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Andrew Dunn

@drdunnpoverty.bsky.social
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Academic. Publishing about poverty (new book out now called 'Relative Poverty Re-examined: social science and socialism'). Former Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Lincoln, #FreeSpeech

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Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My new journal article is now out; it presents my new analysis of data from the last century's most notable UK poverty study, and fulfils Peter Townsend's wish to use all 60 of his deprivation indicators - no study until now has used more than his sub-set of 12... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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FirstView articles | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core
Journal of Social Policy - Sin Yi Cheung, Lee Gregory, Volkan Yilmaz
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Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My new poverty book has arrived! It will be available on Amazon in the next few weeks, for £10.99 for a paperback and £3.99 for a download; if anyone on here wants a copy, please get in touch.
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Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Arday scandal will hopefully make vastly more people aware of the biases in social science and humanities. My bosses at Uni of Lincoln seem like his. I have 18 sole/principal authored peer-reviewed journal articles and have just had 52 job applications in a row without a single interview.
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Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My article on the socialist origins of the concept “relative poverty” iea.org.uk/on-the-socia...
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On the socialist origins of the concept of "relative poverty"
The ‘purely relative’ definition of poverty is one that is based entirely on the usual or average living standards in … Continue reading "On the socialist origins of the concept of “relative poverty”"
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