Prof. Bethan Evans

A poster for HOW WE APPEAR AND HOW WE ARE FELT: IN CONVERSATION WITH DR KHAIRANI BAROKKA ABOUT ANNAH, INFINITE. The lilac book cover and my headshot are at the top, below which is the event title, ‘Date: 29 January | Time: 5PM to 7PM BST | Location: Room TBC and online | Register via QR code’, and the QR code and SOAS logo are in the bottom righthand corner.

Please join us at SOAS and online for HOW WE APPEAR AND HOW WE ARE FELT: A Conversation w Dr Khairani Barokka about ANNAH, INFINITE.

Can’t wait to be in convo w Dr Anandi Rao and with all of you via Q and A.

JAN 29, 5-7PM BST, Register via QR code

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States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.

Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.

Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.

Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
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Read report:
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Early Career Researcher Network An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

Will dm you

Book cover for When there are wolves again by E J Swift. Shows a wolf and trees.

My top 2025 fiction read:
‘When There are Wolves Again’ by EJ Swift. Beautifully written exploration of ways of living with more-than-human others in the context of climate change. I highly recommend for geographers & env sci/humanities folk as well as SF fans. It deserves to win all the awards.

1) Moving paper by young ME/CFS researcher Katherine Cheston. She was aware of the great disability it causes but "encountering the reality of this suffering first-hand was still shocking and deeply saddening."

She gives examples of patients who do not get appropriate care.

This looks fantastic, Gail. Look forward to reading it in the new year.

Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms

New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social for inviting @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Ana Bê Periera and I to discuss creating inclusive research cultures for people with energy limiting conditions as part of this brilliant podcast series

In this episode, we discuss:
- The management labour needed to create a disability-inclusive workplace
- Access intimacy
- How disabled-led research informs collaborative and co-production relationships

Disabled researchers are here now. Bethan Evans, Anna Ruddock, Alison Allam, and Morag Rose have developed inclusive methods for researchers and participants with energy limiting conditions and illnesses, showcasing what research led by disabled scholars can look like.

A brand new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture, a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast, is out now!

Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
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Women's Orgs "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats Two culturally significant women's organisations have reversed long-standing trans inclusive approaches, citing "reference to legal challenge" in communications

Women's Organisations "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

What’s happened to Research Rabbit? It’s gone from one of my most frequently recommended tools to utterly unusable 😩

Night time photo of a lake in the foreground with a fountain, surrounded by trees and grasses lit up in different colours, reflected in the lake

Even in the rain Glow at Bridgewater gardens is beautiful. Well worth a visit, and all bar a tiny bit wheelchair accessible

This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?

If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social

This event was really important and informative. If you have not done so, please check out the 'creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions' guidance. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the project website soon
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/

Thank you, Rachael

Thank you, Anna

Thanks. Yes we’re hoping to record it if the tech behaves!

This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces

States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.

www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social

Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Obit from @thesicktimes.org by Alice’s friend @mileswgriffis.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

Woman with dark hair and bright red lipstick, wearing a royal blue cardigan over a black shirt and shiny black puffer pants, seated in a motorized wheelchair with tubing from medical equipment visible, holds up a copy of "Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life" by Alice Wong.

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...

This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Image of a person buried under a pile of marking, grant deadlines and meeting requests. Logos of University of Liverpool and Independent Social Research Foundation. Text reads: Creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions. Webinar and guidance for academics with ELC, line managers & HR professionals, EDI & union representatives, funders, publishers & conference organisers. Monday 24th November 2-3pm.

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social

University of Leicester confirms formal redundancy consultation The University and College Union's local branch says staff are planning strike action.

Solidarity to colleagues at Leicester Uni:

"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"