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Duncan U Fisher

@duncfsh.bsky.social
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Glaswegian based in Newcastle/Sheffield, UK. University researcher of paid care work at @centreforcare.bsky.social Other interests include all things books, music and gigs, art, football, walking

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UofG Centre for Public Policy @uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Scotland 2026: Who gets to belong?❓ Mon 17 Aug, 5.30pm - 6.30pm With @nasarmeer.bsky.social This event is free: festivalofpolitics.citizenticket.co.uk/events/the-f...
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Scotland 2026 - who gets to belong? - Buy tickets
With growing polarisation, mistrust, and a sense of being “left behind” for many communities, how can Scotland bring diverse voices together, move from division to empathy, and ensure community voices...
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 06/08/2026
Andy Burnham said last week that social care workers should be ''the best paid people in society.'' According to providers, pay is a key factor contributing to the recruitment and retention crisis in the care sector. How can the Government make a success of the Fair Pay Agreement?➡️ buff.ly/veEOJFN
When social care providers were asked what 
the main cause of staff leaving was (the left-hand panel of Figure 6), over one-third (35 
per cent) responded better pay outside of care. Similarly, when care providers were asked 
about the main difficulty finding new staff, roughly three-in-ten (28 per cent) responded 
better pay offers outside care (the right side of Figure 6).
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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you are interested in doing research differently please come and be part of this conversation. All proceeds go to supporting the work of the foundation and funding sociology.
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Helsinki Central Station
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Journal of Youth Studies @youthstudies.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
BIG NEWS! The 5th Journal of Youth studies Conference will take place in Porto, May 4 to 6, 2027! Check the link for all relevant details including submissions, registration and keynotes. jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/
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The 5th Journal of Youth Studies International Conference
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 23/04/2026
✊❤️ National Day of Action for the Fair Visa Campaign Migrant care workers face exploitation and threats of deportation. This Friday 24 April, we stand with overseas colleagues who keep care running. Take action for fair visas and better treatment ⬇️ unsn.uk/4e0V4rs
Fair Visas Now. UNISON.
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Newcastle Cycling Campaign @newcycling.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🗓️On 7th May local elections will be taking place in Newcastle. 📋We have put together three key points that we would like to see parties back in order to improve cycling in the city. 🗣️Ask the candidates you speak to what they will be doing to improve cycling in the city after May.
Cycling is quick, cheap and healthy. More cycling means less traffic congestion, and it's good for the planet. It's good for everybody! Here are three things Newcastle City Council could do to make it better for everyone: 

Connected network - join together existing cycle lanes and tracks, so the routes are safe and easy for all 
School streets - keep traffic away from school gates at the start and end of the school day, so its safer for children to travel by bike 
Shopping locking - every parade of shops should have some bike stands, so you can lock and leave your bike while you go shopping

Ask your candidates what they think about these. 
Let them know how important they are to you, and to your vote.
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Want to write for our #TransformingSociety blog? Share research and fresh perspectives on today’s pressing issues. ow.ly/lqSL50YsRY7
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 23/02/2026
Young people face a particularly difficult outlook. The UK’s youth unemployment rate now above the EU average for the first time since records began.
Chart showing youth unemployment rates: various countries
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Steve Roberts @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
What keeps men out of frontline care work? - Our new paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social suggests problem is less masculine identity anxieties & more low pay, insecure hours, limited progression & poor public understanding of care work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #gender
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Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia
Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid ....
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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today is the LAST DAY to complete the government's consultation on 'earned' settlement. If you think these plans are wrong - make your voice count now. www.workrightscentre.org/our-campaign...
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Oppose ILR changes | Work Rights Centre
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This stands the test of time, top drawer stuff
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🔶New issue of Futures of Work. This issue explores how borders shape workers’ lives, treating them not as neutral lines but as contested and ideological forces. The articles show how bordering practices structure labour mobility and inequality. futuresofwork.co.uk
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Futures of Work
A space for radical critiques of the changing world of work
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Pleased to announce publication of a new article with Liam Foster on paid care workers in England's attitudes towards organising bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Pleased to announce publication of a new article with Liam Foster on paid care workers in England's attitudes towards organising bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Happening @yorkuniversity.bsky.social next Friday! Come listen to powerhouse speakers talk abt migrant justice and care work!
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23/01/2026
StAnza 2026 13–15 March, St Andrews & online Tickets are on sale for StAnza 2026, Scotland’s award-winning poetry festival dedicated to bringing poetry in all its forms & many languages to audiences around the world #poetry stanzapoetry.org/festival/sta...
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StAnza 2026 - Stanza
StAnza Poetry Festival returns to St Andrews from 8-10 March 2024 with Warp and Weft: a tapestry of poetry.
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Oxford Social Policy and Intervention @dspi-oxford.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We're hiring for a Post-Doctoral Researcher! Are you... Close to the completion of / have completed a doctorate in a social science discipline? A specialist in inequality, social policy, or social mobility? Experienced in data management and analysis? If so, apply: ow.ly/Uzse50Y15Gz
We're recruiting! Post-doctoral Researcher in Inequality, Social Policy and Social Mobility. 
Deadline: 6 Feb 2026
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British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) @buiraonline.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: www.buira.net/2026/01/22/c...
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The Poverty Alliance @povertyalliance.org · 19/01/2026
We want to help build fair work in social care, with better pay, more job security, and improved working conditions. Our new #PathwaysToProgress project has launched a survey for #socialcare workers in #Scotland. Please fill it in and share! www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved
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Social Care Workers Survey. Pathways to Progress Website. The project team are looking for insight from those working in the care sector. Visit the website to share your experience. www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 09/01/2026
Our new Bedside Books column offers brief insights into titles our readers can’t put down, from books on men’s inner lives and women’s aspirations in today’s Delhi to volumes on the opioid crisis, perimenopause and swimming in Hampstead Ladies’ Pond. Find your page turner: buff.ly/3EfwkNl
Bedside Books for December - The Sociological Review
Collage of book covers for the titles I Who Have Never Known Men, At the Pond, Demon Copperhead, A Woman's Job, Becoming Young Men in a New India, All Fours and Climbing the Ladder
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
we're back, it is now 2026, our January issue is out now 🤖 FREE copies doing the rounds as we speak, sign up to our newsletter for an early look at what's in this month's mag mailchi.mp/theskinny/za...
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Some good work news against the backdrop of a grim start to 2026: new article in Sociological Research Online by myself and Liam Foster on independent union organising of paid care workers @centreforcare.bsky.social @sagepub.com @socresonline.bsky.social
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Skills for care @skillsforcare.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Recruiting and keeping great staff is essential for every social care organisation — and we’re here to support you every step of the way 💙 👉 bit.ly/4pAw1OS Find practical tips, strategies, and helpful tools to attract & retain talented people who can deliver high-quality care and support.
Promotional image for recruitment support featuring a smiling person seated with a book, with three people in the background, in a modern office setting. Text overlay includes 'Recruitment support' and highlights the growing demand for care and support workers.
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Ewan Robertson @ewanrobo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I greatly enjoyed presenting my work at the PSA Parliaments conference at the University of York last week. It was nice to make new contacts and learn about the latest research in the field. Thanks to @psa-parliaments.bsky.social for the organisation and the photo! ⬇️
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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
@argonautbooks.bsky.social has put together a letter to Waterstones, which you can read and sign here: c.org/BW7b88mRSw
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Sign the Petition
An Open Letter to Waterstones Regarding a Sixth Edinburgh Branch in Leith
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My Finnish friends send me an advent card/calendar every year - this year's is gorgeous as ever! Lucky and grateful
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The profit motive should have no place in any provision of care, healthcare or social care. When it does, it is often the most vulnerable who pay the price for #privatisation. Important work from @neweconomics.bsky.social neweconomics.org/2025/11/endi...
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Ending extraction in the UK care system
How our care system facilitates the extraction of value and wealth from places and local public service budgets
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ESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Centre for Care's @duncfsh.bsky.social and Liam Foster explore practical strategies for supporting the Adult Social Care (ASC) workforce in this blog post for Unions 21: unions21.org/ideas/all-id...
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Strengthening collective voice: engaging paid care workers in organising
Ahead of Unions21’s conference on Strengthening Collective Voice, Dr Duncan U Fisher and Professor Liam Foster from the University of Sheffield...
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ESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This follows on from their recent research briefing, 'Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works', where they investigated what paid ASC workers & those representing their interests do to drive positive change: centreforcare.ac.uk/publications...
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Successfully engaging paid care workers in organising: Challenges, opportunities, and what works | the Centre for Care
This briefing proposes recommendations for successfully engaging care workers in organising.
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Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
📣Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop. This one-day workshop in Glasgow explores how welfare institutions, labour markets, and systems of care can be re-imagined to ensure equity and wellbeing within ecological limits. 📅Deadline: 12 December 2025 ▶️ social-policy.org.uk/events/call-...
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Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop - Social Policy Association
Call for Papers: Sustainable Welfare Workshop 12th March 2026 The University of Glasgow  We are living in a time of polycrisis, where related and interdependent [...]
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Citizens UK @citizensuk.org · 30/10/2025
43% of adult social care workers in England earn below the real #LivingWage. This week, we, alongside @livingwageuk.bsky.social, published an open letter, urging the Gov't to pay all social workers at least the real #LivingWage. Read the coverage 👇 chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Alba Lanau @albalanau.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Early Career Workshop on Comparative Social and Public #Policy in back! Join us in Barcelona in april. Open to PhD students and early postdocs. Please submit your abstract by completing this questionnaire #REPS docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Care Full @carefull.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Whether you’re up for the school run, taking Mum to a doctors appointment or helping a neighbour with their shopping, we all want to care and be cared for. But in the economy we have millions who care are struggling to survive, left to worry about how to care for someone and look after themselves..
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Enjoyable day in Manchester capped by seeing Welch and Rawlings at the Apollo - magical show
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 21/10/2025
And please major new RF research that set the context for today's discussion. False starts: What the UK’s growing NEETs problem really looks like, and how to fix it. By @louisemurphy.bsky.social & Julia Diniz. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
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False starts • Resolution Foundation
Nearly one million young people are now NEET (not in education, employment or training). Tackling this crisis requires stronger enforcement of participation requirements for 16-17-year-olds and an exp...
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Scotland's capital in the mist this morning
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New #book by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al. Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 15/10/2025
Chapter and verse: our Books Editor @emmacraddock.bsky.social‬ is seeking contributions to our regular Bedside Books column. If you've recently read a good book, why not share a brief comment on what makes it noteworthy? Send your 100-word review via our quick online form: buff.ly/Fr28pvl
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"This thoroughly researched book is essential reading for all those concerned with understanding who needs care and - most importantly - who provides this care." Marian Baird, The University of Sydney Publishing #OpenAcess: buff.ly/CHg8WN4
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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🚨We're hiring a Policy Manager Do you have substantial public affairs experience, a deep understanding of how immigration and employment laws can perpetuate exploitation, and a genuine passion for social justice? Yes? ➡️ Apply now! No? ➡️Send to a friend 😉 www.workrightscentre.org/publications...
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We’re recruiting a Policy Manager | Work Rights Centre
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ESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Centre for Care Director, Kate Hamblin, has contributed to a new House of Commons Library briefing entitled 'The implications of population ageing for social policy'. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri... @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @commonshealth.bsky.social @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social
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The implications of population ageing for social policy
The UK population is ageing, with some ageing better than others. This has implications for health and social care, housing, pensions and education policies.
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A great shop that’s so supportivr of writers, and run by the best people. They’re open today if you’re passing, or you can buy a book via their website. @booksupstairs.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday
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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
As the government puts a figure on how much it will provide for the first Fair Pay Agreement (FPA) for social care in England, Lucinda Allen looks at what we know about how FPAs will work and whether investment matches scale of Labour’s ambitions of fair pay in the sector ⬇️ bit.ly/4mFa5jb
'Introducing sector bargaining has the potential to be transformative. But without robust enforcement and sufficient funding, the first Fair Pay Agreement risks being remembered less as a turning point and more as another missed opportunity.'
Lucinda Allen, Policy Fellow at the Health Foundation
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Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Beta Band at the Barras the night wiz really gid
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