'Costigan said structures have developed that mean research and higher education are funded separately, despite universities having to deliver both, and the overlap between them “isn’t properly accommodated within the system”.'
SUCH an important point. 1/2
Mediating Behaviours Symposium Call for Papers This one-day symposium will explore manifestations of behavioural mediation enforced through public perceptions, stereotypes, times of crisis and public messaging, propaganda and censorship. This symposium will explore how public messaging and imagery has been used to influence and control the narratives and lived life experiences of individuals, groups, communities and populations. Through its focus on the multitude of ways in which the personal and the communal are influenced, affected, proscribed and suppressed through state, social and culture influences, it will open new discussions on the notions of personal expression, agency and control through history and in the current moment. The symposium will be of particular interest to scholars interested in social history, queer history and the medical humanities. The symposium has a history focus, but we encourage applicants to apply from across range of disciplines to provide varied outlooks on the ways in which the way people present, live, respond and engage with one another. We will showcase a diverse range of subject-matter that explores how forces, institutions and conventions aim to mould and shape human behaviour, but equally how these might be contested, challenged and changed Topics can include but are not limited to: · Propaganda and public messaging · Policing behaviour · Controlled behaviours and responses to crises · Censorship of art, film, literature and print · Mediation of sex, sexuality, gender-expression and sexual relations · Behavioural mediation as racial, sexual or sexual stereotypes and discrimination · Decency and indecency in public space · Notions and fears of social contagion · Etiquette and manners · Making and breaking conventions of language · Colonial laws and indigenous lives · Decolonisation and challenging conventio…
Check out this very interesting CFPs! Relevant to #histmed #histsex
Fellowship and membership of @royalhistsoc.org includes very substantial discounts to annual subscriptions to BBIH: a resource of huge value and use. Individual subs start at £25 per year with RHS Fellowship / Membership bit.ly/4clqSWI #Skystorians
And Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026), historian of the Byzantine empire bit.ly/4ex8POD #Skystorians
My favourite place! 🤩
Would love a boost for this post to get it to those interested in Arabic manuscripts please and thank you. #Skystorians #MedievalSky @soasuni.bsky.social @soaslibrary.bsky.social @soas-speccoll.bsky.social @soashistory.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social
This Thursday we are in Sheffield to co-host this year's 'History and Archives in Practice' (#HAP26) day, with The National Archives, @ihr.bsky.social and @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social.
The 2026 theme is: ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives'. Full programme now available: bit.ly/4s5UMCS #Skystorians
I'm lucky enough to be co-supervising this PhD project. Deadline 22 May 2026 "Rethinking Reparations: A Cultural and Social History of Post-First World War Compensation to Civilians in Britain and its Empire, 1918-25": www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Tomorrow! Still some space to register for anyone around in London.
On 16 April, we are in Sheffield to co-host this year's 'History and Archives in Practice' (#HAP26), with The National Archives, @ihr.bsky.social and @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social.
This year's theme is: ‘Shaping Societies, Improving Lives'. Full programme now available: bit.ly/4s5UMCS #Skystorians
'They also both previously held the role of director of higher education at the Department for Education between 2014 and 2017, during which time plans were being drawn up to create the OfS.'
Will they understand that higher education also fundamentally rests on research, the sector asks. 2/2
I have this conversation all the time with mid-careers. Uni bosses could think a bit more about the long-term harm caused to the sector when most people mid career and senior people assume they won't be in it for more than 5 years and start to act accordingly.
We have a PhD studentship available in History or Archaeology at CCCU www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f... - deadline 22 May. #skystorians 1/
MA Scholarship Award for scholars of colour. In 2026, we plan to offer two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. This scholarship is open to candidates studying on either a full time or a part time basis. Apply by 15 July 2026
rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...
The dismal tide accelerates, sweeping from Coventry through Sheffield Hallam to London South Bank. 1/2
'The sector is not short of research culture evidence. It is short of ways to use it.'
An unexplored aspect of the research culture translation problem is that ignoring the impact of erratic student numbers and deteriorating teaching conditions makes it impossible to enhance research culture.
Free to join across the UK. Members have access to funding for projects as well as travel to events. If you've gained a PhD or equivalent research experience in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences within the last 10 years (excluding career breaks) check it out. You deserve to be invested in.
Just a reminder to Arts, Humanities & Social Science postdocs with 10 years of the PhD that membership in the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free and available across the UK. Independent researchers welcome; if employed at an, you do not need to be in a research position. 1/2
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!
Image of Georgian house with text: 'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' RHS Lecture with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester) Royal Historical Society Lecture Friday 1 May 2026
If you can't get to the University of Warwick on 1 May, booking for online attendance at our next lecture is also now available: bit.ly/3P5pqOZ
'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives in Early Modern England' with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester).
All welcome #Skystorians
'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'
Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3
Can honestly say this was up there among the most positive experiences of my career so far. A rare, invaluable time to sit down and discuss with wonderful, interested colleagues a book that will be so much better for it.
Cannot recommend it enough.
A wonderful intellectual event. Reminds me why I do what I do. Such an intellectual and collegial treat. Many thanks @royalhistsoc.org and especially Dr Philip Carter of that place.
Young artists with social-care experience and/or a disability were asked to create something on the theme of IDENTITY…here is the piece done by Summer, aged 13🎨
Judged by Daisy Blower (artist and theatre practitioner) & Lily Holder (artist and educator)
Check out website: www.daisyblower.com
Kent cut it to 10% last year and axed study leave…
'The UK did not participate in the strikes. A government spokesperson said it would protect British interests in the region, adding: "We do not want to see further escalation into a wider regional conflict."'
Good to hear. Consider reinvesting in Arabic language, Area Studies & History programmes?
@kent.ac.uk @universitypress.cambridge.org @wellcomecollection.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ncb.org.uk
Looking back to 27th Jan 2024, the Award ceremony on the theme of "Home". Judges were author Laura Mucha and artist Nicola Lane.
Young people were asked to submit their artwork under the theme of ‘HOME’… here are some interviews on what home meant to them.
#creativity #youngpeople #children
