Ellie Munro

Out of focus aggressive looking tabby cat with white paws sitting on top of my very thick blue hardbound phd thesis, labelled E.M.Munro PhD 2022.

Finally got my thesis printed to massage my fragile ego. Here's Reina Fenix showing it the respect it deserves.

Fair enough! I can see a logic to Loughborough near the Olympic legacy site for sure. I think a number of others have struggled, and it's a very crowded marketplace to try and enter into.

Lots of other universities similar to Hallam had tried it years before - and to my knowledge they all basically failed to make any money. We were, and are, totally baffled by it.

No. No one can. I remember it being announced and it honestly came out of nowhere - just all of a sudden, an all staff email saying "we're opening a new London campus, aren't we clever!" Then almost the next week, Husbands quit, taking his enormous final-salary pension with him.

BUT I can more than appreciate that's a lot of detail for an article and sounds super confusing. That's because it's actually mental. And we've not even gotten into what they're gonna do for all our zero-hours Associate Lecturers, or for new starters - although there's this new DC scheme...

To clarify: only teaching staff with significant responsibility for research stay on TPS. Research-only staff will go to LGPS. Still unclear why that's allowed - years ago SHU researchers were moved *to* TPS from LGPS because uni said they *had* to be on TPS legally @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social

Hallam bet big on London. Now it’s cutting jobs in Sheffield. With no-one to run it and millions spent on a state-of-the-art building, is the Brent Cross campus at the heart of the current crisis?

Hallam bet big on London. Now it’s cutting jobs in Sheffield @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sheffield-ha...

Beautiful color illustration book cover, details at this URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920012/the-luminous-fairies-and-mothra/

Our local academic publishing house has a treat for everyone:
"The story that hatched Mothra—available in English for the first time, translated by Jeffrey Angles, who wrote an afterword about the novella’s cultural context, the unusual story of its composition, and the development of the 1961 film"

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I know it's not popular to say in my research-work circles, because we desperately need more/+diverse trustees, but - very literally, being a trustee almost killed me. It used to be something I'd always sign up to do & encourage others to do the same. But there's no support for when it goes wrong.

Extremely strong work from Hallam colleagues here, excited to drop in tonight.

#AlmshouseBingo

There's even, if you pay very close attention, a Manpower Services Commission reference 😍

The Black Radical Press in 1970s Britain with Leila Hassan Howe, Nigel De Noronha, Sophia Siddiqui. YouTube video by George Padmore Institute

This was an excellent event from @peoplespapers.bsky.social and @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social on the Black Radical Press in England in the 1970s - including activists and archivists both. Lovely stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9E...

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When asked about if previous poor decision making has led us to this position, the University CFO basically responded "the past is a foreign country". Great stuff.

Sheffield Hallam University today proposing to:

💥 force its teaching staff into employment by a subsidiary company to put them on worse pensions
💥 keep teaching staff w/ SRR as SHU employees to maintain REF eligibility
💥 Research staff - fuck around & find out?

Outstanding. @ucuhallam.bsky.social

Foyer at Sheffield Hallam University with hand painted square fabric election banners for each student Union election candidate, strung up high on string.

Super cute electioneering

One of the annoying things about being Sick is that when you're better enough to start again, you're too scared to face everything that's backed up over the Sick time, so then you need more Sick time

Got a new article out today in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's about the ways in which the music press constructed race in late 20c Britain. Open access so do share it around!

Thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk and @uniofreading.bsky.social for supporting the research.

doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

Youth Defence, young people and anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c.1992–97 This article explores the first five years of the Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. Using newspaper articles and archival sources, I illustrate how the group effectively mobil...

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What’s (in) a CBO? Analyzing community representation in the Kenyan aid chain Abstract. Within the field of development research and practice, there is a growing realization that interventions aimed at supporting emancipation struggl

Maaike Matelski & Lise Woensdregt write in our July '25 issue on community-based organisations in Kenya, the highly-varied forms these organisations take, and how communities are represented in Kenyan aid chains #CDJ #Kenya

WEBINAR: Epistemic Injustice, Oppression & Ignorance: An Introduction for Social Researchers - Sign-up Page Expand your conceptual toolkit with our accessible introduction to the concepts every social researcher should know.

Heard of the term 'epistemic injustice' before but not sure what it means? Coined by British philosopher Miranda Fricker in her 2007 book, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Politics of Knowing'.

But as an idea, it has a much longer history than that. Learn more at our webinar next Tuesday at 7pm.

Whittington Estate - four storey stepped maisonette block

Highgate New Town, stage 2: three-storey high-tech design in glass and steel

Dartmouth Park Hill - yellow and redbrick three-storey terrace

Chester-Balmore scheme - passivhaus scheme

Highgate New Town - 'dreams and nightmares': an essay on the architectural fashions that have shaped council housing and the political and social forces which have moulded the lives of its residents.
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/highgate-n...

Also: giant ants 🐜 😍 🧪

Products A group of leaders/helpers/members of Girlguiding who disagree with Girlguiding's recent change of policy, which excludes trans-girls. Make a promise, keep a promise.

www.guidersagainsttransexclusion.co.uk/collections/...

Three Guides patches from Guiders Against Trans Exclusion. One has the trans flag and text around reading make a promise keep a promise. The se on has a picture of a warning sign and a clipboard with the text the revolution will be risk assessed. The third says 100 for 100, World Thinking Day and a blue and white shark (like the ikea one) is holding up a sign with the second 100 on it.

Some excellent additions to the campaign badge library

cover of the community development journal

Out now! Issue 60.4 of the Community Development Journal, featuring a special section on "Radical pedagogies for territorial contestations", with lots of exciting articles centred on Latin American community work and activism. academic.oup.com/cdj/issue/60/4

One of the sacked reps from @uniteitf.bsky.social spoke at our victimisation strike rally yesterday. What’s happening to them is another stark example of the union movement’s ‘leadership’ losing its way.

Please join us in sending full solidarity & give them a follow.

#UniteAgainstVictimisation