Sandra Sinfield
@danceswithcloud.bsky.social
Associate Teaching Professor #studychat #LoveLD #creativeHE. For playful pedagogy; creativity as liberatory practice; making, drawing & animation for learning.
#LoveLD join us 30.07.26, 3pm: Jen Hayes (LondonMet), poetry reading. Poems emerged from her doctoral research rooted in Appreciative Inquiry & arts‑based methods, exploring the skills, identities, and lived experiences of LDers from minoritised groups: aldinhe.ac.uk/events/
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Grateful for this review in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies!: ‘This book is a call to action, a reminder that current archival practice has just as much of an ‘active effect in guiding how we respond to and categorise objects’ as Sloane himself once did’ doi.org/10.1111/1754...
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Andy Burnham urged to tax banks £55bn profit bonanza. Long overdue. Profiteering. Must end hidden subsidies too. Banks received £100bn interest from UK govt on central reserves, used for clearing interbank transactions, over last 3 yrs. EU mostly stopped it in 2023.
Andy Burnham urged to unleash tax raid on banks amid £55billion profit bonanza
EXCLUSIVE: As Britain's big bank prepare to announce a round of bumper half year profits, critics argue a windfall could pay for the government's cost of living crusade
mirror.co.uk
“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.” Salvador Dalí The things we call imperfections are so often signs that we’ve lived, learned and tried. Life isn’t meant to be perfect. It’s meant to be experienced. Be messy, clumsy and imperfect.🧡 #SelfCompassion #Kindness Art by katieabey
Kemi Badenoch wants govt to rule out higher taxes or borrowing to fund social care. Tories want to dump care costs on households, cut govt spending. Boris Johnson claimed to have an "oven-ready" plan. They had 14 yrs to deal with it. Did nothing. Need integrated universal healthcare.
Kemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social care
In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.
bbc.co.uk
Congrats to PhD student Robannie Sumner her first paper (from her Hons research - and open-access) 🎉🎉🎉 "Dyslexia, school-connectedness, depression, and anxiety during the transition from primary to secondary school" @lizzjhill.bsky.social @lalyp.bsky.social (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...)
Dyslexia, School‐Connectedness, Depression, and Anxiety During the Transition From Primary to Secondary School
Children with dyslexia are at elevated risk of depression and anxiety. The transition from primary to secondary school may be particularly challenging given increased educational demands. Past resear...
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#LoveLD We need to think better about how we review and develop HE: www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/07/25/w...
WEEKEND READING: Designing for the future, not just the crisis: a framework for portfolio review - HEPI
HEPI is recruiting our first Communications Manager. In this exciting role, you will help shape how we share our research, events and ideas. Visit this webpage for the full job description and details...
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New Post: WEEKEND READING: Designing for the future, not just the crisis: a framework for portfolio review www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/07/25/w...
WEEKEND READING: Designing for the future, not just the crisis: a framework for portfolio review - HEPI
HEPI is recruiting our first Communications Manager. In this exciting role, you will help shape how we share our research, events and ideas. Visit this webpage for the full job description and…
hepi.ac.uk
England water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban - public fury over bills & pollution. All circumventing rules, reclassifying bonuses as retention payments, making payments through other companies in the group. Govt was forewarned. Why no enforcement, fines, prosecutions?
Water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban and public fury over bills and pollution
Exclusive: Eight companies expect to be covered by the ban for 2025-26, the Guardian can reveal
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Teaching in a multicultural programme means serving not only as an academic but also as a host, says Raúl Martínez Flores, who offers tips on making international students feel welcome: https://ow.ly/Ge1850ZrQIk #Highered #Academicsky
Make multiculturalism an enriching learning experience
Teaching in a multicultural programme means serving not only as an academic but also as a host, says Raúl Martínez Flores, who offers tips on making international students feel welcome
ow.ly
#LoveLD - love the latest #Take5 from Zubeida Lowton, Glasgow - on the power of role play - generally - and in her Urban Studies programmes: aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-159-re... #LTHEchat #studychat #edchat
#Take5 #159 Reflecting on Role-Play as Pedagogy: Teaching Negotiation and Decision-Making in Planning Education - ALDinHE
Zubeida Lowton is a Lecturer in Urban Studies in the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy at the University of Glasgow. Her teaching contributions
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In June 2026 median gross pay of a payrolled employee was £31,584. £26,260 after income tax and NIC. A single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum standard of living. A couple with 2 children needs £74,000. 25.3m Britons, including,7.7m children live below minimum standard.
Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK - Office for National Statistics
Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data. This is a joint release between HMRC and the Offic...
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🎓 Students aren't blindly trusting AI translation A study of Chinese university English majors found they use AI translation in three moves: draft, cross-check, then fix by hand. Strategic, not lazy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jcal.70294 #CriticalAILiteracy #AIinEducation #EdTech
Engaging With <fc>AI</fc> Tools in Translation Tasks: Chinese University <fc>EFL</fc> Students' Perceptions and Practices
Background The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping language education, with AI-assisted language learning (AILL) offering new opportunities for personalised support and in...
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AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too. trib.al/pa8A91T
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too.
trib.al
In case you missed this, here a Sustack from me asking: Alpha School May Be Efficient. But Is It Education? open.substack.com/pub/paulkirs...
Alpha School May Be Efficient. But Is It Education?
An experiment isn't a revolution
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Well of course they do, can't have the lower classed protected from the Climate Change the Upper Classes have forced on them, it wouldn't be British! /s https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jul/16/private-schools-more-tree-shade-state-schools-england #Classism #ClimateCrisis #UKEducation
Private schools offer 41% more tree shade than state schools in England
Analysis reveals stark socioeconomic divide, with schools with highest free school meal eligibility having fewer trees
theguardian.com
Paving front gardens is making neighbourhoods hotter. Here in York it also adds to flood risk but it’s never really talked about. We have one of the last green front gardens locally. #climatechange #community theconversation.com/how-the-tren...
How the trend for turning front gardens into driveways is adding to night-time heat
There’s a growing trend to pave over front gardens.
theconversation.com
How can labour rights boost real economic growth - by which I mean real household wealth (not just GDP)? Find out in my new Industrial Law Journal article - open access. It's how we reverse British history's worst wage cuts since 2008. Hint: more worker voice...👇 academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...
Economic Growth and Labour Rights: The Case of the Employment Rights Act 2025
Abstract. How do labour rights affect economic growth, and what may we predict from the Employment Rights Act 2025? The UK government says its first missio
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Career Advice | A Practical, Scalable Template for Oral Exams Yes, it can be done, even in classes with dozens of students. By Daniel F. Chambliss: https://bit.ly/4yq16JU #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
#LoveLD - love #Take5 - and here's the latest from #NatalieMack on Student wellbeing: aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-158-gr...
#Take5 #158 Grid of Life Tool to Promote Student Resilience and Wellbeing - ALDinHE
This blog is brought to you from Dr Natalie Mack, an academic in Biotechnology, based in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is
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New publication alert! 🚨 Student experiences of decolonising and indigenising Higher Education By Kim Brown, Rachel Martin, and Yasmin Abdul Aziz www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HigherEducation #Decolonisation
Think you understand AI bias?#aiineducation #ai #edchat think again... Victoria Hedlund shares her thoughts. Listen here 👇 aipodcast.education/victoria-hed...
AI in Education Podcast: Victoria Hedlund on AI bias: What every teacher needs to know
AI systems are increasingly being used in education, but what happens when those systems introduce hidden bias into learning, feedback, assessment and career advice? In this episode, we’re joined by ...
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You could have asked us: “What do you think we should spend all this money on?” We’d have a load of good requirements. All quite boring technical stuff: single data model, open source. Instead we got a one-size-fits-all from Palantir that just doesn’t work for the NHS: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
lrb.co.uk
“Higher education has never been about the efficient production of information. Its purpose is the cultivation of human intelligence through sustained engagement between teachers, students and ideas. Artificial intelligence cannot replace that work.” #AcademicSky #AI
Wonkhe@wonkhe.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW on Wonkhe: For David Tann, used wisely, AI can help educators rediscover their human purpose buff.ly/7nJ3WP1
Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4
AI Summaries Are Not Killing Reading. They Reveal What Reading Already Is ai-in-society.blogspot.com/2026/07/ai-sum… #AI #reading
"This ongoing ‘firewave’ is the most widespread that the UK has seen (…) we’ve never seen fires burning right across the country like this." As climate change makes fires more likely, urban areas, homes, and our health are now increasingly under threat... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
UK in ‘firewave’ as extreme heat provides ideal conditions for wildfires, experts warn
National Fire Chiefs Council say emergency services dealing with 19 wildfires across Britain, many near urban areas
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@librariesftp.bsky.social wants to hear from YOU about your local library. Send us a picture of your library and tell us why you love your library in 100 words!: forms.gle/8c1Uu1iQDop2... - Please submit - we need at least 6 more submissions for 2026
Join #JLDHE Managing Editor, Dr Chad McDonald for a free webinar: Demystifying the JLDHE publication journey: from submission to success July 29, 11:00 - 12:00. Book a ticket at: aldinhe.ac.uk/events/events-calendar #LoveLD
An amendment of one trillion dollars in cuts to the Medicaid program, contained in the tax law passed by the U.S.
Medicaid Cuts Drive Over a Million Family Caregivers into Financial Ruin in the U.S. - Sinaptica
An amendment of one trillion dollars in cuts to the Medicaid program, contained in the tax law passed by the U.S. Congress in 2025, threatens to collapse the ec
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