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Harry Ferguson

@profharryferguson.bsky.social
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Social work, child protection, research into practice, fatherhood, ethnography, gender-based violence. Liver transplant recipient 2004 and 2023 and advocate for organ donation - www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles…

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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thank you to the good people of Ireland, who today have again shown that Trump and his politics of hate are not welcome this side of the Atlantic. We stand in solidarity with you! 🇮🇪 www.rawstory.com/trump-irelan...
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Humiliation for Trump as Ireland flocks to the streets with enormous and lewd balloons
Enormous and crude balloons cast a dark shadow over President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland on Saturday.Trump landed in Ireland on Saturday to visit the International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg and...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/09/2026
A damning indictment of where hate leads. RNLI has to warn its volunteers - people who save lives - not to wear branded clothes for fear of being attacked. Absolutely shameful.
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RNLI reviews security measures after far-right threats
The charity’s chief executive said the online abuse was ‘wholly unacceptable’
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If your idea of patriotism is calling any member of the RNLI, an entirely voluntary organisation whose crews daily risk their lives to save others, a traitor, then you are beyond hope of redemption.
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Richard Kemp @richardmskemp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Great work, @profharryferguson.bsky.social!
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The Relational Social Work Podcast @relationalsw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🎙️ New episode out today 🎧 In this week's episode Matt and Hannah are then joined by Harry Ferguson to talk about his latest book, ‘Making Child Protection Work’, exploring the importance of relational and intimate child protection practice. Listen now on any major podcast platform 💗
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/01/2026
If you're excited for universal child care and you know it, clap your hands! 👏🏽
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Policy Press @policypress.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A recap of 2025 at Bristol University Press and Policy Press. Milestones, events, achievements, celebrations and, most of all, a thank you to everyone involved in our publishing. We wish you the best for 2026! 🎉❤️ ow.ly/37M350XGhk1
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Dyfrig Williams @dyfrig.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025
Really good discussion around the power of lived experience in this Messy Social Work podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rich-… It really makes me want to read Darren McGarvey’s The Trauma Industrial Complex! […]
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Wonderful to find #Tayto crisps for sale in Melbourne, but at $6 (£3) a packet - THREE QUID😱😡. Australia, how could you 🥲🥲 @jdev65.bsky.social @jojofinchers.bsky.social
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Brilliant analysis by @cwarzel.bsky.social of the socio-political dynamics surrounding a blue denim jeans ad campaign and the production of Sydney Sweeney as a cultural object. Applies to how so many cultural moments are confected internet / social media driven spectacles.
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British Association of Social Workers @basw-uk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🎉 Campaign success! The Scottish Government announces an uplift in bursary support for postgraduate social work students in Scotland! Well done to @scotssocialwork.bsky.social and @swu-uk.bsky.social for all their campaigning on this issue. 🔗 Read more: gov.scot/news/social-work-bursary-increase
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A jackpot of £129 million and the “You’ve won” email arrives. … 3 minutes of anticipation as you log in to see the prize, 3 mins of fantasising about all the charities you’d give it to (and ok houses and cars … to buy) And then it happens: “You’ve won £2.80” Closes Rightmove. Buys tissues
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Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
My second journal article is out in Culture, Health & Sexuality. It is the final paper of the MANFOKUS project. Our paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2025.2458719
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‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany
This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is a great paper, based on excellent research that deserves to be widely read by all in social work.
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually. Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
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Starmer is as bad as those who came before him. What a bitter disappointment
Echoing the far right on immigration, his moral and intellectual stature has fallen away
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party. I ask again, what is he playing at?
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Spot on Zoe. Just when you think Starmer and this Labour Party/ government can’t lurch any further to the right, injustice and sheer stupidity, they go and unleash a ton more anti-migrant - ‘foreigner’ hate and inflict further damage on adult social care. It’s absolutely sickening.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If this is the case, we know this man is on an all fluoride diet.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
And that is what Adrian should have said, really. The Greens have good, popular policies on taxing the hyper-rich. That is the 1% with actual power, the 1% making us all poorer & using trans people & migrants as wedges to divide us & stop us noticing them. #r4today
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I’ve had 2 liver transplants- one in 2004 and the other in 2023. The generosity of my donors and their families has kept me alive. Please support #OrganDonation and let your wishes be known. www.facebook.com/share/p/19Pm...
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
#NoStateVisit #TrumpOut
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@WildMelissaHart @wildmelissahart.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I'd suggest reading this while wearing your inflatable T-rex costume and eating cookies. You can find The Roots of Buddhist Psychology on Hoopla through your local library. I promise, this lecture series is a profound hoot and a half! therevealer.org/meeting-chao... #psychology #philosophy #Buddhism
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Meeting Chaos with Compassion and Humor through “The Roots of Buddhist Psychology” — The Revealer
The 30th anniversary of Jack Kornfield’s famed lecture series on Buddhism and how it resonates today amidst social and political upheaval
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Never thought I’d be applauding Ronald Reagan’s wisdom! www.instagram.com/reel/DIAJLh9...
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Jon Glasby @jonglasby.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
New research on what happens to older people, families and care staff when care homes close - policy and practice guide & training video via www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci...
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Seán Moncrieff @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Wel played, Ikea.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/03/2025
‘Staff assessed the moral worth of families through inspection and case-work, often relying on local gossip and judging families on their ability to keep up appearances. A dirty home meant a deviant family life.’ Mary Hannity on the Waifs and Strays Society: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Mary Hannity · Worse than Orphans: Waifs and Strays
What power does a child have? You could refuse your food or try to run away or escape into your imagination. You could...
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A wonderful life story and extraordinary career by the incomparable Lindsey Hilton - great interview on Desert Island Discs by @laurenlaverne.bsky.social
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening physical and mental health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Totally agree John. Little wonder so many disabled people are very distressed about the prospect of being further impoverished. By a Labour government?! It’s appalling.
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Is this by @robmitch92.bsky.social? It’s lovely ❤️
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Rob Mitchell @robmitch92.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The difficult second book is landing on doormats (or lovely herringbone floors) and @capacitylaw.bsky.social approves… And breathe #SocialWorkCatsAndRocketScience @elaineljames.bsky.social
Copy of the new book Social Work, Cats & Rocket Science on a floor.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
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Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 11/03/2025
Bet some of this is down to institute directors, senior researchers or PhD supervisors who insist on having their name on all research done beneath them, regardless of how minimal, or even non-existent, their input was? I hate that practice. #AcademicSky 📚
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20,000 scientists publish at unrealistic rates, study says
Analysis finds ‘implausibly high’ numbers of papers from many top scientists
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 10/03/2025
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. #AcademicSky
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Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The human cost of what Trump et al are doing by cutting funding and doing so immediately is massive and here’s just a glimpse of it. Tragic and amoral.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Neoliberalism and a healthy population are incompatible www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03... Labour wants to crack down on those with ill-health and disabilities. What is staggering though is how few actually claim for such conditions in a country so messed up by neoliberal economics and politics.
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Neoliberalism and a healthy population are incompatible
As the Guardian notes this morning: More than half of the increase in disability benefits is due to more mental health claims, according to research. They added: Whereas in 2002, mental health or be...
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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
1/ We are living through a historical junction where a world and its regime of truths are demolished and another one is emerging, this is like Brexit on steroids. We laughed at Trump calling his factory of lies 'Truth Social', it feels more like a tragedy now...
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Roll up, roll up to the best newsagents in the world. Anywhere. Eugene inspires newspaper buying everywhere
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Wonderful to see students out sitting on the grass taking in the sunshine at the University of Birmingham today
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 02/03/2025
Wouldn’t it be brilliant if all the celebrities turned up tonight at the Oscars dressed like President Zelenskyy? #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦
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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelensky is the clear hero in the staged horror show I watched. Unwavering under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Trump's supporters watched a high school drama. One where bullies high-five each other for making fun of someone's outfit. And where no one cares about the consequences.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Exclusive: Nearly 50,000 babies referred to social services every year due to domestic abuse www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: Nearly 50,000 babies referred to social services every year due to domestic abuse
Freedom of Information requests showed that an estimated 48,067 babies, aged 0-2, were subject to referrals to children’s services in England due to specific fears over domestic abuse.
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British Association of Social Workers @basw-uk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
BASW children and families group member, Denise McLean spoke to @channel4news.bsky.social this week providing a social work perspective in response to findings showing that thousands of babies are referred to social services every year in England due to domestic abuse.
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Harry Ferguson @profharryferguson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Some thoughts on the scandal of the death of Jaysley Beck, rape culture and violence against women and girls. www.linkedin.com/posts/harry-...
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Harry Ferguson on LinkedIn: “Serving and former soldiers told the inquest of a culture of women being…
“Serving and former soldiers told the inquest of a culture of women being harassed, propositioned and routinely targeted with misogynistic language. One…
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If you're feeling hopeless or scared or frustrated or confused, please consider signing up to @the-citizens.bsky.social newsletter. We're not powerless & there are things that we can do. dispatch.the-citizens.com/elon-call-yo...
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Elon, Call Your Dealer
3 Fresh Reads + Actions Today to Fight the Tech Coup
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
(un)Happy UnPrecedented Day!
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Think Ahead @thinkaheadmh.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🏆 It’s time to give social work a glow up! Let’s help change perception of this often misunderstood and misrepresented profession⬇️
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Dr Mark Gregory @swkresearcher.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
🚨New publication klaxon🚨 My latest paper with colleagues from UEA is out now in advance access in the British Journal of Social Work. It's a scoping review of reflective group interventions with social workers & is available open access academic.oup.com/bjsw/advance... #AcademicSky #SocialWorkSky
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Reflective group interventions with social workers: A scoping review
This article reviews research on different forms of reflective group interventions (RGIs) with social workers. The authors were interested in how RGIs—stru
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Helen Scholar @drhelenscholar.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Scholar, H., McLaughlin, H., Pollock, S., & McCaughan, S. (2025) - paper on teams in CF social work. Not open access but I can send you an eprint link if you are interested! doi.org/10.1080/0265...
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The ‘team’ in child and family social work: exploratory findings from a longitudinal study on factors influencing the retention of child and family social workers in England
This paper draws upon qualitative data from a Department for Education (DfE) funded longitudinal study of child and family social workers in England, carried out between 2018 and 2022 exploring fac...
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