One of our health and safety officers, Jill Millar, explains why our members should vote yes β and yes β in the local ballot. Jill explains that cuts to time for assessment are being driven by a desire for financial savings. As a result, both the student experience and staff wellbeing will suffer.
19.09.2025 08:36 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Our branch secretary, @stuartwhigham.bsky.social, explains why our members should vote yes β and yes β in the local ballot. Stuart outlines the impact that wider cuts to workload tariffs will have on our Associate Lecturer colleagues.
16.09.2025 09:19 β π 10 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Our campaigns officer, MaβΓ―a Pal, explains why our members should vote yes β and yes β in the local ballot. Successive cuts to research time undermine the research-led teaching which is the essence of a University education.
11.09.2025 07:33 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Text describing why we are asking members to vote yes in the industrial ballot.
Text describing why we are asking members to vote yes in the industrial ballot.
We are balloting for industrial action at Oxford Brookes. π¨π¨ REMINDER to all members to return your ballots in the post π¨π¨
09.09.2025 08:54 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
#openaccess FREE to read and share! @stuartwhigham.bsky.social @obu-hst-research.bsky.social & A. Bairner: Scotland. Sectarianism as racism in Scottish football? : the cut and thrust of an ongoing debate
doi.org/10.4324/9781...
#brookes #oa
radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/...
18.06.2025 13:53 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
64 awards, including:
. The βSmell My Bouffing Fridge Montroseβ Award For Outstanding Official Club Post
. Image Of The Season
. Laziest Unveiling
. The 'Sorry Celtic' Award For Best Response
Itβs the 2024/25 Alternative Scottish Football Awards
oldfirmfacts1.medium.com/the-2024-25-...
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My 2nd book came out today!
Together with colleagues and friends, we wrote about mega-events like the Olympics and what they do to cities and societies underneath the intoxicating glow of the spectacle.
It's free to read and has some really great work: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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@obu-hst-research.bsky.social
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Human Geographer (retired, sort of);
Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things
Lancaster University and College Union (UCU) branch
https://lancasterucu.home.blog/
Green Oxford City Councillor. Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Sociology @ Oxford Brookes University focusing on gender & sexuality. Views my own. They/them.
Updates from the Manchester Metropolitan University branch of the University and College Union.
Join us today: https://join.ucu.org.uk
Website: https://mmu.web.ucu.org.uk/
Contact: ucu@mmu.ac.uk
Defend DMU!
ucu@dmu.ac.uk
Interested in all things DIY, feminist and veggie. Also a Lecturer in Film studies @ Lancaster University. EDI Rep for Lancaster Uni UCU
Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University. Research interests women, football and inequalities.
Professor of Social & Cultural Geography.
Here to lament / rant in unprofessional capacity on mega-events, geopolitics, sustainability, Ukraine, Russia, the end of things and how it could be better.
New book, open access: https://tinyurl.com/SDWHESP.
Leading multi-disciplinary department of sport and exercise sciences. Consistently ranked in the UK Top 10 best sport-related UG degrees. Top 100 QS World Rankings for sport-related subjects.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/departments/academic/sport-exercise-scien
Hibs ππΆπ»π°π² ππ΄π³π±.
The official Bluesky account for Hibernian Football Club.
Official account for Faculty of Health, Science and Technology Research at Oxford Brookes University.
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/structure-and-governance/faculties-and-schools
@obcbioimaging.bsky.social @obupsychology.bsky.social
International membership organisation representing the interests of sport sociologists wherever they are. We have a journal, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, an e-bulletin and we organise great conferences. www.issa1965.org
4x SFSA 'Best Writer' winner. The Herald. Off The Ball, sometimes. Podcasts, sometimes. Live shows, sometimes. Agenda against your team, always.
Karim Zidan is a journalist, author and custodian of the art estate belonging to his pioneering grandmother, Menhat Helmy.
Subscribe: https://www.sportspolitika.news/subscribe
And: https://www.menhathelmy.com/
My name is Gavin.
Write about interesting things in Scottish football.
Including the coefficient, Scottish national team & football finances.
Please come visit me at www.ScottishFootball.info for regular and engaging insights into Scottish football
Harbors radical views...objectionable for several other reasons beyond the fact that they are fringe unreliable beliefs
Concerned citizen and social scientist. Trying to do stuff that matters
