Behind managementβs latest moves: large scale compulsory redundancies coming soon β UCU Edinburgh
With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line
Hundreds of jobs have already gone at the University of Edinburgh, and the Joint Unions Finance Working Group estimates that *1000+ jobs could be at risk* in the coming months.
If you are a UCUE member: post your ballot now!!
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/8snje8s...
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Also wonderful to have @wasafirimag.bsky.social join us!
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A black door with the number 2 on it and a poster for the Displaced Arts symposium.
The Displaced Arts symposium programme
A group of presenters from the Displaced Arts symposium.
An inspiring two days of talking about displaced arts - thinking about how creative practices can be used to inhabit, expose, navigate or contest global geographies of asylum.
Thank you to all our speakers, @leverhulme.ac.uk, and @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for making this gathering possible!
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UCU members on Edinburgh picket line
No More Cuts written in chalk
UCU members on Edinburgh picket line
UCU members at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social are striking today over University of Edinburgh plans to make Β£140million in cuts and threaten jobs
We're fighting against these reckless proposals
Share to show your support β
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Creating Spaces of Sanctuary
Join us to explore how we can build true sanctuary through solidarity, care, and resistance alongside refugees and migrants.
π£ Global Migration Conference 2025: Creating Spaces of Sanctuary ποΈ
An afternoon of talks and discussion with speakers from @helenbamber.bsky.social, @hackneycouncil.bsky.social and @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social.
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Tues 17 June | 1β4pm
π Free + open to all
#UCL #RefugeeWeek2025 #GlobalMigration
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Congratulations!! Really looking forward to reading this
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Shubbak 2025 has announced the "first wave" of their lineup:
shubbak.co.uk/festival-2025/
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Fellowships β EEHN
The deadline for the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network Visiting Fellowships 2025-26 is 28 February. blogs.ed.ac.uk/environmenta...
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*CFP deadline this Wednesday!*
Final few days to submit abstracts for 'Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum' @iashedinburgh.bsky.social
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Updated call for papers!
I'm delighted that we have Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
confirmed as a keynote for 'Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum' hosted by @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on 24th June 2025.
CFP below and more details here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pa...
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CFP Alert! I'm very pleased to be co-organising the 24th International Congress of the French Society for Scottish Studies (SFEE) which will be held from 15th β 17th October 2025 at the University of La Rochelle on the theme of "Scotland and the Coast" sfee.fr/congres2020/
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Dire Financial Straits at UoE? NO! β UCU Edinburgh
Are things really as bad as they say? Find out the truth behind the numbers!
Crucial post from UCU Edinburgh:
'1. The University makes an operational surplus
2. The evidence of financial troubles offered by the Principal is misleading
3. The University is wealthier than it has ever been'
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/2eppzf7...
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Call for papers!
Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum
24th June 2025 at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh
CFP below and more details here:
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pa...
Please share!
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Academic in medical humanities, science fiction, history of psy disciplines, and UFOs. English Literature, University of Glasgow. Blog www.ufos.ac.uk. Academic profile: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/gavinmiller/
Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. Weβre taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025).
Think Philosophy, think Bloomsbury! Our books bring you food for (philosophical) thought and authors like Ε½iΕΎek, Badiou, Fanon, Midgley, Weil & more.
Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
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Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
A Leverhulme Trust Research Project, based at the University of Glasgow, investigating the relationship between the βpsy disciplinesβ and horror fiction in British culture.
Website https://tinyurl.com/WIWLWeb
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2025 conference organiser @roxannedouglas.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
Writer. Published in Your Impossible Voice, The Dodge, Minor Literature[s], Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.
A small independent bookshop in the historic Borders town of Melrose, Roxburghshire, focusing on Scottish writing and the best new books around. Sister bookshop of @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social in Stow, Selkirkshire. Welcome!
Thinking through infrastructure β energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health β with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences. https://researchcentres.citystgeorges.ac.uk/thinking-through-infrastructure-network
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, #20s30s.
Now - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
Next - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
Working to protect and improve Edinburghs river, for the benefit of wildlife and our community
A healthy river cared for by its community
The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
Scotlandβs living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare; editing (2GV for Arden), introducing (R&J for Cambridge), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford UP Nov 2025!) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) π³πΏ
Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
international, environmental, and energy historian Β· associate professor at University of Stavanger and the Greenhouse Center Β· radioactive waste and Nordic environmental cooperation Β· project leader of Energy Lives! Β· member of the Young Academy of Norway
Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com