**Trustees Wanted **
Join the board of Elizabeth Gaskell's House and support the incredible work of the staff and volunteers.
Be part of the team saving a vital part of Manchester's literary heritage!
No former trustee experience needed. For more info
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Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
thx

Rosemary Salomone, Rosemary Salomone, author of The Rise of English, calls for the development of more linguistic and cultural skills in the Anglosphere. An important message for universities

Our own Louise Earnshaw has been shortlisted for a Partnership Award as a Postgraduate Researcher of the Year! We're so proud of your amazing contributions to research culture, Louise - toi, toi, toi for the awards.

✨Do you guys ever think about a feminist utopia?✨

Join our workshop 'Barbie, feminist utopias, and Constitutionalism: Re-imagining feminist futures' ♀️

Don't miss out, apply now! 🗓️Deadline: April 25.

🌈 Details here 👇docs.google.com/document/d/1J9…

School language teachers are invited to attend an MFL teacher conference held on the University of Leeds campus on the 19th June 2024.

A FREE event which will offer great CPD & networking opportunities!

#languagelearning #mfltwitterati #mflchat

Sign up:
artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-activities…

Prof Professor Helen Finch and Anna Koch are presenting their books on German and Italian Jewish lives after the Holocaust on 25th April
in the UCL IAS in London. All welcome! 'Book Launch: Home after Fascism & German-Jewish Life Writing' eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

🥳Congratulations to our own Sascha Stollhans on a fascinating publication: “Linguistic variation in #language learning classrooms: considering the role of regional variation and ‘non-standard’ varieties”

Anyone else wondering what UCEA are up to these days? This seems like an opportunity for them to influence gov't policy theguardian.com/education/2024…

Are you a school language teacher? Have you signed up to the MFL teacher conference LITE LCS Leeds on 19th June.Registration is free but places are limited #languages #mfl #mfl twitterati
More info and conference programme on 👇 artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-activities…

Comprehensive thread on the effects of redundancies on course quality and student experience

Booked my tickets!

Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding, Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian today theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Results are in and it’s unanimous!

87% vote YES to industrial action
92% vote YES to action short of strike

Hot off the press (twice in two days!)
theguardian.com/education/2024…

#BinTheTP UCU

We are devastated to hear the announcement this morning from University of Kent of the closure of 6 programmes. While English and Modern Languages have been given a reprieve, staff FTE will still be reduced in these areas.

more destruction of arts, humanities and some social sciences. UK HE is in a state😰solidarity to colleagues at Kent

students are sadder and sadder, more and more anxious, in significant part because they are being given shiny buildings instead of what they need: time and attention from non-burnt-out older human adults

Come and join us as a Visiting Research Fellow in one of a very wide range of disciplinary fields at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies LCS Leeds Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds University of Leeds 🎉