People with #disabilities face increased risk factors associated with poorer overall health & persistent barriers when seeking healthcare support.👥

👉bit.ly/3VVkSvN

Unbelievable. The UK's Covid-19 Inquiry refuses to acknowledge the mental health impact of the pandemic. 1/4

Lovely day in #London . Fantastic SD learning new techniques from RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) NHSE Workforce, Training and Education – SE Plus a wellbeing top up from Dr Shawn Walker 💗🙌

Textbook writing and editing whilst on a long, hot, bumpy tuk tuk ride 🛺. 44°C!
Literal sweat and tears are going into this new book! 😂

Midwives and MSWs - you are eligible to apply for RCN Foundation funding too. Take a look ⬇️

Royal College of Midwives 💙 Dr Jude Field Sara Webb MIDIRS Fiona Gibb Gill Walton Birte Harlev-Lam OBE Lia Brigante Janet Fyle MBE raetrotter RCM
rcnfoundation.rcn.org.uk/Grants-and-fun…

This growing network supports nurses and midwives who are within five years of qualification or NMC registration to develop confidence and skills in quality improvement and its application in practice. Sign up to join the network here: bit.ly/4a97Hwc #teamCNO

I'm really pleased to have been awarded a Medical Research Council grant to study visual discomfort in autism - I'll be recruiting a postdoc for 4 years from September. Get in touch if you're interested!

READ: “3,337 Parisians were equipped with GPS trackers to record their journeys…for journeys from the outskirts of Paris to the center, the number of cyclists now far exceeds the number of motorists, a huge change from just 5 years ago.” Via Carlton Reid forbes.com/sites/carltonr…

Sangy Anandaraj Dr Shawn Walker Maria J Duaso Dr Claire Feeley Prof Jenny Gamble Christine McCourt Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King's 💙 Oooh I want to read this... 🙏 Well done 🥰

Feminists worldwide must stand in solidarity with Palestinian victims -“We must also challenge the complicity of the global media and colonial 'feminists' in perpetuating our dehumanisation and silencing our voices”. middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-ga…

In York with Jenny Patterson working on a book about how midwifery needs love. Please tell us what you think and watch this space #midwiferylove

Dr Shawn Walker Maria J Duaso Dr Claire Feeley Thank you Dr Shawn Walker Maria J Duaso Dr Claire Feeley
Thank you very much Prof Jenny Gamble Christine McCourt
Extend my gratitude Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King's 💙

Autistic people are criticised for catastrophizing. The problem is not that we are wrong; thanks to our pattern recognition abilities, our predictions are usually spot on. The real issue is that we typically highlight issues that are supposed to remain hidden.

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

READ: In Paris, the # of people biking DOUBLED in a single year, the 12-month period between Oct 2022 and Oct 2023.

Doubled.

In a year.

It’s possible with leadership and an appropriate sense of urgency when it comes to building safe bike infrastructure.
lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/…

💦WATERBIRTH 💦

Dr Claire Feeler & Dr Ethel Burns are co-hosting an international, interdisciplinary conference focusing on water immersion during labour and birth at Oxford Brookes University on Thursday 6th June 9-430pm.
Tickets available here lnkd.in/ehURRSUG

Congratulations Dr Anandaraj on your successful PhD viva today! Very well defended Sangy Anandaraj!
Thank you so much to examiners Christine McCourt and Prof Jenny Gamble and to co-supervisors Dr Shawn Walker and Dr Claire Feeley
Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King's 💙

Really interesting report from Nuffield Trust today on access to #autism and #ADHD support. We know that #neurodivergent students require different support, which is why we're creating an acceptance tool for use in universities. Launching in May.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…

We're so incredibly proud of Sangy Anandaraj, who defended her PhD thesis today on 'Attitudes and beliefs of women about the implementation of midwife-led care in India.' Congratulations, Dr Sangy! Maria J Duaso Dr Claire Feeley ❤️

There is a crisis in clinical academia in the UK. We talk of the need to expand medical schools, embed research into the NHS to improve care, & the importance of a vibrant life sciences sector for the economy of the UK, & yet we seem unable to tackle the underlying issues 1/9