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Katherine Runswick-Cole

@profkrc.bsky.social
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#mothering #disability #education #SocialCare #activism #PeakDistrict - Professor of Education, she/her

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ESRC Centre for Care @centreforcare.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social, @profkrc.bsky.social and @dangoodley.bsky.social explore the employment support proposals for parents of seriously ill children, included in the Dept for Business and Trade Consultation into employment support for unpaid carers. centreforcare.ac.uk/commentary/2...
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Supporting parents of seriously ill children in paid employment: A response to the Department for Business and Trade Consultation
Kirsty Liddiard, Katherine Runswick-Cole and Dan Goodley use their research findings to critically appraise the employment support proposals for parents of seriously ill children, included in the Depa...
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Francesca Ribenfors @francescaribenfors.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@profkrc.bsky.social @spinplatescare.bsky.social please share!! All welcome :)
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Kemi Badenoch has said she does not believe one in four people are disabled. I don’t believe Kemi Badenoch is a decent human being and capable politician. We’ve all got our views, Kemi!
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
@jon4highpeak.bsky.social Still time to join them …
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 01/07/2025
🚨STOP THE CUTS🚨 “These proposals are not human rights compliant. They are being rushed through without proper scrutiny, transparency or engagement with those who stand to lose the most.” Jen Clark, @amnestyuk.bsky.social #DisabilityBenefits Article 👇 🖇️https://tinyurl.com/yc3ryt4x
A serious-looking man in a suit and glasses, identified as Keir Starmer, is shown in close-up. Overlaid text reads:
"BENEFITS NEWS
By Isabella McRae
Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned ahead of vote
MPs are being urged to reject the government's disability benefit cuts ahead of a vote on the welfare reforms on Tuesday."
Source: The Big Issue, 30th June 2025
Image: Lauren Hurley.

The design uses bold fonts with key phrases in bright pink for emphasis, set against a dark navy background.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick
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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
For more information about the @medmentalhealth.bsky.social project, along with useful resources for talking about mental health medications, you can visit the project website: medmentalhealth.net #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch
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Medications and My Mental Health
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“If the bill does go ahead, the division lobby will shine a light not simply on the chasms in the Labour party, but between compassion and careerism, bravery and betrayal.” As the rebels look to do a deal with the government, my column on the whole rotten mess. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Labour welfare rebels are right. This hounding of disabled people will damage the party for years to come | Frances Ryan
Opposition is mounting and No 10 is preparing a raft of concessions. But whatever happens next, the moral stain will remain, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Francesca Ribenfors from @learningmet.bsky.social talking about #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth led by @suecaton.bsky.social #TCC2025
Medications and mental health project slides
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. Its Partygate. Just as the Iraq war was for Tony Blair, disability cuts is the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government & the party for years to come...
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#TCC2025 #SpinningPlates #FullHouse
Two women presenting in front of a powerpoint presentationroom full of delegates sitting at tables looking to the front
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
@tomshakespeare.bsky.social #keynote "If we really thought disabled people were people, we would organise the world very differently." #TCC2025
Tom Shakespeare sitting behind a desk in front of an audience
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Wonderful session including some really interesting examples of #coproduced research #FullHouse
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"In co-produced research building in access to welfare advice is essential because that allows equal access to participation" Julia Lawrence, IPSA project www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/brows... @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social
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About ISPA - ISPA - Inclusive Design - Design - Topics - Resources - Housing LIN
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
So interesting to hear about the IPSA project #AgingInPlace #Disability #TCC2025 www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/brows...
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#TCC2025 fascinating research from Rachel Crossdale #archives #carers @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
My first PhD paper is officially out in Social Science and Medicine!! It is called 'The unmothering of care: childhood disability, structural violence, and the politicisation of motherhood' and draws on ethnographic fieldwork with mothers raising disabled children in Barranquilla, Colombia
A screenshot of the article showing the journal header and title
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Depressing to hear the lack of planning for older people with learning disabilities being repeated in Finland too. "People with intellectual disabilities are not seen as 'equal citizens' in health and aging services" #TCC2025 @sarasiobhan.bsky.social
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Supporting choice and preference for people with intellectual disability in older age #TCC2025 @sarasiobhan.bsky.social
Supporting choice and preference for people with intellectual disability in older age

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The government’s disability cuts could breach equality law due to their “devastating” impact on women’s dignity, experts warn.  The new rules won’t take into account menstruation or some women’s extra toilet needs.  My story in tomorrow’s paper: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Labour’s benefit cuts will have ‘devastating’ impact on disabled women, say charities
Organisations say planned four-point rule will not properly take into account menstruation and other hygiene needs
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Really interesting session at #TCC2025, care and technology are deeply entangled, shaping the ways in which care is both conceptualised & practiced ... #AI #DigitalTechnology #WelfareTechnology
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Good to see today’s Guardian Editorial mention my story that women will lose out under the new PIP rules. If a system leaves women sitting in her bloodied underwear because she can no longer pay the care worker that used to help her get to the toilet, it is one no MP should be backing.
Higher thresholds for personal independence payments, which are expected to save £5bn and reduce claims by around 800,000 by 2030, are causing panic in vulnerable households. Among the latest warnings is one from charities that disabled women will lose out due to their higher personal care needs, including coping with menstruation, not being taken into account. Yet so far, the only concession from ministers has been an extension in the transition period for those losing benefits.
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Really interesting session #TCC2025 on care and technology. As new technologies are shaping the ways in which care is conceptualised and practiced ...
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
@centreforcare.bsky.social
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#TCC2025
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#CentreForCare's Kate Hamblin talking about the complex entanglements of technology and care
Title slide: New mediations of care work in England: how digital care systems reorder and reconceptualise care.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“Almost every cabinet minister was asked to call up Labour MPs to get them to back down and the numbers just went up” Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman tells #BBCBreakfast about the growing rebellion from Labour MPs over the government's planned welfare changes
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Keir Starmer vows to press on with welfare cuts as rebellion grows. Wrong. Listen to the poor, sick, disabled; your backbenchers. Govt can cut corporate welfare, tax the rich. HMRC didn't collect £46.8bn of taxes last yr. We are all one illness/accident away from needing benefits Oppose the cuts
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PM vows to press on with welfare cuts despite growing rebellion
More than 120 Labour MPs are backing plans to block cuts to disability and sickness-related benefits.
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Lovely to see so many @nihrsscr.bsky.social colleagues here at #TCC2025
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Adelina Comas-Herrera @adelinacohe.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The wonderful @margaleon.bsky.social delivering the opening keynote at the @tcaren.bsky.social conference in Helsinki in the rather magnificent great hall of Helsinki University #TCC2025
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.
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Kirsty Liddiard @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Please take a look and share! 🙌🏽 @pathfindersnma.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk @mdukcharity.bsky.social @sophphillips32.bsky.social @profkrc.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @naomijacobs.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com
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neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This is just disgraceful. Jess's Access to Work package cut by 61% by the 'Party of work' planning the biggest cut to disability benefits ever. Utterly shameful. indeedhttps://www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a-career-ending-decision/
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A Career-Ending Decision?
Fifteen years ago, I co-founded Touretteshero as a creative response to the increasing impact that my tics were having on my life. I also started writing this blog. Over the years I’ve tackled some tr...
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just a reminder that you can become a member of @learningdiseng.bsky.social by following the link here: www.learningdisabilityengland.org.uk/welcome/join... #StrongerLouderTogether
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Become a member – Learning Disability England
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Click on the link to find an easy read template letter created by #selfadvocates to write to your MP to stop the benefits cuts for disabled people docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Writing a letter to your MP about benefits for disabled people
Writing a letter to your MP against possible changes to benefits for disabled people Easy Read explanation We are a group of self-advocates with learning disabilities, autistic self-advocates, ...
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medmentalhealth.bsky.social @medmentalhealth.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We are very pleased to share our refreshed project website with our new information toolkit resources to support people with learning disabilities with mental health medications www.medmentalhealth.net @profkrc.bsky.social @dawnc05.bsky.social @learningmet.bsky.social @chrishutchrnld.bsky.social
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Medications and My Mental Health
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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🚨NEWS🚨 'Forgotten and abandoned, young Disabled people are fighting back against cuts through a new collective' @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social solidarity! www.disabilitynewsservice.com/forgotten-an...
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Forgotten and abandoned, young disabled people are fighting back against cuts through a new collective
Hundreds of “forgotten” and “abandoned” young disabled people across the country have taken part in peaceful protests against government cuts to disability benefits, as part of a new movement of ac…
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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Disabled people are already terrified about how they will survive. 75% of people turning to food banks come from a family where someone is disabled. Cutting disability payments is cruel, and risks pushing people deeper into poverty.
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Debbie Abrahams MP @debbieabrahamsmp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The impact assessment on the #SpringStatement has confirmed that 50,000 more children will be pushed into poverty as a result of these measures & 250,000 working age adults as a result of the social security changes. How can making people poorer & sicker help people into work & grow the economy?
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I’m seeing even well-meaning accounts criticise disability cuts as hitting “the most vulnerable.” Reminder: disabled people are not inherently vulnerable. We are vulnerable when governments choose to withhold the resources disabled people need to live dignified and secure lives.
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Fantastic collection of information to help people be more involved in decisions about their mental health medication medmentalhealth.net #MyMedicationMyMentalHealth
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Medications and My Mental Health
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Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Twenty years ago, Peter Lodge wrote to the Guardian to complain about the state’s treatment of family carers. In 2022, he died suddenly at the home he shared with his severely disabled son, David, who had no way to call for help. 1/5
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Matt Keer @captaink77.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Somehow, this programme has assembled a panel to discuss SEND who a) aren't all experts, but b) *are* all men Incredible www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Briefing Room - Why is there a crisis in special educational needs? - BBC Sounds
Why is there a huge increase in spending on SEND, and why are parents still struggling?
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Just ❤️
Young man wearing walking gear on moorland with the gold sun setting behind him.
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Feel so lucky to have been able to buy this beautiful piece of artwork that means so much to me and everyone involved in @spinplatescare.bsky.social There is still time to get a picture that means something to you too! Check this out!
Abstract figure hovering over another smaller figure, with bright light surrounding them
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Melea Press (she/her) @meleapress.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I research the lived experience of parents with children who struggle to or cannot attend school. I call us #GhostParents. Please get in touch if you want to participate in this work. My ethics approval is for any English speakers. We must stop #parentblame. #autism #audhd #pda #ghostparents
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Saba Salman @sabasalman.com · 05/02/2025
There's a basic fact in this piece that can't be repeated enough: locking up people in long-term, secure, clinical and intense inpatient 'care' can be traumatic and makes them feel worse, not better. #LearningDisability #autism #socialcare
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Nothing much is getting better … @nihrsscr.bsky.social
reignitingdebate.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Research shows us that nothing much is getting better – Reigniting debate and stimulating a momentum for change: the role of research findings in engaging policy makers with current priorities for peo...
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Katherine Runswick-Cole @profkrc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Living hopefully in hopeless times? @nihrsscr
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How can you live hopefully when things seem hopeless? – Reigniting debate and stimulating a momentum for change: the role of research findings in engaging policy makers with current priorities for peo...
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