Niamh Cullen

In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.

But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

Print featuring a lone bird in black flying across a bleak white landscape towards a copse of bare winter trees

#Winter, 1955 by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami #WomensArt

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

Looking forward to this talk tomorrow!

Love this story!

Looking forward to this too!

Really great, detailed analysis of the recent Supreme Court ruling and what it means for religion in Northern Irish schools

It’s horrible. We moved to England in early 2016 and I remember seeing the flags slowly begin to appear after the Brexit referendum. Ofc so much worse now

The Biographers’ Club is delighted to announce the shortlist for the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize 2025! | The Biographer's Club The prize awards £2,000 to the best proposal for an uncommissioned first biography, and is generously sponsored by the Duke of Buccleuch in memory of his late wife Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch (195...

Very happy to be included on this shortlist for my biography-in-progress on Darina Silone, an Irishwoman in the Italian antifascist resistance thebiographersclub.com/the-biograph...
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So interesting!

Can’t wait for this

It really is!

It also includes one of the most outrageously realistic portrayals of breastfeeding I have seen in religious art! Especially love Jesus pushing his halo away…

Just finished this short, incredible book about art, perception, memory and walking around Siena

At nearly 1000 signatures now…

I find this so strange, I don’t have time to sit down and ‘watch’ a podcast. The only time I have is when I’m walking/running

Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!

If you get here early and and want to get a coffee, let me know!

If AI could actually do interesting things…

Sign Now: We demand Inclusive Religious Education for all NI’s Children I've signed the petition calling for the Education Minister to reform Religious Education in NI today - will you sign too?

Sign & share this petition from @pfie.bsky.social calling on the Education Minister Paul Givan to deliver inclusive religious education for all children!
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Statement from Parents for Inclusive Education NI on the JR87 ruling: Parents for Inclusive Education NI welcomes the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in JR87, which confirms that Northern Ireland’s current RE curriculum breaches children’s and families’ human rights. The Court found that RE in it’s current form is not “objective, critical and pluralistic” and amounts to indoctrination - and identified the failings of the Department of Education to monitor and safeguard what and how children are being taught. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere thanks to JR87 and her father for bringing this case. We do not know them, but are in awe of their bravery and perseverance in taking a stand on such an epic scale. They, and all families like them who have been resoundingly let down by the current framework, have been throughly vindicated by the highest court in the land.

It is important for us to re-state that as a group, we are not campaigning to remove RE or Christianity from schools, far from it. We want RE to be objective, pluralistic, balanced, inclusive and respectful of every child and every family, regardless of belief. Yesterday was a momentous, watershed moment and now is the time for meaningful change. We are excited, optimistic, and fully committed to immediately moving forward to work with a pluralistic and interfaith panel of suitably qualified and experienced educators, policymakers, academics, faith groups and families to build an RE curriculum that truly reflects the diversity of modern Northern Ireland.

Statement from the PFIE officer group on the JR87 ruling yesterday.

Supreme Court rules RE in Northern Ireland is 'equivalent to indoctrination'

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Belfast-based non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education and mandatory Christian collective worship in Northern Ireland are discriminatory under human rights law.

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Given the serious safeguarding issues uncovered by the Presbyterian church’s own review, it is worth noting that the single biggest source of primary school visitors uncovered by this FOI report in 2023 was the Presbyterian church (2,350 out of 11,500 total visits).

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Excited to be representing PfIE at the launch!

Looking forward to this too!

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

📣 We now have over 300 members in our parent WhatsApp community!

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Novels In The Pipeline — Accidental Theatre Novels-in-the-Pipeline brings together literary talents from around the globe, from Minnesota in America to across the island of Ireland. Brace yourself for a diverse array of narratives, from specula...

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