New publication alert! 🚨 Black Lives Matter here too: amplifying blackness in research methods Points for Departure paper by Edward Watson tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #HigherEd #BlackLivesMatter

The horrifying reality of being a woman, perfectly summarised by Cait O'Ryan If you give even the slightest shit about women, watch it all. This is what it’s like.

Excellent questions Lucinda Willis

Good to see at least one refugee being treated decently.

Delighted to see my research engagement with policymakers and that of colleagues FASS Research Lancaster University featured in this new publication *How does Arts and Humanities research influence public policymaking?* School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University Lancaster University FASS Engagement Team Arts and Humanities Research Council upen.ac.uk/resources/how-…

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Shame must change sides. — Gisèle Pélicot

Fascinating and challenging article by Juuso Henrik Nieminen on the paradoxes of inclusive assessment. #highereducation #AcademicTwitter

Women should lift each other up in the workplace. Could have said- 'it's a brilliant achievement tho we differ in our policy views'- The exact kind of woman you don't want to have as your boss if you're a woman too.

Priti Patel has been made Shadow Foreign Secretary, which is a great excuse to remember that time Ian Hislop hilariously destroyed her argument in favour of the death penalty.

Really pleased to have a chapter in this important new volume on assessment and feedback in HE. Great working with Carol and Michael as editors too.

I co-authored this Higher Education Policy Institute blog on the development of tertiary education in England: hepi.ac.uk/2024/11/06/ado…

The 'duty to explain' is a more a positive way of understanding that the university teacher should not indoctrinate the student but instead open up a range of interpretations for them to choose from. See my new paper with Ivy Xiao Han in open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'll be leaving this space at the end of November. Find me at the happy little blue bird site, or LinkedIn. There are alternatives to greed and corruption. xx

Sounds intriguing.

They get £342 per day just for turning up but don't pay one penny of tax. If they paid their share it would cover the winter fuel allowance for Scotland's pensioners. Tomorrow I will bring amendments to make them pay as well as abolishing the whole circus. dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

It always confuses me how many people in the UK just accept an unelected house in Parliament. There simply is no justification.

HECU - the Higher Education Close-Up - conference and community can now be found over on the beautiful blue butterfly site: hecu.bsky.social

Amazing morning presenting a keynote at the Edge Sustainable Education Summit! So many great themes of community, compassion, hope, wellbeing, action, motivation and social justice Centre for Social Justice in Education Educational Research #SES2024

Farewell twitter folk. I've been lucky to have had many positive experiences on this platform - before it got wrecked. Please join me for more on education and social justice - plus, cats, chickens and gardens - on LinkedIn and @janmcarthur.bsky.social