📝Take part in the Annual Disabled Students Survey 2026! By taking part you join thousands of students around the UK in improving Higher Education accessibility. Deadline: 31st August Share your experiences 👇 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dsuk-resea...

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Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, Online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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I don’t know if people elsewhere realise how bad this is but I’m in Liverpool and I can’t open my windows because the air is so smoky outside.

Sky News@news.sky.com · 3w ago

Drone footage captures wildfire in Wales

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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A piece I wrote for the @isrfoundation.bsky.social blog series on the current state of HE. In it I reflect on ableism and a sector running on exhaustion. Based on research with @alisonallam.bsky.social and @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Illustrations by @stacybias.bsky.social

Independent Social Research Foundation@isrfoundation.bsky.social · last mo.

What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series

What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series

The exhaustion economy: Seven illustrations of life at UK universities

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Many are following this. Those at risk here on Exeter's Cornwall campus include myself and colleagues in Geography, Environmental Science, Marine Science, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Maths, Humanities, and 1/2 the Environment and Sustainability Institute. I really hope this can be resolved.

University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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We are recruiting several colleagues in politics and internationsl relations. In a tough job market, this is a significant expansion and could be a great opportunity. Please share with potential candidates! tinyurl.com/4zmcmy6a tinyurl.com/3nse3a48

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🌞 Art inspired and commissioned by UoL Humanities scholars from the @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social project will be on display at Saatchi Gallery this summer, as part of the major exhibition ‘The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial’. 🌙

Liverpool humanities research in spotlight at Saatchi Gallery - University of Liverpool News

Liverpool humanities research in spotlight at Saatchi Gallery

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By the time we see the Code of Practice, it will be too late to make sure it's trans inclusive. We have very little time. Reach out to your MP now 👇

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 4mo ago

Over 3,500 people have taken action in less than 48hs. We need to make sure the government listens to us, and we don't have much time. Will you join us? https://action.goodlawproject.org/force-government-rip-ehrc%E2%80%99s-transphobic-guidance/

Spring at Ness Gardens @liverpooluni.bsky.social

Strong agree. I’ve always brought up the EDI problem of short time frames. 4 weeks will be near on impossible for stretched research support teams too. TBH 8 weeks always seemed problematic enough - it will always favour existing networks & teams made up of people with low teaching commitments.

Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For what it's worth this is my full quote. I would love to understand from @ukri.org why this call has been restricted to 4 weeks (with no advanced warning) going against it's own EDI commitments. The response so far doesn't explain why only 4 weeks nor why not 8 weeks.

Call for survey participants - Current & past part-time PhD students - AND their supervisors. Looking at experiences of PT PGRs. Run by U of Salford. If your institution gets >30 responses, you get a findings report specific to your institution. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/st...

Student Survey Exploring Part-Time Doctoral Student Experiences

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Please join us at SOAS and online for HOW WE APPEAR AND HOW WE ARE FELT: A Conversation w Dr Khairani Barokka about ANNAH, INFINITE. Can’t wait to be in convo w Dr Anandi Rao and with all of you via Q and A. JAN 29, 5-7PM BST, Register via QR code www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography. Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work. Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change. Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT): www.rgs.org/events/upcom... Read report: www.rgs.org/research/hig...

States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography

Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.

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2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

Early Career Researcher Network

An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences

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My top 2025 fiction read: ‘When There are Wolves Again’ by EJ Swift. Beautifully written exploration of ways of living with more-than-human others in the context of climate change. I highly recommend for geographers & env sci/humanities folk as well as SF fans. It deserves to win all the awards.

1) Moving paper by young ME/CFS researcher Katherine Cheston. She was aware of the great disability it causes but "encountering the reality of this suffering first-hand was still shocking and deeply saddening." She gives examples of patients who do not get appropriate care.

New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social for inviting @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Ana Bê Periera and I to discuss creating inclusive research cultures for people with energy limiting conditions as part of this brilliant podcast series

Dr Élaina is cripping out@elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A brand new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture, a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast, is out now! Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found. lnkd.in/e-dgr7Md

In this episode, we discuss: - The management labour needed to create a disability-inclusive workplace - Access intimacy - How disabled-led research informs collaborative and co-production relationships

Disabled researchers are here now. Bethan Evans, Anna Ruddock, Alison Allam, and Morag Rose have developed inclusive methods for researchers and participants with energy limiting conditions and illnesses, showcasing what research led by disabled scholars can look like.

A brand new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture, a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast, is out now! Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found. lnkd.in/e-dgr7Md

Women's Organisations "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/

Women's Orgs "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats

Two culturally significant women's organisations have reversed long-standing trans inclusive approaches, citing "reference to legal challenge" in communications

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When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

@lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

What’s happened to Research Rabbit? It’s gone from one of my most frequently recommended tools to utterly unusable 😩

Even in the rain Glow at Bridgewater gardens is beautiful. Well worth a visit, and all bar a tiny bit wheelchair accessible

This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 8mo ago

UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...

If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social

Guidance - Cripping the Exhaustion Economy

Cripping The Exhaustion Economy Radically Reimagining the Neoliberal Academy from the Sick Bed Guidance We have produced two guidance documents […]

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Prof. Bethan Evans@drbevans.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social