@emmacayley.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
Delighted to be speaking at, ‘Multilingual Societies, Monolingual mindsets?’ on Friday 13/02 to celebrate Brussels Multilingualism week. Thanks to Jo Angouri, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the EUTOPIA team for the kind invitation. @ucflangs.bsky.social
08.02.2026 14:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YOU SIGNATURE MATTERS! Help us save Modern Languages at Leicester.
Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-moder...
Ongoing post available in interpreting and translation studies! They're a really lovely team in a great school!
05.02.2026 07:39 — 👍 10 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
With universities making a loss on teaching domestic graduates, and almost half of universities in England facing deficits this year, student loans need to be reviewed as part of a much broader, and urgent, rethink of how UK universities are funded.
The university funding crisis finally starting to make it into newspaper editorials
www.ft.com/content/82f5...
🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Job Alert‼️We are hiring in interpreting and translation @ctilsleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social
Looking for an experienced colleague at grade 8. Deadline is 25th February. Join our fabulous team! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
You can still join the REF 2029 Town Hall event on Strategy, People and Research Environment (SPRE)
tomorrow, Wednesday, 4 February, 11 am to 12 pm
2029.ref.ac.uk/about/how-to...
Have you signed up ❓
thepienews.com/duolingo-lan...
York Guildhall
Fantastic and inspiring day launching The British Academy Early Career Network cluster in Yorkshire and Humber. It was a buzzing atmosphere with over 100 early career researchers and university partners present
29.01.2026 17:00 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0I’m writing a Biography of Neil R. Ker and his foundational rôle in British Manuscript Studies. The enormous correspondence to him is touching testimony to his astonishing vision & generosity. Time and again, scholars—senior & early career alike—write to seek his knowledge, which he freely gave. /1
29.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 64 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0Great to meet the brilliant @jacquioatley.bsky.social - graduate of German @lcsleeds.bsky.social
who shared her expertise with alumni and students. Moving & engaging discussion of how resilience gained during year abroad in Tübingen led to a successful career in sports broadcasting. Danke schön! ⚽️🦉
Watch the videos by Professor Emma Cayley and Darren Paffey MP on why to take part.
💰 Universities can win money for their Modern Languages Departments.
Anyone with a ac.uk address can take part.
You can find a link in the article to sign up for the challenge:
thepienews.com/duolingo-lan...
Join the REF 2029 Town Halls. They are free and open to all:
2029.ref.ac.uk/about/how-to...
It’s time to celebrate the German language in the UK!
This is your chance to share your language learning highlights with the world.
#ShoutOutForGerman
bsky.app/profile/uk.d...
A big thank you to Professor Jane Stuart-Smith, chair, and Professor Susan Harrow, deputy chair of Sub‑panel 26 (Modern Languages and Linguistics) who delivered an inspiring presentation at UCFL Winter Plenary on the work in preparation for REF 2029.
Check out: 2029.ref.ac.uk/about/how-to...
International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Excited for our @ucflangs.bsky.social Winter Plenary today, beaming live from Senate House in London! Please register at the link below to join us online at 1pm today to get the low down on REF2029 from UoA sub panel chair and deputy chair, Jane Stuart-Smith and Susan Harrow, and other panels.
16.01.2026 07:28 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0UCFL is seeking nominations for six roles. Deadline: 16 January.
More information here: university-council-for-languages.org/2025/12/ucfl...
➡️ Chair of Wales
➡️ Early Career Academic Rep
➡️ French Studies Rep
➡️ Linguistics Rep
➡️ Lusophone Studies Rep
➡️ Slavonic and Eastern European Studies Rep
🎉 Excellent news! Our Languages Research Database is now live!
Check it out here: university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
We start the New Year with UCFL Winter Plenary. You can join online or in person.
🏃🏻♀️Hurry up! In-person registration will close on Monday 5th January 2026.
Book now: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
3️⃣interesting panels and many nice people to talk to.
#Languages and #cultures matter - to education, communities and regions.
This quote from Professor Emma Cayley captures why Leeds City of Languages is such a powerful civic initiative. @lcsleeds.bsky.social @emmacayley.bsky.social
Opinion: “More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.”
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2
23.11.2025 13:38 — 👍 65 🔁 45 💬 1 📌 5
My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
19.11.2025 09:10 — 👍 85 🔁 75 💬 3 📌 4
Help the the University of Leicester and the University of Nottingham save languages. Links in comments.
17.11.2025 15:31 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
David Bellos, traducteur et grand spécialiste de Georges Perec, est mort
www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
A very insightful article on the recent threats to UK modern languages:
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
Support the petitions to stop the closures at Leicester and Nottingham, to sign click here:
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
#languages #mfl
A chance to see a well-used, 3m long, birth scroll made in England c.1500. Covered in prayers & illustrations, in Latin & English, invoking Sts Quiricus & Julitta, it's worn from use, engrained with vaginal fluid, imbued with love, pain, fear, hope & life. 🧵👇
wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...
Times Higher article out today explains the folly of yet more proposed closures in languages (also music, film, philosophy, and others). This time at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham. Oversight of the changing UK HE landscape for our disciplines has never been more needed or vital.
14.11.2025 12:22 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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.
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
