#EnglishCreates: Futures Thank you to Prof Ralph Pite and his team of collaborators for providing us with such wonderful content across the month. The posts make for an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and readers, and can be found here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

#EnglishCreates: Futures Our month on 'Environments' concludes with a post from our curator, Prof Ralph Pite (Uni of Bristol), offering recommendations for readings and resources for lecturers, teachers, and general readers alike: universityenglish.ac.uk/what-next-wh... #EnglishStudies

#EnglishCreates: Futures We are thrilled to share today's blog by Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP: 'Literature is the way we exercise the muscle of the imagination... And unless we can imagine a greener, fairer world, we’ll struggle to achieve it.' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

We continue with Dr Michael Malay's (University of Bristol) superb blog, asking what it might mean when 'even the simple act of kite-flying' is 'haunted' by the question of the Anthropocene': universityenglish.ac.uk/kite-flying-... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism #Antropocene

#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with this post by Francesca Mackenney and Jamie Castell (Cardiff University): 'How do representations of sound in literature shape our awareness of the natural world?' Read the full post here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism

#EnglishCreates: Futures Today, Dr Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds) shows how English can help us to think about climate change: 'Literature of the first fossil-fuelled society can help us to imagine alternative futures...' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism

#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with a brilliant piece by Rachel Green (University of Bristol): 'When I tell people that my research is about farming and rewilding, the most common response I get is: "So… how is that an English PhD?"' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... #EnglishStudies

#EnglishCreates: Futures Our 'Environments' month continues with Prof Ralph Pite's latest piece on bringing nature into the teaching of English Studies: 'How can you make the natural world an everyday, "natural" presence for students?' Full post: lnkd.in/ewQk7pDB #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism

#EnglishCreates: Futures! Today's brilliant post is by Sarah Dukes, an English teacher at The Chase School in Worcestershire: "English is a gift... key skills can be taught using the climate crisis and nature as the subject matter..." universityenglish.ac.uk/teaching-it-... #EnglishStudies

New #EnglishCreates post. @ies-sas.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social

#EnglishCreates: Futures Today, Dr David Cooper & Prof Kate Pahl (MMU) discuss 'Teaching on treescapes': 'By listening to and being attentive to children’s meaning making practices, a social poetics of treescapes engagement emerged...' universityenglish.ac.uk/voices-of-th... #Ecocriticism

#EnglishCreates: Futures continues with a blog on 'Close Reading on the Beach' by Dr Rachel Murray (University of Bristol): 'Looking closely in this way helps us to slow down and tune into what is in front of us...' universityenglish.ac.uk/the-sea-the-... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism

#EnglishCreates: Futures delves into the Blue Humanities with a post by Dr Laurence Publicover (University of Bristol): 'The language we use to talk about the ocean floor reveals our (often misplaced) assumptions about it...' universityenglish.ac.uk/literary-stu... #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism

#EnglishCreates: Futures continues this week with a focus on the 'Blue Humanities': 'Oceans have always seemed mysterious, vast and invulnerable... Until recently, that is...' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... #EnglishStudies #HigherEducation #Ecocriticism #bluehumanities

#EnglishCreates:Futures continues w/ Prof Ralph Pite's brilliantly insightful reflections on how English Studies seeks to address contemporary climate crisis: 'THE GRAPHS DON'T WORK' Full post: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... #EnglishCreates #EnglishStudies #HigherEducation #Ecocriticism

Look no further than an English or other Arts and Humanities degree #EnglishCreates excellent careers

#EnglishCreates: Futures kicks off with the first in a series of brilliantly insightful blogs by Professor Ralph Pite on the subject of English Studies and 'environments' These will prove how important English studies are in the current polycrisis: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Deadline reminder for @univeng.bsky.social funding scheme: 5pm on 10th November 2025.

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

📚Join us on 30 Oct 2025 at Senate House for The History of English Studies in Britain symposium 🎤 Speakers include Carole Atherton, Gail Marshall, Ronan McDonald, Christopher Stray, Stuart Jones, & Stefan Collini Free (booking required)👉 tinyurl.com/43z9mxnc #EnglishStudies #Humanities #Literature

Our call for reviewers might be of interest to... @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social @mvsa.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @vsawc.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social @incsa.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3

The programme for this symposium has just been announced and it looks superb! Featuring @laurajcleaver.bsky.social alongside IES fellows and students. Book now! 09 September 2025–10 September 2025, 9:30 am–6:30 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

@bars.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @studiesinrom.bsky.social #AcademicSky Please circulate!

#EnglishCreates great futures

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An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below). If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

🥳 🙌 Massive congratulations to all 2025 English graduates 🎉 🥂 Really well done! To celebrate your achievements and looks forward to all that you'll achieve next, we've made this short video with our colleagues in @englishassociation.bsky.social : drive.google.com/file/d/1StyA...

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Huge thanks to Helen Smith wordsmith.bsky.social for an excellent English: Shared Futures conference. It was inspiring, exciting, and fun, and especially moving to hear so many friends and colleagues speaking about why and how English matters to them

More from Birmingham - BCU this time - and some of the applications of managing large datasets www.bcu.ac.uk/research/eng...

Listen in to hear how Aston academics use linguistics skills to help solve crime

#EnglishCreates How researchers at Aston (www.aston.ac.uk/bss/social-s...) help with criminal investigations:

We're really sorry to hear of the death of our dear colleague Professor Simon James. From 2016-19, Simon was PI on the Arts Council England and Durham University collaboration, the Durham Commission on Creativity which investigated the benefits of creativity for young people.

Championing Scots, influencing public policy, and working with communities and creatives

More impact stories from #EnglishCreates including this project based in www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite... building local pride and championing working-class writers More great work at: www.reading.ac.uk/english-lite...

And yet more: creative writing colleagues at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ help patients with long covid. More evidence that English can help to create a better, healthier world #EnglishCreates

How English at www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ is helping the NHS #EnglishCreates

More great impact from www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/ bringing literature and literary opportunities to new groups

#EnglishCreates impact across the UK every day. Learn how this Aberystwyth's project on Expressions of Care helped to benefit communities See more examples of English impact at universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

An urgent call to action, here about teaching History, but which is highly adaptable to English too @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social. I chose a History & English degree because both made me *think*. Both can be about meaning-making: how others have made meaning + how we can too.

I’ve just booked for the next English: Shared Futures in York, July 3-5th. What. *great* programme for English in Higher,Secondary+further Education www.englishsharedfutures.org/programme - so many great research, disciple + gcse reform panels! @englishassociation.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social

I’m honoured that my book, ‘Cocaine, Literature & Culture’ has been shortlisted for the University English Book Prize & in such wonderful company! @univeng.bsky.social does amazing work promoting Eng as a discipline, & with their #EnglishCreates campaign. 🔗 universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

This is an important letter from bodies representing Arts and Humanities in the UK. Please share widely

4 days until the deadline for submissions! Be in touch if you have any queries, questions or quibbles... @englishassociation.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social

Details of how to apply to be part of the REF 2029 assessment process are here: 2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/ref-2... @univeng.bsky.social is hosting an information session on 8 January, 11-12.30, with former UoA27 panellists and chairs. ALL WELCOME. Please e-mail [email protected] for a link

This should be another wonderful celebration of the richness of English language, literature, and creative writing. And it will be all the better for YOUR being there

Details of how to apply to be part of the REF 2029 assessment process are here: 2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/ref-2... @univeng.bsky.social is hosting an information session on 8 January, 11-12.30, with former UoA27 panellists and chairs. ALL WELCOME. Please e-mail [email protected] for a link