Dr Eve Hayes

Delighted to present the keynote @ 7th Privacy Symposium Africa in Lagos. Looking forward to discussions w/ industry leaders in data protection, regulation, policy & law. It’s encouraging to see civil society, academic & advocacy colleagues here too #digitalidentity #biometrics @sas-news.bsky.social

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...

This week we also launched a new Applied History Fellowship scheme, with @ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII

Fellowships will support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians

Looking forward! Thank you Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional & Public International Law (ACCPIL) & Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society & Rule of Law (CISRUL) for the kind invite. Globalising Digital Identity: Citizenship, Rights & 'Statelessness-like' Experiences www.abdn.ac.uk/law/news-eve...

Mani…RIP. What a loss.

CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminars Autumn 2025:

25 Nov Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao

9 Dec Laboring Neighbors: Afro-Asian Ecologies in the Colonial Caribbean

shorturl.at/BnOkd

@soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @deannalyncook.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Programs - School of Advanced Study

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉

universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/

(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)

Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Photograph of a woman's bare midriff, illustrating a first-hand account of fertility treatments. She is holding a surgical needle in her left hand and a cotton swab in her right and wearing a cropped top and low-rise white leggings.

“I had both an academic self, competently working, and a private self, attending a PhD supervision immediately after finding out my #IVF cycle had failed.”

Samantha Wilkinson writes in the Magazine about the invisibility of #infertility in the workplace.

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School of Advanced Study Uniting research institutes and centres at the University of London to form the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of academic research in the humanities.

👋 Hi Bluesky!

The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate.

Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/

There is something so wonderfully magical about @senatehouselib.bsky.social // @sas-news.bsky.social by night.

Tomorrow! @ihr.bsky.social

Taster Session: Introduction to Responsible AI

Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Thrilled to be heading to Paris next year to lead the roundtable “Future Directions for Haitian and Dominican Studies” at the aptly themed #LASA2026 congress “Republic and Revolution”. Looking forward to building on discussions started back in 2018 at the Global Dominican conference at Senate House.

Developing and Writing Funding Applications

Join us next week for this helpful session on developing & writing funding proposals.
Dr Andrew Fairweather-Tall, Director of Research & Innovation @uolondon.bsky.social
Prof Philip Murphy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
@nlwillson.bsky.social IBAR
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thoroughly looking forward to giving the keynote address “Digital Identity and Biometric Data in Africa: Striking the Balance between Inclusion, Security and Privacy” at the Privacy Symposium Africa conference in Lagos this month! #PSA2025 #digitalidentity #biometrics @ials.bsky.social

Oral History and Digital Storytelling

Very much looking forward to teaching on this new interactive in-person 2-day Oral History and Digital Storytelling short course alongside my fabulous colleague @maxinebeuret.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social in February. DM me for more details. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

⚡ We’ve relaunched the former Jovians group as a new network EnergHist! From electricity to coal, atoms, wind & more.
New conveners, Zoom hangouts, newsletter & space to share work.
Want to join? groups.google.com/g/energhist
please spread the word! #EnergyHistory

Delighted that our #LASA2026 roundtable to collaboratively explore the future of Haitian and Dominican Studies, building on discussions raised w/ colleagues at the Global Dominican conference hosted by @uolondon.bsky.social in 2018. Looking forward to reconnecting w/ LASA Haiti-DR colleagues too.

I graduated from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social in French, Spanish, German and Portuguese back in 2005. How many working class Brits can say that they became fluent to university level in five languages? This TRANSFORMED my life and world view. Shambolic. Short-sighted. Devastating.

I would not have my academic career had I not graduated in modern languages there 20 years ago. Got my first job at the EU then lived and worked around the world. So awful!!!

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

This course literally changed the trajectory of my life. First gen student who learnt that the world is a complex and beautiful place - led to me working and living overseas for many years. Lifelong friendships formed.

I got my BA in modern languages from the University of Nottingham 20 years ago. This news is bloody depressing albeit not surprising.

Caribbean Studies Seminar

Our next CLACS Caribbean Seminar will be hosted by the fantastic Renée Landell & @deannalyncook.bsky.social
The Youth Ambassadors of our Country: Little League Baseball & Postcolonial Nation Building on Curaçao w/Jan Bant
@ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Lovely to be back in beautiful Aberdeen tonight where my PhD journey began.

Illustration of a 19th-century sugar plantation in Cuba with a steam locomotive in the foreground, red-roofed buildings with smoking chimneys, palm trees, crop fields, and a few people near train tracks, all framed by an ornate border.

📢Join us for the first seminar of the 2025-26 Caribbean Seminar Series!

"Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Slavery, Movement, Place, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" by Dr Camillia Cowling

🗓️22 Oct 2025 | ⏰17:30–19:00 | 🌐Online

More info🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

That’s because in the U.K. government ministers think that GCSE English consists of “Can I order a cheese sandwich? Where is the nearest Bahnhof, bitte? And my favourite hobbies are cycling and holidays.”

You (re)claim your space and know you 100% deserve to be there!

Delighted to be giving the keynote address at the upcoming Privacy Symposium Africa in Nigeria talking about the exclusionary risks of digital identity systems #PSA2025

📍Topic: Digital Identity & Biometric Data in Africa: Striking the Balance Between Inclusion, Security, and Privacy bit.ly/uwpsa

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...