Shahnaz Akhter

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this.

Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments

Absolutely appalling. Someone is going to be killed or seriously injured very soon, and the blame for that won’t only lie with the perpetrators, or the likes of Yaxley-Lennon, but with actual MPs intent on painting members of racialised minorities as threats to women & children

“This is my duty…reporting the suffering of a people that I am living amidst, suffering that I am experiencing myself.”

– Reporter Anas al-Sharif in what would become his final interview with us just weeks before being killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Full report ⤵️
youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

Gen Z, this is a step too far.

Big news from PAIS!
We’ve been ranked #2 in the Russell Group in the 2025 NSS – making it 10 years in a row in the top 2, with 7 years at #1! 🏆

Find out more here buff.ly/57RtxDl

A Fran paper! Gets ready to read !

The £34bn cost of Reform UK’s “Britannia card” proposal Reform UK’s Britannia Card would let wealthy foreigners pay £250,000 to avoid UK tax — but would likely cost £34bn and reduce skilled migration.

Nigel Farage's new non-dom policy "would provide a very large and expensive tax windfall to a small number of very wealthy people who are already here... [that] would amount to £34bn of lost Government revenue over five years"

taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/23/b...

Thanks so much Catherine- your research sounds super interesting!

The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent? When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened?

Also posting this by Samira Shackle : www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

Sir, Any country pushing for growth must invest in its strengths, and Britain is no different. The UK is a global scientific powerhouse but investment in it lags behind that of our competitors. The government is facing a difficult spending review but that is exactly when a clear vision is necessary. Investment in research and innovation is investment in improved productivity, future growth and improved lives. From the development of life-saving vaccines to world-leading research in Al, clean energy and quantum technologies, this country continues to push the frontiers of global discovery and innovation. If we want UK and overseas businesses to continue to back the UK, and for our research institutions to attract and retain the best talent, the government must send a strong signal about increased long-term funding for the people and ideas that will continue to shape the world.

Dame Kate Bingham, managing partner, SV Health Investors Professor Julia Black, president, British Academy Professor Andrew Haldane, CEO, Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Dr Hermann Hauser, co-founder, Amadeus Capital Partners and founder of Acorn Sir John Kingman, chair, Legal & General Group plc Sir John Lazar, president, Royal Academy of Engineering Professor Andrew Morris, president, Academy of Medical Sciences Henri Murison, CEO, Northern Powerhouse Partnership Professor Sir Paul Nurse, CEO, Francis Crick Institute Professor Sir Adrian Smith, president, Royal Society Sir Jonathan Symonds, chair, GSK

We are pleased to be part of this joint National Academies letter in the Times today ahead of the Spending Review making the case for investment in R&D
@royalsociety.org @britishacademy.bsky.social @raeng.org.uk @acmedsci.bsky.social

The term “burka ban” needs to be dropped because they are not talking about banning the burka, but a whole range of head coverings associated with Muslim women.

Don't Make Plans for Nigel At least just yet...

The excellent Ben Ansell explains why Farage is unlikely to be PM in 2029.

"Don't Make Plans for Nigel"

open.substack.com/pub/benansel...

Raymond Hyma’s new working paper explores how participatory action research in Southeast Asia became a tool for connection—shifting identities and building empathy in divided communities. What if the research is the intervention?
buff.ly/9hJhNs8

'Progressivism or bust: Why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to Reform surge' - LabourList Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way.

"Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way."

Jeremy Gilbert on why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to the Reform surge 🔽

My paper has an issue number now, so please read it! Especially if you're that guy who emailed me about my apparent lack of critical thinking skills after I critiqued some conspiracy theories in a different paper...

A concerning colonial attitude by the UK government, implying that expertise is only located in the 'aid givers'. Collaboration, solidarity, responsibility, and most of all humility are key @wicidwarwick.bsky.social @mouzkhalil.bsky.social @shahnaz76.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

“It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it in Gaza.”

British surgeon Dr Victoria Rose tells @vicderbyshire.bsky.social about the current situation at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, adding: “there are more patients coming through the door than I have ever witnessed before.”

#Newsnight

Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper Blog Written by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Shahnaz Akhter and Dr Mouzayian Khalil,Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID)Link opens in a new window, University ...

Universities as a Public Good - a response to the UK Immigration White Paper. Check out this post I co-authored with my amazing colleagues at @wicidwarwick.bsky.social to hear what we have to say about it.....and tell us what you think!
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper Blog Written by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Shahnaz Akhter and Dr Mouzayian Khalil,Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID)Link opens in a new window, University ...

New WICID #ThinkDevelopment blog 📣
We just published a new blog 'Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper' addressing the recent white paper by the UK Government. Please check it out here and share: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper Blog Written by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Shahnaz Akhter and Dr Mouzayian Khalil, University of Warwick.

Protecting Universities as a Public Good. A Response to the Immigration White Paper. A new @wicidwarwick.bswarwick.ac blog by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Mouzayian Khalil and me.

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the state of the higher education sector.

a woman in a black dress is walking in a room with pink cabinets . ALT: a woman in a black dress is walking in a room with pink cabinets .

Growing older in academia is realising very few students get the What is this behaviour Pooja reference.

The UK must recognise the state of Palestine.

A ceasefire, release of hostages, unrestricted aid, diplomatic negotiation + accountability can bring an end to this conflict, and recognition is a crucial first part of that.

I spoke on Radio 4 about @lfpme.bsky.social 76 MPs/Peers urging govt to act

Consequence of world politics at the moment - there really hasn't been enough publicity about how fabulous Diljit Dosanjh looked at the Met Ball.

International student levy branded ‘self-imposed tariff on UK exports’.

Government plan would deepen “financial precarity” for universities and risk deterring students, experts warn.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’ Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government

Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Care worker recruitment from abroad to end, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says Up to 50,000 fewer lower-skilled workers will come to the UK under new measures aimed at tackling net migration, the home secretary says.

This is an esp bad example of the BBC coverage of immigration leaving out the central fact for public understanding

It omits the current evidence on what the level of immigration is (while reporting political claims that make no sense without the fact too)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PMQS club is back after a long recess. Today's session took stock of last week's elections and its usual engagement with how questions are asked and answered. This week all leaders came in for criticism and a call for more detail in answers.