Dr Rachel Haworth

RIP to the Kessler twins

Language cold spots are emerging: the East Midlands provision is vulnerable if threats of closure at Leicester and Nottingham are carried out.

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Happening everywhere - not just Nottingham but also Leicester now. On the horizon: more cold spots in languages provision and (crucially) access to HE language teaching for those who need to study close to home. We should be widening access, not narrowing it. Solidarity to colleagues affected ✊

Photograph of a coffee shop menu with drinks’ names translated into Welsh. The third item on the list is Cappuccino which in Welsh is Ffrothi Coffi

Pinched from another site and I’d love to know if this is accurate. Please let it be accurate!

University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.

Our students get it. Why doesn't the administration?

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Sign the Petition Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!

You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking.

Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it.
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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

Happening everywhere: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

News like this makes me even more determined to carry on writing about Italian popular music as an act of defiance against a sector that seems less and less interested in languages and music. Solidarity to all affected at Nottingham.

Applications are now open for BSR Humanities Awards 2026–27! Fellowships and awards for scholars at all career stages. Deadline: 14 Nov 2025.
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P: Pippo Baudo, un grande della televisione italiana Screenshot of Pippo Baudo on Settevoci On 7 June 2024, the television presenter and host Pippo Baudo celebrated his 88th birthday. Here’s how the Italian media marked the occasion: Tanti augu…

Addio to Pippo Baudo, a great of Italian TV. To mark his passing, I’m resharing the episode of my podcast that I dedicated to him last year - tvitalianstyle.wordpress.com/2024/08/12/p...

University of Leeds Teaching Awards 2025

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Can A Rock Band Make History? A Glasgow rock band, The Tenementals, explore what it would mean to create radical history through music.

What might a work of history look like and sound like if it were shaped in music? 🗃️🎵

In our new podcast David Archibald discusses the role of music in Glasgow’s working-class past and the historical links between music and radicalism.

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research
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My condolences, Josh

A rare opportunity for a permanent lectureship in German in our fabulous School! Please circulate to your networks. @ucfl-eca.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

Last few spaces left for the MFL teacher conference on 20th June at the University of Leeds! Registration is free but places are limited! With presentations from @joedale @rashasoliman04 & many more!! Have a look at our programme! 👇artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-activiti... #mfl #mfltwitterati

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Sign the Petition Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University

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Sign the Petition Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9vtymFBVFh

'Identity, Interculturality, and Language Learning on British Television' by @rahaworth.bsky.social is popular this week - read the full article #OA via MLO: bit.ly/3wpWBDQ @iniis.bsky.social @studyemmir.bsky.social @journalics.bsky.social @language-learn.bsky.social @innovationllt.bsky.social

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Colleagues @universityofleeds.bsky.social, come join us for the inaugural TIPS Community Festival of Learning and Teaching and celebrate all the fantastic student education practice at our institution!

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Thank you to the @royalhistsoc.org for electing me as a Fellow. I have added FRHistS to my email signature and am very pleased and proud to do so.

Quite literally happening everywhere. And the toll that this takes on the individuals involved and those left behind is very very high.

It’s the #LeedsAssessmentMatters conference today and we’ve got a rich programme of papers, round tables, and discussions and some great insights into how students experience assessment and feedback! Thank you to everyone who has presented and supported the conference

Webinar: How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book Learn what scholarly writers need to know when trying to publish for broader readerships and markets. Webinar hosted by Laura Portwood-Stacer with guest Kate McKean, literary agent and author of Write...

I'm doing a webinar with @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social on May 7th about How to Publish a Trade or Crossover Book. If you're an academic looking to break into trade publishing, this is for you! Sign up here! courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/trad...

Bookmarking

I’m reposting this to help me get better at alt text. I also like capybaras

Screenshot of a research poster outlining the TV Italian Style podcast and explaining podcasting as research method and output. There are images representing the podcast episodes, a copy of the podcast series logo, a graph with download data, and a map showing where the podcast has been downloaded around the world.

Sneak preview of my poster for the SIS conference in June on the ‘Digital Turn in Italian Studies’. My poster is about my TV Italian Style podcast - and having started reading about podcasting as research method and as public humanities project, I wonder if I should write this up somehow…