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📣 I am very excited about my new book "#University #Governance, #Management and the #Academic #Profession" is out! 🙌 Thank you so much to co-editors Prof. Monica Marquina and Prof. Glen Jones for great collaboration ! 📘 Check it out through Springer: 👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

University Governance, Management and the Academic Profession

Explores issues and trends regarding the transformation of governance, Is written by scholars engaged in largest comparative studies of higher education

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We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP Deadline: 9 June Please repost- thanks! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🎓We invite you to the guest talk of Prof. F. Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences @harvard.edu “Which Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Universities” 📅 Tuesday, May 20, 2025 🕒 2:15–3:30 p.m. (online) 📩 Register: hdhf.zhb.tu-dortmund.de/en/professor...

Guest Talk by Professor Frank Dobbin, Harvard University

As part of the INTERSECT project it is our pleasure to invite you to a guest talk by Professor Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

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Full crowd at @standupforscience.bsky.social about halfway in

With university departmental closures are we seeing the emergence of geographical 'cold spots' for social science/humanities/arts (SHAPE) subjects? We've developed a new beta mapping tool using HESA data to enable you to explore the situation by subject www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

On 30 January, the European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO) was officially launched. EUA has played an active role in this initiative through its participation in the policy advisory board, working groups. and ongoing feedback processes.

European Higher Education Sector Observatory and Scoreboard launched to support evidence-based policy making

EUA - European University Association

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Second university cutting jobs today is the University of South Wales. In the medium term, the Welsh HE system is basically done with and gone unless there's a large-scale intervention. It's got no chance. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

University of South Wales announces plan to axe 90 jobs and cut courses

The announcement has been made on the same day Bangor University announced 200 job losses

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Let's just say it gets bigger everyday... @standupforscifr.bsky.social We're doing this for the next generation of scientists. To uphold the integrity of science, protect its accessibility, and ensure its benefits serve all people. Join us. @standupforscience.bsky.social

Science Magazine@science.org · 2y ago

Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

University leaders should work to shield research and teaching communities from undue external pressure and interference. Read EUA's position paper on 'How universities can protect and promote academic freedom' at https://buff.ly/40KI1SJ #AcademicFreedom

How universities can protect and promote academic freedom

EUA - European University Association

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🚨📰 Union members at Newcastle University have become the latest to vote in favour of strike action, seeing them join a growing wave of unions announcing industrial action across UK higher education @newcastleucu.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/newcast...

Newcastle University staff vote to join wave of strike action

Newcastle University votes in favour of industrial action, joining Dundee and East Anglia in achieving successful ballots

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Coventry University is in crisis: 👉 300 jobs at risk 👉 Severe cuts across faculties Yet the vice-chancellor: 👉 Received an £80,768 bonus on £300k+ salary 👉 Rewarded with position at the DBT Sign the petition, urge the govt to rescind his role 👇 bit.ly/4aL7iAN

Remove Coventry University vice-chancellor from government role

Coventry University is facing an unprecedented jobs and debt crisis under the leadership of vice-chancellor John Latham. The institution is threatening to sack 300 staff and rehire some of them in its...

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I am happy that key insights from my talk at #NYU last October based on #Erasmus+ #InterHED project got featured on the #I-LAB SPS NYU website, highlighting actionable insights on transforming wellbeing through #intersectionality in #higher #education! 🙂 www.ilab.sps.nyu.edu/post/transfo...

Transforming Well-Being Through Intersectionality: Insights from NYU’s “Intersectionality in Action” Event

How can intersectionality reshape our understanding of well-being?At the recent “Intersectionality in Action: Transforming Well-being in Education & Business” event hosted by NYU SPS, leading research...

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Great @mol-etheridge.bsky.social paper on how academic mothers intentionally (often spontaneously) obfuscate their circumstances/caring responsibilities to remain or appear productive, masking their challenges and inadvertently helping the system to stay as it is. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Agency and cruel optimism in the care obfuscations of UK-based academic mothers - Higher Education

This article introduces the concept of “care obfuscation”, developed from interviews with 32 UK-based academic mothers about their experience of the transition to parenthood. Care obfuscation refers t...

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🚨 Reminder: The application deadline for two open positions @gesis.org department Computational Social Science is approaching quickly! 📅 Application deadline: January 20

Sebastian Stier@sebstier.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 Two open positions in our project “Developing AI-Powered Survey Infrastructures” 🚀 🔬 Postdoc: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... 📚 Doctoral researcher: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge... 🌟 Be part of an interdisciplinary team and combine surveys, digital behavioral data and LLMs

For those in higher education research - EERA conference ECER deadline is end of January, check our also their support for ECRs!

European Educational Research Association - EERA@ecer-eera.bsky.social · 2y ago

Did you know that EERA supports emerging researchers via a wide variety of activities, including bursaries, season schools, mentoring and awards? #EmergingResearchersGroup #EduSci #ECRchat #PhDchat #ERG Learn more here: eera-ecer.de/about-e...

Consider submitting an abstract to our 07 track of EU-SPRI 2025 conference in Dortmund on the Role of universities in shaping societal futures! We welcome researchers as well as higher education practitioners to share their research or experiences euspri2025.de/index.php/to... Deadline: January 31!

'Who pays for HE and how?' promises to be a big debate over the next few years. I'm honoured to be speaking on this at @hepi-news.bsky.social/CDBU's landmark symposium next week (16/1/25) at Birkbeck Uni. Attend in person or online: www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/12/18/c...

CDBU / HEPI Symposium, Thursday 16 January 2025: 'Who Pays? Exploring Fairer Funding Models for Higher Education' - HEPI

The UK’s higher education system faces many challenges, of which the largest is student fees. Many proposals are circulating but none commands a consensus. The CDBU (Council for the Defence of British...

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This is what will happen in the university sector: *Shared services *Mergers *Widespread redundancies *Big cuts to STEM and R&D *Big unis get even bigger *Squeezed cities, angry voters *Huge geographical cold spots www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Why 2025 Could Be A Pivotal Year For Universities

Securing the future of UK universities will be one of many major challenges for the Government next year.

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Getting through the day and still having a smile on my face! How do students define success in the university learning environment? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Getting through the day and still having a smile on my face! How do students define success in the university learning environment?

The expression ‘student success’ has gained traction in the university sector and has been applied to various aspects of the higher education (HE) learning trajectory. Yet, ‘success’ is an amorphou...

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Wat de @knaw-nl.bsky.social zegt - de bekostigingssystematiek van het hoger onderwijs maakt het voor individuele universiteiten aantrekkelijk om beslissingen te nemen die het onderwijs aanbod in Nederland grote schade toebrengen!

Frans van Heest@fransvanheest.bsky.social · 2y ago

Minister Eppo Bruins verdedigt de plannen van de @unileiden.bsky.social en @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social om verschillende talenstudies te beëindigen, terwijl de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen @knaw-nl.bsky.social juist waarschuwt tegen het nemen van onomkeerbare besluiten.

Why are UK universities in a (genuine) state of crisis? Market readjustment? Bad luck? Mismanagement? Brexit? Poor policy? Bureaucracy? Global forces? Wokery? I've tried to capture this in a nutshell. How did I do? #highered #students #crisis #universities ddubdrahcir.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/w...

What’s Going On (in UK universities)? Brother, brother, brother…

We are not amused… (10 points to whoever identifies reference in the title.) I’ve given myself a challenge – summarise the mess that UK HE is in, in c.800 words. Here goes… Even to a casual o…

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In 2024, together with @emilianotrere.com, we published this book - Algorithms of Resistance (@mitpress.bsky.social) - the result of five years of fieldwork. We show that we can challenge platform power. Since it is gift time, this book is available in Open Access on the MIT press site. Enjoy!

Algorithms of Resistance

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control ou...

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The scale of redundancies in the UK HE seems to be unprecedented! A conscious policy push and a question of mismanagement? I find it really problematic that the managers are cutting academic staff who are at the core of the university - without them managers can pack their bags. 🤨

Su-ming Khoo@sumingkhoo.bsky.social · 2y ago

😱💔 horrible to see what is happening to our friends and colleagues in UKHE. Some of the hardest working, good people I know. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

It was a very throught provoking talk and a great discussion! Thanks Janja @jkom.bsky.social for bringing the attention to the issue of assetization of teaching and learning content!

Janja Komljenovic@jkom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Less than 2 hours to go before my webinar on the assetization of academic content. I think registration is still open. Join me and @liulei14.bsky.social, if you have time this afternoon. See here: tinyurl.com/y2nw6m2w

University of Oslo is hiring 2-4(!) Associate Professors in Political Science. The call is open to candidates from all subfields. Deadline is February 3rd. It comes with amazing colleagues, great work conditions, and lots of snow. Brown cheese, salmon, and cross-country skis can be supplementary.

2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo

Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

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Looking forward to my presentation on collective resistance in academia at the SRHE conference in Nottingham tomorrow!

GenAI in HE promises productivity, in our paper we look at the reinforcement of inequities in a prestige-driven HE economy, where prestige dictates hierarchy, agency, and sometimes exclusion. #GenAI #HigherEd link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Academics’ Weak(ening) Resistance to Generative AI: The Cause and Cost of Prestige? - Postdigital Science and Education

The disruptive potential of generative AI (GenAI) tools to academic labour is potentially vast. Yet as we argue herein, such tools also represent a continuation of the inequities inherent to academia’...

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