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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Final version of my my paper out now. I highlight how neoliberal governance drives housing related health inequalities, requires comprehensive policies to protect tenants, invest in social housing, and tackle wealth accumulation in the housing market. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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“Take away the greed of the private landlord housing market … because that is killing people”: Examining the political economy of housing and health inequalities in four English coastal towns

Health inequities are avoidable and unjust differences in health arising from how society and the economy are structured. These inequalities are drive…

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Funded by @profbambra.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant examining the north/south health divide. Keep an eye out for upcoming papers from my comparative ethnography of coastal towns focusing on housing and regeneration.

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We examined narratives from Tim's PhD interviews in Middlesbrough and South Tyneside and my ethnography in Hartlepool, Hastings, Torbay, and Blackpool highlighting how health inequalities are not inevitable, they are a form of violence inflicted through political and economic choices.

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New paper from Tim Price and me examining how structural violence interacts with slow and symbolic violence to produce and reinforce health inequalities. Combining data from two qualitative studies across 2 deindustrialised and 4 coastal towns. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A Cycle of Social Violence: a novel theoretical framework for explaining how structural, slow, and symbolic violence interact to produce and maintain health inequalities in England

Health inequalities are a form of violence, produced and sustained by political, economic, and social structures that systematically disadvantage cert…

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It was never “austerity”. It was a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich. (Figs via We Own It / @cathobbs.bsky.social)

Since 2010, we have lost:
• 200 Museums
• 244 Courts and tribunals 279 school playing fields
• 451 homeless services
• 600 police stations
• 673 public toilets
• 750 Youth centres
• 793 Playgrounds
• 800 Libraries
926 football pitches
1,086 Swimming pools
1,416 Sure Start children's centres
8,000 Bus routes, and
25,000 NHS beds.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Congrats! I'll have to persuade Clare to make the move from twitter!

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 15/11/2024

Anyone from a working class community could have predicted this. Probably did predict it. Same goes for Sure Start. But we shout into the void.

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

👏"we have laid at the door of immigrants the consequences of an entire economic model that has defunded the state and privileged big businesses and private capital, and concentrated asset accumulation in the south of the country with no foresight or plan" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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After the riots, Keir Starmer should tell us the truth about our country. This is why he won't | Nesrine Malik

The violence exposed racist narratives based on lies. Yet where is the counter-argument, asks Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

New paper from our Wellcome Trust funded research examining health inequalities between the north and south of England. Participants discussed political and economic structures as central to understanding regional health inequalities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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“Power, control, strain”: Lay perceptions of health inequalities across England's ‘North South divide’

People in the North of England live shorter, less healthy lives than those in the South. Despite the significance of this ‘North South health divide’,…

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

"The UK is a wealthy country, but it's also quite an unfair country, our resources are not equally distributed and deaths of despair are one avoidable consequence of that unequal distribution" www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-...

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Only 10% of UK levelling up funds spent, say MPs - on.ft.com/4caC8mJ via @FT

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

"That’s what I’ll remember and never forgive about this century’s Conservatives: that they took pragmatic, everyday generosity and kindness, and used it to shore up a state that was cruel, and everyone in it more precarious" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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From starving students to emaciated pets: why are hunger and poverty the UK’s new normal? | Zoe Williams

The Conservatives have taken pragmatic, everyday charity and kindness and used it to shore up the cruel state they have created, writes Zoe Williams

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Yeah it's a bit quiet, need a few more chatty Cathy's to make the move. We shouldn't have to resort to the extremes of actual real life conversations!

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Vic McGowan @drvicmcgowan.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

well this looks nicer than the old place!

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