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Greg Walker

@gregmw4.bsky.social

Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.

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Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 3d ago

Definitely the case here. In two weeks we find which 9 of 12 in my group will be gone. The other 3 will then have a month to prepare and find hourly-paid replacements for all the classes across two degrees. And supervise 25 PhDs. Plus admin and pastoral care and research. Management doesn’t care.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you're arriving at uni this autumn, or maybe dropping your kids, remember that there could be a ghostly phalanx of absent redundant staff, lost modules and degraded degrees making it a very unhappy place. It may *look* the same, but it won't *be* the same. www.ft.com/content/e5b0...

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Shout out for the scores of learned societies and subject associations, especially but not only in the Humanities, that are keeping their heads when all about them are losing theirs. Providing funds for researchers is hard work. It's also such good and important work.

Greg Walker@gregmw4.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is an absolutely astonishing and disgraceful situation, not just for the brilliant scholars and teachers involved, but for the young people of the region, now and on the future, and for the discipline nationally.

Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · 4w ago

The new academic year starts in 2 months. The modules to run are set in stone even if the all-new first year ones haven’t yet been designed. All that remains is to decide which 3 of the 23 of us will still be here to teach them. The redundancy selection criteria has not yet been announced…

Lissa Evans@lissakevans.bsky.social · last mo.

The remarkable historian and writer Juliet Gardiner has died. I used many of her books for research and was lucky enough to become friends with her - she had the most extraordinary, rich & vivid life... 1/2

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Ulla Rajala@ullamr.bsky.social · last mo.

Personal views from @christophersmith.bsky.social "Universities that aren’t fully committed to arts and humanities as a flourishing part of their science offering aren’t committing to the future." 👏👏👏 anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...

Why an industrial strategy needs arts and humanities (and why UKRI are funding us to deliver it)

I joined UKRI six years ago because I was deeply attracted to the ambition of unifying curiosity led research and strategic or mission led interventions with the power of science to drive a just ec…

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EarlyModernista@ellierycroft.bsky.social · last mo.

If you're looking for something to do with your Saturday night, or to fill up the hours between now and the football, why don't you find out more about Predramatic Theatre with me and @gregmw4.bsky.social?!

Beyond Shakespeare@beyondshakes.bsky.social · last mo.

🔊Latest pod drop - it's a discussing episode looking at Predramatic Theatre by Dr Eleanor Rycroft and Professor Greg Walker. Find out more about how radical and exciting the early models of performance could be, and why we should all relax and love an interlude. #drama? audioboom.com/posts/890164...

Greg Walker@gregmw4.bsky.social · last mo.

The news of brutal cuts to the Arts and Humanities at Exeter and elsewhere highlights the self-destructive nature of the ´strategies’ being pursued across UK HE. Exeter’s English Dept was rated the best research unit in English in the country in RAE 2008. 1/4

Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

Adrian Streete@profastreete.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve just finished as external for English Literature and Creative Writing at Exeter. It’s a superb department with an amazing array of modules and brilliant teaching staff. Any sensible University management team would see it as a jewel in their crown. I’m disgusted by these proposed redundancies.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

Gav Maclean@gavmaclean.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Academia is basically working on a boat that's holed beneath the waterline, we're going down slowly with less than enough lifeboats and the captain is currently asking us to throw people overboard to make us lighter in the hope we'll float.