Just published online in the Special Issue 49(4), The Open Access Article - Teachers’ creative, critical, and agentic professional learning in liminal spaces by Amanda French, Stephen Griffin & Louise Lambert. Read & download for free @ bit.ly/3LswmRV

Great to work with @FrenchMandywba and Dr Stephen Griffin on this paper CSPACE Research

We have a fully-funded PhD studentship in #musiceducation BCU Research - "A Whole New Type of School - An International Orchestra Establishes a Secondary School in the West Midlands". Advert is here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DCH052/phd… Looking forward to lots of applications!

Our friend @Jairo_I_Funez is the latest target of doxing and intimidation due to his pro-Palestine views by a right wing media outlet which has FOIA'd his private correspondence & called for his firing. Please sign on to show our support! forms.gle/wFDv7YoD1b5rB2…

This year Flatpack Festival will take place without the Electric as a venue, for the first time in 18 years. The Markwick family who run the cinema have made the difficult decision to close down this week. Read more over on the blog: flatpackfestival.org.uk/news/the-elect…

Designate Birmingham's Station Street a Historic, Cultural and Civic Asset - Sign the Petition! chng.it/rPChDqXw via Change.org UK

Fab performance last night Grace Petrie The Glee Club Birmingham full of love and rage, as is due. Looking forward to the new album 🔥

Find out more about the Birmingham libraries consultation on our website 👉 orlo.uk/upslf

Petition: Create a Palestinian Family Visa Scheme for Palestinian people affected by war petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

An Israeli attack on Rafah would be catastrophic. People in Gaza have nowhere safe to go. Famine is spreading, children are starving, and tens of thousands have already been killed. 🛑 Stop the attack on Rafah 🛑 #CeasefireNOW

Our thanks to our keynote speaker, John Szczepaniak, for this write up of last week's conference in Time Extension! Excellent coverage of our event - and we hope links between academia, industry, and mainstream press continue to grow in game studies. #HoG24

The Open University is offering to pay for the full tuition of 10 Black students to study with them under their special fund. The deadline is July 3rd 2024. If you know anyone who is interested 👇🏾 open.ac.uk/courses/fees-a…

If you know any care-experienced people aged 25 and under who would be interested in a FULL undergraduate scholarship, FYI this brilliant initiative from John Lewis Partnership News in partnership with the The Open University. Applications close 24 July. open.ac.uk/courses/fees-a…

Y’all need to read these women’s stories. Whatever you’ve read in the news does not compare to what they write in their own words. Make sure to catch the speaker’s series and our launch on July 8. Register at data-workers.org/events

Bringing Jamaican teachers to the UK but underpaying them, mirrors the Windrush years when Jamaican nurses were exploited in exactly the same way. theguardian.com/education/2024…

A special issue of the journal PRACTICE on teacher education in Vietnam - a series of thoughtful and critical reflections on the lived experiences during a transformative period of reform in Vietnam. tandfonline.com/toc/rpra20/cur…

academia is just making mental notes on how you don’t want to behave when you become a professor and then never becoming a professor

Maggie Nelson:

May the genocide in Gaza end in 2025.