'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3

'The University of Warwick vice-chancellor has hit out at government plans to introduce a levy on income from international student tuition fees, as he announced...a voluntary leavers scheme to address £10 million of extra costs from the national insurance hike for employers.' 1/3

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this. Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments

Absolutely appalling. Someone is going to be killed or seriously injured very soon, and the blame for that won’t only lie with the perpetrators, or the likes of Yaxley-Lennon, but with actual MPs intent on painting members of racialised minorities as threats to women & children

“This is my duty…reporting the suffering of a people that I am living amidst, suffering that I am experiencing myself.” – Reporter Anas al-Sharif in what would become his final interview with us just weeks before being killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Full report ⤵️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

Gen Z, this is a step too far.

Big news from PAIS! We’ve been ranked #2 in the Russell Group in the 2025 NSS – making it 10 years in a row in the top 2, with 7 years at #1! 🏆 Find out more here buff.ly/57RtxDl

Nigel Farage's new non-dom policy "would provide a very large and expensive tax windfall to a small number of very wealthy people who are already here... [that] would amount to £34bn of lost Government revenue over five years" taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/23/b...

We are pleased to be part of this joint National Academies letter in the Times today ahead of the Spending Review making the case for investment in R&D @royalsociety.org @britishacademy.bsky.social @raeng.org.uk @acmedsci.bsky.social

The term “burka ban” needs to be dropped because they are not talking about banning the burka, but a whole range of head coverings associated with Muslim women.

The excellent Ben Ansell explains why Farage is unlikely to be PM in 2029. "Don't Make Plans for Nigel" open.substack.com/pub/benansel...

Raymond Hyma’s new working paper explores how participatory action research in Southeast Asia became a tool for connection—shifting identities and building empathy in divided communities. What if the research is the intervention? buff.ly/9hJhNs8

"Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way." Jeremy Gilbert on why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to the Reform surge 🔽

My paper has an issue number now, so please read it! Especially if you're that guy who emailed me about my apparent lack of critical thinking skills after I critiqued some conspiracy theories in a different paper...

A concerning colonial attitude by the UK government, implying that expertise is only located in the 'aid givers'. Collaboration, solidarity, responsibility, and most of all humility are key @wicidwarwick.bsky.social @mouzkhalil.bsky.social @shahnaz76.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

“It’s the worst I’ve ever seen it in Gaza.” British surgeon Dr Victoria Rose tells @vicderbyshire.bsky.social about the current situation at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, adding: “there are more patients coming through the door than I have ever witnessed before.” #Newsnight

Universities as a Public Good - a response to the UK Immigration White Paper. Check out this post I co-authored with my amazing colleagues at @wicidwarwick.bsky.social to hear what we have to say about it.....and tell us what you think! warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

New WICID #ThinkDevelopment blog 📣 We just published a new blog 'Protecting Universities as a Public Good: A Response to the Immigration White Paper' addressing the recent white paper by the UK Government. Please check it out here and share: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

Protecting Universities as a Public Good. A Response to the Immigration White Paper. A new @wicidwarwick.bswarwick.ac blog by Professor Briony Jones, Dr Mouzayian Khalil and me. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais...

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the state of the higher education sector.

Growing older in academia is realising very few students get the What is this behaviour Pooja reference.

The UK must recognise the state of Palestine. A ceasefire, release of hostages, unrestricted aid, diplomatic negotiation + accountability can bring an end to this conflict, and recognition is a crucial first part of that. I spoke on Radio 4 about @lfpme.bsky.social 76 MPs/Peers urging govt to act

Consequence of world politics at the moment - there really hasn't been enough publicity about how fabulous Diljit Dosanjh looked at the Met Ball.

International student levy branded ‘self-imposed tariff on UK exports’. Government plan would deepen “financial precarity” for universities and risk deterring students, experts warn. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

This is an esp bad example of the BBC coverage of immigration leaving out the central fact for public understanding It omits the current evidence on what the level of immigration is (while reporting political claims that make no sense without the fact too) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PMQS club is back after a long recess. Today's session took stock of last week's elections and its usual engagement with how questions are asked and answered. This week all leaders came in for criticism and a call for more detail in answers.

International students are worth £20 billion a year to Britain - will this be the cost of Reform’s success at local elections as Gov tries to look tough on immigration? observer.co.uk/news/politic...

If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

Hi All, Could you spare a moment to sign my #petition ? I have been victim to the nasty effects of Paracetamol, after I O/D on it, because it was so available to me as a 16 yr old. Let’s change that for everyone else, so nobody else goes through what I did! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Trading falling markets, for the ability to trade insults.

Beyond. Parody.

We at Network of Sisters in Academia (NeSA) are deeply alarmed and outraged at the abduction of our sister and fellow academic Rumeysa Öztürk and demand that authorities declare her location and secure her liberty so she can return safely to her studies

British comic book creator Becky Burke is still being held in a USA detention camp, without news of release or repatriation bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...

Have your parents accidentally gone on holiday with conspiracy theorists? Mine have and they let me write about it in Critical Studies on Security! Help! My parents are normies: family friends, GPS, and the World Economic Forum www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ICYMI last weekend: Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee @sarahowen.org.uk told me she is concerned that DEI schemes in the UK could be impacted by attacks from Donald Trump

They're going to try to make an example of a few universities in order to block free speech at all of them out of fear.

Thoughtful #PMQSclub session today , with students commenting on Ukraine and the very real impact that this has on us all. Insightful analysis on LOTO and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk questions to the PM as students continue to learn about politics @warwickpais.bsky.social

Bringing colour charts to a gunfight.

Reposting because my paper 'Delimiting Resistance and Resisting the Border: The Case for Strategic Essentialism in Critical Border Studies' one @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @warwickpais.bsky.social

Such a privilege to have my research be a small part of this work by @samirashackle.bsky.social . This really centres the voices at the heart of the Coventry Experiment and is an astonishing read.

I've got a new paper out with the brilliant @savannahcox.bsky.social & Emma Colven! We took a social studies of finance lens to explore the practices of 'framing, standardization & classification' that 'center' private finance at the core of urban climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Slightly obsessed by the American lady in Pakistan at the moment. Sis is out here holding press conferences and surrounded by the media.

January has been a hell of a year

📣 EVENT ALERT! WICID Steering Committee member Professor Emily Henderson will be speaking at the Centre for Global Higher Education webinar (hybrid event) on 4 February, 2-3PM GMT. Please find out more and register here: www.researchcghe.org/events/towar...

Was a better time to examine the complicated relationship between crime, politics & punishment? Please look & share this studentship, based at the vibrant & friendly @sociowarwick.bsky.social with @stephenfarrall.bsky.social using British Cohort Data (@clscohorts.bsky.social ). Questions welcome.

As part of @warwickpais.bsky.social outreach programme , we begin PMQs club today. The initiative aims to help support school aged students to learn about Parliament and learn about critical engaging with both PMQS and sources which inform questions and answers.

I love & appreciate all the academics doing the studies to confirm what feels instinctually obvious. Want to get rid of Nigel Farage’s support & banish the far right across Europe? People must be able to access quality public services. It doesn’t feel like rocket science.