Spent the day in a delightfully productive writing day with Jenna Mittelmeier Miguel Lim Kathryn Telling and Sandra Clare.

We had food, water, quiet, a safe place, and all the resources that our Palestinian colleagues and fellow citizens have lost. This grief is constant.

My article with Bing Liu Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) now out at Policy Reviews in Higher Education.

Provincial government and institution level strategy setting: the case of building Chinese ‘world-class universities’

Have a read at the link below
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My new article 'Why do students resist assessment by group-work? Hearing critique in the complaint' has been published open-access in European Educational Research Journal. Part of an upcoming SI with Diana Holmqvist on educational research using the orders of worth framework. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

New series: RIS Audio Interviews 🎉

Hosted by Asuka Ichikawa, the first episode discusses ‘caring co-authorship’ with chapter 1 authors of our #RISbook , Thornchanok (Joyce) Uerpairojkit, Summer Bennett, and Meena (she/they).

researchintlstudents.com/2024/04/22/aud…

Today marks the start of Black Maternal Health Awareness Week.

Black mothers remain 4x more likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum.

This week is a reminder that action is needed to address the inequalities Black women face at every stage of the birthing journey.

📢📢 URGENT: Sue is a Black disabled migrant PhD student & mother in complaint against an abusive supervisor. Now Newcastle University is reporting her to the Home Office in retaliation, fully knowing she suffers from terminal, life & death Stage 5 kidney disease 🧵 #WeAreAllSue

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The gov has an open call for evidence on their proposed changes to fit notes.

This is open to disabled people, carers and medical professionals.

It's open til 8th July

gov.uk/government/cal…

Manchester-based colleagues, our research group is co-sponsoring a book launch with Maya Wind next week on Monday. Please consider joining! ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/manch…
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Glad to hear Maya Wind is speaking in Manchester on 22 April! Sign up to the book launch before it sells out:
ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/manch…

Thx to UMUCU & BRICUP for organising!

UK residents: 7,000 more signatures are needed so that parliament will debate introducing a family reunification visa for Palestinians affected by genocide.

6 more days, please sign 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

In which a middle-aged and middle-ranking academic thought to make a few quiet points about universities and mental health, and instead the whole thing got a bit out of hand. Ooops. You might as well read it anyway. voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…

I get so frustrated with the “why aren’t people having more kids?” pieces because the answer is so obvious: nowhere stable to live, modern life requires 2 incomes, and many, many workplaces penalise motherhood. It doesn’t add up.

📣 Calling all colleagues in HE & edu. NGOs 🍉

We're compiling a list initiatives/resources to support Palestinian students, teachers, academics & universities: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Please add to the list using the form & share widely

#FreePalestine

Very proud of Dr Bowen Zhang 张博文 performance yesterday and her PhD overall

We’ve created a contact database for the Working Class Leaders in HE Network so we can send out details of upcoming sessions, mentoring and the conference being planned. Reshares appreciated forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

Thoughts Steve Jones Miguel Lim Eric Lybeck ?

🎉I am pleased to share an invitation to new Research with International Students Online Writing Retreats. The first one is on March 22, please use the following link: researchintlstudents.com/events/
Please contact Luman, Trang and Shannon if you have any questions.

So very gassed to be part of this innovative and empowering @blackballauk project with #BBxGoogle to celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of #BlackWomen in the UK.

Times Higher article on my ISRF research.
To complete our survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/liverpool/pi…
For more info on the project: exhaustioneconomy.uk
For more info on ELCs: chronicillnessinclusion.org.uk/2021/04/28/wha…

Dear friends, my extraordinary student Piper is exploring women in higher education. This is a powerful - propulsive - project. We would love your support to enable a better future for our universities. Survey link - BELOW :) txxx