Not the Only One

“We also need to consider that disabled young people’s experience of disadvantage is also greatly impacted by other factors such as socio-economic background, ethnicity and gender. For example, research from our project shows that disabled young people from working class backgrounds are a lot more likely to experience educational and occupational disadvantage. So, in terms of finding a solution and building support pathways that are fit for purpose, it is very complex piece of work that needs...

20 years ago, an indigenous Australian writer told me to observe who cared for for the land vs who destroyed it. Former are of the colonised, latter the coloniser. / X

Mr Shardey has performed jury service, and in 2007 was given a police award for bravery after tackling a robber who was attacking a delivery man with a baseball bat.

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Here's one I found on the costs of means testing https://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ss-2011-03.pdf via a Vox article in the U.S. context. https://www.vox.com/2021/10/15/22722418/means-testing-social-spending-reconciliation-bill @LuciferMorningstar

Conventional approaches to improving the representation of women on the boards of major companies typically focus on increasing the number of women appointed to these positions. We show that this strategy alone does not improve gender equity. Instead of relying on aggregate statistics ("headcounts") to evaluate women's inclusion, we use network analysis to identify and examine two types of influence in corporate board networks: local influence measured by degree centrality and global influenc...

The Chagos Islands football team are trying to keep the story of their ancestors alive, 6,000 miles from their disputed homeland.