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

One of the most lovely things about my day job at Bristol @univeng.bsky.social is the Christmas Chorus our colleagues provide. It warms my heart to hear their voices. Don't know how well this link to Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind will work, but I'm happy to share. www.bandlab.com/post/1dc7c91...

And indeed setting yourself up for life to understand and engage with literature (and other cultural products). Studying enriches your appreciation! Arts and Humanities are for life.

Just imagine the benefits of doing this for three years! #EnglishCreates Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Excellent interview with Rachel Roberts on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social today. Time to lose the misleading idea that English doesn't lead to a good job: see universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... and British Academy reports. English leads to a huge choice of careers

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Excellent letter from @mcraeandrew.bsky.social More on the #EnglishCreates campaign here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... All resources free to use

📣FUNDED PHD OPPORTUNITY 📣 Recruiting for a PhD student, working in collaboration with the British Jesuit Archives, @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social, @laurajcleaver.bsky.social, & @lucyvinten.bsky.social. Application deadline: 31 January 2025 👇 Find out more here 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news/funded-...

www.theguardian.com/education/20... Useful and welcome acknowledgement from The Guardian of the damage that's being done to the sector at the moment.

Greg Walker - newly appointed Chair of main panel D for REF 2029 - will be speaking to the @univeng.bsky.social OGM this Friday, 1-2pm. Please contact [email protected] for the zoom link Hope to see you there. Please spread the word

Excellent news: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/chairs-... Edinburgh's Greg Walker is announced as Chair of main panel D for REF 2029. Congratulations, Greg! As many will know, Greg has served the discipline as Chair of University English and a member of the English Association's HE Committee for many years

KLAXON: Call for Papers! Please spread the word. We are delighted to be co-hosting the next #englishsharedfutures @englishassociation.bsky.social Conference from 3-5 July 2025 and warmly welcome submissions. Further details here: englishsharedfutures.org/cfp #cfp 1/

@dh-researchhub.bsky.social @bldigischol.bsky.social @discoxford.bsky.social @princetoncdh.bsky.social @ucldh.bsky.social Please share!

The next English: Shared Futures conference will be held in York, 3-5 July, 2025. More details here: www.englishsharedfutures.org/about The call for papers is now live, with a deadline of 31 January Anyone working in English, at any level, is welcome

This year the University English (First) Book Prize 2024 will accept applications across two periods (Jan-Dec 2023) and (Jan -Dec 2024) for two prizes. This is to ‘catch up’ with a time lag caused by Covid disruption. You can submit entries for both competitions or queries to [email protected]

University English, along with the English Association and Institute of English Studies, has written a letter in protest at the proposed closure of English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, and the redundancy of our excellent colleagues: universityenglish.ac.uk/english-lite...

Contrary to reports on R4Today, English A-level enrolments have gone up over the last two years. English is inherently valuable, enjoyable, and has great employment prospects because crucial skills - inc communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking - are fundamental to it

University English OGM, 6 December, 11-2. Join here: port-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/8611422951... Agenda includes: 11.10 Advocating for English (Marion Thain, KCL); 12.00 #EnglishCreates up-date, and discussion of the current situation of English departments; 1.15 REF2029: (Greg Walker, Edinburgh)