📣MA funding at @leedsprhs.bsky.social!📣
My School has some Masters scholarships for Philosophy students. University of Leeds offers many further opportunities, inc. 500 scholarships to support eligible international students. Please spread the word! #philosophy

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Postdoc Opportunity!

Commoning cultural value Formalizes a commons-oriented framework for the formation of cultural value as a way to oppose current neoliberal understandings of the value of culture

Some news: my monograph "Commoning cultural value" is coming out this Spring as part of the "New Directions in Cultural Policy Research" series! link.springer.com/book/9783032...

It took me a while to write it, but this is an exploration of the theory of the concept of cultural commons and why it matters now. The hardcover version is already available to preorder, but I will share more info about the eBook soon.

Commoning cultural value Formalizes a commons-oriented framework for the formation of cultural value as a way to oppose current neoliberal understandings of the value of culture

Some news: my monograph "Commoning cultural value" is coming out this Spring as part of the "New Directions in Cultural Policy Research" series! link.springer.com/book/9783032...

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

Fun & Games: Call for Papers for a special issue of New Formations Fun and Games  Call for papers for a special issue of New Formation: a Journal of Culture / Theory / Politics ( New Formations is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that has been publ…

Fun and Games - call for papers for a special issue of @newformations.bsky.social on games, gamification, game culture etc: jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/f...

🚨Job klaxon 🚨
Come and be my colleague at York! We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Modern British History and Public History. Two year post - apply by 19 March. 🗃️
More details here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO971/a...

Submit your paper to one of the RSA 2026 open sessions (spot the one on the commons!): www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-rs...!

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation Studies Are you an academic with proven abilities to carry out cutting-edge teaching and research in Interpreting Studies? We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual with research and ...

Job Alert‼️We are hiring in interpreting and translation @ctilsleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social
Looking for an experienced colleague at grade 8. Deadline is 25th February. Join our fabulous team! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Submit your paper to one of the RSA 2026 open sessions (spot the one on the commons!): www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-rs...!

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

Book launch 26 Feb 2026 working class movement library

Pleased to be doing the northern leg of my book launch at @wcmlibrary.bsky.social with Isaac Rose and the Greater Manchester Tenants' Union on 26 Feb. Northerners, book now!

Landscapes and Cyberscapes of the Commons: Scottish Festivals in the Pandemic and Beyond | International Journal of the Commons

New paper by @johnwrightart.bsky.social and me: Landscapes and Cyberscapes of the Commons: Scottish Festivals in the Pandemic and Beyond thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10....

Landscapes and Cyberscapes of the Commons: Scottish Festivals in the Pandemic and Beyond | International Journal of the Commons

New paper by @johnwrightart.bsky.social and me: Landscapes and Cyberscapes of the Commons: Scottish Festivals in the Pandemic and Beyond thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10....

Deconstituting Museums Over the past 30 years, museums have turned to participation in the hope that direct involvement of non-museum staff would serve their claims to be accessible, inclusive, representative and diverse. A...

Congratulations to Helen Graham! Her #OpenAccess book Deconstituting Museums published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/411oeiG #Museums #Heritage #ParticipatoryResearch

It looks like I will have some capacity for PhD and visiting PhD supervision from next year; if you're interested in researching the cultural commons, cultural value and cultural policy, or know someone who does, get in touch!

Funded PhD opportunities thread!
1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk

Congratulazioni!

More PhD funding opportunities at the University of Leeds: phd.leeds.ac.uk/search?num_r...

AHC DLA award: phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/424-...

PCI (yay!) Scholarship: phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/234-...

Leeds Opportunity Research Scholarship (UK only): phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/234-...

Leeds Doctoral Scholarship (UK only): phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/209-...

Funded PhD opportunities thread!
1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology Are you passionate about furthering your research career in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Are you committed to delivering a first class learning and teaching experience? The School is...

Come and work with us! We have two grade 8 teaching and research lectureships in Psychology at University of Leeds. Its a great department, in a great University, in one of the best cities in the UK. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closing date 9th November, get in touch if you have any questions!

funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The front cover of a book. The title reads Deconstituting Museums: Participation's Affective Work. The image is of old rope, enwtined for strength but now fraying.

The image is primarily text. The text reads: Over the past 30 years, museums have turned to participation in the hope that direct involvement of non-museum staff would serve their claims to be accessible, inclusive, representative and diverse. And yet, adding participation to museums has often generated conflict, disappointment and anger. Deconstituting Museums argues that the difficulties produced by adding participatory practice arise from political incompatibility. In the representational liberal logics that underpin museum decision-making, trustees and professionals make decisions ‘on behalf of’ future generations and the public. This is a political infrastructure the book names ‘museum constitution’. Conversely, participation arises from ideas and practices from direct and horizontal political traditions, drawing those who act as facilitators into new relationships and expanding political imaginations. Through sustained engagement with theories of affect, materialism, and feminist and decolonial praxis, Helen Graham identifies techniques for deconstituting museums. She uses experimental writing as a method to turn away from the desire to right institutional wrongs and towards relational and directly negotiated ways of organising. In doing so she locates participation not as engagement but as a mode of governance that is enabled by, and enables, variant political ontologies. This is an alternative named ‘participatory worlding’. The affective work of facilitating participation has long tugged at and frayed museums’ constitutional liberal logics. Deconstituting Museums envisages how participation and its affects might be activated in reworking the politics of heritage.

I'd had quite a bit of trouble working out why facilitating participation in museums was tricky so I wrote a book about it. @uclpress.bsky.social @fahacs.bsky.social