.Royal Historical Society has today issued a statement on the proposed cuts and closures Oxford Brookes in #History & other depts bit.ly/40YVjut These cuts are extensive. They risk the future of staff students, and the very research culture for which Brookes historians are known.

Student stories: "I suffer dreadfully with anxiety. I would have dropped out of university if it wasn't for the kindness and understanding of Professor Goody." #saveourlecturers #oxfordbrookes #oxfordbrookesuniversity

Student story: "Dinah is an absolute gem. She comes to class super excited, she makes time to meet you after class so you can run through the essays etc. She's there to chat to when you feel stressed and celebrates your achievements with you. I couldn't ask for a better teacher."

A letter signed by a large number of musicians and academics protesting the closure of Music at Brookes is published in today’s The Telegraph . Please do share. telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/1…

🔴Camila Batmanghelidjh was Loudly Vilified - and then Silently Vindicated  Dr Mine Conkbayir MBE reflects on her time working with the founder of Kids Company and the fight for justice that continues after the campaigner’s death bylinetimes.com/2024/01/05/cam…

🔴 REVEALED: Home Office Can’t Say How Many Refugees it has Given ‘Safe Route’ Asylum to From Some of the World’s Most Dangerous Countries A Freedom of Information request for the data by this newspaper was refused on cost grounds – Dr Iain Overton reports bylinetimes.com/2024/01/05/hom…

C.S. Lewis scholar here! Let’s dive into this…I’ll be generous and call it an unusual application of this quote… 🤣 Been home for three hours and already we’re starting the new year off with misapplied CS Lewis quotes … 🧵 incoming…

Many of your grandmas go to kind, engaged, theologically robust churches, and are vital components of them

Without giving your age, post a show you watched as a kid.

Four girls in detention are stuck in darkness after a power outage. To pass the time, they tell Somali folktales. That’s the scene for Dugsi Dayz, a modern-day take on The Breakfast Club 🎭 Writer and actor Sabrina Ali joins Hayley Hassell to discuss it 🎧⬇️

Morning prayer anordinaryoffice.co.uk/morning-prayer

Please give this a share, and invite any students or recent graduates you know! 🙏🏻

What has impressed me about the response to #ThisIsWhatAPriestLooksLike is that, despite all the mud slinging, there are people around who are not willing to witness misogyny and say nothing. Thank you for showing your support: it means a lot. Praying for grace to abound 🙏🏾

Solidarity to my friends in the CofE. You are not alone.

Doing research on something that is personally important is an exercise in receiving feedback and responding intellectually and not emotionally. I am learning - I hope - and genuinely touched that people are both willing to engage and to give robust feedback.

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