Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.

And it just gets worse: it looks like there will be no modern language provision at all. No music, no languages. Can a silent university call itself a university at all? Help us resist! Please contribute to @uonucu.bsky.social hardship fund if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Thanks to Jacob Ridley for Predramatic Theatre's careful appraisal and review! "Rycroft and Walker...show how fruitful and thought-provoking it can be to use modern theories to reconstruct a performance culture which is now tantalizingly inaccessible." That we do! share.google/tOmhpbHraa3x...

Assistant Professor in English Dublin City University Permanent Expertise in Children’s Literature is essential. Proven experience lecturing in 19th-century literature, Modernism, and Postmodernism. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

🗣️🗣️🗣️ There's a job at York! 1-year 0.5 FTE postdoctoral fellowship funded by MHRA, working with me on the Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft OUP edition. You have to be within 3 years of your PhD - unjust I know but a requirement of the MHRA. jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

To the Finland station? A fixed-term stint at Helsinki could be a very fine thing.

A reminder that our new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland closes a week on Friday bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK/Irish archives for international historians. Deadline 8 May to allow research from summer 2026 #Skystorians

JOB: early modern global history jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Here @nilsgilman.bsky.social, a historian who spent years working in Silicon Valley, makes the case that a liberal arts education will be ~more~ valuable in the near future www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...

What's that? A rare permanent academic job? Come join me in our School of Arts as a Lecturer in Theatre! "We especially welcome ... candidates with practical expertise in theatre technologies, digital media, intermediality or related areas of theatre practice." hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

'Sources told this newspaper that the announcement was made over Teams calls...the chat option was disabled, meaning staff were unable to express their views. It is understood the briefing forms part of a wider consultation process, with full details of the proposed scheme not yet finalised.' 1/3

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

This looks an amazing (and very generously funded) opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a medieval literary PhD.

Come do a PhD with Prof. Annette Kern-Stähler in Bern!! I’m *thrilled* to announce that we’ve secured funding for a 4-year project on disgust starting Feb 2027 which includes a PhD studentship—please share widely!!

Early modern literature job in my department! Permanent which is the UK equivalent to tenure track #earlymodern #acjobs www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Does anyone have any tips for managing life with a much loved moggy (aged approx 17 - a rescue so we dont know for sure) who has feline dementia and has taken to yowling from 4am onwards?

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

PGT scholarships in English at Sheffield

Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, ANU #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/lecture...

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

Raises some important issues but also ignores the fact that many Humanities staff outside the magic circle are facing redundancy. They are naturally willing, indeed desperate, to apply for entry-level Oxbridge posts. The situation is grim. 1/2

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

‘Under the latest REF guidance, it is up to individual universities to decide whether to submit outputs authored by staff who have taken voluntary redundancy or have left at the end of their fixed-term contract.' On wonders what submitting HEIs will opt to do in this extractive context. Not. 1/2

🗃️ jobs, jobs, jobs - and one for #medievalsky

JOB! Come and be my colleague! Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford. Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...

3-year postdoc opportunity at Durham University - any department, any field. Detailed guidance in the link - note that you need a mentor from a relevant department to mentor and support your application. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

'We likely require fewer academics with research in their remit, but those that do need greater time allocated, and must be subject to a strategic research management regime'. I remain very sceptical/negative about the medium- and long-turn impacts of separating research and teaching. 1/2

Come study literature, theatre or creative writing at the SUISS summer school in beautiful Edinburgh, for 2026. Spend your mornings immersed in learning before soaking up the city’s summer festivals or wandering the city’s ancient streets and hills. Applications now open: www.suiss.ed.ac.uk

'New data from the Ministry of Justice show that studying with The Open University (OU) delivers “significant reductions” in reoffending amongst prison learners.' 'It also found that those studying committed 37 per cent fewer offences within a year of release.' 1/2

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

I’m very proud of my two PhD students - Liz Leemann and Vivienne Belton - for passing their vivas recently. Two fantastic theses on the body and soul in early modern literary depictions of motherhood, and on Roman Catholicism and the senses in early modern drama. Look out for their work.

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate. Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT. Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

PhD scholarship in History or Geography at Dublin City University - applicants with an interest in medieval Ireland are particularly encouraged to apply. #MedievalSky www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

Unboxing!!

Very pleased to see hard(back) evidence that this tricksy creature is indeed loose in the world. It was a joy to work with the brilliant @ellierycroft.bsky.social to bring it into existence.

Munby Fellowship in Bibliography based @theul.bsky.social in Cambridge - closes on 1 February, so still time to apply.

An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."

‘ardest game in the world, wizarding, innit. You’ve got to have a second career lined up, just in case it all goes arse upwards with the sorcery…’

'In a House of Lords debate on 8 January, Smith said she recognised “concern…about the reduction in the number of students going into higher education to study modern foreign languages and the threats to some of those modern foreign language courses”.' 1/2

Job klaxon: for a medievalist working across English and history cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

This book is truly groundbreaking, and I don’t say that lightly. Apols to @ellierycroft.bsky.social & @gregmw4.bsky.social for the simplification – but the big argument is that “dramatic” theatre was a relative blip, bc “postdramatic” theatre has more in common w the “predramatic” early-modern stage

Happy New Year and a pretty stupendous start to 2026 from my perspective as Predramatic Theatre -my co-authored book with @gregmw4.bsky.social - was published by Palgrave on Friday! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-

Pretty big news to kick off the year... Predramatic Theatre now available as an e-publication! Happy 2026 everyone!

‘Yep, I think the bastard’s finally gone...’ (Faith, Hope, and Charity say farewell to 2025 and prepare to come out of hiding and try again in 2026.) Happy New Year everyone!

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

A happy New Year to all in the child-boiling community who celebrate 🥂🥳