Still time to sign up for the North East folk to sign up to the Critical Security Network Symposium on 15th September, with a keynote by Prof Caron Gentry. Join us for a day discussing all things critical security: TINYURL.COM/BDHA6FWF

A really fantastic Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG conference - it is so wonderful to hear about the work being done in this field. Thank you so much Dr Amna Kaleem @aliceefi and @Tom_Pettinger for putting this together!

CSFP member @XanderKirke is featured in this BISA - British International Studies Association article: tinyurl.com/3fxa4uas discussing his recent co-authored article 'Ontological security, myth, and existentialism', which you can find here: tinyurl.com/46uj5kps

1000 episodes in and In Our Time is without doubt the greatest podcast ever created

🥳 Ian Cook & I @northumbriauni are hosting two Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Sciences events on experiences of public space. There’s a TOUR (info/register here: bit.ly/underpasstour) and CREATIVE WORKSHOP (info/register: bit.ly/publicspacewor…) Come along to either. All welcome!

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

"By not repatriating Shamima Begum, the UK is washing its hands of continuing Islamic State terror" - new from me on The Conversation Royal Holloway Law and Criminology CVTRC @cvtrc.bsky.social theconversation.com/by-not-repatri…

My book review of Barbara Sutton's Bulletproof Fashion is out now in Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG, a book which explores how bulletproof clothing is both marketed and perceived as it becomes increasingly prevalent in civilian sectors. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #securitystudies #fashionstudies

🚨Publication Alert! Check out our CSFP Cluster members Leonie B Jackson & Ariane Bogain article, "‘Mamie Djihad’ and ‘the white widow’: constructing French and British national identities in terrorist times of crisis": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Another HE announcement of budget cuts, this time Northumbria. I know it's exhausting, but please sign: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-job-cuts-…

📢 Wednesday 20th March: 12-1pm 📍lipman Hub, ground floor. ❗️Topical Talk Week 1 - Join our very first CSFP Northumbria team for our student-staff lunchtime discussion about the global political implications of the war in Gaza. #CSFPcluster #IsraelPalestineConflict

Terrible news from the University of Kent: "we have taken the decision to phase out Anthropology, Art History, Health & Social Care, Journalism, Music & Audio Technology, and Philosophy/Religious Studies" kent.ac.uk/news/statement…

❗️Cluster member Intigam Mamedov published an article in The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst. ❗️Check it out here: Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Distant Perspective of Peace, Cooperation and Narratives of Trust cacianalyst.org/publications/a…

!❗️More succes for cluster member Intigam Mamedov published in El País English Edition commenting on the #RussianElections ❗️Check it out here: Putin, the leader courted by the West, perpetuates the dictatorship of an increasingly bellicose Russia english.elpais.com/international/…

📢Tuesday 16th April, 12 - 1pm 📍Lipman Hub, Ground Floor ❗️Topical Talk- Current Events in Russia. Join us for our second Topical Talk, discussing current events in Russia. We hope to see you there!!!

🚨Cluster member Intigam Mamedov published his first article in The Conversation ❗️‘Russia and the Taliban: here’s why Putin wants to get closer to Afghanistan’s current rulers’ 📢Check it out here: theconversation.com/russia-and-the…

A wrecking ball is swinging through UK higher education. This is utterly devastating news for friends & colleagues at my old place. When there are 3, 4, 5 rounds of redundancy in the same number of years how can we not talk of gross mismanagement? Huddersfield UCU UCU #huddersfield

Huddersfield announces huge cuts. 12% redundancies. Potentially 200 individuals affected. No voluntary severance scheme. huducu.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/hud…