Teachers and educators are invited to join us for a full-day workshop exploring the evidence around teaching children for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL).
📅 10 July
⌚ 9am - 5.15pm
📍 Department of Education
Sign up now and secure an early bird ticket 👉 bit.ly/4cvov2w
Francesca Woodward of the Cambridge University Press and Assessment in the FT warning of the inadvisability of the Home Office permitting remote English language testing www.ft.com/content/6cdc...
Please help share what must be one of the best jobs ever. We are looking for a writer to join @ourworldindata.org to work with our fantastic team including @maxroser.bsky.social and @hannahritchie.bsky.social. £80k - £120k / ideally full time / location flexible
ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...
Reduce Your UCU Subscription Cost by Claiming Tax Relief
As we’ve entered a new tax year, it’s a great time to remind #UCU members that you may be able to reduce the cost of your union subscription by claiming tax relief from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Click the link for more details.
These "discover something" journals from Springer Nature are here to steal your research money, as those from MDPI and Frontiers (and many others). ⚒️ 🧪
Learn more here: the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
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“In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.”
Important read from The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
Nana Sofija & deda Jova’s home, the morning after the air raid of 5 April 1999 on our hometown of Aleksinac. Their bodies would later be pulled from the rubble still holding cards from their last game of tablići. These images still haunt me. My heart is with everyone enduring such horrors now.
This is a good move. The APC system has not worked and alternatives should be tried. Other funders and major institutions should also be considering alternatives
A basket filled with red-dyed Easter eggs
Ready for egg pocking tomorrow 🐣
Interested in spending 3-12 months with us in Oxford as a senior visiting academic? The Leverhulme Trust has a scheme to help. Get in touch with an Oxford colleague soon, as the internal deadline for interest is on Apr 17. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-pro...
It’s all just jam! Justice for quinces (marmelo) remains unrestored.
If you are a practitioner, researcher or student who is interested in finding out more about play-based pedagogies, join my wonderful colleague @faidra.bsky.social in Oxford’s Department of @education.ox.ac.uk on 25/03/2026!
We study history to know and understand what happened. We don’t have to justify it by saying we can ‘learn from the past’. We study philosophy to understand the nature of things. Not just to teach ethics to AI. Society should spend some resource on this kind of research. Understanding is an outcome!
Registration for EuroSLA 35 (Lisbon, 24-27 June 2026) is now open 📢
eurosla35.fcsh.unl.pt/registration/
Looking forward to Devyani Sharma’s inaugural lecture.
Applications are open for doctoral and postdoctoral roles with the Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales (CURLEW). Work with Prof Paul Foulkes and colleagues to map language change across the UK. Positions available in York, Bern and Oxford. www.curlew.info/jobs #langsky
Will report! Hope to visit late Feb, early March.
Looking forward to visiting the Samurai exhibition in London, based on research by the wonderful @olegb.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
📣 Calling first-time authors!
To mark the 10th anniversary of JESLA, we’re offering 3 prizes for papers accepted in 2026 🏆
Details & submissions: www.euroslajournal.org
Open to EuroSLA members in good standing (for co-authored papers, at least one author must be eligible).
Fertility struggles are usually told through the stories of those who eventually had a child. That can offer hope - but it also quietly erases those who didn’t get there. Giving them voice matters. We need more stories like this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Happy Christmas from the Yorkshire Wolds. ( photo taken a few weeks ago , see you after the holidays , best wishes James )
Happy Christmas from the Yorkshire Wolds. ( photo taken a few weeks ago , see you after the holidays , best wishes James )
Thank you, Maija.
Moominpappa sliding headfirst down a snowy slope
Exciting times ahead! After 22 wonderful years in York, I’ll be heading to Oxford in January to take up a Professorship in Applied Linguistics. To say it’s a privilege would be an understatement. Joy and exhilaration mixed with awe and that familiar “what-have-I-just-done?” feeling.
Hopkins Cog Sci is hiring! We have two open faculty positions: one in vision, and one language. Please repost!
For avoidance of confusion, that’s just about all academic staff, excluding Heads of Dept and- of course - Senior Management Team.
💡 Expressions of Interest: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026
Deadline: 30 Nov
Submit: Completed EOI form, CV (1 page), and proposal outline (max 2 pages) to: research.facilitation@education.ox.ac.uk
Complete the form here 👉 shorturl.at/0O2f4
I wrote this morning to the VC and Deputy VC of Nottingham to urge them to rethink the plans for closing languages. You can too, addresses here. www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
