If you are a disabled academic, or a disabled scholar who has tried to work in Higher Education, I would love to speak to you about your experiences, e.g., of barriers to progress and recruitment. Please get in touch with me here, or at [email protected] (until May)

A foreign educated ex-minister of economy is on trial over wife’s death in Kazakhstan. Locally educated lawyers, activists and law-makers are doing the heavylifting of fighting for justice and in developing new law to criminalize such violence. rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-m…

It surprises me that some 'decolonial' scholars/thinkers are exceptionally judgemental, with a sense of moral superiority, frequently think they can tell what & how others need to do, read/think, write. Strange. What happened to being humble and inclusive? Considerate?

On my way to London to participate in the rally #forSaltanat against domestic and gendered violence in Qazaqstan.
Мы идем на митинг в Лондоне #ЗаСалтанат . Сбор в 11:45 на Трафалгарской площади. Начало в 12. Присоединяйтесь!

And eventbrite.co.uk/e/higher-educa…

Exciting new open access journal:

'Public Humanities will provide a new space for scholars, students, activists, policymakers and general readers to explore human habits and histories, art and ideas, language and beliefs – past, present, and future.'
cambridge.org/universitypres…

Research assistants!

Here is the new call for Compare Fellowship 2024-2025, a support and mentoring programme for researchers from low income countries. Full details here:
baice.ac.uk/compare-fellow…

And we still don’t have meaningful research on how this misleading image of British higher education harms global development, and international students.

This is a major project, just wonderful

There are the makings of a movement against commercial uni rankings. However, this movement needs to be focused on promoting ‘Quality Not Rankings’, making it clear that the latter provides no meaningful measure of the former 7/10

This is excellent news!

We made this Zine, while preparing for the roundtable (🔗 in comment 👇🏾

Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergen 🇺🇦
Nodira Kholmatova
Olga Mun
Almira Tabaeva
& Elmira Kakabayeva

A drop in the ocean, self-publishing as an alternative to the hegemony of academic publishing.

Higher education and super exploitation of staff go hand in hand. Universities entire business model is premised on massive amounts of unpaid labour, both willingly and unwillingly given.

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

Thank you for the fantastic discussion at BASEES! Dr Selbi Durdiyeva 🌻🍉 Olga Mun Nodira Kholmatova, Elmira Kakabayeva and Almira Tabayeva

'Too often, scientific research in any language other than English is automatically seen as second tier, with little consideration for the quality of the work itself.' Stephen Khan on the societal, cultural & scientific value of multilingualism in research ow.ly/wsX050R5LPH

⚖️ Research funding across the north-south divide: towards equity in knowledge production

🗓️ 29 April 2024
📍 Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

How can we change funding systems to more equity-based structures that can help to decolonise knowledge production?
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41646