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Valeria Skafida @valeriaskafida.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
📢 New paper with @evemull.bsky.social & @jdev65.bsky.social - we examine which children come into contact with social workers when mothers experience domestic abuse — and which do not. Open access article 👉https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cfs.70112 @growingupinscot.bsky.social
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Very honoured to be speaking at Child First Japan seminar on child death review, and the Barnahus approach @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Picture of seminar brochure written in Japanese
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Very interesting new book on domestic abuse by Valeria Skafida from @uoe-sps.bsky.social
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Property porn with a difference: two children’s homes for sale, boasting an underlying profit margin of 48% (!!) despite being judged to require improvement to be good’
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Carey Oppenheim @careyoppenheim.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Born Connected: how Gen Z navigate their digital lives - contains powerful insights from young people across the UK ‪‪- take a look at this thread @donnamolloy.bsky.social @thecyberpsyche.bsky.social @internetmatters.bsky.social @youthfutures.bsky.social @childrenssociety.bsky.social @ncb.org.uk
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
BBC News - True cost of becoming a mum highlighted in new data on pay - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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True cost of becoming a mum highlighted in new data on pay
New figures reveal mums in England see their earnings drop after having a first, second and third child.
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Very pleased to have joined @sallyannkelly1.bsky.social at celebrations to mark 150years of @aberlourcharity.bsky.social supporting children, young people and families in Scotland.
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Gender Violence Collaboration Network @gvrcn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🌟 Join Us for an Informal GVRCN Meet-Up at ECDV 2025! 🌟 We are excited to host an informal lunch meet-up during the European Conference on Domestic Violence (ECDV)! 📅 When: 5th September 2025 🕧 Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM 🔗 Registration is required. More details shared soon. @jdev65.bsky.social
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ECDV Early Career Researchers (and practitioners!) Meet-Up!
The Gender Violence Research and Collaboration Network (gvrcn.org) is hosting an early career researcher/practitioners informal lunch meet up on the 5th of September at 12:30pm. If you are interested ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/08/2025
‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
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‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’
Footballer Suleiman al-Obeid, was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza last week, according to the Palestine Football Association Mohamed Salah has criticised Uefa for failing to state how a footballer known as the “Palestinian Pelé” died in a tribute it posted. Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza when Israeli forces attacked civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) said. Continue reading...
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Apology for S Korean woman convicted of biting man's tongue as he attacked her www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Apology for S Korean woman convicted of biting man's tongue as he attacked her
Choi Mal-ja, now 78, has campaigned for years to overturn her sentence, after she was attacked when she was 18.
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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Keynote on involving children in research on trauma by the fantastic Prof Helen Beckett at the JUSWA conference.
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hotel view, Preston
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Yesterday's view
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Uni Edinburgh Social Work @uoesocialwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Dr Isang Awah opening this year's staff and student conference with a keynote on cross-sector partnerships to advance child protection @uoe-sps.bsky.social @dspi-oxford.bsky.social #SWConfEd25
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Uni Edinburgh Social Work @uoesocialwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Vivien McCree on the use of oral history and auto/biography in social work research to investigate childcare history #SWConfEd25
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Today's view - Tallinn, Estonia
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Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
JRF policy assistant roles. Of interest to social policy graduates perhaps? jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c...
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Octo Candidates - Application Form - Vacancy Details
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A brilliant discussion at @uoe-sps.bsky.social on the role and use of AI in the social sciences.
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
@profharryferguson.bsky.social It will never be resolved 😅
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The Campbell Collaboration @campbellreviews.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Join us for this webcast hosted by the The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research in follow-up to 2023 webinar on state-of-the-art methodology in meta-analysis of single-case experimental designs (SCEDs). July 17 2-3:30pm ET ktdrr.org/training/web...
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Aaaaand I think we're done here #TACO
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today's view- Kyoto, Japan
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University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science @uoe-sps.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Lotte Hoek Join us to celebrate Lotte Hoek's professorship at her inaugural lecture, titled 'For an anthropology of the screen'. Friday 9 May 4:15pm - 5:30pm Basement Lecture Theatre, Adam House Followed by a reception Book tickets here: edin.ac/3FQIL1O
decorative image with text reading: Professor Lotte Hoek: For an anthropology of the screen. 4.15 - 6.30pm, Friday 9 May 2025. Adam House
Basement Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers St, Edinburgh, EH1 1HR, https://edin.ac/3FQIL1O
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
View for today, New College, Edinburgh
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Today's view in London
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Proposed changes to disability benefits in UK are less about reform and more about rationing. A very limited and myopic approach to a complex issue - reform is needed, but this isn't it. BBC News - At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up www.bbc.com/news/article...
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At-a-glance: Key changes to benefits in welfare shake-up
How Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and other health-related benefits could change under government plans.
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Today's view
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
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Intimate Partner Violence in Young People’s Relationships – Care and Justice for Whom? - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
This study will explore the role of education, and the place of schools in both seeking to prevent and address IPV amongst young people. It will consider how the issue of IPV among young people is und...
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https://...
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Intimate Partner Violence in Young People’s Relationships – Care and Justice for Whom? - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
This study will explore the role of education, and the place of schools in both seeking to prevent and address IPV amongst young people. It will consider how the issue of IPV among young people is und...
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Michael Kiwanuka in Edinburgh tonight 13 years to the day of the release of his first album
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The first signs of spring
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Today's view from Singapore
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University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science @uoe-sps.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Technology, harms and security in public and personal life Feb 14, 3pm - 5.30pm Part of CONTROVERSIES in the DATA SOCIETY Seminar Series Hybrid seminar Info and Booking: bit.ly/CDS-Technology
Detail of circuit board. Text reads: Technology, harms and security in public and personal life. Modern information technology has created a vast scope for new harms, from hacking business and government, undermining critical infrastructures, and causing harm in our everyday domestic and intimate lives. 

In this session we have two specialists associated with the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre (CCC). Dr Ben Collier is a Lecturer in STIS at the University of Edinburgh as associate at Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Kieron Ivy Turk is a PhD student at the CCC
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Pleased to be at an event to mark the first anniversary celebration of the University of Edinburgh Education Beyond Borders programme, supporting displaced students to achieve postgraduate degrees. @uoe-sps.bsky.social
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
it feels like we’re in the middle of a shift from accommodation (through corporate ‘social responsibility’ and sustainability initiatives) to more confrontational forms of corporate power Coca-Cola backtracking on plastic pollution; BP and Shell scaling back net zero commitment and now this
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/01/2025
Chair of child sexual abuse inquiry calls Tory response ‘awful, inconsequential’
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Chair of child sexual abuse inquiry calls Tory response ‘awful, inconsequential’
Prof Alexis Jay says reaction of former home secretary Suella Braverman angered victims and survivors * UK politics live – latest updates The last Conservative government issued an “awful, inconsequential, insubstantial” response to a seven-year…
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David Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Domestic abuse charity @refugecharity.bsky.social has appointed Gemma Sherrington as its new CEO. With over 20 years in the sector, including as interim CEO of Save the Children, she vows to fight the “intolerable epidemic” of violence against women and girls ⬇️
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Refuge appoints former Save the Children boss as new CEO
Refuge appoints former Save the Children boss as new CEO - Refuge
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Tonight's view - Caen, Normandy, France
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David Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Once again, we should not be taking insight into grooming/rape gangs from a man who had a child with his stepdaughter whom he helped raise from the age of FOUR...
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Delighted to be at the 24th ICSD conference at Rajagirri College of Social Sciences in Kochin, India
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I can’t love this more.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news. This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them. Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
An important, but depressing statistic to end the year on - and every number is a life cut short, usually by a man known to them: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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Killed women count: 80 women allegedly killed by men in UK in 2024
Throughout the year the Guardian aimed to report on every woman whose death has led to a man being charged
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John Devaney @jdev65.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas from Edinburgh 🎄
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I knew it!!!! The socks!!!
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Dads Rock @dadsrockorg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Your generosity can brighten Christmas for at-risk families and help us provide ongoing support in the year ahead. If you're thinking about making a donation this Christmas, please consider supporting Dads Rock. Thank you. 🎅🎅🎅 Donate here 👉 dadsrock.beaconforms.com/form/dcf097af
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