1/ We're delighted to be welcoming @profkarenboyle.bsky.social for our next SCS seminar, taking place on Wednesday, 5th November, from 3.30 to 5.00pm in Room 432, St Andrews Building. Please do join us if you can...
📣New research from Gender Studies colleagues! Melanie, @profkarenboyle.bsky.social and Melody discuss ‘safety work’ in HE classrooms and the need to move beyond the illusion of safety to instead create conducive learning spaces for all. Read open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
Following on from mentoring session with @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social I thought it would be useful to share this 🧵 on academic job applications again.
The names of panel members for the criteria-setting phase of REF 2029 have now been announced on our panels pages. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...
Wow Margot that’s a phenomenal achievement. Congratulations on this milestone!
It’s arrived. The best theoretical text I’ve ever read on the figure and experience of the refugee.
Congratulations @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social
Order here for your library www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
For those attending the MeCCSA conference in September - you can now see further information on the schedule at screenacademyscotland.ac.uk/meccsa/confe...
we look forward to welcoming you!
#MeCCSA25 #MeCCSAConference
📢 Article Alert!
"To warn or not to warn? Trigger warnings in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences in UK HE", by JMC researchers @profkarenboyle.bsky.social, Melanie McCarry & Melody House, has been selected for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence Editors’ Collection Choice! 👏
🆓 Free access here:
This may be of interest: on creative works about child sexual abuse & the cultural ramifications of creative works (& we'd appreciate a repost) @mike-salter.bsky.social @ruthbeecher.bsky.social @amybeddows.bsky.social @profkarenboyle.bsky.social @joannabourke.bsky.social @victoriabates.bsky.social
Delighted to learn that my book, Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, is now available in paperback. @strathhumanities.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hello #AcademicSky! We are the team behind the Applied Gender Studies masters course @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Follow for updates on our amazing students, faculty projects, groundbreaking research, events and more! 📣📚
📣 Upcoming Event with Strath's Feminist Network! 📣
Join us as we welcome Professor Emeritus Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths) for a discussion on 50 years of the feminist sociology of girlhood.
Wednesday, 2 April | 1:00–2:30 PM
📍 Room TL 455, Strathclyde
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/angela-mcr...
Journalist Billy Sloan gave a lecture to Journalism students, he regaled the group with tales of celebrity interviews with The Who, Paul McCartney, David Bowie & Rod Stewart. Billy said: “It was a pleasure to meet & chat with the students. I enjoyed the experience, & I hope they found it useful.”
The following articles were published as a result of our Languages Symposium on 28th February:
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2500934...
Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House.
Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust!
Details below!
Any questions - get in touch!
First Bus Glasgow app and bus stop displays are so far beyond useless they might as well not exist. So far this evening three promised buses have disappeared without trace. This is not a rare occurrence. Public transport here is a joke.
Today @womenslibrary.bsky.social launches its new Spring events programme, taking us all the way into June. What a lovely thought. There will also be things to do, to see, lovely people to chat to, a book sale, tea and cake - wall to wall joy, in fact. Join us! womenslibrary.org.uk/event/spring...
What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it
poster for Say No! Exhibition subtitle Art, Activism & Feminist Refusal.
Banner in red & white showing a range of women’s liberation movement periodicals as part of the Say No exhibition. Titles include Lilith, Red Rag, Manchester Women’s Liberation Newsletter, Aberdeen Women’s Newsletter & Scarlet Women.
Photos of two black & white posters from the original Edinburgh Women’s Committee Zero Tolerance campaign. First poster shows a comfortable living room, a white woman sitting on the floor reading a magazine, accompanied by words: She lives with a successful businessman, loving father and respected member of the community. Last we he hospitalised her.” with the distinctive white Z on a black background of the Zero Tolerance campaign. The other poster shows a group of young women of mixed ethnicity in a relaxed group environment. Text reads: when they say no they mean no. Some men don’t listen.’ Again accompanied by the white Z.
If you’re in St Andrews check out this exhibition co curated by Camila Cavacante-Pereira who is a SGSAH funded PhD student working with Catherine Spencer in Art History at St Andrews & me @strathjmc.bsky.social. Great supervision mtg today followed by exhibition tour. Heading back home energised.
What a shitshow of a decade this month was
This article underestimates the number of job losses (already reported elsewhere to have exceeded 10,000) and employs the misleading adjective 'leading' universities (meaning what, to whom?), but if you've been living under a rock and need a quick introduction to the topic, you could start here.
Sarah Cowan at the British Academy: “We have called and continue to call on the government to trigger an urgent review of higher education funding to deliver a sustainable model that delivers a wide breadth of subjects and is resilient to regional inequalities in provision."
January has been a hell of a year
Our JMC account has made it over to where the skies are blue 👇 give us a follow.
At The Gathering this year? I’ll be speaking on a panel on anti-racism and the third sector. With increasingly normalisation of far right politics the third sector needs to loudly stand against fascism + racism. But it is not happening enough. Join the discussion scvo.scot/the-gatherin... @scvo.scot
I’m pretty sure given the length of time in January alone Trump must be just about at the end of his 4 years by now. That’s how it works right?
After 7826 days (approximately), it is very nearly the end of January 2025.
