Coping with and resisting everyday inequalities in the UK
This post is written in collaboration with outdoor, travel, and landscape photographer Sam Knight who joined me for some of my walks and has provided all the photos for this blog. See his full website: http://www.samsknight.com. Like many others, when lockdown was first proposed, I was scared. I am one of those people who rent …
Continue reading "Living on the beautiful edge: Escape routes from the city"
This is a guest contribution from Emma Brooks who is currently a PhD student at UCL Institute of Education researching antenatal care in London. Piotr appeared to have it all: he worked full-time as a builder and was happily married with two young children. At the beginning of each pre-entry ESOL class he would …
Continue reading "A Tale of Two Cities: health inequalities in 21st century London"
For our first guest contribution we've invited Natassia Brenman, a PhD student from LSHTM, to share her work on access to community mental health services in London. I don’t think I ever met the two homeless people who had been sleeping outside the counselling service I spent time volunteering at last year. I’d been there …
Continue reading "At the edge-lands of mental health care, whose vulnerability counts?"
I was going back to Hangleton, where I grew up. It is a residential area on the outskirts of Brighton which has rudely been skipped by the waves of gentrification moving out from the city centre. Brighton Festival was putting on a weekend of performance art at the community centres both here and in Whitehawk, …
Disruptive Inequalities 