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#EnglishCreates great futures

@englishassociation.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @draperel.bsky.social 👇

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).

If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

🥳 🙌 Massive congratulations to all 2025 English graduates 🎉 🥂 Really well done! To celebrate your achievements and looks forward to all that you'll achieve next, we've made this short video with our colleagues in @englishassociation.bsky.social :
drive.google.com/file/d/1StyA...

@englishassociation.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Helen Smith wordsmith.bsky.social for an excellent English: Shared Futures conference. It was inspiring, exciting, and fun, and especially moving to hear so many friends and colleagues speaking about why and how English matters to them

And how research in English both changes our historical awareness and improves contemporary practices

More from Birmingham - BCU this time - and some of the applications of managing large datasets www.bcu.ac.uk/research/eng...

Listen in to hear how Aston academics use linguistics skills to help solve crime

#EnglishCreates How researchers at Aston (www.aston.ac.uk/bss/social-s...) help with criminal investigations:

Above all, Simon was the essence of generosity, an engaging and wonderful speaker, the person you’d be delighted to see at any conference or seminar, a rich and very present presence.
University English sends its condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.

He was a well-known scholar of the late-19th century, publishing especially influentially on Wells and Gissing. Simon was one-time editor of The Wellsian journal, and edited Vile Bodies for OUP’s landmark Collected Works of Evelyn Waugh.

We're really sorry to hear of the death of our dear colleague Professor Simon James.
From 2016-19, Simon was PI on the Arts Council England and Durham University collaboration, the Durham Commission on Creativity which investigated the benefits of creativity for young people.

Championing Scots, influencing public policy, and working with communities and creatives

More impact stories from #EnglishCreates including this project based in www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite... building local pride and championing working-class writers
More great work at: www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite...

And yet more: creative writing colleagues at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ help patients with long covid. More evidence that English can help to create a better, healthier world #EnglishCreates

How English at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ is helping the NHS #EnglishCreates

More great impact from www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/
bringing literature and literary opportunities to new groups

#EnglishCreates impact across the UK every day.
Learn how this Aberystwyth's project on Expressions of Care helped to benefit communities
See more examples of English impact at universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

An urgent call to action, here about teaching History, but which is highly adaptable to English too @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social.
I chose a History & English degree because both made me *think*. Both can be about meaning-making: how others have made meaning + how we can too.

I’ve just booked for the next English: Shared Futures in York, July 3-5th. What. *great* programme for English in Higher,Secondary+further Education www.englishsharedfutures.org/programme - so many great research, disciple + gcse reform panels! @englishassociation.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social

Book cover. Cocaine Literature and Culture 1876-1930 by Douglas R J Small

I’m honoured that my book, ‘Cocaine, Literature & Culture’ has been shortlisted for the University English Book Prize & in such wonderful company!

@univeng.bsky.social does amazing work promoting Eng as a discipline, & with their #EnglishCreates campaign.
🔗 universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

This is an important letter from bodies representing Arts and Humanities in the UK. Please share widely

4 days until the deadline for submissions! Be in touch if you have any queries, questions or quibbles...

@englishassociation.bsky.social
@univeng.bsky.social

Details of how to apply to be part of the REF 2029 assessment process are here:
2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/ref-2...
@univeng.bsky.social is hosting an information session on 8 January, 11-12.30, with former UoA27 panellists and chairs. ALL WELCOME. Please e-mail g.marshall@reading.ac.uk for a link

This should be another wonderful celebration of the richness of English language, literature, and creative writing. And it will be all the better for YOUR being there

For those who can't make the 8th, @englishassociation.bsky.social will be hosting a similar session on 29th January.