Liz Brewster
I lead research on NHS workforce, medical education and health inequalities. Academic, northern, gritty. Often found on the coast.
- Reposted by Liz Brewster‘Once a doctor has been employed in the same specialty by the same trust for more than two years, they should be moved to a nationally negotiated SAS contract.’ 👉 Read our rapid response to a @bmj.com investigation revealing thousands of LEDs are trapped in insecure contracts: ow.ly/m9sm50XwQot
- Reposted by Liz BrewsterAcademia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
- Reposted by Liz BrewsterFrom @hsph.harvard.edu on Instagram. In FY 25, 46% of the school's budget came from federal grants. Thinking of the many friends I have at Harvard Chan right now who just want to do work that will make the world healthier.
- Reposted by Liz Brewsteragain and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression
- Reposted by Liz BrewsterTony ( @tonypickering.bsky.social ) did all the artwork for our Mapping Doctors project. Great style, worked rapidly on alterations and comments, even did this little self-portrait for one of our game cards! Need an artist? Get in touch!
- It's been a full on few days but pleased to report we've solved the NHS workforce crisis by taking many young people through our accelerated training pathway.
- Lots of kids playing my "Doctor's Training Pathway" game! I suspect they were attracted by the giant dice. Expect lots more surgeons and radiologists from Lancaster in about 15 years time. #CampusInTheCity #LancasterUniversity @lizbrewster.bsky.social masterful management.
- If your peer reviewers' comments, and your response to your peer reviewers' comments is not longer than the article itself, are you even doing peer review properly?
- At work, I keep apologising to people for things I have not done, but seem incapable of pointing out that the reason is because I've submitted three academic journal papers for peer review in the last three weeks. I think I need to stop apologising.
- It takes a village to finish a research project, it seems. To illustrate this fact, I've just called in a favour with our local MakerSpace colleagues for bespoke playing pieces for a board game. As you do.
- Productivity has dropped since I discovered I can watch the lambs from my office window.
- Reposted by Liz Brewster📣There's still time to apply! Closing date: 19 March 2025 BJGP Open is recruiting for an Associate Editor Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4hTHG7b
- When did government agencies and academic journals get so bad at document metadata and why is it the bane of my life?
- Interrupting your regular broadcasting with this urgent update: the new spring lambs are here and they are cute as wobbly little buttons.
- My MapDoc research project has been doing some cheeky little extra patient and public involvement co-design work in our communities, and I've been blown away by how much the issues in our research matter to people, and how committed they are to supporting solving them.
- In the interests of self-promotion, I bring you: the Mapping Doctors podcast! Six episodes, 10-15 mins each, themed around an issue in our current research on medical training pathways and health inequalities. I sound incredibly northern in them.
- Your semi-regular reminder that if you like an academic paper enough to write to the author, it will make said author's day to know you a) read it b) found it useful.
- I'm behind with my new paper klaxon 🎉 notifications, but here's the one we wrote about NHS staff experiences of trying to overcome health inequalities experienced by children and young people.
- Reposted by Liz Brewster“The numbers don’t lie!” is something that is exceptionally obviously not true if you do any work with numbers at all. So anyone who works with numbers and says that is the one that is lying to you.
- Reposted by Liz BrewsterI have been stuck at 4.9k followers for a week, and it is killing me. I'm witty, irreverent, I post nice pictures of loaves of bread, flowers and butterflies. I am happy to beg for a few more followers if needed to get to 5k. I have precious little shame.
- Reposted by Liz BrewsterEvening all. You'd be doing me a huge favour by following @sascollective.com. We are trying to make the world a better place for a marginalised and increasing group of doctors. We are trying to maintain the momentum we had on other platforms, and we need your help! #SASsix
- At some point, I'm going to have to write the list of acknowledgements that thanks all the bands I've been listening to while finishing my big NIHR project outputs. Why don't academics do this? I can't be the only academic with go-to writing music.
