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Harriet Cooper

@harrietcooper.bsky.social
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Lecturer, UEA Medical School, #DisabilityStudies, #MedHums Associate Editor, @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal Research/writing on: the figure of the disabled child, shame and stigma in health and illness, lived experience and memoir culture. She/her

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Fun fact: the “A” in “AI” stands for “Alt-ac”
About the job
Overview

Handshake is seeking Philosophy PhDs to support AI research through flexible, hourly contract work. This is not a traditional academic or full-time role. You’ll use your advanced philosophy training to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI better understand philosophy reasoning, theoretical analysis, and technical problem-solving.
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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
2 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5 thepolyphony.org/2023/09/11/r...
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Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Lastly Caroline Law and @harrietcooper.bsky.social pull together their respective analyses of male infertility and parenting disabled children to consider how stigma is involved in shaping and maintaining reproductive norms and idealised notions of family. 4/5 thepolyphony.org/2025/12/05/r...
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Reproductive norms: stigma and disruptions in family-building
In the final of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Caroline Law and Harriet Cooper explores how stigma operates in relation to reproductive norms.
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"When anti-stigma campaigns shift away from acting on the wider determinants of health [..] they tend to [..] reproduce inequalities." #RecalibratingStigma @oliwilliams.bsky.social @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social Tanisha Spratt @brisunipress.bsky.social
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Petition:
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 10/10/2025
💊✨ JOIN OUR BOARD ✊💊 We’re looking for new Board members to help guide the next chapter of Just Treatment’s fight for health justice. Find out more and apply by 26 October ⬇️ justtreatment.org/news/2025/10...
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Join our board — Just Treatment
We’re recruiting new Board members to help guide the next chapter of Just Treatment’s fight for health justice.
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Medact @medact.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Medact is recruiting a Fundraising Manager: Trusts & Grants! Join the fight for health justice. This is a part-time, fixed term contract, to help Medact secure essential funding over the next year. Applications close on 10th November. www.medact.org/2025/blogs/f...
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Fundraising Manager: Trusts & Grants - Medact
Apply now to be Medact's Fundraising Manager.
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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078... I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!
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Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas Reading Group - CRASSH
In an early talk about Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes their critical object: namely, the “desire”, which they perceive as endemic to capitalism, “to have a cluster of feelings in lieu of hav...
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"In many ways, UKVI and Home Office policy pushes universities towards the sorts of risk management practices that consumer law was designed to rule out. But [universities may also over-recruit] on terms that attempt to ensure they are protected, while students are not." wonkhe.com/blogs/visa-o...
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Visa oversubscription at UCL may be more than just a PR problem
Jim Dickinson explores how UCL’s oversubscription crisis has left hundreds of international students in limbo - raising fresh questions about whether UK universities are operating within consumer law
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Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
10 days until the #CFP deadline for the online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. We invite proposals for 15-minute talks on a single object related to health or medicine during the 18th & 19th centuries #histmed #histpsych #medhums www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
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Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"[Kafka's] parables [..] [ask] whether [..] we can still expect justice from the law, or whether legal process diverges so dramatically from the path of justice that we can only now tell stories about how the expectation of justice is vanquished by legal proceeding" www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This looks great!
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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our Sociology of Health & Illness editorial team is advertising for a PGR RA to drive our social media strategy. Apply with a CV + 1 page letter outlining your skills and approach by 26th September 5pm to Prof. Janice (dot) McLaughlin (at) Newcastle (dot) ac (dot) uk. Come join us! #medsoc #medhums
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Really like Christina's interrogation of the terms "town hall" and "circus" in this piece on listening exercises and the question of who is able to speak / who can be heard #DisabilityMatters
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A brief 🧵on the UK's cynical and conveniently shifting position on this. news.sky.com/story/israel...
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Israel not committing genocide in Gaza, but casualties and destruction are 'utterly appalling', says UK government
Israel has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide, but is being challenged on the issue in a case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Such a cool CfP! #MedHums
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
And the winner is …. UCL that increased its u/g offers by 65%. Where are you going to put all these students, UCL?!
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These Russell Group unis are letting in way more students - and other unis aren't happy
One London uni is accepting 65 per cent more students than it did five years ago
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
SRO is still accepting proposals for their next special issue! The proposed special issue can be on any theme and should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates. Submit by 24 September 2025. Details below. www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26923/...
SRO is still accepting proposals for their next special issue!

The proposed special issue can be on any theme and should offer an exciting contribution to emerging sociological debates.

Submit by 24 September 2025. Details below.
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/media/26923/sro_si_cfprop2025_dl240925.pdf
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I'm reading it too! It's so good. And there's a reading group on it coming up in September: www.feministduration.com
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Feminist Duration Reading Group
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 10/07/2025
No doctor today is worth less than they were 17 years ago, as Dr Melissa Ryan told Newsnight. That’s why resident doctors in England have voted for industrial action. There’s still time for the Government to listen and avert the strikes.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Massacre after massacre, day after day - the deliberate annihilation of an entire civilian population. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says
Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed when a queue for nutritional supplements was hit in Deir al-Balah.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 11/07/2025
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In Parliament today I spoke about the truth behind rising welfare costs - and why I cannot support the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which does not address these roots causes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3x...
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Labour MP explains why welfare costs are really rising (and why he's voting against cuts)
YouTube video by Clive Lewis
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Delighted to be speaking at this symposium today, and to see my chapter for 'Recalibrating Stigma' in print!
Image of the first page of my book chapter
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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Tomorrow 👇🏼
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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection. It is available as a free e-book and in paperback: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
A copy of the book 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler. The front cover of the book depicts a person out at night, lit by the light from a lamppost and looking at posters pasted onto a brick wall that are in the style of the 'WANTED' posters famously associated with the Wild West era of American history. The word 'UNWANTED' has replaced the word 'WANTED'.
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Fiona Johnstone @drfijohnstone.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward! mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
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Topic Collection: Visual Medical Humanities | Medical Humanities
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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I finally created a profile on this website... Probably on here rather erratically though!
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