Greg Walker

Hiring established scholars to junior Oxbridge roles imperils disciplines As lay-offs continue elsewhere, postdocs’ inability to land permanent roles will block the pipeline of future faculty, Cambridge academics argue

Raises some important issues but also ignores the fact that many Humanities staff outside the magic circle are facing redundancy. They are naturally willing, indeed desperate, to apply for entry-level Oxbridge posts. The situation is grim. 1/2

A selection of books form the Fagel Collection

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

Assistant Professorship in Medieval Literature (temporary cover) at University of Cambridge Apply now for the Assistant Professorship in Medieval Literature (temporary cover) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

‘Disproportionate’ REF portability rules still dividing opinion - Research Professional News While some are happy with the long-form exception, others fear a “significant backlash”

‘Under the latest REF guidance, it is up to individual universities to decide whether to submit outputs authored by staff who have taken voluntary redundancy or have left at the end of their fixed-term contract.'

On wonders what submitting HEIs will opt to do in this extractive context. Not. 1/2

🗃️ jobs, jobs, jobs - and one for #medievalsky

JOB!

Come and be my colleague!

Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford.

Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...

3-year postdoc opportunity at Durham University - any department, any field. Detailed guidance in the link - note that you need a mentor from a relevant department to mentor and support your application.

www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!

🚨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!
👇👇👇

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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My Top 5, and what I learnt in them:
The Golden Age of Spain (gold! olé!)
English Place Names (‘Ye Bygge Fielde’)
The Causes of the First World War (it was the Germans…)
Chaucer (he’s brill!)
The English Reformation (London’s Stranger Churches all look really normal from the outside)

As someone once said, the first shall be last, and the humanists shall do more teaching, for their research costeth little by comparison… 🤔

I wonder where the ‘fewer’ will be needed, and where the greater/more time’ will be allocated…

For Everything to Stay the Same, Everything Must Change ... a riposte to academic nostalgia

'We likely require fewer academics with research in their remit, but those that do need greater time allocated, and must be subject to a strategic research management regime'.

I remain very sceptical/negative about the medium- and long-turn impacts of separating research and teaching. 1/2

Accepting Applications: 13th July - 22nd August 2026 – Scottish Universities International Summer School We're now accepting applications for our summer school courses in Literature, Creative Writing, and Theatre at the University of Edinburgh!

Come study literature, theatre or creative writing at the SUISS summer school in beautiful Edinburgh, for 2026. Spend your mornings immersed in learning before soaking up the city’s summer festivals or wandering the city’s ancient streets and hills. Applications now open:
www.suiss.ed.ac.uk

Ex-offenders offered scholarships as new data shows impact of HE Calls for more support for people with experience of prison to access higher education as experts warn programmes being hampered by staff shortages

'New data from the Ministry of Justice show that studying with The Open University (OU) delivers “significant reductions” in reoffending amongst prison learners.'

'It also found that those studying committed 37 per cent fewer offences within a year of release.' 1/2

Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

I’m very proud of my two PhD students - Liz Leemann and Vivienne Belton - for passing their vivas recently. Two fantastic theses on the body and soul in early modern literary depictions of motherhood, and on Roman Catholicism and the senses in early modern drama. Look out for their work.

Thanks Julie!

A great book. What channel/service is it on Julie?

Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

🥳 Congratulations Patrick!

This was when the Daily Torygraph and Times were the size of a bedsheet and could take up a carriage on their own…

PhD scholarship in History or Geography at Dublin City University - applicants with an interest in medieval Ireland are particularly encouraged to apply.

#MedievalSky

www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

I still remember the grumbling and unwilling shuffling up when I went into a compartment already occupied by… People… Harrumph!

Unboxing!!

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Very pleased to see hard(back) evidence that this tricksy creature is indeed loose in the world. It was a joy to work with the brilliant @ellierycroft.bsky.social to bring it into existence.

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 at University of Cambridge Searching for an academic job? Explore this Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography based @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge - closes on 1 February, so still time to apply.

Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (293057) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (293057), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 22, 2026

An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."

‘ardest game in the world, wizarding, innit. You’ve got to have a second career lined up, just in case it all goes arse upwards with the sorcery…’