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Christopher Dodd

@drcjwdodd.bsky.social

Postdoc at Brookes - PhD from NTU - Health and Social Care Researcher - erstwhile historian.

102 Followers  |  270 Following  |  1 Posts  |  Joined: 07.08.2024  |  1.6004

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Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 2

Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on β€˜Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

23.10.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Check out this event and its details on our website: www.thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...

13.10.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a really important study that can build an evidence base to better support patients. Please share widely and sign up if eligible. Thank you.πŸ™πŸ»

21.08.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Saving humanities - Research Professional News Glen O’Hara argues that arts and humanities subjects are victims of a chaotic system

So as we near the end of the working year, what have I been up to this year as one of those lazy, Ivory Tower-style dons? Back in February, I wrote for Research Professional News about the danger to Arts and Humanities in our universities (1/5): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

19.12.2024 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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You can't save your university by cutting. That's an illusion. You can only weaken it further. See: the logic of Mr George Osborne, 2010-c.2013. Every redundancy programme in fact takes you closer to the edge. How can there still be people out there who don't realise this?

26.11.2024 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
Hand in purple fingerless gloves holding 2 copies of The Business of Birth Control in paperback

Hand in purple fingerless gloves holding 2 copies of The Business of Birth Control in paperback

Oooh new paperbacks just dropped! πŸ‘ I'm still proud of this book, even more so now copies are actually affordable

24.09.2024 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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In All Our Footsteps I was pleased, though sad, to join the closing event for the In All Our Footsteps project, with which I have been involved for the past three years as a member of the advisory board. The project is fu...

NEW again... Kate Ashbrook from the Open Spaces Society has written some very kind and interesting thing about our Oxford Brookes/ Newcastle University 'All Our Footsteps' project. Do take a look: campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/i...

23.09.2024 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Digital Wellbeing: A Critical Creative Workshop Co-organised by the Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network and β€˜Imagining Wellbeing’ researchers at the Centre for Urban Wellbeing.

πŸ“’New #MedHums eventπŸ“’
Digital Wellbeing: A Critical Creative Workshop, featuring the very fabulous Sophie King-Hill and Jwana Aziz.

13 Sept, 10:30-12 UK time

Details and free registration:
eventbrite.ie/e/digital-we...
#MentalHealthHumanities #MedicalHumanities #MedHums

11.09.2024 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

100% increase in followers in a week. Twitter well and truly crumbling. Any views on strategies for next week? One focus for me would be getting a few more keystone institutions to move over - big publications, think tanks, charities, etc.

16.08.2024 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0
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Land, access, right? β€” In All Our Footsteps Kerri Andrews reflects on the Right to Roam in Scotland.

In case you missed it before, our AHRC-funded 'All Our Footsteps' project has carried a great piece by Kerri Andrews on the Right to Roam in Scotland... Read it here! www.allourfootsteps.uk/newwriting/l...

07.08.2024 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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