Applications for IES Fellowships in the 2026/27 academic year are now open!
You can apply for an ECR or Research fellowship, with terms from 6 months to 3 years.
The application deadline is 10 April.
ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
And all the next day Toad read poems to his seeds.
The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is looking to hire an 18th century specialist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...
#EnglishCreates: Futures
We are thrilled to share today's blog by Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP:
'Literature is the way we exercise the muscle of the imagination... And unless we can imagine a greener, fairer world, we’ll struggle to achieve it.'
universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close.
That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education?
#Universities #HigherEducation
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Concerned that the UK—not the US, which remains far more resilient than everyone thinks—is the test case for what happens when you build a system of mass higher education then take it apart: it has happened far more quickly and is far more fragile here.
Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of Literature in English
University of Oxford - Balliol College
Literature of the long 19th century
Permanent
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM832/t...
#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with this post by Francesca Mackenney and Jamie Castell (Cardiff University):
'How do representations of sound in literature shape our awareness of the natural world?'
Read the full post here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...
#EnglishStudies
#Ecocriticism
#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...
#CFP: "Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism"
July 18-19, 2026
Deadline: March 22, 2026
Info: labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/e...
#ecopoetics #ecocriticism #envhum
***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH***
We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March.
£400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city
@unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
DREAM job: two-years of full-time research on Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and its various histories www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQI985/r...
Articulate Sounds by James Grande (@jamesgrande.bsky.social) is now available Open Access at bit.ly/4qQ8vhz.
This British Academy Monograph reveals the deeply ambivalent relationship between music, religious dissent, and literary Romanticism.
JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
On the blog: the wonderful Dr Jodie Marley (@jodielmarley.bsky.social) takes us through some critical approaches to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
Prof Michael Gamer’s wonderful lecture ‘Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture’, delivered at the University of Sheffield and at Keats House, is now available as a special episode of our free podcast series: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/ann-r... @radcliffecup.bsky.social
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
"I made a conscious decision not to do chapters. . . . I wanted to feel like each hunt had finished, and we’d left the woodland with our baskets in between them."
Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...
We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project.
www.uis.no/en/research/...
Together with the @royalsociety.org, we invite applications for the International Fellowships 2026. The scheme supports international early career researchers in advancing their expertise through collaborations with UK partners. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC
In 2024-25 alone, the #UKHE sector paid out £303.3 million to make people redundant. That's a whole lot of money that could have gone to education & research, now used to put education & research on a less secure grounding for the future. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
This ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social
Have you completed a PhD in the last 10 years? Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment. Funding covers an £8000 bursary for part-time (0.5) research over 8 months, plus travel expenses. Apply by Monday 9 February. link.bl.uk/VisitingFellowship
A new #LewisCarroll Visiting Fellowship at Christ Church Oxford and @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Looks like a wonderful opportunity to work with their marvellous #SpecialCollections following the acquisition of the ‘Michelson Alice’.
Congratulations! 🥳
Wonderful!
OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
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✨️Job Alert✨️ College Lecturer in English: Eighteenth-Century English Literature
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
