1/2 Belonging in higher education: how disabled staff and PhD students experience #Un/Belonging to inform future #EDI strategy. Research by @JVincent_Tweets and myself. BERA blogpost in time for #BERAWERA2024 bera.ac.uk/blog/who-reall…

This Wednesday - still time to register 👇

A fascinating event about a fascinating book - do come if you can!

VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology University of Manchester Sociology department 3 yrs, start Jan 2025 Teaching: inequalities, with a focus on ethnicity and ‘race’ and on mental health, and core methods/theory. Apply by 16 Sept 2024. Pls share 🙏🏿 jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Is there a crisis in the professoriate? Brilliant scholars Professor Kalpana Shankar Mary P. Sheridan Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Gemma E Derrick chat with me in this LSE Higher Education Blog podcast: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducatio… Centre for Higher Education Transformations School of Education | University of Bristol #academia #AcademicTwitter

Please disseminate broadly this timely Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing a PhD anywhere in the world. Pre-applications are due on the 25th of October dev.parc-us-pal.org/tanya-baker-as…

FWIW I wrote a piece on how a lot of things in and around doctoral education in the UK are a tangled mess that we need to fix...access, funding, supervision, examining, and beyond. #phdchat #phdlife #Doctorates #HigherEducation #supervision #viva ddubdrahcir.wordpress.com/2024/09/13/wha…

Very many congratulations to Majdah Alblooshi who successfully defended her thesis on 3/9. She completed a #PhDinTEL and was supervised by Don Passey. Many thanks to the Examiners Malcolm Tight and Cathy Lewin. CTEL:Lancaster

Very many congratulations to Karen Whelan who successfully defended her thesis and was awarded her PhD Forthwith. She completed a #PhDinHE and was supervised by Carolyn Jackson. Many thanks to the Examiners Paul Ashwin & Jenni Case. CHERE@LU.

Day 2 - Victory day for Marieha Hussain. A 🧵 on how day 2 of the trial prosecuting Marieha ended in a resounding victory for her and her defence team, and how the CPS has been shown again to overpolice and prosecute people of colour. CAGE International Nels Abbey Kehinde Andrews

Again for the day time crowd:) Research Handbook on the Sociology of Gender is out now. A labour of love & care. 35 chapters & dozens of contributors from across the globe🙌🏾 Order for your library Gayle Kaufman Michael Stambolis Dr. Brittany Ralph Elgar Publishing e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/resea…

Interested in writing a research-informed book on some aspect of higher education? Then do consider the ⁦SRHE⁩ ⁦Routledge Education Books⁩ series, edited by ⁦Prof Sarah O' Shea⁩ and me - get in touch to discuss your proposal! routledge.com/Research-into-…

Top five introductory, accessible, and informative reads on decoloniality/decolonisation🧵: There is more, of course, but I am often asked what would be a starting point for those who will then read more (Fanon is always the answer)

I'm honoured and excited to be taking part in this summit. Check out the website to find out more - ums2024.com #UMS2024

Israel has dropped almost 80,000 tons of explosives - this means that Israel has dropped ~36 kilograms of explosives on Gaza for every man, woman, and child. Each red dot shows a bombed place in Gaza. (UN Satellite Centre, July 6th) This is what genocide looks like.

Only 4 weeks left to submit your abstract for the #ISAForum session on ‘International Student Mobility and Contested Knowledges’ that I’m organising with ⁦Vera Spangler⁩ 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, 6-11 July 2025, Rabat Deadline for abstracts: 15 Oct isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2…

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

Very many congratulations to Janet de Vigne who successfully defended her thesis on 17/9. She completed a #PhDinESJ and was supervised by @jowarin1. Many thanks to the Examiners Dr Natasa Lackovic & Gabrielle Ivinson. Centre for Social Justice in Education

Happy to share this little write up I did for our careers event earlier this year 🥰❤️ uksg.org/newsletter/uks… Paul Newnham Jennifer Bayjoo 🇵🇸 Siobhan Haimé Josh Sendall Tanya Williamson Tom Morley