Do you use the term 'loved ones' as a general term?

Ever wondered what it means or how it might be understood?

Kate Woodthorpe and I did: endoflifestudies.academicblogs.co.uk/is-everyone-a-…

Tl:dr Emphasising 'love' misses the diversity of reasons people care for each other

End of Life Studies

My new book out today 'Time of death: a sociological exploration'. Loved writing it, but feel I know even less about time than when I started! Can be found here: rb.gy/w638wu

New job alert 🚨 We’re looking to hire a post-doc to work with us on our ARC project on care transitions TASA Brendan Churchill Louisa Smith Iva Strnadova UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5227…

⁦The Guardian⁩ reporting here matches findings from our ⁦Economic and Social Research Council⁩ funded ⁦Dying in the Margins⁩ study about lack of responsiveness in the housing sector for tenants at end of life ⁦End of Life Studies⁩ Marie Curie Scotland⁩ ⁦UofG Social Sciences⁩ theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/n…

New paper alert 🚨 We reflect on grant funding ‘failure’ to think more broadly about what is lost, individually and collectively, within increasingly competitive and marketised research support landscapes Erica Borgstrom Annelieke Driessen Marian Krawczyk John MacArtney Professor Kathryn Almack

If you missed this, it is now available on UNSW Social Policy Research Centre YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=FYiz9E…

The project #QueeringtheMap created radical, creative and alternative online spaces that vividly record the lives of people traditionally excluded from official histories, say Ash Watson UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health Emma Kirby 🏳️‍🌈 Brendan Churchill Brady Robards & Lucas Larochelle.

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Why did people join an online #queer collective memory-making project?

Ash Watson UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health Emma Kirby 🏳️‍🌈 Brendan Churchill Brady Robards Lucas Larochelle found that participants felt connected to other contributors, and wanted to help map #LGBTQIA + experiences. buff.ly/3Rw1Ie2

So Fi Zine 13 out now! Dispatch from #isawcs23 , by Ash Watson open.substack.com/pub/awtsn/p/so…

We’re looking to speak with people who have lived experience of cancer (in Aus). Our project explores power relations in oncology. In particular, we want to talk. with people from socially marginalised positions/identities & their experience of cancer & oncology 🖤

It has been such a privilege to contribute to this project for UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture and to work alongside Aves (featured below), @thisnewman and other incredible staff and students to bring this important project to life 🏳️‍⚧️

I am looking for a research assistant to work w/ us on projects that focus on perceptions of safety, preventing crime and victimisation in public spaces and promoting inclusion in public spaces for women from migrant and non-migrant backgrounds.

Thrilled and excited to start this ARC Linkage Project to better understand and support informal care transitions. Working with excellent colleagues @thisnewman Brendan Churchill Louisa Smith Iva Strnadova and equally excellent partners Carers NSW Carers Victoria !

So pleased to be able to share the findings and recommendations from our Economic and Social Research Council study.

So many people to thank - too many for one Tweet! But I have to start with *a really big thank you* to Abi Eccles Jo Fleming 🌱 Catherine Grimley for all their hard work throughout the study!

Come join our lovely community of geographers at the University of Melbourne! Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Human Geography University of Melbourne with a particular focus on environmental politics and policy. Closing date 16 October. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/909981/…

Happy Wear it Purple Day! Inclusivity and support for LGBTQIA+ youth today and every day Wear it Purple UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health

Now out! Collection in @CPH_journal edited by Rebecca Lynch and me - on #chronic illness and #publichealth – editorial here (may be £;DM if no access) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The program is now up for the Small Data is Beautiful symposium. Exciting keynotes and papers, join us online Feb 18 & 19. eventbrite.com.au/e/small-data-i…

Chronicity in/and cancer: a qualitative interview study of health professionals, patients, and family carers by Emma Kirby 🏳️‍🌈, Dr Katherine Kenny, Alex Broom & Zarnie Lwin doi.org/10.1080/095815…