@leahfullegar
Postdoctoral social care researcher at the University of Portsmouth, animal lover, and generally scatty human being. Talk to me about dogs, knitting, quilting, or older adult social care research. Better yet, combine them all.
Research can be demanding, often taking a toll on mental well-being. This weeks webinar is dedicated to helping researchers navigate these pressures! Break the stigma! With @leahfullegar.bsky.social @aramblingrosie.bsky.social
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Exciting post today! @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
I really hope so!! What a lovely notification to belatedly get ☺️
Oh excellent - I’ll give this a listen today!
Banner for the Bluesky University of Portsmouth starter pack. It says “Join the conversation; University of Portsmouth on Bluesky” and highlights some of the profile pictures belonging to accounts in the starter pack.
Having a stab at one of these starter packs. Here’s one for all people/accounts affiliated with the Uni of Portsmouth. Who am I missing?
@dralexford.bsky.social
@drstevenkapp.bsky.social
@lorrainehope.bsky.social
@lisahyattrn.bsky.social
@jamesahand.bsky.social
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Ooo Ooo... seen this? #SocialWork These awards are open to a wide range of people working in social care research, education or practice at any career stage.
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@bournemouthuni.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING: MPs vote for #AssistedDying to become law for terminally ill people. Ayes - 330 Noes 275
The #EndofLife Bill will be voted on in the #UK parliament on 29 November.
There are some who argue against the Bill, but are these arguments convincing enough that MPs should consider voting it down?
No, writes Emily Jackson @lselaw.bsky.social on @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social 👇
If the debate today has you thinking about your own wishes, then consider looking at our advance care online tool. It takes you through the kinds of things to consider when thinking about death and dying. advancecareplanning.org.uk/planning-ahe...
Yes that was the topic, I feel a bit confused about the semantic difference between self-coercion and general decision making. I will try to find the article - thank you!
Watching the debate - is anyone able to explain the concept of “self coercion” as used by Tim Farron?
Watching the Parliamentary debate on assisted dying, I am struck that whenyou take the yah-boo of party politics out, the House of Commons can hold a very thoughtful debate.
“Make no mistake - whether or not this bill passes today, terminally ill people will continue taking their own lives.”
This bill offers safeguards that don’t currently exist. Read it here: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
The best thing about my commute to work is walking through the park and pausing to wave at the giant rabbits.
Starting at 12 - join me for our lunchtime seminar on collaborative working in older adult social work services
Put a coat on Molly to keep her dry, this did not stop her from rolling around in the snow like a loon
I got super excited to see snow though, feels like it’s been ages!
It’s -1 degrees outside, Myrtle is officially hibernating.
Lovely collection of articles on creative approaches to qualitative #dementia research in IJQM
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
This is an adorable little croissant
Come join us on Thursday for a lunchtime seminar - I'll be talking about #collaborativeworking in #olderadult #socialwork services and the results of our realist synthesis
See you there!
I feel seen
A screenshot of the Traffic Scotland website, showing a map of the live locations of all its grit spreader lorries. They all have names including Spready Mercury, Penelope Gritstop, Han Snow-lo, Lord Coldemort, Icetalavista Baby, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang and Skate Bush.
So what if I am awake at 6am looking at the names of Scottish road grit lorries on the @traffic.gov.scot.web.brid.gy website
This is excellent
Care home residents create beer in wellbeing project www.bbc.com/news/article...
Send help, Myrtle is broken (she’s fine, she just likes to sleep in weird positions)
@dementiaresearcher.bsky.social do you know of any?
Molly and Myrtle promise to be super well behaved if they are allowed to join! @estherlindstrom.bsky.social
Hopefully this is the first of many steps in acknowledging the difficulties facing the social care sector. I always feel a bit guilty for having left care work, but ultimately I am much better paid now...
Writing is 20% typing, 80% trying to think of a better way to articulate something that has already been articulated perfectly well by someone else.
Learning how to use bluesky - are hashtags a thing that works? #help #newhere