Elizabeth Humphrys

Thanks lovely 🥰

So many can’t hang in there, and I’ve had my moments too x

Thanks Matt!

@booklearning.bsky.social @bluntshovels.bsky.social

[also I mostly stole the above words from my collaborator Peta Cook's post elsewhere, as it was more articulate than what I first wrote!]

If you want to be an ally, then join us in a collective response to create change to embrace & practice inclusivity. And kindly repost & share our article.

As we say in the article, 'the experiences articulated by us in this article cry out for a collective response to these problems – by disabled academics, by our colleagues, by our union/s, by our universities and by those who fund universities'.

We reveal, unpack & analyse our experiences to reveal cruel optimism & ableism. We also reveal the ableism we encountered in getting this article published.

Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

This is something Emma Bacon from @swelteringcities.bsky.social and I were discussing recently, especially people with health issues and disability (but in a heatwave like this is ridiculous for most people).

Heatwave poses threat to workers - ABC listen Australians have been finding different ways to cope with the extreme heat this week.

Liz Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social on ABC Listen, talking about what protections workers need during these unprecedented heatwaves and high temperatures.

She leads the Too Hot Too Work project in the UTS Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC).

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

If you want to learn more about the UTS Too Hot to Work Project, go to our website: toohottowork.org

Heatwave poses threat to workers - ABC listen Australians have been finding different ways to cope with the extreme heat this week.

You can hear the ACTU and myself talk about the impact of heatwaves and high temperatures on workers on ABC AM this morning. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

That was really fun to complete, it really had me thinking back to all sorts of things of seen. You don’t have to be queer to fill it in btw.

Will be of interest to some of you I’m sure!

that is why I drink lattes! pronounced in my working class accent that is pretty much said as 'larday'

so good — we have really loved thinking up all the great titles for different aspects of the project!

Thanks James!

Yes it does, including because I really value your writing and insights into similar terrain!

thank you lovely!

That said, there was close attention from public officials and others with these vests to what would be safe, somewhat breathable, and work for a body as it rode motorbikes or walked and carried things delivering mail.

The postie uniforms in the photo look like plastic but are actually fibreglass and we examined them up close in the Powerhouse collection. You can see how the development of synthetic materials was a game changer later for Australia, given heat and humidity, and how uncomfortable these vests were.

Image: 98/2/63-2 and 87/1038D Safety vests, part of motorbike postman uniform, plastic / metal, designed by Australia Post, made by Safe Sport, Australia, c. 1975–1984. Both in the Powerhouse Museum Collection. Photograph by Ryan Hernandez, reproduced with permission.

With thanks to @hannahforsyth.bsky.social, the Powerhouse Museum, Transport for NSW, and the NSW State Archives. Telling this story would not have been possible without Hannah's expertise and generosity, and access to those collections.

It is a history of the development of hi vis clothing in Australia in the early years, as experts, government and unions worked out what would make workers safer and how to get the technology (fluoro pigments on clothing materials) to work.

I also have something really nice to share, the first article from our hi vis workwear and workers project is out — a collaboration with Jesse Adams Stein and Bettina Frankham, all from the Faculty of Design & Society at @utsengage.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If anyone here has ever used my research (book, chapters, articles) in their teaching could you send me the details of where and how so I can document 'research impact' better for my institution. Could be on neoliberalism, unions, heat and climate change, anything. Many thanks!

Take care you two, it’s hard for some of our bodies to manage well at all!

@hannahforsyth.bsky.social really captures the event in that. What an incredible woman (both of them).

YouTube video by University of Technology Sydney Circle the Square Episode 2: The Devolution of Neoliberalism

In this podcast, SPS's Elizabth Humphrys engages in a wide ranging conversation on politics, populism and neoliberalism with finance experts from the UTS Finance Department in the Business School

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-q_...

For those who prefer a written format, a full transcript is available.