Matina Kapsali

Congratulations 🥳 to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Matina Kapsali for receiving Research Staff of the Year award! 👏 👏 👏 @officialuom.bsky.social @matinakapsali.bsky.social

Thanks, Dimitra! :)

@uomhums.bsky.social

Thanks so much, Cristina!!

@manchester.ac.uk

@uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org @cperguom.bsky.social

After-award celebrations with my two favorite people in the world — and of course, pizza! 🍕

Last week was special. Honored to be awarded Research Staff of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities @officialuom.bsky.social

Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me.
Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨

The project was co-facilitated by myself, Alex Holloway and Jess Küçükkalyon.

It was funded by a @uomseed.bsky.social Social Responsibility Fund as part of my @urbanstudiesfoundation.org scholarship.

Read the full version here
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It showed that meaningful outcomes don’t come from having everything perfectly planned but from creating room for shared experimentation and allowing participants’ strengths to lead the way.

From the beginning, we approached the work as equals with the participants. We understood how collaborative design, openness, and honesty can create a space where scholars and communities learn from each other as equals.

The project’s impact goes beyond the final publication. We'll share more on the process soon but some initial thoughts 👇

So happy this is out!! 👩🏽‍🍳📚🌍✍🏾🍜

Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of
Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵

Read and share widely!

#CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking

"Right now it has a membership of over 70 participants located all over the world. We plan to use the network to build community and to spark collaboration. If interested, please join us by sending an email to urbansocialrepro@gmail.com."

We seek to challenge this by continuing working with these organisations (more soon) and creating a network of scholars and activists working on urban social reproduction.

"Notwithstanding the important debates initiated in events such as this workshop, they often start and finish during the one or two days of the event. This lack of continuity does not enable the building of sustained and long-term collaborations between scholars and activists"

Last year, Nina Ebner & I ran a workshop on urban social reproduction w/ scholars & community orgs from Greece, Mexico & the UK.
This included a zine-making workshop capturing shared practices & challenges—a rich, collaborative experience! 📚✨

Read more 👇

Can’t wait to dive into this edited volume on Aesthetics and the City! Looks like @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social have done a fantastic job putting it together. 👏📚

A background image is a photo of a range of front covers of Manchester newspapers. In the middle, it says, "The People's Papers, exploring Greater Manchester's activist newspapers from the 1970's." The WCML and University of Manchester logo sit at the top of the image.

Announcing a new research project! In partnership with the University of Manchester’s ‬ new PGR Placement scheme, we’ll be welcoming a PhD researcher, Arielle Lawson, to the Working Class Movement Library archives this summer.

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Thanks for sharing!

www.collectivecarepr.com

thanks to @uomseed.bsky.social and @manchester.ac.uk
for supporting the project through a Research Stimulation Fund 2024-25

Yesterday we held the 2nd Collective Care workshop "Transnational solidarities"

Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏

While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.

www.collectivecarepr.com

thanks to @uomseed.bsky.social and @manchester.ac.uk for supporting the project through a Research Stimulation Fund 2024-25

Nov: “Here are your revisions. Submit by July, no rush.”
Me: easy, plenty of time!

Me in July: 🫣 …better get started

Tell me I'm not alone 😅

the project is funded by @uomseed.bsky.social 🙏

www.collectivecarepr.com

📻 🎧Just wrapped a great 2-hour workshop with Athens activists: primary teachers & housing activists!

🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.

A busy week ahead with some really exciting events!

🎉 As part of the Collective Care project, we’re hosting two workshops. While both are closed to the public, we’ll be recording, editing, and sharing them on our website soon—along with a new podcast episode.
Stay tuned! ✨
www.collectivecarepr.com

At the @atgender.bsky.social conference today for our panel.

Very interesting discussions on social infrastructures, abolitionist care, urban commodification and police violence.

Barcelona — it’s been such a pleasure. See you soon! 🤩