A little essay I wrote on coming to terms with ‘moving back’ to London, leaving Belfast, being a Brit, Londoners being insufferable etc etc etc

Temi, 6, and Mary, 5, have been homeless for six months. The family have been moved 10 times to different temporary properties. Their primary school is in Peckham, but they’re staying in a guesthouse an hour away. At their school, over HALF of the 300 pupils are also homeless.

"AHRC expects to fund one quarter fewer PhD students". I would never have been able to do my PhD without AHRC funding. I would never have had my career without it (& they still fund me!). We can't have a "diverse arts & humanities ecosystem" if we don't support PhD students.

Have you or family members worked in Scotland? Do you have photographs/memories you'd be willing to share? Ulster University historians & Donegal County Council are collaborating on an exhibition on the working experiences of Donegal people in Scotland. Details: ow.ly/W81v50PL5jA

‘There is a sort of permanent ambient prejudice towards the child-free and the uncoupled, as if their life choices are self-indulgent and immature. This despite the fact that the majority of people who live alone are over 45.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

As promised, here’s the open letter to the AHRC asking for an immediate reversal of cuts to PhD studentships and an impact assessment that accounts for class/household income. Please sign and share as widely as you can forms.gle/gfBX3npc21yBB7…

Really looking forward to this event with the lovely ⁦Tiffany Thompson (she/her)⁩ and ⁦@IrishStudiesQUB⁩! Her research sounds so interesting and I can’t wait to hear more about it!

I made a book from scratch today! Such a wonderful workshop from MIAH Foundation led by the wonderful Dr Neelam Hussain, combining research, crafts, and public engagement; held in their new space at MoseleySchoolofArt. Here's a shot of the books we made (mine is bottom left!)

Great to be back Being Human Festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, where on 18/11 we'll be launching our Reimagining Sleep Exhibition in partnership with @TheSleepCharity. Join us for a free creative guided tour! 🎟️ bit.ly/3ZFCsUx #BeingHuman2023

Congratulations to our wonderful colleague Kathryn Milligan on wining this prize for her blog on early photography in our Special Collections. As well as managing our own blog (ucdculturalheritagecollections.com), Katy has contributed many many interesting posts on a variety of subjects.

“We have burned and destroyed along the Lough... where we killed man, woman, child, horse, beast and whatever we found.” - Sir Arthur Chichester, 1601 (or how Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, ended up ‘owning’ Lough Neagh') bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

My new article on the intersections of the #ClimateEmergency and the #sleep crisis in contemporary literature and culture is out now in Textual Practice! 🔓Open access - read it here: doi.org/10.1080/095023… Thanks to Wellcome & Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for funding this research.

Repeated strikes over five years got us to this point: full restoration of USS pensions, a difference of £100,000s for many. Without our action, the defined benefit pension would have been dead in 2018. We are stronger together - come join us! ucuqub.org

📢📢#PhD Opportunity Collaborative Doctoral Partnership National Museums NI & Ulster University (CDP Connect Arts and Humanities Research Council) on the Northern Ireland Prison Service Collection at Ulster Museum supervised by #GráinneKelly & #KarenLogan deadline 20/5/24 please share ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcolleg…

Join us from 15-17 May for this event that will prove an exciting, thought-provoking exploration of love in various ways—romantic, familial, devotional, duty, care—and in relation to a number of conflicts from 1914 until present day. @IrishStudiesQUB l Ulster Museum l QUB AEL