This is sad. Obviously I’d like to be able to say things had improved so much it was no longer required… but it doesn’t look that way

Things he will not cite….the Disaster Recovery Graph, Moral Injury, The Slump, Great Exodus, Mass bereavement,1000s of excess deaths a month inc waiting for emergency care, post viral illness, economic carnage, food insecurity, measles… theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

NEW on Wonkhe: The delayed release of UCAS equalities data from last cycle offers many opportunities - not least a peak into Clearing. David Kernohan gets stuck in wonkhe.com/blogs/ucas-equ…

Do you work in HE as a #ThirdSpaceProfessional ? This survey looks at the impact & value of Advance HE #Fellowship on third space professionals. Please could you complete & share for my MA in Education Leadership & Management? Thank you. #PSF2023

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Joint paper with Yang Yu & Håkan Forsberg.

Yang led this as part of his PhD work on spatial & social mobility in the UK.

This paper on graduate mobility suggests limits of the London effect & highlights contradictions in govmt levelling up/HE policy.

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Part-time students here are found to be less likely to be spatially mobile on graduation but more likely to enter into professional employment on graduation than full-time peers.

Part-time students have halved from 470k in '09-10 to 235k in '19-20.

The first UK home to be built from #CobBauge , a modern take on cob construction has been completed in Fakenham, Norfolk by our friends and ardent supporters, Hudson Architects.👏 👏 👏 bdonline.co.uk/news/first-hom…

Further to yesterday’s post on dresses for short people. Diminutive women this is the kind of thing we’re up against 👇🏻Spotted today in M&S
(The one I sent back was actually nicer)
If OCEAN-GOING FRUMP is what you’re going for, look no further…

Vacancy: the UK government seeks first chief engineer, as part of the Central Digital & Data Office (CDDO), to produce practical guidance on the use of technology for departments. Bristol based. By 23 April
Government Chief Engineer - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UK

With only a few weeks to go 'till Beltain, we're hard at work on this year's wickerman 💪 Mark and Rebecca are internationally-renowned environmental artists and willow weavers, and it's always with mixed feelings that we have to burn their stunning creations!

Y'day Emma Hardy MP pointed to suboptimal way flood recovery & resilience grants are operated. With weather no respecter of local authority boundaries it's a bureaucratic postcode lottery.

Pleased Robbie Moore MP committed to look again at boundaries.
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A #flood is a #flood to not offer a grant because the numbers don't stack up is just plain wrong and very discriminatory!

Today is UK publication day for The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives! If you can’t read the whole book, here it is, epitomised, in a thread …

EXCITING EVENT SOAS University of London
I'll be in conversation with
Zeinab Badawi for the launch of her new book on April 18. #AfricanHistoryofAfrica

Looking forward to the Launch of #FiveLoavesOnFridays on Friday at @foundlingmuseum in Bloomsbury. I will be the MC with the editor! Proud to have my story in this anthology of care experienced authors.

2 years in the making
1 book
1 editor. @rebekahPierre92
100 authors

Rescue Archaeology has announced its annual public lecture day: ‘Rethinking Historic and Natural Landscapes and Their Management’.

Discuss adaptive management practices, sustainable tourism & more.

📅: 11 May 2024
📍: Verulamium Museum, St Albans Museums

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Incredible feat by our engineering students at University of Bath - the first undergrads to create a functioning hydrogen-fuelled engine! 💡🔧🗜️

Congrats to Bath Hydrogen ⬇️ #innovation #futuretech

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There's still time to sign up for the The Open University Professor Olga Jurasz Professor Olga Jurasz inaugural lecture on: 'Violence, women and the law: an unfinished story' on 9 May. One aspect is online violence which is also an Open Societal Challenge research.open.ac.uk/events/violenc… #OUResearch

Do you work for an #infrastructure client organisation?

Join our latest #Adaptation Pathways #Workshop : exploring the client’s view.

🔍 Discover insights from industry experts
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Working the thesis intro is a salutary reminder for me of the foreignness—even of the most basic things—I often take for granted: e.g., what does 'top line' mean to one who doesn't read music? How does one unfamiliar with collegiate seating orient themself to 'front/back row'?