Congratulations 🥳 to @urbanstudiesfoundation.org Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Matina Kapsali for receiving Research Staff of the Year award! 👏 👏 👏 @officialuom.bsky.social @matinakapsali.bsky.social

Matina Kapsali@matinakapsali.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Last week was special. Honored to be awarded Research Staff of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities @officialuom.bsky.social Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me. Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨

Last week was special. Honored to be awarded Research Staff of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities @officialuom.bsky.social Grateful that efforts get recognized—and even more grateful for the incredible people beside me. Special thanks to Sarah @smhall.bsky.social for always being there. 🌸🙏✨

So happy this is out!! 👩🏽‍🍳📚🌍✍🏾🍜 Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with 6 inspiring women of Heart&Parcel to co-create CuiZine—an online zine exploring “The social lives of food” through a series of collaborative workshops. 🧵 Read and share widely! #CuiZine #foodstories #zinemaking

Last year, Nina Ebner & I ran a workshop on urban social reproduction w/ scholars & community orgs from Greece, Mexico & the UK. This included a zine-making workshop capturing shared practices & challenges—a rich, collaborative experience! 📚✨ Read more 👇

Urban Studies Foundation@urbanstudiesfoundation.org · last yr.

🔔 How are grassroots infrastructures reshaping cities from below? In this guest post, #USFPostdoctoralFellows @matinakapsali.bsky.social and Nina Ebner reflect on their workshop “Grassroots Infrastructures and Urban Social Reproduction” 📖 Read more: ow.ly/Wbzs50Wve57 #UrbanStudies #Infrastructure

Can’t wait to dive into this edited volume on Aesthetics and the City! Looks like @joeblakey.bsky.social and @amycbarron.bsky.social have done a fantastic job putting it together. 👏📚

Joe Blakey@joeblakey.bsky.social · last yr.

Today marks the launch of our edited volume Aesthetics and the City. @amycbarron.bsky.social and I are thrilled to see this in print. We hope it’s of interest! Do let us know what you think. We are hosting a hybrid launch event in early October. 🔗More details: www.routledge.com/Aesthetics-a...

Announcing a new research project! In partnership with the University of Manchester’s ‬ new PGR Placement scheme, we’ll be welcoming a PhD researcher, Arielle Lawson, to the Working Class Movement Library archives this summer. bsky.app/profile/manc... bsky.app/profile/uom-...

Yesterday we held the 2nd Collective Care workshop "Transnational solidarities" Huge thanks to all participants for their beautifully crafted talks. ✨🙏 While this was a closed event to allow for open discussion among participants, our website will be updated soon with reports and details.

Nov: “Here are your revisions. Submit by July, no rush.” Me: easy, plenty of time! Me in July: 🫣 …better get started Tell me I'm not alone 😅

📻 🎧Just wrapped a great 2-hour workshop with Athens activists: primary teachers & housing activists! 🎙️ We talked podcasting for collective/activist action, consent, resources (or lack of them) (time, funding), and cool ideas for collective podcasts + how unis/researchers can back them.

A busy week ahead with some really exciting events! 🎉 As part of the Collective Care project, we’re hosting two workshops. While both are closed to the public, we’ll be recording, editing, and sharing them on our website soon—along with a new podcast episode. Stay tuned! ✨ www.collectivecarepr.com

At the @atgender.bsky.social conference today for our panel. Very interesting discussions on social infrastructures, abolitionist care, urban commodification and police violence. Barcelona — it’s been such a pleasure. See you soon! 🤩

A full day in Barcelona today! 📒 💻 It was exciting to meet and speak with colleagues at @bcnuej.bsky.social. The conversations around creative participatory methodologies, political movements, and care will stay with me for a long time. Thanks so much for the invitation!

a great and much needed piece

Zali Fung@zalifung.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in Geographica Helvetica 🚨 I reflect on the (im)possibilities of doing slow scholarship in neoliberal academia as an early-career scholar & how precarity limits collaboration. I outline *collective* strategies to address this & invite further discussion gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...

Planning my trip to Barcelona to attend the 2025 AtGender conference and host a panel on "Political infrastructures of transformative justice" with 4 amazing speakers! Can't wait! 🤩 🎉 www.atgenderconference.org More info soon!

Excited to be in Barcelona this July and meet the @bcnuej.bsky.social team! Also happy to give a talk on "Counter-Topographies of Care: Feminist Geographies, Migrant Infrastructures, and Political Subjectification" 💻 In person & online 📆 8 July @uomseed.bsky.social @urbanstudiesfoundation.org

BCNUEJ@bcnuej.bsky.social · last yr.

📆📢Coming up, Jul 8‼️ @matinakapsali.bsky.social, postdoc researcher at @officialuom.bsky.social will talk at @icta-uab.bsky.social about the political and spatial dynamics of grassroots, feminist-oriented infrastructures emerging in migrant communities. Join us online!💻🔗 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

Excited to see this happening tomorrow in Athens: International Workshop on Housing Rights in Times of Crises. I’ve followed this project from the start in various roles—it’s so interesting to see it come together. Can’t wait for the insights & brilliant speakers!

New paper out today by @laurajpottinger.bsky.social and me, making the case for more curious, diverse and heterodox economic geographies- and suggestions for how we can do this! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘Male, Pale and Stale’? For More Curious, Diverse and Heterodox Economic Geographies

With this paper we directly address critiques made of mainstream, self-defined Economic Geography as a ‘male, pale and stale’ subdiscipline, proposing that more constructive conversations require ope....

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What does building an ethics of care in academia mean? @bcnuej.bsky.social's "Ethics of Care framework" invites us to reflect on our research spaces—and to adopt or demand healthier, more humane working conditions in an increasingly hostile academic world. www.bcnuej.org/2025/05/30/n...

Amaziiiiiing! Check out @cosminpopan.bsky.social 's work and consider donating to support his upcoming film!

Cosmin Popan@cosminpopan.bsky.social · last yr.

The website 4 the upcoming film "Barça Ou Barzakh" is live! barcaoubarzakh.com It features a selection of evocative stills, short introductions to the main characters, as well as the team behind the project. I'm also launching a crowdfunding campaign to support the production stage. Check and share

Inspiring conversations with Miriam Williams these days on care as a public and political ethics, collective shared responsibility and care-driven urban transformation. Thanks to @smhall.bsky.social for organising it ✨

Sarah Marie Hall@smhall.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks so much again to Miriam Williams for visiting us here in Geography at Manchester this week @cperguom.bsky.social - we were lucky enough to hear a wonderful talk and have a reading group exploring her work on cities and care 🤩

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3

I'm excited to share that SSAHE will be holding a joint book launch for myself and Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson on 5 June at 5pm online, with Umut Erel as discussant! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm....

Bordering/mothering online book launch

Launching Bordering social reproduction by Rachel Rosen + Eve Dickson, and Borders, Citizenship, + Pregnancy by Gwyneth Lonergan.

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Spent the morning at Gorton’s Community Centre today — cooking, dancing, and learning with some amazing people. What a brilliant experience! If you get the chance, I really recommend volunteering with Heart & Parcel; such inspiring work bringing communities together through food and language. 🌸🌳🌻🥔🥕🌽

Does Geography have a (working) class problem? If you don't already know the answer, this should help; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.

A taste for deprivation? Fish, chips and leaving the European Union

This paper explores the relationship between food culture and political behaviour through the lens of the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the E…

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Looking forward to tomorrow's Methods Fair. I’ll be thinking with this: "What happens when those who are usually researched… become the researchers?" Power shifts, new knowledges, and unexpected insights. #MethodsFair #ResearchJustice #FeministResearch @methodsmcr.bsky.social

methods@manchester@methodsmcr.bsky.social · last yr.

Our annual Methods Fair is a one-day event which provides an opportunity for researchers to share their work, engage in discussion, and more. This year it will take place on Thursday, 15 May and explores the theme Research Methods in the Digital Age: Addressing Challenges, Realising Opportunities.

Is fieldwork in Manchester starting? Oh yes it is! Do I have the best co-researcher ever? Absolutely ✨🌸🌼☀️

How can zines be used to communicate disabled people's history through a non-medical lens? @richamm.bsky.social reflects on the zine-making project run by the Disability Action Research Kollective.

Politicising Disability Through Zines

How can zines be used to communicate disability history through a non-medical lens?

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📢✏️As well as publishing the final blog of series two (socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...) we can now share an exciting update about series THREE, which explores 'How austerity alters disabled people’s lives + futures: intersectional understandings in research, policy, + practice'

Just wrapped our 2nd interview for our participatory podcast: a primary school teacher in central Athens shares how care, solidarity, and activism shape her daily life—from antifascism and migrant support to gender violence, green spaces, and the fight for public education. www.collectivecarepr.com

🎙️📻 We kicked off our participatory podcast project yesterday with a great chat with Miriam Williams. We talked about the crisis of care and how people are responding on the ground in Australian cities—especially around food insecurity. More to come—stay tuned! researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/m...

Miriam Williams

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