Alice Bloch

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The latest episode of @TheSocReview’s Uncommon Sense is our first collaboration! Thanks to @KarisCampion @SLRC_DMU for suggesting and hosting! And if you haven’t already listened ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Thx @TheSocReview and @KarisCampion for hosting this convo and inviting me to speak alongside Suresh @MonitoringGroup, someone who I have so much respect for. Was a pleasure just to listen to him alone! We need more intergenerational spaces!! @alice_bloch thx for organising.

"Read things that people tell you are not relevant....Doubt things around you...build your character by seeing the world around you in the way it is. Don't close your eyes" @MonitoringGroup's Suresh Grover's advice on doing activism in an unjust world uncommonsensepodcast.org/1940580/128446…

On 'Solidarity'. 30 yrs after the murder of Stephen Lawrence @KarisCampion @SLRC_DMU asks @RunnymedeTrust's @shabnabegum76 and @MonitoringGroup's Suresh Grover: what does true solidarity look like? And how can anti-racism progress? @TheSocReview thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/uncom…

"Every week, people continue to die preventable deaths in mental health settings, in immigration detention, following police contact or in prisons." @INQUEST_ORG supports people to access justice, and fights for change. DONATE to their 40k fundraiser: inquest.org.uk/Appeal/inquest…

We are at a moment of apocalyptic revelation says @drandyknox, where the only option is to wake up to our myriad crises - including the injustice of how poverty makes us sick. More here + recommended reading feat @KateRaworth @RebeccaSolnit @MazzucatoM thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/the-s…

Benefits fall short of min living costs by £140/month say @TrussellTrust @jrf_uk. Hear urgent frontline testimony on "deficit budgets" (+ poverty normalisation, the erosion of social life, heating v eating) here: thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/the-s… @CitizensAdvice @TheSocReview @PaulKissack

Hear urgent frontline testimony on "deficit budgets" (plus: poverty normalisation, heating v eating, the erosion of basic social life) from Helen Greatorex @CitizensAdvice in The Stigma Conversations @ProfImogenTyler @TheSocReview @jrf_uk @TrussellTrust thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/the-s…

On trauma, silence, subversion, love - but not as you've heard it before... A powerful conversation btwn @ProfImogenTyler and @MCRSociology's Alice Bloch (my sociological namesake, finally met through making this). A reminder that stigma harms us all - and never wins completely.

As @SadiqKhan declares free school meals to cut the "stigma" of being low-income, #NHS doctors plan strikes, + the #costofliving crisis persists, @ProfImogenTyler's series on stigma, w/@drandyknox and @CitizensAdvice's Helen Greatorex is crucial listening thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/the-s…

I've never worked on smth more urgent or timely. Out now: @ProfImogenTyler talks to activists, academics and frontline workers about stigma: what it is, who it serves and how - if we dare to look up at power and back at history - we can change the story. thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/the-s…

If you find it a challenge to explain why decent and affordable homes are so vital for a decent life, take a read of my blog where you'll find communications principles that have been proven to work. @FrameWorksUK @NationwideFdtn @jrf_uk jrf.org.uk/blog/helping-p…

Enjoyed making this, a fast 15 yrs after first reading The Art of Listening @CamSociology. And feat. a nice reminder (FAO producers!) that using fancy recording devices doesn't necessarily make for deep, doubtful, critical listening. buff.ly/368mOtt Thanks @AcademicDiary

My tutorial on why research calls matter - ethically, editorially, creatively - in audio production. Feat. thoughts on the problematic pursuit of "good talkers", the surprising value of a "no", and the need to leave egos (but not coffee!) behind. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Awaab Ishak, a black child, had just turned two years old when he was killed by exposure to black mould in his family’s home - a hazard that Rochdale Boroughwide Housing repeatedly refused to fix. His family spoke movingly after the coroner’s verdict: 1/

This Saturday we'll be gathering in Rochdale, 2pm, calling for justice for Awaab Ishak and the resignation of Gareth Swarbrick. Full statement: tinyurl.com/3m27t7r4

Since Awaab Ishak’s death in Dec 2020, RBH boss Gareth Swarbrick has had a 7.64% payrise in 2020/21 and 9% rise in 2021/22, with his salary going from £133,766 to £157,000. The average rise for other housing chief execs across those two years was 1.34% and 1.8% respectively.

It's been emotional... Fleabag! Feminism! Emojis! Rage! Loved making this with @BillyHolzberg, on emotion for @TheSocReview. SO much in here - on politics and anger, shame and socialisation, abjection, privilege and play...and lots more... uncommonsensepodcast.org/1940580/116544…

1. In an email exchange in March 2015, designers of the tower's cladding system wrote: “There is no point in ‘fire stopping’. As we all know; the ACM will be gone rather quickly in a fire!" insidehousing.co.uk/news/designers…