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Teenagers are great. Youngest watched a "how to" YouTube video, then cut my hair. No fuss. All that time playing FIFA obviously developed the fine motor skills required for the job.

Join us for a free lunchtime webinar and Q&A for children's geographers and friends! 🤗 Navigating the Post-Doctoral Job Market - 14 June at 12.30-2pm BST. Featuring Ruth Cheung Judge, @DrNaomiTyrrell, @Collins_R_C + Sarah Holloway. Register now! tinyurl.com/kcupj5r7

Join us for our Postgraduate Virtual Open Day! Learn more about our range of programmes to further your studies and enhance your employability by speaking with current staff and students. lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geogr…

3 x University Teaching Posts in GIS, Climate Change and Sustainable Geographies Loughborough Geography and Environment Loughborough University. Note Thursday's deadline (9th Sept). Nice colleagues to work with😉, great students ...

New Paper with Helena PimlottWilson about private tutors out today😀 The paper scrutinizes the causes, configuration and consequences of solo self-employment as an economically marginal, but numerically dominant, form of entrepreneurship. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

Exclusive: Government tutoring programme contractor has ‘given themselves the right to confiscate a tuition business at will’, as tutors raise ‘litany of disasters’ threatening to jeopardise scheme schoolsweek.co.uk/ntp-row-randst…

Applications are open for The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships Loughborough University in any area of Geography & Environment!🌎 We would especially like to encourage BAME applicants. Our Internal deadline is 28th October. More here:🔗bit.ly/3ndyIbK

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Children’s Geographies are looking for a new Co-Editor and two Commissioning Editors (North America and Asia). Initial three-year term starting in January 2022, deadline for applications by 5pm (GMT), 25th October 2021.

Conservatives argue for free speech on campus, but their MP wants people using the term 'white privilege' to be reported for extremism 🤣. My lectures evaluate changing geographic approaches to race, including studies of white privilege. Evidence-based analysis ✔ Extremism❌

Grim listening to Degrees of Abuse about Geography. All women make a choice about when to complain over sexual harassment because we know the risks. Nevertheless, it is still shocking to hear how these women were treated.

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Gonna be unemployed in couple months again because well ECR life innit. HMU if you need a human geographer with art/design training and sick GIS skills. Retweets appreciated.

Strong critique by ⁦Education Committee⁩ of how the £5bn recovery money is being spent. Covid pandemic fuels deepening education inequalities in England, say MPs bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Congratulations, Emma Bates. It was honour and joy to examine your thesis together with @markjwholton. Emma was supervised by Sarah Holloway and Helena PimlottWilson, and Emma defended her thesis brilliantly Loughborough Geography and Environment #phdlife

Dr Sam Whewall has been an excellent researcher Loughborough Geography and Environment. If anyone is looking to employ a sociologist or geographer of education, he's your man. We've done everything remotely during the pandemic, and while I might miss tea with the team, it's worked brilliantly. Great job Sam

Biniam Girmay becomes the first black African to win a stage of a Grand Tour. 👏 Great for cycling and the score of my fantasy Giro team 👍 theguardian.com/sport/2022/may…

University Teacher in Human Geography, Loughborough University, UK jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH236/uni… 😀Come and join us 😀 Full-time & fixed-term post from 1st September 2025 to 31st August 2026. Follows Sarah Mills' British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. Closing date is 22nd June 2025.