This is joy

Don’t monetise it or measure it or force it

Just continually create the conditions where such serendipity can occur.

Super excited for this piece to be out--my coauthor created these two color blocks and we explored using them instead of hands as an inclusive teaching pedagogy.

Dr J Simon Rofe SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit The ICC West Midlands Growth Company IOC MEDIA UK Sport David Evangelista LawInSport Imanol Galdos POLIS at Leeds Stuart Murray Silvija Carmen Pérez Great stuff, Simon, and glad to see this important contribution to the SportAccord conversation 👏🏼

Diplomatica 6:1 is out!
brill.com/view/journals/…
inc. Lorenz Luthi's keynote from NDH5/Turku
plus a neat 'Forum: Civilizational and Cultural Narratives in Diplomacy'
#Diplomacy LorenzLuthi Louis Clerc Haakon A. Ikonomou Dr J Simon Rofe Helen McCarthy Costas Constantinou Noé Cornago Rebecca Adler-Nissen

to all currently roaming #ISA2024 and thinking about their future in #diplomaticstudies there is a cool job opening at University of Oxford for a 1 year departmental lectureship - all info here 🔰qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/depart…

A wonderful panel session at our #Ramadan #iftar at Wembley Stadium The FA alongside esteemed colleagues Remona Aly Yasir Mirza Zesh Rehman Anisa Mahmood of Anti-Islamophobia Working Group Ramadan Mubarak and best wishes for the remainder of the holy month

FOOTBALL IS #ForAll ⚽️

A wonderful #iftar this evening Wembley Stadium with over 300 people to break fast for #ramadan The call to prayer at pitchside always an iconic & deeply fulfilling moment for worshippers 🙏🏽 thank you to all who attended from across the country #ForAll ⚽️🏆🙏🏽

#faithandfootball

Such a distinguished honor to receive this award from ISA DiplomacySection ❤️ Hope to see many of you at the panel Thursday 4 PM featuring outstanding colleagues. Bonus: You might also be able to catch them at the reception at 8.15 PM later on Thursday in Plaza A Hilton #ISA2024 ISA

I am empathetic with my team. I care about my people, and I want them to deliver.

But I am unequivocal about the quality that I require.

Empathy and high standards are companions, not in competition.

'I'm not convinced there is..enough evidence to believe..UK HEIs with targets to grow online student(s) into the thousands will all meet them...the worry..is..more (are)..being seduced by alluring targets and projections that aren’t grounded in reality.' buff.ly/4cdndrN

'The space between..teaching..can’t..just be filled by sharing documents...Asynchronous learning..should also offer..opportunities for student-to-student and student-to-educator interaction...Otherwise what we..offer..will be blended learning in name only' buff.ly/4bgQcun

In the West we have lost the capacity fundamental to good diplomacy: to understand that different actors can have different but sincerely held perceptions of events. Instead we believe that only our perception is correct, that others are insincerely held #Rashomon

New forum essay by NDH's Ken Weisbrode on Citizen Diplomat Supreme, Leo Cherne
newdiplomatichistory.org/remembering-le…
#LeoCherne #refugees #humanrights #humanitarianism #rulesbasedorder IRC - International Rescue Committee
Refugees International @Refugees ICRC Freedom House

📢 Event Reminder 📢

Only one day left until our event on March 28th, where Dr. Umberto Tulli will delve into a talk on the “Cold War and Human Rights.'

We hope to see you all there!!!

📅 March 28th, 2024
🕒 15.15 - 17.00 CET
📍 Room 101, Janskerkhof 15A, Utrecht University

9 ways to protect your mental health

- Speak to someone you trust
- Spend more time in nature
- Get a good nights sleep
- Eat Healthy
- Understand your feelings
- Exercise
- Take Control of your finances
- Be Curious
- Plan things to look forward to

mindbodysole.uk

'Different habits need to be developed and different routines need to be created to support online teaching, where there are different ways of interacting and communicating with students and them having access to educators.' #onlinelearning buff.ly/3FECmCE

Superb Video Talk in #Bradford with 85 Yr old Malcolm May sharing his mum's memories of #DickKerrLadies + #HeysBrewery cricket + football 😊 David Pendleton
HeysBrewery The Record Café
justaballgame? Kirsty Smith
Emma Clayton Football and War

⚽️sportinglunchtimelectures.substack.com/p/womens-footb…⚽️

Academia does a good job of convincing people they can't be creative, silly, fun, joyful or expressive because it's not

'professional' or 'academic enough'

This is bullshit. All this does is create unhappy work cultures and bad research.

Here’s what Ijeoma “Ejay” Ofomata, first executive from Basketball Africa League to #NbA had to say on the league’s growth in this Marc J. Spears piece 👉 key example of role #storytelling #sportcomms #sportsdiplomacy play h/t Joe Favorito

𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚜 Gregory Payne Dr J Simon Rofe

andscape.com/features/ijeom…