'It probably amounts to cultural vandalism'.

The BBC reports on the planned closure and demolition of Sunderland's National Glass Centre.

Save the National Glass Centre

Haven't got a chance yet to read #Gopolitics of #DigitalHeritage ? 📢 All insights are in the 30 min chat podcast with Liz Stainforth, masterfully recorded by Dave O'Brien at New Books Network 📚 . Listen here 👇
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Julia Black The British Academy: 'we need an urgent review and thorough overhaul of the way government engages with universities, including a robust, independent regulator responsible for the system as a whole – both teaching and research.' 1/2

My new report out today – the first in a two-year research programme into precarious work here at Resolution Foundation, supported by Unbound Philanthropy – looks at employers’ use of variable-hours and temporary contracts. A thread on some key findings 🧵 … resolutionfoundation.org/publications/f…

Excited for the launch of Beyond The Bassline British Library this evening. Also gassed to see my book chapter in print.

Congratulations to Dr Mykaell Riley and Dr Aleema Gray for their hard work in bringing this to life🥳

#BlackMusic #BlackBritishMusic theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Here is some unsolicited advice for people currently in open-ended jobs in UK HE, with quite a few years under their belts. My qualification is not that I lived through the process, but that I have been a UCU caseworker for 11 years. 1/

AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship at University of Central Lancashire @UCLAN and The British Library British Library:

'Creative Writing and Atlantic Slavery Through Library Collections'

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The phenomenal Dr Katrina Foxton (@MOLArchaeology) is presenting about the work she's leading on values-based research frameworks at this forthcoming Towards a National Collection Arts and Humanities Research Council online free event.

Wed 1 May 2024
14.00-15.30 BST
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JOB ALERT: Post Doctoral Researcher on the IrishResearchCouncil Laureate project MALCONTENTS: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning. Deadline 14 May '24. Please Retweet.
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Come and work with me! Research Events Producer, 18 months (0.6fte) - happy to answer any questions you might have about the role: vercida.com/uk/jobs/resear…

🚨Early Career Research Award🚨 We are delighted to announce that applications are now being accepted for our new Early Career Research Award. Apply for upto £1,500 of funds. Deadline is 15th May 2024. Apply here history.org.uk/higher-ed/cate…

I’m really looking forward to this. It’s going to be a fantastic opportunity to explore the potential of #place based #history in #interdisciplinary #research . It’s a huge pleasure to work with Dr Kathy Davies to organise it. #twitterhistorians & social scientists please share.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship: Re-Evaluating the Status of Prints at the British Library at Birkbeck, University of London jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA816/ahr… #jobsacuk

Applications for the Ralph Waggett MA studentship worth £4000 are now open! We welcome all aspiring scholars from the North-East/North-Yorkshire, who identify as BAME or another under-represented category, to apply. For more details see: durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…

Very pleased to see my article published in Higher Education Quarterly and even more pleased it’s free to access. The article explores themes emerging from the book ‘The Lives of Working Class Academics: getting ideas above your station': emerald.com/insight/public…
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New The Collection Ecologies Research Collective Consortium #HistSTM seminar on 11 April at 8am EDT/1pm CET! 🕷️🪲

@dominikhhh.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈, Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão, Christian Reiß & Xiaoya Zhan will present “Reevaluating Insects as Archives – Collection Ecologies as Multidisciplinary & Multipractice Conversation 🦋🐞 /1

The finding that women do 75% of the 'academic housework' - in an n=163 study of academics in Denmark - surprises me 0%

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Deadline for this amazing funded PhD opportunity is 12 April - don't delay!