The people they are talking about deporting include, to pluck one example from the air, my 59-year-old sister who has lived here since the age of six and is on a low income due to being a nursery school teacher. These plans are utterly scandalous and anyone who supports them is a disgrace.

Required reading for anyone working with ECRs… not just in French History

CfP Alert! 🔥🔥 @wesleygrafwald.bsky.social and I are putting together a special issue for Dance Research Journal on Early Twentieth-Century Dance Photography. Please share widely and don't hesitate to be in touch when you are interested or have questions! Find the CfP below, or DM us for the PDF.

Problematic (to put it kindly) on so many levels. 1) there isn't really 'unfunded' research. The REF is there to allocate resources so that research is possible without a grant.

For anyone in/ near Oxford, @marieminden.bsky.social and I are having a public conversation about our new books and ’new approaches to theatrical form’ with the fabulous Sos Eltis in November. There will be cake! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...

Join @marieminden.bsky.social @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social on 5 November for a book conversation: New Approaches to Theatrical Form! torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...

Author copies of my book have arrived! If you’d like a copy for yourself or your library, it’s available here: shorturl.at/ReFmK

Part time at 5.5 hours per week— for shame! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...

Today I got my author copies of the book based on my PhD. It's been many years in the making and I'm so proud finally to hold it in my hands www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-r...

I really think universities underestimate how true this is for a lot of students and their parents. They don’t want us to try to pretend to be cool. They want us to be a bit dusty, and very serious. Enthusiastic, definitely! But also nerdy. We’re selling them ACADEMIA.

Two exciting events coming up for anyone based in Oxford: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shobana-je...

“The UK government’s continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports.” Devastating reporting.

In her first act as the new President of The British Academy, Professor Susan J Smith FBA has today written to the Prime Minister to warn that cuts and contractions are damaging the UK’s higher education system www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/new-aca...

Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

I am appalled by the REF digging its heels in about portability, disadvantaging so many early career and precarious scholars and those who were shunted out of institutions and undertook research in spite of inordinate pressures and job cuts. 1/ 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/cku-cop...

Three final online showings of my play this week orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ben...

Just came here to say that I’m truly sickened by the extreme anti-migration turn of Starmer & his government whose Immigration White Paper makes the frankly astonishing claim that net migration has caused “incalculable” damage to this country.

UK performing arts associations have written a public letter to the REF2029 director that complements the recent joint English associations' letter: dramahe.ac.uk/activity/joi...

Something to look forward to reading this summer!

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

My book officially has a cover – and a page! Or, as my brother pointed out, 224 of them. Modernism After the Ballets Russes, forthcoming with @oxunipress.bsky.social shorturl.at/ReFmK

Morgen (6.2., 16 Uhr) spricht @meindertpeters.bsky.social (Oxford) via Zoom über ›Kafka at the Ballet: The Imperial Russian Ballet, the Ballets Russes, and Contemporary Adaptation‹. Die Seminarreihe #KafkasEcho ist eine Koop. des DLA, der NLI & @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, gefördert @diplo.de.