The steps taken by academic associations, and a #HigherEd institute to hold State officials to account abt treatment of migrant academic citizens, within the frame of a Constitution, is extraordinary: knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...

SAR’s #Free2Think2025 report is here! As violent threats to #highered in authoritarian contexts persist, recent years have seen increases in attacks on historically liberal contexts—incl. in the #UnitedStates. Read the report’s pressing findings now: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

Free to Think - the annual report on Scholars at Risk - has been published today for 2024-5. See www.scholarsatrisk.org/free-to-thin... @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social #HigherEducation #CriticalUniversityStuides #AcademicFreedom

Scholars at Risk is now active on Bluesky! SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals working to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. Keep an eye out for our upcoming #Free2Think2025 report, documenting global attacks on #highered! Learn more: scholarsatrisk.org

🆓 Free chapter for a limited-time: Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force by Dina Zoe Belluigi: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

'Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force' Pre-print finally accessible: pure.qub.ac.uk/files/612944...

Niv & Vanshika Gupta produced this anthology of stories, reinterpreted from the oral life histories of socially marginalised, critical academics in the Indian academy. 📖more here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... With Nandita Dhawan of the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University

Honoured to be in this book with many incredible Indian feminist scholars, and in a section looking at the university in particular, amoungst: Anagha Tambe Swati Dyahadroy Grace Ese-Osa Idahosa Nandita Banerjee Dhawan Shirley Anne Tate www.routledge.com/Gendered-Bod...

Appreciated the opportunity to contribute to this significant new edited collection. Thank you to Prof Dina Belluigi for support, encouragement and the chance to share reflections on the experience of working on post-Brexit constitutional change here. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Tough important questions & comments following my invited talk today, as part of the Wits University's commemoration of the #Fallist movements' calls, incl #decolonisation of the university 🙏 to Siphiwe Dube of the Wits Dept of Politics (pict) for introducing me & raising questions abt backlash

Important projects looking at resistance in universities in the past; from which to learn. Out yesterday: 'University of Durban-Westville, 1961–2003: Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture' - ed. Badat & Vahed ukznpress.co.za?class=bb_ukz... #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Resistance

Being in Shadow and Light Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education @dzbelluigi.bsky.social www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

A celebration of the national and international research collaborations which have evolved from the School of #WomensStudies of Jadavpur University. Looking so forward to getting a copy of this book!

For an insight into the complicated questions being asked about "Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?”, in a guest post on the current attacks by the state on public #HigherEd in the USA, by Sean L. Malloy utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

New publication alert! 🚨 Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence Points of Departure paper by Erika Jiménez et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #HigherEducation #Criticality #Palestine

A pleasure to reflect with the formidable Prof Takyiwaa Manuh recently on the state of the world, rights, international law, universities, & (academic) freedom & resistance. See her foreward to 'Being in Shadow & Light' here doi.org/10.11647/obp...

Reminding me of this proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 28: 'Today’s problems do not reflect a failure to introduce market thinking but the effects of its long-term presence.’ (Christopher Newfield (2016): The Great Mistake, p.4)

A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: reconceptualising Boyer scholarship www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism. www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...

It would be decent if they didn't cancel everybody at midday the day they retire or leave. Academia is a community that exists beyond the walls of institutions. People have allegiances that reflect that. This reveals the gulf in understanding between management and academics.

How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social

📣 Upcoming event: On Wednesday 2 July we will be joined by Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Professor Shuchen Xiang and @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social to discuss Re-thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia. Find out more and register here to join us: bit.ly/3HWKQtX

Read & Share: Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland Free to down from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

If you are interested in the institutionalisation, growth & current deterioration of structural support for ‘Women’s Studies’ (WS) in Indian public #HigherEd ... an OA version of this chapter is available on pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati... #gender #CriticalUniversityStudies

So pleased that the Athena Swann 2025 Lecture of my School @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social - Legitimising Othering, Reproducing Privilege? A Self-Reflexive Account of a ‘New Indian (Hindu)’ Feminist’ - will be by Dr Dhawan (Jadavpur University). 28 May Register: forms.office.com/e/XUQv7jXTdE

Grateful to these sexuality and gender journal editors for this statement of support Link is open access to Journal of Sex Research, kudos @cygraham.bsky.social @liamwignall.bsky.social and other signatories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky

Appreciative of collectively authored piece on our exhib 'Counter Narratives of Authority in Transition: Marginality in Indian Academia' engaged with at Uni of #Hyderabad During the visit of Ulrike Vieten my @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social colleague herald.uohyd.ac.in/counter-narr...

Grateful 4 warm reception by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social colleagues & students of our new book 'Emancipatory Imaginations: Advancing #CriticalUniversityStudies' at small gathering today. 👏 @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social 4 introducing book by reminding abt contind violences within & by western unis

🎞️A short film on Archee Roy's creative arts research for our project on Marginality in the Indian academy youtu.be/XKsiVhTY0-Y?... See more of the films on the related YouTube playlist 'Counter-Narratives'

🎞️Short film on the creative arts research process that led to the paintings 'Hated Fairytales' series by Sudatta Basu Roy Chowdhury. For our project on Marginality in the Indian academy. youtu.be/R9gt-DH9HoA More films on the related YouTube playlist 'Counter-Narratives'

Visual university studies since the Cold War: mapping journal articles published in Englishes from 1992 to 2023 @dzbelluigi.bsky.social 🔓→ doi.org/10.1080/0729... #HigherEd #VisualStudies #Universities #ColdWar

Belfast in February.

Indexed in the volume of Race Ethnicity and Education, is our crit quant paper on staff inequalities in UK #universities. with articles on Israel, the USA, Brazil, all looking at racism and race inequality in education. Please read & engage them: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cree20/2...

really enjoying listening to @catherinecronin.bsky.social @czernie.bsky.social talking to @helenbeetham.bsky.social about the process of bringing the HE for Good book to life helenbeetham.substack.com/p/higher-edu...

'Academics of Post-war Sri Lanka: Traces of Experiences and Impact' - by Hemalatha Pradeepkumar (who has just joined this platform @hema46.bsky.social !) Published open access in January in 'Being in Shadow & Light' doi.org/10.11647/obp... #HigherEd #Conflict #SriLanka #Ethnic

Quiet time on the outskirts of Mumbai reflecting with my research collaborators, Dr Asha Achuthan and Dr Nandita Dhawan. Rare periods. So grateful.

Journey into the exhibit with me - for a quick peek at our showing! #HigherEd #Academia #Marginality

'Counter-narrtives of Authority in Transition: Marginality in the Indian Academy' Artworks by Sudatta Chowdury, Brent Meistre, Archee Roy and Mark Wilby. Stories and zines by Ritarekha Dutta, Anwesha Rini, Archi Mukherjee, Niv, and Vanshika Gupta. #criticaluniversitystudies

Excitement is growing (with fever pitch activity at the School of #WomensStudies) as we prepare for the research-in-progress exhibition at Jadavpur University this week - on marginality in the academy. Watch this space.

This year's theme asks whether there is a way to sidestep ‘creativity’ as Higher Education agenda or discourse, and to reclaim its conceptual richness as a life-giving and individual (if unpredictable) force. We look forward to welcoming you to Dublin in the coming months!

Delighted to see this in print and #openaccess. Proud to have co-authored ch 5 'Hidden Legacies of the Troubles: Post-conflict Pedagogy as Resistance in Northern Irish Medical Education' with @helenreid.bsky.social and Dr Mairead Corrigan #criticalpedadogy #decolonisingcurricula #reparativepedagogy

Interesting to see, by country, the downloads of our book which is free to download, read & share. These metrics are transparently displayed per book & per chapter by @openbookpublish.bsky.social on their site. Holding thumbs that OA will impact on our intentionality being realised.

The first article from my postdoc @aarhusuni.bsky.social with Søren Bengtsen, @agtgibson.bsky.social & Lynn McAlpine, titled “Unveiling university-society engagement - university origin stories in Denmark” is out! 50 free copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F7DBJ...

Appreciation 🔥 to Prof Takyiwaa Manuh 4 foregrounding our book 'Being in Shadow & Light: Academics in Post/Conflict #HigherEd' with her wisdom. Excerpt abt the nature of #conflict/s & their challenges to possibilities for #AcademicFreedom. doi.org/10.11647/obp... @openbookpublish.bsky.social

OUT NOW: Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education, edited by Dina Zoe Belluigi! Explore the untold stories of academics navigating conflict across 12 countries through critical essays, poetry, and art. #HigherEd #ConflictStudies Read it here: https://buff.ly/3PoJZTm

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉 As we step into 2025, we’re highlighting memoirs that expose academic abuse and inspire courage to speak out. This list is just the beginning—more to come! 👉 Explore the memoirs: https://buff.ly/3ZV8xbk #NewYear #EduSky #PhDSky #PhDChat #MeTooPhD #EndAcademicAbuse #HigherEd

1st post ever on this platform & 1st post of 2025. Blessings! The abstracts for each chapter of our book - 'Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/ Conflict Higher Education' - are now online Our book will be published open access by @openbookpublish.bsky.social within the next week.

Link to #OpenAccess book Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...