Sofia Lampropoulou

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles.

www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

There's your impact :)

Absolutely! 100% You're very welcome as honorary at UoL - happy to pursue this, if you're interested.

Deborah Cameron obituary Linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how language can shape gendered experiences

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Gender-Inclusive Language This book provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of current research and desiderata related to the use of gender-inclusive language across 14 major European languages. It also addresses min...

Happy to have a chapter in this newly published book on gender-inclusive language. With a great team of Greek colleagues, we review the belated awakening of nonsexist language policy in Greek and its lack of uptake in public discourse.
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Introducing the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies

By @bforchtner.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social

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📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Call for Papers, Panels, and Workshops for the IRIS 2026 international conference, titled Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement …

📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities superdiversity.net/2026/01/23/%...

Desperately sad news about Deborah Cameron today. She was such a brilliant, incisive presence in the world of linguistics and particularly language and gender. Don't know what else to say but I'm sure there will be many tributes paid to her and her work in the days to come.

‘They’re emboldened’: British far-right activists step up harassment of asylum seekers in northern France Aid groups say rise of far-right rhetoric in politics has fed into intimidation, vandalism and hate graffiti around migrant camps

The Guardian reports far- right groups harassing people seeking safety in northern France, destroying water supplies and invading sleeping spaces. This is where the politics of division leads. We need leaders who choose hope and unity. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/4sRPMn2

January just got tastier. Bring friends, colleagues, or your community together to host a Potluck for refugees. Share a meal, show solidarity, and support people seeking safety. It is easy to organise and powerful to take part.

Sign up today: https://bit.ly/4a1k1jU

When & where I grew up education was a right and financial barriers had to be removed to ensure equality of access. HE was at service of the public good. In many countries in Europe this is still the case. You read this article in FT and you realise you are on a different planet.

FLyer for the vigil at the US embassy on Monday 18.30

On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️

@ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org

Very important work! Congratulations Scott and Francesca!

Migration story for early years.
Out Feb 26th

Happy New Year to all researchers who continue to believe that reading and thinking (and that writing is itself a process of thinking things through) are vital to critical analysis!

🤣 Τώρα έπρεπε να το φέρουμε με τη σημαία στην πλατεία. Το 2028 παίζει να έχουμε κ δεξιό δήμαρχο!

Ούτε κι εγώ αλλά με εξέπληξε θετικά! Ίσως η Πάτρα είναι καλή για Cadaad conference after all!

A picture of a 'free Palestine' flag with a message in Greek supported by the local authorities in the central square of the city of Patra, Greece

In the central square of Patra. Proud of my hometown. And a great spot to change the year #humanitarianism& solidarity @dimitrisrf.bsky.social @stavrosling.bsky.social

I Met Migrant Women in Calais Hoping to Reach the UK and This Is What I Learnt It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism”, argues Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward

"Too often, policies are justified not by whether they work, but by whether they sound punitive enough to satisfy an increasingly volatile media ecosystem. People seeking safety are framed as a problem to be managed, rather than lives to be protected"

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...

How would #migrationstudies look like: (1) if #migrants are the 'stakeholders' and the #migrationindustry the research subject? (2) if we shift from analysing (and problematising) “migrant behaviour” to interrogating (and problematising) the vast ecosystem that governs mobility?

It was very interesting being amongst colleagues in politics and hearing their perspectives!

Thanks @podmalm.bsky.social for the organisation. Looking forward to the book!

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Seminar: From Micro Aggression to Micro Inclusion: A Linguistic Approach to Decolonising the Everyday

With Dr Zozan Balci

@livunienglish.bsky.social

📅Wednesday 3rd December, 2-3:30pm
📍Sherrington Building, SR 4
🎟️or join us on Zoom: tinyurl.com/3z9y3pz6

Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.

Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...

Mahmood here is moving dangerously towards a Priti Patel/Suella Braverman field: pushing forward her own racial profile to justify mistreating migrants on the basis of 'race relations' claims from the 1960s. She hurts migrants as well as other politicians of colour by playing this game.

Interested in master's study in the department of English? Have a look at these four new Liverpool scholarships for September 2026 starts, available for University of Liverpool courses www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... More details ⬇️

Irregular migration as an assemblage - I-CLAIM Rethinking irregular migration: a new I-CLAIM paper questions the categories, narratives, and policies that sustain ‘irregularity’.

What if the very policies designed to prevent irregularity are the ones that keep producing it?

I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...

How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?

Across Europe, politicians promise to “stop illegal migration” as if it were a problem that comes from the outside.

What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?

#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood

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November 17th is one of the events proudly commemorated in Greece - and a platform to protest&express current political sentiment.

Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.