Higher Education continues to burn through talented people, imitating their 'competitors' in a strategy toward oblivion. University leadership across the nation only has one idea and it is cruel and self-defeating.
Add to this, of course, the 100s of previously employed academics who are now out of work or whose jobs are at risk and the 100s of academics in fixed term positions trying to find permanent roles.
There are currently 6 permanent full time history jobs in the whole UK. 500+ PhDs being produced a year - not all of whom will want to pursue an academic year but likely most, and of course years will stack up onto each other. What a sector.
I finally looked at the photos I took at the archives in Sept 2022 for the first time. Why you ask? Because I got pregnant right after that trip and the archives are mostly photos of uterine ruptures and fetuses. Still unsure how I'm going to be able to write about these images 😬
Exactly this
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Salary - £76,093 – 86,275
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Deadline - 30/04/2026
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Y luego que porqué las mujeres escriben autoficción. Deseando leerme esta novela porque es que es tal cual como lo cuenta www.eldiario.es/cultura/libr...
The deadline for our essay prize is 27 April — please do share and submit! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
Registration for our annual conference is open!!
In her new article Tracey Loughran uses MO to see how
five women narrate their experiences fertility problems prior to development of IVF. It's a fascinating read! Find it here: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...
And yes this is a #humblebrag because my kid is awesome. But I also think that having the opportunity to grow up in two languages (and to an extent, two cultures) is a gift and something I'm very proud we can provide for her
My child is one of those children whose first language is not English. We speak Spanish at home so that's what she's most comfortable in. But she also understands and speaks English. So unless you were also bilingual before the age of 3, I don't care what you think 🤷🏼♀️
Woohoo! Very excited to go to Leeds 🥳
A hand holding a small paddington bear soft toy with a train behind it
I have reduced my academic travel to the bare minimum since I became a mum, and I miss the freedom to go to conferences and archives so much, but having a toddler also means taking Paddington to London so swings and roundabouts
📣New Event 📢
'Teaching Mental Health Humanities', feat. @harbottlestores.bsky.social & Grace Lucas. Come, think, & share methodologies with us & leave with new ideas!
Online, Wed 29 April, 3-4.30pm UK time
For the link, email/DM me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan
#MedHums
Very late to the game but I've loved Cleopatra and Frankenstein. I wasn't that into the story until well into the book but those characters! The way they're written, it's incredible. I guess I have a new favorite writer!
I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.
🥳The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities is published today! Ed. by the fab Amber Abrams, @victoriabates.bsky.social & @rothiotome.bsky.social. It also includes a chapter 'Research on the Move' by @draflint.bsky.social and me. (Probably one to ask your library to order tho' £)
Join our next online seminar on 26 March 2026, 5:30pm (GMT/UTC). Sarah Parsons will speak on photographic histories of privacy and exposure in the 19th century. Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures & Heritage @phrc-dmu.bsky.social Free registration: shorturl.at/kU2xK. All welcome!
Here we go, I have a new book outline. Will I stick to this outline this time? Will I change it again like I've done 80 times before? It's a 50/50 bet but I'm determined to write the book proposal now so who knows
More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here:
cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...
yes I haven't seen you in ages! Congratulations on the publication, hope you're enjoying how much everyone is loving it!
Then there's Christy's, @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social and Iro Filippaki's agenda-setting article on injury studies! A truly interdisciplinary emergent field (and a powerful network, check them out!) that has the potential to disrupt some of the most established concepts in #medhums and #histmed
One is the long-await book on history writing and personal experience by Chris. This is a generous, brilliant piece of scholarship that will become a classic. I started reading it as soon as he shared it and can't stop.
I love it when I read new scholarship that makes me think in new ways, rethink what I've done so far, and do so with theoretical finesse and careful writing. And there are two publications in the past couple of days that are particularly exciting!
See you there!
There is still time to send applications!
#histmed #photohist #medhums #photo #ethics
Call for Papers: Archives and Ethics Conference - deadline 13 April. Experts from all fields welcome!
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I HAVE FUNDS FOR THIS, THE COST IS WITHIN MY BUDGET WHY DO I HAVE TO STICK TO OTHER ARBITRARY RULES ABOUT HOW MUCH I CAN SPEND
wasting my time again trying to book trips through the university travel provider. These are my funds for my project, it shouldn't take me DAYS to book one flight (which is for someone else so every time it doesn't work or the flight is no longer available, I need to check them with them again)