Beth Hughes

The validation I’ve been waiting for.

We invite applications for British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships 2025. The scheme supports established and senior researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to complete research through a sustained period of leave for one year. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9

Venetian minimalism in aisle three

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New evidence on international inequality of opportunity - how does the UK rank? - The Sutton Trust A new OECD measure offers insights into the state of opportunity in the UK.

🗨️ "According to these findings, opportunity in England is determined by inherited circumstances more so than compared to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland."

What does the OECD's new measure of inequality say about the state of opportunity in the UK? ⤵️

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Me on Hillsborough Law.

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This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse | Carl Cullinane Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society, says Carl Cullinane, director of research and policy ...

Pleased to write about working class access to the media industry in @theguardian.com today. Our Elitist Britain research out today shows that almost half of columnists, commentators and top podcast hosts went to private schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Henry Moore Foundation awards £100,000 in unrestricted grants Fifty sculptors will split the funds, which are given against the backdrop of the UK's cost-of-living crisis and funding cuts across the culture sector

I was delighted to be invited, along with 24 others, to nominate artists to receive £2k each simply to make work.

It may not be a huge sum, but it also isn’t a competitive award & comes with no reporting reqs.

Congrats to all the awarded artists ⭐️

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When Artists Are Too Old to Be “Emerging” If the art world is serious about equity, it has to stop equating emergence with youth and start building structures that reflect the multiplicity of artistic timelines.

‘True redistribution would mean designing programs that acknowledge nonlinear lives. It would mean career-stage definitions tied to practice rather than age, eligibility clocks that pause for caregiving, and parallel funds that support reentrants’ hyperallergic.com/1042641/when...

‘The Secret Painter is so much more than a sentimental rags to riches yarn. Joe uses his uncle’s extraordinary life to tell a broader story about the way that working-class people in the twentieth century were excluded from art-making. [A] thoughtful, funny book’
The Times

Litter on the streets of Preston

Tropical F*ck Storm at Electric Ballroom, Camden covering Stayin’ Alive 🪩🕺🪩🕺