Dr Emma Bridger

Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months

"Exiting the market" is such a soulless way of describing threats to people's livelihoods and the loss of training and opportunity for so many
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More than half of ethnic minority Brits say the England flag has now become a racist symbol, with Brits of all colours now tending to say the raising of the flag is mostly about expressing anti-migrant, or anti ethnic-minority sentiment

@leicesterchem.bsky.social dream team taking a stand ✊ Some of these fine minds are directly in the firing line! ☠️ 🪓 saveleicesteruni.com

Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.

Exhausted after three days of collective consultation meetings. Hoping lots of people can join us protest school closures and mergers* and centralising professional services which will all result in job losses and a diminished university.

'Manufactured panic': Immigration not near top of most people's concerns, poll suggests The cost of living, health, crime, and housing are much higher on people's lists of personal worries, a YouGov survey has suggested. Friday 31 October 2025 04:22, UK

We have had surveys that have shown us exactly this in the UK, France, the EU etc for many years

What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration

This is what I explore here:

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Today colleagues across 5 academic and 1 Professional Services area were informed that their redundancy consultation process starts next week. Spare a thought for all these people who will spend the next 4 months in limbo. Our fight continues and we will be out on strike again from 10 November

Brum Together We are proud to live in Birmingham, a city built by many cultures, stories and traditions. Our diversity is our strength, and that’s what makes this place home. There is nothing wrong with people f...

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#BrumTogether #RefugeesWelcome #StopTheFarRight #StandUpToRacism #Pride #Unity #Grassroots #RaiseTheLove

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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Universities Are Heading A Financial Crisis Like The 2008 Crash, Warns Union BossBoss The head of the University and College Union, Jo Grady, has warned that universities face a financial calamity similar to the 2008 banking crisis, ...

Interview with @ucu.org.uk boss Jo Grady in @politicshome.bsky.social

- unis face a financial calamity similar to the 2008 banking crisis

- unis will be "in the firing line of Reform should they be elected”

- idea unis are "autonomous" now "doesn't wash".

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"Strikes are acts of defiance – but also acts of repair. In interdependent relationships, withholding cooperation is an effective strategy when power is uneven and negotiation has failed." A genuinely fantastic piece by @kristensyme.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

"Psychology cannot claim to protect children if it is only willing to do so selectively. [...] Palestinian children are not collateral. They are not too complex or too controversial to grieve. They are children, entitled to safety, dignity, and care."

Our recent work on causal beliefs about social determinants of health (SDOH) now out in Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy! we look at perceptions of the widest range of SDOH to date. TLDR: people appreciate the role of SDOH but politics matters spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

"Tell me now, how was the world lost?"

the full quote from the book 'They Thought They Were Free' read by @iwriteok.bsky.social in the linked episode of Behind the Bastards has been haunting me every day of this wretched year...

(time: 52:11 - 58:00)

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University staff to consider strikes over possible job losses 'Strategic, sometimes difficult, decisions will be required', university leaders have said

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

Struggling with the silence | BPS The Leicester Chapter of the Psychologists for Social Change meet unfolding horrors with 'anger brewing'…

V proud of the local Leicester Psych for Social Change for consistently and unequivocally speaking out about the outrage of the Gaza genocide and standing in solidarity with student protestors. Kudos to @psychmag.bsky.social and Aspa Paltoglou for breaking the silence www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

It's a good reminder to post PSC Leicester's statement of solidarity with students arrested for protesting these atrocities. No other UK institution is prosecuting student protestors. Link to the crowdfunder for legal costs towards the end of the statement: www.psychchange.org/leicester.html

"By not including what is happening to Palestinians in our studies, in our teaching, in our writing, in our magazines, we become complicit in a genocide and we lose faith in ourselves and others." Incredibly powerful piece by Dr Aspa Paltoglou that is a must-read for psychologists

i had a lot of fun making this video on our stressful politics work led by @lbernardi.bsky.social and UCL colleagues last month. (this partially explains why i'm grinning inappropriately throughout what is actually a serious and very important topic)

@eikofried.bsky.social being as kind and supportive as ever about our collab work on perceptions of social determinants months before i got my act together on bluesky. preprint accessible here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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