"It is not only about increasing the numbers of academics from the global majority, but increasing the numbers of empowered academics from the global majority.” Dr Karisha Simone George
What does it truly mean to foster equitable leadership in academia?
Dr Karisha George from @york.ac.uk shares more about her leadership journey and her time on our Equity in Leadership programme:
whiterose.ac.uk/news/equity-...
Thanks to our Graduate Engagement Leads for Open Research, @katievernon.bsky.social and @luqmanmuraina.bsky.social, for their work on the video
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Postgraduate researcher and Open Research Graduate Engagement Lead @luqmanmuraina.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social will be at #UKSG2026 next week, with his talk on 'Africa in the open: reimagining global knowledge beyond western publication models'
Hoping for a great turnout! @uksg.bsky.social
View the latest articles and books from IGDC members on global development topics. www.york.ac.uk/igdc/researc...
The Mandelson revelations might just be the tip of the iceberg. If he leaked government secrets once, we need to know if he acted in the public interest when negotiating trade deals with the US. Urge the PM to release all #MandelsonFiles
act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4714
"Decolonizing expertise in international organizations demands more than just diversifying expert pools; it requires dismantling the epistemic hierarchies that sustain the status quo"
From our "Share your decolonising story" blog series
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2265
A screenshot of a powerpoint slide with the words, BISA PGN online workshop, From PHD to Postdoc, 17 December 2025, Simon Rushton, University of Sheffield and BISA trustee
PGN Event summary 🚨
'From PhD to postdoc - Strategies, fellowships, and real-world insights' with Dr Remi Edwards Simon Rushton and Marcus Nicolson sharing practical advice on securing postdoctoral positions and fellowships 🌟
You can find their key insights here 👉 https://ow.ly/G1w950YebSs
🎙️ Uma Kothari from @globaldevinst.bsky.social explores the role of stories and storytelling in research and research impact in this quick soundbite.
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Digital Accessibility aims for digital content, to be easily viewed, used and understood by everyone. accessibility needs are different and can change ... principles to making content accessible and should be considered from inception - @katievernon.bsky.social
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RT if it has to happen.
Strip Donald Trump of this honour he does not deserve it.
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York Open Research Awards: Innovation, advocacy and good practice in open research across all disciplines at York. Supported by UKRI Research England.
The York Open Research Awards are back for 2026! 🎉
The call for submissions is open until Monday 27 April 📆
We are keen to recognise and reward a diverse range of projects, and this year we are offering additional prizes to ensure that all researchers at York have the opportunity to participate...
Assortment of measuring tapes and rulers
Researcher Development training workshop next week:
Your research profile, reputation and impact: An introduction to Bibliometrics 🧮 📚
Tue 10 Feb, 10:00-11:30, online
Register via SkillsForge (PGRs): www.skillsforge.york.ac.uk/york/#he.dev...
or the LMS (staff): york-ac.csod.com/ui/lms-learn...
I'll be attending and presenting (break-out session) at the @uksg.bsky.social #UKSG2026 Conference in Glasgow on the title 'Africa in the Open: Reimagining Global Knowledge Beyond Western Publication Models'
I look forward to seeing you around.
@uoylibrary.bsky.social @uoyopenres.bsky.social
"I consider my story as reflecting a scholarly transition from an empirical, positivist and Eurocentric framework to an advocacy for alternative knowledges, pluriversality, and decoloniality"
This 📙 by @murainal.bsky.social wraps up our decolonising stories project
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2480
Well done Katie. 💐🙏🏽
Did you know that @uoylibrary.bsky.social provides a DOI registration service for @york.ac.uk academic outputs? 🔗
DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) can help people find, cite and track work. We provide them for outputs hosted on york.ac.uk web pages, and/or the White Rose Research Online repository
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Katie Vernon @katievernon.bsky.social @yorkmedieval.bsky.social talks about motivations behind a forthcoming chapter on weaponry in Final Fantasy VII for diamond open access publisher Play Story Press ⚔️
"academic research should not be gatekept and should be open to all who have an interest"
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‘moral litmus test for the world ... The old adage of who will speak out for the academic community and scholarship when all voices are silenced reminds us of Desmond Tutu’s statement: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.
@baice
Read this article on ethical solidarity in times of global helplessness and unalterable and unfolding genocide, apartheid, and dispossession. baice.ac.uk/hub/what-doe...
#Gaza #Palestine #SettlerColonialism #AcademicSolidarit
"According to Angela Davis, this crisis is a
Oba Adetona and the Politics of Royal Burial: A Just Departure and the Challenge of Evolving Traditions
I argued in my new newspaper piece that the ‘dignified’ burial of Oba Sikiru Adetona is not a blind imitation of global/Western modernity, but a necessary homegrown
🤕 What future does sacred authority have in the age of governors and ballots?
🧐 Can other monarchs follow this just departure, but on what terms?
💯I further argued that ‘the composition of the Yoruba society and every royal families is now multicultural, multi-religious, and pluralistic’.
I answered other questions in the full article - www.thecable.ng/oba-adetona-... published by @thecableng
he should not ascend the throne in the first place’. I decried that this is romanticising tradition and indigenous knowledge systems. We must recognise that the ‘the thrones belong to royal lineages, not Ogboni and traditionalist cults’.