Join us at Leeds with this fab collaborative PhD opportunity! Supervised by @kevinlinch.bsky.social and yours truly + amazing colleagues at TNA Kath Maude and Will Butler

I am begging universities to onboard their staff properly. BEGGING

Bit too soon to say! Institutionally we've been encouraged to embrace AI for some time, but it's only been implemented in my School policy from this semester (started this week!).

We have no in-person exams, and now allow some permitted use of AI in nearly all our assessments.

I’d defo be interested!

'Experiences of precarity among early career academics are shaped by a lack of understanding from more senior colleagues'

That sounds like a really interesting approach! I'd love to hear how it goes

Image of painting Ophelia. Red headed woman lies in river surrounded by foliage.

Fun fact: #TaylorSwift sings 'You dug me out of my grave and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia' 🎵 Lizzie Siddal, the model who posed for Ophelia by Millais actually was dug out of her grave 7 years after she was buried cos her husband Rossetti wanted some poems back he'd buried with her.

A useful reminder to permanent academic staff. Many of you may have temporary staff joining your departments soon. It's nice to at least pretend to think they are people - why not learn their names and their field of interest, to develop this basic level of polite collegiality?

Two fully funded PhD studentships in history have just opened @liverpooluni.bsky.social - deadline for applications is 30 May www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...

Exciting new Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Leeds and Institution of Engineering and Technology: 'Connecting suffragettes, technology and society: Caroline Haslett’s international correspondence network'.‬ Please circulate: wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in Modern Britain Abstract. The dead are everywhere in family life. From a great-grandmother’s recipe made time and again, to a dog-eared black-and-white photo of a family o

Amongst the bleak news from every which way, I'm celebrating my book coming out digitally today 🎉

Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present.

It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s...

#skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy

New generation of educationalist vice-chancellors urges change As more vice-chancellors across the UK emerge from educational backgrounds, rather than academic ones, they argue that academic bias and hierarchies need to be dismantled

There's an alternative model to improve senior management that would not require VCs to come from educationalist backgrounds: expect them to teach and administer one module per term per annum. Much needless expenditure & poor policy derives from senior managers' distance from students & classrooms.

Last call for this event tomorrow!

Staff are working dangerously long hours, and their employers should be concerned Alastair Smith argues that widespread expectations that people work long hours in higher education may be in conflict with UK working time regulations

'From my perspective, if university employees are consistently working more than 48 hours a week, their employers are potentially violating key UK Health and Safety (H&S) requirements. Workload management isn’t just a matter of institutional efficacy and well-being—it’s a pressing legal issue.'

Lego construction showing tower with ladder hanging over the edge of the board it’s built on

Block of Lego with a half person on top and a plant

I had such a wonderful time at a Lego Serious Play session in the University of Leeds HELIX this afternoon! Really inspiring and enjoyable training experience!

Image of journal open to first page of article

Blue cover of Pedagogica Historical journal

This was published agggges ago but I am sooo chuffed to finally have a paper copy of my first article

🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

Modern ghosts

Start of programme for "Scandal and Gossip in the Book Trade" Conference

Very excited to hear that booking is now open for this event that I'm speaking at in November. Looks like this is going to be a fun line up!

Image from excel document of pre-decimal calculator.

🗃️ #familyhistory #genealogy
Working in pre-decimal currency can be a pain, so I’ve put together an Excel document that makes it a lot easier. If you need a calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, you are welcome to download and use this chartist-ancestors.blogspot.com/2023/07/need...

If you go to the top right corner of your home screen there is a settings box which allows you to pin particular feeds to your screen. You can also search for them. There is one for #18c for instance and one for #histsci. And a general history one that uses the 🗃 emoji.

I’m looking forward to assessing by ‘unessay’ in Semester 2!

The library at Leeds just keeps getting feta and feta www.theguardian.com/books/2023/s...

Disappointed small black dog

The look of disappointment when she realised the wavy bacon is art and not a snack