Tony Robertson
Researcher, Teacher and Activist focused on tackling #HealthInequalities via the University of Glasgow and the People's Health Movement Scotland (@phmscotland on here)
My shit tastes displayed on the 'Gram @twotone82
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- Latest recording now available for the 'Energising the Wellbeing Economy Agenda in Scotland' webinar series, with @mmbuchs.bsky.social discussing 'How To Pay For A #WellbeingEconomy? youtu.be/LFowceVsxBg?...
- Was fun talking Public-Common Partnerships (an alternative to Public-Private ones!) and the Path to #RadicalAbundance with @kmilb.bsky.social today. Recording now available youtu.be/7dvycy17r5M?...
- Hosting this talk and discussion today in Glasgow. Come say hi ticketpass.org/event/ESWUMU...
- PhD opportunity with @mark-glasgow.bsky.social, me and Mhairi Mackenzie looking at the Relational Determinants of Intersectional Health Inequalities. Get in touch if you'd like to discuss. tinyurl.com/RelateHealth
- What Does A Healthy, Equitable and Sustainable Future Look Like? 27th November, 1-3pm, University of Glasgow @kmilb.bsky.social, co-author of 'Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future', will discuss what a transition to a world of radical abundance looks like, and how to get there
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- Join us on the 27th November as we discuss what a positive vision for the future of Glasgow, Scotland and the world might look like with author Keir Milburn to help launch his new co-authored book 'Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future' ticketpass.org/event/ESWUMU...
- Longitudinal and Life Course Studies: Call for Study Profiles Section Editor Closing date: 14 November 2025 @sllshome.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
- Special issue: The Social Uses of the Body www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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- UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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- Just a couple of days left to register for our 'What Would a Wellbeing Economy Strategy Look Like?' webinar with Gerry McCartney, 12pm on Thursday 2nd October tinyurl.com/WESG01
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- #SLLS2025 kicking off in Fribourg, Switzerland
- Book Launch: Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities 19th September, 16:00-17:30 Glasgow www.eventbrite.com/e/chp-book-l...
- As part of The Scottish Wellbeing Economy Strategy Group, we are launching a new webinar series aiming to generate energy and discussion around the concept of a #WellbeingEconomy and what this means for Scotland. First up will be @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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- Send Frontline Voices to COP30 in Brazil www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/flotilla4c...
- My Editorial: The Long Shadow "As we watch the continued genocide in Gaza and the use of food as a weapon, not only here but in Sudan and across multiple conflicts, anyone with the slightest interest in life course studies can hypothesise the toll that is not yet visible for those that survive."
- Latest Issue of the @sllshome.bsky.social journal, Longitudinal and LifeCourse Studies (LLCS), is out now via @bupjournals.bsky.social One highlight is a comment and debate on re-considering ‘impact’ for longitudinal social science research bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
- Latest Issue of the @sllshome.bsky.social journal, Longitudinal and LifeCourse Studies (LLCS), is out now via @bupjournals.bsky.social One highlight is a comment and debate on re-considering ‘impact’ for longitudinal social science research bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
- New paper out investigating socioeconomic inequality in dog bites and strikes in Scotland. We find that people in most deprived areas of Scotland at almost 4x higher risk of dog bites as numbers rise across the board www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
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- Who would've thought that private equity would be shit at nursery care?
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- Reposted by Tony Robertson🚨Health inequalities in Scotland are persistent, growing - and solvable. Join us at this @uofgpolicy.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social and Glasgow Changing Futures event on 2nd June, 10am-4pm in the Clarice Pears building. 🔗 Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking...
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- Reposted by Tony Robertson🧪 Advances in genetic research have been skewed towards European ancestry populations 📣The broader call of our new study in LLCS is to eliminate this bias through the collection of large, diverse genotype samples and measuring genotypes with arrays designed for multi-ancestry populations🧪 See here ⤵️
- The Latest Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (@sllshome.bsky.social) issue is out now via @brisunipress.bsky.social! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
- The Latest Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (@sllshome.bsky.social) issue is out now via @brisunipress.bsky.social! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
- This time we have a special issue, guest edited by the dynamic duo of @naomipriest.bsky.social and Meena Kumari that focuses on studies that explore social-biological transitions and processes.
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- Health Inequalities PhD opportunity with @profkatsmith.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tony Robertson❤️🩹 | NEW REPORT: Voters want bold action on health – and don’t see it as 'nanny statism'. Our new research with Public First shows that smarter public health policy isn’t just good for the nation – it could be a vote-winner too. www.ippr.org/articles/the...
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- Over 400 university staff earn more than the first minister theferret.scot/university-s...
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- Nearly 90% of doctors warn that health inequalities are harming patients www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...
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- For all those clutching their pearls... "Labour’s essential problem is that, for all its social democratic values, it understandably aspires to become the natural party of government in what is an overwhelmingly liberal capitalist political economy." theconversation.com/cutting-welf...
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- Wellcome Trust charity criticised over £11m in payouts to investment team If you're serious about tackling health inequalities then having a bonus-related pay ratio of 100:1 (conservative estimate) is just insulting www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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- Cost to clean up toxic PFAS pollution could top £1.6tn in UK and Europe www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Help medical professionals keep their jobs while acting on the climate crisis chng.it/kSFG59tzcS
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- New working paper with @phmscotland.bsky.social and buddies for the Post-Growth Economics Network: McCartney et al (2025) Evidence review to support the development of a #WellbeingEconomy strategy in Scotland (WP 01/2025). www.postgrowtheconomics.org/working-pape...
- Reposted by Tony Robertson"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Degrowth Municipalism could change the world bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/12/20/d...
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- Watching the media and pundits trying to figure out the 'good guys vs bad guys easy-sell narrative' to apply to Syria
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- Foreign firms taking billions of litres from UK aquifers to make bottled water www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Curious about health & well-being benefits of #bluespace of varying water quality? Concerned about #sewage spills & #waterpollution in a changing climate? @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD with David Oliver, @jendickie.bsky.social, me & Nick Hanley might be of interest. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...
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