New study from Norway: Banning smartphones in schools significantly decreases the proportion of girls presenting with mental health issues and bullying drops dramatically. Benefits most strongly felt by disadvantaged girls.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

It takes a ‘village’ to organise an event (a reminder to self first) 😊

We are offering a 12 month The British Academy Innovation Fellowship of up to £120k for a researcher to work in Department for Education on the vital topic of AI skills strategy
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/innova…

Associate Deans Your adjuncts get housing?

Come and work at UCL with our IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society marvellous science and initial teacher education teams. jobs.ac.uk/job/DHH104/lec…. Institute of Education, UCL Science SIG Justin Dillon UCET BERA Amanda McCrory

PODCAST: How French invaded the English language, where foreigners buy second homes and youth violence flares thelocal.fr/20240425/podca…

Duty bound as a Ravian to show off the magical space and place of GCU at the slightest prompt ✨️

A special shout out to my co-panelists and our fabulous moderator. Also, thanks to Volvo Cars for sponsoring the event!

I am thrilled to express my heartfelt gratitude to #MittLiv (svb) for the incredible opportunity to participate in the panel discussion on - An inclusive labour market 2024 - which brought together approximately 1000 attendees (250 attendees and 700 online)
What an honor!
#DEI

Don't go into academia. Just don't.

'Language Policy and Activism beyond Academia'.
A free webinar organised by BAAL Language Policy Group BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics SIG & Moray House School of Education and Sport LIL Research HUB.
With guest speakers Davyth Hicks EUROLANG, Isis Ribeiro Berger and Francis Hult.
Thurs. 2nd May
2pm-4.30pm GMT
Register 👇
eventbrite.co.uk/e/language-pol…

#BlackLivesMatter & George Floyd in Pakistani Truck art.
This picture popped up in my FB memories, sharing it here as a reminder to self first that words, and movements( both good onessnd bad ones have far reaching impact).

Is this Phool Patti Official’s work? #PakistaniArt

celebrity activists are picked and chosen for a reason by elites - they serve the general function of providing proximity to “doing good” for those who otherwise leech on this world & its vulnerable. They also can be trusted to never harangue oppressors with power.

Abdullah M. I. Syed (Pakistani, b. 1974). Twinkle Twinkle Little Drone - III (2016, altered toy mobile, banknotes, stainless steel, plastic and metal).

👋 Gothenburg/ Göteborg

Watch Rawanee’s Muniba Mahmud منیبہ & Salma Siddiqui live right now in Ananke’s panel on public discourse Ananke | AnankeWLF

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Rumi

#spring

“If I write love poems, I resist the conditions that don’t allow me to write love poems.'

--Mahmoud Darwish
in a 2002 interview with Maya Jaggi

hej västkusten
#goteborg

I will be conducting a workshop on AI tools, ethical considerations, and research at the lovely CUI Lahore campus. For registration and queries, please email Dr Farzana Ashraf [[email protected]]
#workshop #research #academicWriting #Lahore