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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I just discovered that in Harvard citation you *don't* italicise the case names, but you *do* italicise the statutes. This feels as wrong as going to work in your pyjamas! I don't love Oscola, but apparently, bits of it, I do.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I'm somewhat bowled over by this - my book, Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution, won the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for outstanding work with social policy relevance www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medal...

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The British Academy Peter Townsend Prize

The Peter Townsend Prize, worth £1,000, is awarded biennially for outstanding work with policy relevance on a topic to which Townsend made a major contribution.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Devastated to hear about Conor Gearty's sudden death. I had the privilege of getting to know him working on statutory amendments to try and ensure the Human Rights Act applies whenever health and social care it outsourced by the state. We'll continue that work in his memory.

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Alison Harvey @aliromah.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Wonderful tributes from colleagues at Matrix chambers for Professor Conor Gearty.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Mental health twitter - here's a totally invalid straw poll. Roughly what proportion of people discharged from detention under the MHA who are technically *eligible* for s117 aftercare actually get it? And roughly how many of these get short-term v long-term support?

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Folks, can anyone point me to any key cases or guidance on the covert administration of medication under a) MCA and b) MHA? I'm struggling to see how it could be lawful under MCA without COP's powers, as you can't really assess capacity without telling someone what you plan to do...

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I published an article recently, and re-reading it have noticed an embarrassing number of typos crept in. The copy-editing process was super-rushed and I found the publisher's interface really hard on the eyes, and I didn't check as well as I should have done. Is it too late to fix this...?!

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This article by @johnharris1969.bsky.social on the SEND changes is why I signed the letter. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I'm trying to calculate how many people (England) are 'informal' (i.e. not detained under the MHA) mental health inpatients. The MHSMS dataset says there are 22,764 people subject to MHA at the moment, and 23,595 in hospital beds. So 96% detained under MHA. Does that sound right to you MH people?

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Just reading the GMC guidance, then the NMC guidance, on consent, and really, the NMC guidance is just so scant and rubbish... That really does need addressing.

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Mad Crip Symposium @cripmadsymposium.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Tickets are here!!! 📣 📆 June 11th ⏰️ 9.30 - 4.30 💵 Free 3 amazing sessions, 2 unmissable keynote speakers, 1 amazing creative workshop, 2 BSL interpreters... #MadCrip www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

University of Southampton

UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH

SC.DTP.

South Coast Doctoral Training Partrership

Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies.

Free one-day hybrid symposium for PGR researchers

Centenary Building, University of Southampton,

SO17 1BJ 11th June 9.30-4.30

#MadCrip2025

What you'll hear

Session 1

What can Sociology learn from Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies?

Session 2

Mad studies and knowledge creation inside and outside of the academy

Session 3

What's missing, what's unsaid? Identifying issues and opportunities in Critical Disability Studies

What to expect

Refreshments - including vegetarian, vegan and GF options.

Informal atmosphere - move and be as you need to.

A quiet space.

BSL interpretation

Accessible parking and toilets.

Opportunities for creativity.

https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa-events/intersections-of-sociology-with-crip-theory-critical-disability-studies-and-mad-studies/

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Fantastic to see CQC and so many NGOs supporting the Sammut amendment to ensure the Human Rights Act applies directly to private providers if mental health services are outsourced committees.parliament.uk/publications... It would be good to extend this protection for children's social care as well

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Mental Health Bill 2024-25 is now in the House of Commons. Here's last night's debate at Second Reading hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025... (Much less emphasis on disability rights than in the House of Lords, I notice)

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Mental Health Bill [Lords] - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : ' Mental Health Bill [Lords]' on Monday 19 May 2025.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Rumours on school WhatsApp group that the government is considering changing parts of the Children and Families Act 2014, which supports SEND children with more complex needs in schools. Anyone know anything about this? Here's a petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... @johnpring.bsky.social

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This, by @jdportes.bsky.social is so worth reading on the incoherent and mean-spiritedness of the white paper. Excellent point that if they want to increase pay in the care sector they'll need to find the money - at the moment there are no signs of that.

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Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

There's been a lot of talk about tariffs this year. Is the UK government the only one that is looking to effectively impose one on one of its own biggest exports?

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If (when) a UK university does completely collapse, there will be weeks of news coverage of distressed students who don't know where or how they can complete degrees they have paid for, tricky questions about students' housing contracts, terrible impacts on local and national local economy etc...

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Eilís they/them @eilymay.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Blackstone: "Of great importance to the public is the preservation of this personal liberty; for if once it were left in the power of any the highest magistrate to imprison arbitrarily whomever he or his officers thought proper... there would soon be an end of all other rights and immunities."

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

When even the most ancient and quintessential of rights - habeas corpus - is defined as a 'privilege', that should be suspended to facilitate mass deportations, shouldn't even libertarians and conservatives be worried? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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What is habeas corpus and why might Donald Trump want to suspend it?

It is a safeguard against unlawful imprisonment - but the White House is

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Crashing the care sector and higher education, and hospital job losses, will not win over Reform voters when they find local universities have closed, home student fees have to be increased, nobody can care for their kids or parents, and hospital waiting lists grow again.

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Centre for Mental Health @centreformh.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

⚠️ We need a mental health strategy to tackle the causes, rather than the symptoms, of rising mental illness. That's why we've signed this letter alongside @rethinkcharity.bsky.social @rcpsych.bsky.social @mind.org.uk and more 👇

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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📣📣‼️ Registration for the CRITICAL NEURODIVERSITY STUDIES: DIRECTIONS/INTERSECTIONS/CONTRADICTIONS (CNSC) conference is now open! ‼️📣📣 Sign up here: ndhumanities.com/critical-neu...

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Registration – ND Hums

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Simon Bottery @blimeysimon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The terms of reference for the Casey #socialcare commission are published today (though staff have been working for a while). There are concerns, particularly timing, but they should offer the scope Baroness Casey needs to do a thorough job. Thread below ⬇️ www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Independent commission into adult social care: terms of reference

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What are your marking rules this season? Mine are: 1. For every one essay marked you can send a tweet 2. For every two essays marked, you can have a marshmallow 3. For every four essays marked you can replenish your caffeinated beverage. Am in breach of rules 1, and 3 already. Back to it...

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Yesterday, for reasons I won't go into, I spent three hours at the foot of a wind turbine. They are massive and majestic and if anyone wants to put one in my backyard they are welcome.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The Bureaucracy Prayer Grant me the patience to endure the rules I cannot change, The nerve to challenge the ones I can, And the wisdom to know when it's just not worth the endless email chain, paperwork and meetings.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I am on a one-woman mission to make people use the Word headings functions. It doesn't just look better, save you time, help you structure things better, it's about accessibility people! You don't have to stick with blue titles, you can change the design, but seriously, invest in learning this!

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We're deep down an evil rabbit hole in the US...

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Just had my final disability studies class of this academic year. Undergraduate policy, childhood studies and criminology students in their final year. It's been such a privilege and pleasure to teach them. They'll do great things! Here's their courses bristol.ac.uk/study/underg...

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StudySocial Policyat Bristol

Study with experts recognised for their work in poverty, gender-based violence, housing, migration, and health and social care, whose research has positively impacted people's lives.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Labour were elected on growth and repairing public services devastated by Tory cuts. Everywhere I look there's job losses, redundancy fears and terror around benefits cuts. Now hospitals: Hundreds of jobs to go at Bristol's hospitals as government cuts hit www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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Hundreds of jobs to go at Bristol's hospitals as government cuts hit

The trust is the city's biggest single employer

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

We're hiring a Policy Adviser! You'll work across policy areas (work, care, housing and more) to generate ideas that address the challenges underpinning poverty in the UK. 📍 Hybrid (York/London) Salary: £37,546.60 (+ LDN weighting) 9 Months FTC Find out more and apply now: bit.ly/4jdaWGn

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Octo Candidates - Application Form - Vacancy Details

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Academics and authors - has Meta eaten your work for its AI? (Probably). I asked it some basic questions about my research and key cases I discuss in it, and it gave the weakest answers. (Students take note!!) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Similarities between 'private' (i.e. charitable) early years education, and Higher Education, institutions being on the brink because the fees they can charge are capped by government, whilst their outgoings increase with cost of living and NICs... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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National Insurance rise 'will lead to nurseries closing'

Charities and childcare centres say they are being hit by the tax increase but cannot raise prices.

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Iain Porter @iainkporter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Yesterday, a Government press release claimed the number of people “considered too sick to work” had "quadrupled" since the pandemic (a "383% rise"). This is incorrect. In fact, it’s not even close. It's more like 40%. This thread explains why 🧵1/7

Image of Government press release stating a "383% rise in less than five years" in the number of people considered too sick to look for work.

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Peter Matejic @statspeter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Our complaint re the growth in health benefits has been upheld: osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/corresponden...: "The statement that the number of people claiming disability elements of Universal Credit has increased by 383% presents an entirely misleading picture to the public."

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Rob Kent-Smith to Peter Schofield: Increase in the number of people on Universal Credit

Dear Sir Peter We have received a number of complaints relating to a press release published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on 13 March entitled ‘Almost two million people on Universal...

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Yesterday was a great April Fools day for student run papers. University sector in such chaos many seemed plausible. Apparently Oxford's new pangolin topped college is for real though.

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Waiting for the day Co-Pilot can re-format a word document in line with the specific formatting and citation requirements of different academic journals. That is cognitive labour I'm very happy to outsource to an AI...

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Lucy Series @thesmallplaces.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Disabled activists, disability studies and disability rights folk - does any country other than the UK prefer the term 'disabled people' (reflecting social model) to 'persons with disabilities'? Ta!

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