Autonomy. We discussed how perceptions of time shape autonomy - how institutional time can be glacial, often reinforcing e...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This was such a great session - thanks again for your contribution @hbowescatton.bsky.social! So interestesting to think about the ways these common issues overlap across our various areas of focus.
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
📢 Really pleased to see the findings from our qualitative survey of experiences of pain in SRH procedures published today in BMJ SRH with my co-authors @julieriddell.bsky.social & @marigreenfield.bsky.social srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
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The impact of painful sexual and reproductive health procedures: lived experiences and priorities for change
Introduction Physical pain is known to be a common feature of sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) encounters for women and other people with a uterus. Our aim was to understand experiences of pai...
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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Scottish abortion law 'not fit for purpose', says expert group This is a significant report which could pave the way for a major change in the way abortion is viewed and administered in Scotland. 📰 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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jeniharden.bsky.social @jeniharden.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
📢 Our new paper taking a critical look at how post-abortion contraception is framed as a 'problem'. srh.bmj.com/content/earl...
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‘Problem representations’ in post-abortion contraception: a critical review of UK literature
Objective To critically review post-abortion contraception literature from the UK based on Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach. Methods A systematic search of six electron...
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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Settling in to a day of thinking about reproductive rights, politics & activism hosted by @carolina-topini.bsky.social & @maudannebracke.bsky.social Looking forward to presenting our work on a feminist abortion framework this afternoon.
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🎉 Tickets are now available for this year’s International Creative Research Methods Conference! Don’t miss keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social Secure your spot 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com #ICRMC
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Creative Research Methods Conference 2025
The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling
Victoria McCloud brings action against UK for infringement of her human rights after ruling on biological sex
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"While scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing. Redundancies in one place damage us all" @academicdiary.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
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UK university redundancies: latest updates
As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Just here feeling quietly heartbroken for Virginia Giuffre and her family, on news of her death by suicide. And quietly raging at all who get away with (men's) abuse of women and girls, and a society that doesn't care enough to stop it - but yeah, trans women in loos. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...
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'Deeply loving, wise, and funny': Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, has died
"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," the family said in a statement.
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Dear @theguardian.com Please could you not refer to a pregnant person seeking abortion as 'the mother'. Thanks www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK woman accused of illegal abortion did not look pregnant, friend tells court
Witness says nothing to indicate Nicola Packer was pregnant in weeks before she delivered foetus
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
📢 Dignity in Maternity Care: latest ep. of Sex, Research & Resistance (via @openuniversity.bsky.social) is now online. What do we really mean when we talk about dignity? Who is entitled to it? Panel discussion feat. Lisa Käll, Shanthi Gunesekera, Sarah Hamed. open.spotify.com/episode/3S06...
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E11 Part 1: Dignity in Maternity Care
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21/04/2025
With its coverage in the last few days, the Telegraph has now passed 500 articles attacking trans people since I began tracking their print edition on 16 April 2024. 508 in 371 days.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 16/04/2025
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people after a Supreme Court ruling defined sex as 'biological sex' This is everything you need to know about the ruling 👇 Reporting by @jessothomson.co.uk 🧵🏳️‍⚧️
Screenshot of QueerAF website with headline: UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010

Byline of Jess O'Thomson: Writer, legal researcher, journalist. Pronouns they/she. Intersectionalities trans, disabled, nonbinary woman, queer, working class / low income
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
If men want to rape us they do not need to “pretend” to be women to get into our toilets or our changing rooms. They can just…rape us, in those spaces or other public spaces or in our workplaces or our homes, and they can be statistically pretty certain that they will never face punishment for this.
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou.... In it we highlight 4 key findings...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Brilliant episode - well worth a listen 👇
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Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre @quahrc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Episode 2 of our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch is out today with Dr Monique Botha: why is the funding agenda for autism research so far from what the communities concerned want? #CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...
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Neurodiversity Matters: Monique Botha on funding priorities and community justice | QUAHRC
This month, Sohail interviews Dr Monique Botha about funding and priority setting, citational justice, emotion in research, and why letting community-led neurodivergence research out of its silo would...
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Prof Erica Borgstrom @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
My article 'What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis' is now in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Vol 14 Issue e3) [but online first a few years ago] spcare.bmj.com/content/14/e...
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What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis
Objective The concept of a good death is a motivating factor for end of life care policy; this article examines what English end-of-life care (EOLC) policy defines as a good death. Methods Critical d...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🥳 Thank you @alcs.co.uk! 👏
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Independent SAGE @independentsage.bsky.social - so important during the pandemic - has de-retired with this report on "Why we must defend science, social science and medicine from attacks on diversity"
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
But it is???
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In 'Shifting discourses, changing interests?' @aioshaug.bsky.social & I look at how language choices in #BMJSRH have changed over the journal's first 50 years. There's still much do, but we saw a welcome shift toward inclusivity in that language. 📖 Paper 👉 srh.bmj.com/content/earl... (OA link 👇)
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
👏A huge thank you to everyone who has already taken the time to complete our #PainfulProcedures consultation. 🕛 It closes at midnight tonight so, if you fit the criteria below & haven't yet had your say, please follow the link. 🔗https://openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cv8Sg9L4c4FKSRE
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📆 There are 3 days left to complete our consultation on #PainfulProcedures. If you've experienced this, are UK-based & want to have your say, please follow the link. And if you know someone who else who might want to do so, please pass it on! 🔗 openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
💬 There's still 1 week to take part in the #GenderPainGap #PainfulProcedures consultation. If you've experienced a painful procedure and would like to have your say, we'd love to hear from you. 💬 🔗 openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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a cartoon character from inside out is saying hi while stretching her arms .
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thanks for sharing this highly unpleasant experience @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Encounters like this are exactly why we're carrying out the our #PainfulProcedures consultation - open to anyone in UK who has experience of this & wants to have their say 👉 openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Thanks so much Bluesky colleagues for sharing our consultation - we've had a big response in the first few days. 🗓 There are still another 10 days to complete it if you're in the UK & would like to have your say on #painfulprocedures (or know someone that would). 🔗Link below 👇
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
We've had a huge response to the #GenderPainGap consultation in the first 48hrs. 💬 If you're in the UK and have experienced a #PainfulProcedure (e.g. smear, coil fitting, hysteroscopy, assisted conception, abortion) you can have your say here: 🔗 openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
One of our key aims with the #GenderPainGap consultation is to find out what those with experience of #PainfulProcedures in the UK want to tell decision-makers & those that might need procedures in future. Have your say here: 🔗https://openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cv8Sg9L4c4FKSRE
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
@rspbscotland.bsky.social Hi - I just spotted one of these in my garden and haven't seen it before. Google suggest a varied thrush but also says these are v rare in UK. Any thoughts? Bit smaller than a blackbird (much bigger than a robin), bright orange breast, dark/light striped face?
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK). Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!
A flyer which says:  

We would love to hear from you.  

Are you Over 18? Living in the UK?  

Have you experienced pain during: smear test, colposcopy, hysteroscopy, IUD (coil) fitting, assisted conception or abortion?  

If so, please follow the QR code to complete an online survey which will help us to improve understanding of pain during these procedures.  

For any questions about the study please contact the lead researcher carrie.purcell@open.ac.uk.   
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Prof Erica Borgstrom @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Want to apply for a Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness Mildred Blaxter Postdoc Fellowship? Interested in dying, death, loss? We may be able to support your application via Open Thanatology at The Open University. Email me if interested! www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/mild...
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Mildred Blaxter postdoctoral fellowships - Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness
These fellowships provide support for people who have recently completed a PhD in the area of sociology of health and illness, to enable them to develop a programme of work related to their thesis
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Our article on pain in medication abortion is currently free to read in #BMJSRH. We look at the issues that arise when pain is worse than expected, and the confusion that can come from comparisons with 'period pain'. srh.bmj.com/content/51/1...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Delighted we've had so much interest in this project. Still time to get in touch if you're thinking of applying!
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The report on our first year of the SRJ Scotland project - including the collaborative workshop in Glasgow in May - is now available here: oro.open.ac.uk/101754/ We v much hope this is the start of a wider conversation through 2025 and beyond. @ingridkyoung.bsky.social @julier282.bsky.social
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