Perpet. mat leave + researcher | Care, community, economy, SDOH, early years | 👩🏻💼🪆✨ Not everything that counts can be counted | Small human co-ordinator
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Some thoughts on monsters and men and the election results yesterday #USElection2024
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Mari didn't know me from Adam, but she took time to search through records for me so my illegally adopted uncle could be reunited with his family. That was mere months ago and I naively thought I'd have more time to thank her. Such a good person. May she rest in peace.
It is with profound sadness and deep regret that we share the news of the passing of our beloved friend and colleague, Mari Steed. Mari passed away at home after a short but serious illness and in the warm and loving embrace of her cherished family. See: clannproject.org/mari/
ALT Mari is holding a microphone with her other hand raised addressing the crowd at the Dublin Honours Magdalenes event. Maeve O'Rourke is looking on with admiration. Photo credit: Paul Sherwood.
Really looking forward to supporting the launch of this campaign. Seven long years of motherhood = seven years of dealing with the lack of reasonable childcare and putting my own career and creative goals on the back-burner. #EveryChild
👩👧👧Affordable & accessible #childcare for #EveryChild
Sounds utopian, doesn't it? And yet it's the reality for many across the EU...
✔️It could be here, too.
❤️Like & share this post to show you support public early years education & care, and help end the #ChildcareCrisis
I've really missed writing creatively/for the joy of writing, so I've created a Substack so I can do just that! Subscribe, read, comment, nothing, do what you like! alabouroflove.substack.com
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Really looking forward @maryohara1's new book.
A much needed assessment of the 14 years of austerity.
And, of course, the legacy of austerity will have scarred many people's lives permanently.
Let's hope the new Labour govt is end of these mean-spirted, punative policies.
Working on final proofs. Needless to say, the rapid fire changes in politics haven't made it easy. But, I hope this book marks an end point for the calamitous era of #austerity We cannot repeat the mistakes of 2010-2024. #EndAusterity austeritybitesuk10yearson.co…
IV/ At the end of the day, I had to make the choice that it's in my childrens' best interest - for me to be with them more than just a little, and that means, once again, putting off career development. I can't pretend, however, that it's not frustrating.
III/ We are consistently told from childhood that we should strive for a college degree, a meaningful career, as well as having a family.
II/ It's incredibly frustrating to want to work, to be putting myself out there, work on improving my skills, and be met with a labour market that is so inflexible to the needs of mothers, carers, and the children and families that need them.
1/ I had to decline a really wonderful job opportunity which could have turned into a career for life, due to the unavailability of childcare and inflexibility of the role in terms of WFH.
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"We are all human beings & no one should be discriminated again because of their socio-economic status"
Join the campaign: Take a photo holding the 'missing piece' to show your support and post on social media with the #Addthe10th say why it is important
atdireland.ie/wp/socio-econo… – at Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
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The stark impact of the division of unpaid care can be seen in the impact of the birth of a first child on women and men. New fathers' wages are in line with the wages of men without children, while the wages of mothers fall dramatically compared to women without children
Been off Twitter for an age, because having three children is infinitely harder than having two. Finally emerging from the endless sickness phase of this year, maybe.
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This new article by Järvinnen & Mik-Meyer on "gendered service work in academia" made me go through all stages of grief on a loop and I think EVERYONE in academic should read it 👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
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@uni_essexhealth @Yu56151547 @play_institute @neil_play @aoifelongeng @APlayfulCity @RichardCye @ChildStds_Essex @amygmurphy FYI
Join us through 2024 for this discussion series, New Directions in Parenting Culture Studies
First of five is introduced by @sunnasim on 'Parenting Culture and Fertility Rates' - 25 Feb, 3pm - book here
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@clareemurph @AnnFuredi @SSPSSR
Very excited to have a chapter in this wonderful text! Thank you to @jennifer_johns_ and @Sarah_M_Hall for including me. This chapter was longer in the making than my three year old 😅 I discuss economic reforms and the disproportionate impact on women (and poorer women).
It's finally here! @Sarah_M_Hall and I have a new collection on Contemporary Economic Geographies. 30 chapters by 35 fantastic contributors celebrating inspiring, critical and plural perspectives @rgs_egrg @BrisUniPress @BristolUni_BSch @GeographyUOM
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Young criminalised women's needs are neglected
@IndyMCross guest blogs for me on new call from @Agenda_alliance & @YouthJusticePk for gender-sensitive support for criminalised young women
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Real end of an era stuff with Aertel teletext from RTÉ closing next week. Amazing that it survived - in glorious analogue too - until 2023!
Here's the official closure announcement (over four pages, obviously).
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Made this in honour of our fallen soldier Aertel x
RTÉ will close Aertel next week after over three decades in service. The teletext service, which has been running since 1986, will be switched off on Thursday 12 October
rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/100…
