Prof Ruth Patrick
@ruthpatrick0.bsky.social
Professor of Social & Public Policy at University of Glasgow
Perimenopausal | neurodivergent | navigating parenting kids with SEND
Ruth Myrtle Patrick was an American botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology. She authored more than 200 scientific papers, developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established numerous research facilities. .. more
Political science
29%
Environmental science
26%
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Annual Social Policy Lecture
Join us for our Annual Social Policy Lecture with Professor Ruth Patrick, University of Glasgow
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In or close by Sheffield on 7th October? If so, join me as I try to come up with something half-way coherent on the problems & possibilities for UK social policy research on poverty & social security for @sheffielduni.bsky.social Annual Social Policy Lecture www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-soc...
Reposted by Stuart White
Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
www.theguardian.com
Here’s hoping this is not the ‘new philosophy of social security’ Burnham trailed in Liverpool.
A generation of young people are being failed by our threadbare public realm. Invest in fixing that and in supporting them.
Axing social security is not the answer
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
A generation of young people are being failed by our threadbare public realm. Invest in fixing that and in supporting them.
Axing social security is not the answer
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...