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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage

As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

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You can read more findings from our recent report into 'cold spots' below. 👇

Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education

This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

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Thrilled to share this episode with Mengwei Tu, hosted by @yangyangcheng.bsky.social. We talked time inheritance, gender and educational mobility in and out of China. A conversation that brought out thinking I had not anticipated. 🎙️ madeinchinajournal.com/2026/06/29/e... @madeinchinajournal.com

Episode 10 | The Race for Education | Made in China Journal

For millions of children in China, life has been a race against time since the day they were born. They are blasted with advertisements that warn ‘Do Not Lose at the Starting Line’, and handed by thei...

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Such a great experience to discuss inherited time inqualities in education and mobility across China with @madeinchinajournal.com @yangyangcheng.bsky.social! Wonderful conversation and lots of new insights for me!

Made in China Journal@madeinchinajournal.com · last mo.

What drives Chinese children to study overseas, and how do they and their parents plan around shifting immigration regimes? For the our podcast, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks with sociologists @coralinglingxu.bsky.social and Mengwei Tu about education and mobility in and out of China.

If you speak Mandarin and want to listen to podcasts, make it this one! www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/6a27...

46.骗子、扒手、票串串：四川嬢嬢的野蛮成都往事

听《熊家客厅》上小宇宙。 熊阿姨，资深社会新闻记者、编辑 曾任《时尚先生》副主编、《三联生活周刊》主任记者、《智族GQ》报道编辑。 现为一支业余女足球队的业余前锋。

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Huge congrats to Dr @tongmeng.bsky.social for joining Ningbo University as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor)! So proud of you! ffl.nbu.edu.cn/info/1084/17...

New article out, open access: showing how time is racialised and how race is temporalised in doctoral supervision. 'Confronting racialised temporal inequalities: A post-colonial analysis of Zhihu users’ portrayals of doctoral supervisors in Western academia'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Confronting racialised temporal inequalities: A post-colonial analysis of Zhihu users’ portrayals of doctoral supervisors in Western academia - Cora Lingling Xu, 2026

When navigating the confusing scene of doctoral applications to Western higher education institutions, international and racialised doctoral applicants sometime...

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PUP is pleased to offer an internship in our Creative Media Lab for Fall 2026-Spring 2027. The Graphic Design Intern will work with both marketing designers and books designers on projects to promote new books.   This role is hybrid/remote & open to those in NJ or PA. Apply by 7/12: buff.ly/JH2gU2A

Cannot wait to host the first international inter-diciplinary event on how the 'time inheritance' framework informs international higher education research and practice. Join us on 15th July 2026! Register: srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ...

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Thrilled to share a long-form interview with 十点人物志 on my book The Time Inheritors. Huge thanks to 三金 for the depth of research and questioning, and to editor 野格 for the careful editing. Time inequality is structural, not personal. Full piece (Chinese): mp.weixin.qq.com/s/vYgEULSDMS...

越来越多80后90后，陷入一种“新型贫困”

“你不是失败者，你是时间结构下的生存者”

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🎙️ New podcast episode! The Time Inheritors ⏳ What “time inheritance” means 📚 Stories from my research 🏠 How temporal inequalities shape everyday life ⚖️ My current work on time equality 💭 Personal reflections on how we experience and value time 🎧 www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/6a22...

EP01 为什么总觉得时间不够用？揭开“时间贫困”的真相 | 对话学者许玲玲

听《十点来客》上小宇宙。 「十点来客」是由深度报道媒体「十点人物志」发起的一档泛文化类播客，每期我们会要邀请一位专家学者或某领域的代表人物来做客。微信公众号@十点人物志。

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So grateful to Baoyi Wang (Kyushu Uni) for this generous review of The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social! ...offers "a new language for recognising" the struggles of young people caught between educational stigma and geopolitical uncertainty. doi.org/10.1080/0305... #HigherEducation #China

The time inheritors: how time inequalities shape higher education mobility in China

Published in Comparative Education (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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So grateful to Dr Ken Chih-Yan Sun for his generous review of The Time Inheritors (SUNY Press) in Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration! He calls it "a must-read for scholars interested in migration, education, inequalities, and time/temporalities." intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

An exciting and important book! Share widely and ask your University library to order it!

Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️@chenchenzhang.net · 3mo ago

Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.

Excited to be speaking at this @SRHE73 online event on 27 May! I'll be on the panel discussing 'English as time wealth?' — rethinking inequality, mobility & identity in multilingual universities. FREE for SRHE members. Register now ⬇️ srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/even... #HigherEdu #Multilingualism #EMI

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after a long wait, our forum article on the uses and abuses of the anticolonial in global reactionary politics is finally online! academic.oup.com/ips/article/... for the IPS @20 special issue

Congratulations to Dr Yan Chen on passing her PhD viva! 🎓🎉 Her thesis on students' resilience in rural China is truly intriguing. Thanks to examiners Drs Siqi Zhang & Anna Llewellyn, chair Prof Mike Fleming, and co-supervisors Dr Antonia Manresa & Prof Prue Holmes.

"Everyone has the same 24 hours" — sounds fair. But it isn't. After 10 years and interviews w/ 100+ ppl, I found that time anxiety isn't a personal failing. New episode on 新世相 🎧https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69dd2627b977fb2c47da83db

A recent BBC report shows sexism in football is an ongoing issue. A new pop-up and online exhibition by @staceypope.bsky.social shines a light on the untold experiences of female fans — and challenges the idea that greater access has led to true equality. www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

Happy to share this article by Xin Fan, funded by @ninedtp.bsky.social @durhameducation.bsky.social @durhamchina.bsky.social on rural Peidu mothers' intersectional experiences in #China Big Congrats! proud supervisor moment. #VikkiBoliver @bjse.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A choice of no choice: depleted capital and the intersectional burdens of rural Peidu mothers

This article examines the experiences of rural Chinese Peidu mothers - women who migrate temporarily to cities to accompany their children’s schooling - through Bourdieu’s concept of capital and th...

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The British Academy ECR Network supports Early Career Researchers to connect, learn and grow. Charlotte says: “As a result of being part of this network, I’ve had opportunities and experiences that otherwise I would not have had.” Join an Opportunity Session to learn more. https://bit.ly/4dHUX3I

Thanks so much!😀

School of Education at Durham University@durhameducation.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congrats to Associate Prof @coralinglingxu.bsky.social on winning a @britishacademy.bsky.social SHAPE Involve & Engage award for a project titled 'Time Inheritance: Mapping Inequalities, Co-Creating Futures'. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

My new interview with FT Chinese is out. Inequality is not just about wealth. It is also about time. Who gets the freedom to pause, explore, and recover from mistakes? Who has to turn every decision into immediate survival? @sunypress.bsky.social www.ftchinese.com/story/001109...

专访许玲玲：失去托举的年轻人，只能怪上一代不够努力吗？

“我们应该问的是，为什么社会的分配制度和评价体系持续地把更多价值赋予那些已经拥有原始积累的家庭、地区和群体？”

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in the recent Two Sessions the govt raised the basic monthly rate from ¥143 to ¥163 ($28). this raise, which some have described as insulting, sparked much discussion online. for urbanites often don't realize just how little rural residents have to make do with. www.bbc.com/zhongwen/art...

“对农民有点儿太亏了”：20元人民币何以引爆中国养老金的讨论 - BBC News 中文

中国2026年全国两会落下帷幕，但有关政府基础养老金提涨20元对农村居民影响的讨论才刚开始。

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the majority of basic pension users are senior citizens in rural areas (over 70%), who have to continue working while they can because it's far from covering subsistence diyin.org/article/2025...

老有所依？——中国农村养老困境

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how stark is the pension disparity in China's stratified welfare system? average pension for public sector retirees ¥6278 per month for company employees ¥3162 yuan pm for 180 million people entitled only to the basic pension scheme 城乡居民基础养老金, the average pay is ¥222.5 per month ($32)

I recently spoke with FreshEd about the argument at the heart of my new book, #TheTimeInheritors: inequality is not only about what people have, but also about when they have it. I also argue that support measures can reproduce inequality. @sunypress.bsky.social freshedpodcast.com/xu/?trk=feed...

Cora Lingling Xu • FreshEd

Today we explore how time can be inherited like status or wealth and what that means for higher education mobility and inequality.

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Not everyone gets to be “relaxed.” For some, ease is not a trait but a privilege. In this podcast episode, I talk about time inheritance, time poverty, gendered burdens, and why some people inherit margin while others inherit urgency. A lot of what looks personal is structural.

对话许玲玲：「松弛感」很可能是一种特权｜EP03

听《简单聊聊 Talk》上小宇宙。 《简单聊聊 Talk》是「简单心理」出品的一档泛心理类播客。 我们邀请来自不同领域的嘉宾，讨论关于个体和时代的情绪。这里没有标准答案，但希望通过这些对话，陪你更深入地理解自己，并在向内生长的路上，多一点力量。 如有节目建议，欢迎写信给我们：feelingmatters@jiandanxinli.com。 节目文字稿同步发布于「简单心理」公众号；如有心理咨询...

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Excited to read Professor Miaoyan Yang and Mr Chenyu Zeng's review of The Time Inheritors, published in Compare; open access. @sunypress.bsky.social “The book is theoretically ambitious, empirically rich, and narratively compelling' www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XC8PM...

The time inheritors: how time inequalities shape higher education mobility in China

Published in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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很荣幸上“中女电台”和子月老师聊时间继承，打开“中女”模式来思考时间不平等对女性的影响。聊得很尽兴，音乐选的超赞！听听看哦！ www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69b0...

中女电台043期｜许玲玲：“时间继承”是特权或贫困的代际转移

听《中女Radio》上小宇宙。 这是一档由艺术家王子月发起的聚焦中国女性成长的播客节目。 节目计划对话100位不同年龄、职业各异的中国女性，围绕成长困境、亲密关系、爱与欲望、生死观等话题展开探讨。旨在以这些女性的成长经验与生命经历为样本，呈现女性的多样性，挖掘她们强大的生命能量和智慧，为每个人的生活带来启发。 微信搜索znradio2025，欢迎加入我们的社群，一起聊聊中女的话题。 出品：王子...

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