We just had a meeting with over 700 (!!) of our members and OVERWHELMINGLY voted in favour of a motion to calling for a strike ballot! 🩷 We're doing this together. We are the University! #DefendExeterUni.
Dr Raawiyah Rifath
@raawiyah.bsky.social
Lecturer at Exeter Law School. Transdisciplinarity, asylum & refugee law, vulnerability + int'l human rights. She/her.
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
technosphere.earth
Great to see the first 3 publications in the Laws special issue: The Shifting Sands of Refugee Protection: Normativity, Crisis, and Contemporary UK Asylum published recently. A pleasure to be co-editing this issue with @raawiyah.bsky.social and Ruvi Ziegler. All free and open access!
mdpi.com
New article just published- 'The Shifting Sands of Legal Aid Deserts: Access to Justice for Asylum in 2022–24', in a special issue of Laws on refugee protection, edited by the brilliant @raawiyah.bsky.social @apowelllaw.bsky.social and Ruvi Ziegler. Free to read: www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/14...
mdpi.com
Next year’s scandal, in which people get made unemployed or even destitute, or get expelled from the UK, bc of problems with the Home Office’s digital visas, has been so widely predicted, and the HO’s lack of concern so obvious, that you’ve got to assume those affected just don’t matter to it at all
Many unable to access eVisas to prove right to be in UK, Home Office admits
Campaigners say problems with digital transfer could affect hundreds of thousands of people on ‘10-year route’ visas
theguardian.com
Very excited to be working with @raawiyah.bsky.social and Ruvi Ziegler (Not yet on Bsky!) as co-editors of a special issue of LAWs entitled 'The Shifting Sands of Refugee Protection: Normativity, Crisis and Contemporary Asylum'. Due for publication in mid 2025! www.mdpi.com/journal/laws...
The Shifting Sands of Refugee Protection: Normativity, Crisis, and Contemporary UK Asylum
Special Issue in journal Laws: The Shifting Sands of Refugee Protection: Normativity, Crisis, and Contemporary UK Asylum
mdpi.com
Hello current and possible friends! I’ve had a go at creating a “starter pack” of queer scholar activist types who I know (so forgive all the omissions). It’s a small and growing list. Let’s build a fab and fun queer scholarly-activist community! 🌈✨ go.bsky.app/Ke4Ctey