Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.

See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.

More utterly predictable news of Labour's utterly pointless "one in one out* policy. At this rate it's going to increase channel crossings. All it does is create a never ending cycle of people relying on gangs. It doesn't address the need for safe routes at all. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Each story in The Other Side of Hope, Volume 5 is a journey 🕯️📝✨ Join us in supporting the voices that matter #theothersideofhope #journey #refugeejourney #migration #editorial #peace #stories #artwork #fiction #nonfiction

3 year AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards at the University of Liverpool. Home and International students can apply; any arts and humanities discipline is eligible. Candidates are invited to submit an Expression of Interest form by the 12th December 2025. Details: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right Location: MS Teams Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r

Less than 24hrs after a damning Home Affairs report condemned military sites for asylum housing, Labour announces two more. Wethersfield must close. Napier must close. Cameron and Crowborough must not open. People seeking safety belong in communities, not camps.

🔈 ‘Integration’ narratives are simply an internal border within states that reinforce second-class status, forcing people to abandon their cultures and identities to navigate into systems of oppression. 📖 Read our new Substack analysis: buff.ly/NpR129y

1️⃣ Reporting on migration & accountability can often feel futile Not today The ECHR ruled Greece violated the right to life in the 2018 Agathonisi shipwreck: 16 dead, incl. 7 children & 2 babies @rsaegean.org fought for the families; We had investigated w/ former @spiegel.de colleagues Decision ⬇️

❤️ Σάββατο - Κυριακή - Δευτέρα θα είμαστε στη Μυτιλήνη! Σας περιμένουμε στο τριήμερο εκδηλώσεων «Λέσβος 2015 – 10 Χρόνια Μετά» 👇 rsaegean.org/el/triimero-... 📅 18–20 Οκτωβρίου 2025 | Νεοκλασικό σπίτι, οδός Τζέημς Αριστάρχου 17, Μυτιλήνη 🙏 Με την υποστήριξη του Ιδρύματος @proasyl.de

It seems Labour have now learnt the word 'racism', but this is utterly disingenuous given how they are pandering to Reform’s far-right agenda. ✍️ our Stephen Walcott, Head of Policy, on @bigissue.com

No criminal record, then volunteer, then learn the language and, ideally, bring an Oscar or an Olympic medal. Then we'll accept you - maybe you'll get citizenship...

#OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...

i hope this article gives hope to any teachers who are confronted with ideologies of the 'word gap' in their schools. despite the stubbornness of this deficit concept, there are always spaces for resistance 💕 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

TUP has given us access to 25 online copies of our gendered linguistic ideologies paper in UK schools. Feel free to download! el.utpress.utoronto.ca/ls/click?upn...

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid. The #CFP will be launched soon. We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information. Follow us there & help us spread the word! #CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

At the last 'Approaches to Language, Migration&Identity' conference, I discussed how we can go beyond the positive migrant 'storytelling canon'. Project Armonia is a great initiative supporting displaced people through food/cooking (and not linear storytelling) projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...

Family unity is central to recovery, integration, and wellbeing. We stand with @rasvoice.bsky.social in urging the Home Secretary to recognise the human cost of this policy and to reinstate safe, legal, and timely pathways for families to be reunited. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK's family reunion route is already a farce which sees too many people denied ability to reach UK to seek asylum, including children. Tightening it will only ensure even more, particularly women and children, are denied safety, and more families ripped apart. #r4todau www.bbc.com/news/article...

And it is available open access @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

New journal article with Paige Johnson and Camila Montiel McCann on 'herstory' and popular postfeminism on Twitter/X. Really proud of this great teamwork: a result of years of interaction and open reflection on our CDS methods. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We're proud to join over 200 organisations to call on Party Leaders to end the divisive politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past. Only then will they bring unity instead of division and cohesion rather than hate. Read the letter below👇 @refugeestogether.bsky.social

“Over the past 20 years or so, immigration demands have shifted from variations of “controlling our borders”//…//to demanding that zero migrants be allowed to enter” Point and important read by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📢Dispatches from Calais today: As the UK government begins detaining people under its “one in, one out” policy, our Racial Justice researchers are on the ground, speaking with people who could be subject to this inhumane policy next. What we’re witnessing is fear, uncertainty and cruelty.

Excellent report by colleagues at @runnymedetrust.bsky.social on how racism underpins political and media language representations of immigration in the UK and how these, in turn, normalise hostile policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Very important work on critique and reflexivity in CDS edited by my lovely Greek colleagues!

Or, just spitballing here, the government could address the genuine issues, such as housing issues, cost of living crisis, and confront disinformation spread about immigration to help better inform people, rather than pandering to xenophobia and exacerbating hostile rhetoric and scapegoating.

It’s time the government changed the narrative. It must stop using criminalising, scapegoating and dehumanising language, defend the rights of people to seek safety and work to unite our communities.

Sign our petition: act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/135206/...

A great response/critique to Labour's immigration White Paper. I'd downplay the economic contribution of migrants and stress the inclusive policies and all other aspects of the approach described.

Finally!

Our article with Korina Giaxoglou and Paige Johnson has just been assigned an issue at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social We argue that even humanitarian narratives about migration in the UK are deeply problematic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking for help with #esrc #ukri #grants Has anyone had experience with dual-role costs (when someone is a project partner and sub-contractor)?

Join our team of TESOL & Applied Linguistics at the University of Liverpool (deadline for applications 17 July 2025): tinyurl.com/3ay39t8y @livunienglish.bsky.social #TESOL #appliedlinguistics

Next up: workshop on "Oracy, local dialect and language teaching: the case of Liverpool English" at Global Voices 2025 by @sofialampro.bsky.social, Victorina González Díaz & David Clay @sotauol.bsky.social @uolhsspgr.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

@instantlinguist.bsky.social in action (!) on how we talk about multilingualism and why it matters at Global Voices 2025 @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

A very successful workshop on CDS and the power of affect (among others).Proud to have co-organised it @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

@discodiscourse.bsky.social and Tommaso Milani kicking off the two-day CDS workshop 'Looking back, looking forward' with a talk on affect @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @commmedia.bsky.social

This article gives a good summary of what we're going through right now: www.leicester.news/i-work-at-dm...

For those of you who don't know, DMU is currently proposing mass redundancies, with nearly 100 academic staff 'at risk', sadly including me. It is absolutely brutal. Please spread the word about this protest rally happening next week in Leicester and come and support us if you're able. #DefendDMU

Our latest print edition is here! ✨ Poetry in 17 languages, stunning artwork & powerful voices from around the world. Grab your copy now! 🔗 othersideofhope.com/volume-42.html #theothersideofhope #newissuealert #refugeeliterature #immigrantvoices #poetrycommunity #mustread

The goal of Keir Starmer’s new #immigration plan is to #takebackcontrol but without acknowledging #Brexit’s failings. My piece for @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

If you're interested in what the goverment is saying about immigration then I've written a lot on this. There's been very little shift in how migration has been framed since New Labour and the roots actually go back a hell of a lot further (ca. 120yrs, but not least post-WWII.)..permit me a 🧵

JISC appears to be surveying academic and professional services staff on the use of AI in REF2029 for, among other things, assessing research outputs, impact case studies, PCE statements.... Check it out if you have views or expertise: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

In a speech to launch his tough new immigration plans, the prime minister parroted the right’s rhetoric.

If he didn't know about it then it's a worrying lack of knowledge on the historical immigration discourse by the PM and his speech writers. If he DID know, then it shows he has no problem with the framing. Either option reflects very badly on Starmer