cathfletcher.bsky.social
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.
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They're not yet asking for money, so I guess I'll say yes for now and see how things are looking in a few months.
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Some people with recent practical experience of this are the @vaginamuseum.bsky.social
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I'm also interested to see how the bit about compulsory redundancy situations plays out, since many fixed-term postdocs end with compulsory redundancy and in many cases people's books come out afterwards.
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As ever, driven by science publishing practice with no consideration for people who might have a single book per cycle.
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I had something very similar twenty years ago at a pre-92 with a large private school intake.
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A lot fewer people went into any sort of higher education then, of course. I think it was about 30% when I started uni in 1993.
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Meanwhile the pre-92s teach a lot more 'applied history' than they used to - the change is also on that side.
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But the problem in the UK was always the perception of a two-tier system as opposed to the European version of a poly which can be very prestigious.
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When I go to events Europe I often find myself explaining that Manchester Met is the ex-polytechnic, which makes what we do much easier to grasp!
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Universities could also be saying a lot more bluntly that if the government wants a cheaper European-style system then it means larger classes, less choice, fewer facilities and minimal support services. A list of specifics at risk would do a lot to concentrate minds.
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Obviously I should just ask it to hallucinate some possible content of those books, which it probably pirated anyway.
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I did try ChatGPT for this and it first lied and then said it couldn't help.
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It'd be worth having a chat with my colleague Ros Oates, who heads our Cultures of Disability research group, if you haven't already: contact on their website culturesofdisability.mmu.ac.uk/contact-page/
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The Keele role expects two days a week on campus, ug and pg teaching including lectures, workshops, seminars, setting and marking work, and supervising projects. Oh and by the way if you can also teach Digital Media, Philosophy, or Sociology that's great.
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Saving this for when my publisher returns from paternity leave.
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There are still options - it's just frustrating to see this one go after we were being positively encouraged to apply to it!
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No specifics. Some more money for R&D but will probably be very ring-fenced to govt priorities. Still no firm decisions on international student levy.
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I keep seeing ads for this site, which has a few options:
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What they don't want are local alumni and community campaigns to save Subject X at Uni Y - because those create a lot of pressure and at least sometimes will win.
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The good news is that even high agency males can make up.
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Marvellous, thank you!
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Thank you!
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I can see more of a potential parallel with Wikipedia - when that got started the advice to students was 'don't touch it with a bargepole, completely unreliable' and now it tends to be 'has its issues but okay as a starting point and will direct you to some but not all relevant further material'
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There's a good case in the military context for having a portable altar that you can take out closer to the troops. I wonder if it's not included because it technically belongs to the diocese and not to the fort?
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Not if it was somewhere else at the time.
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You'd think someone might have noticed the obvious inclusion problem that approach raises.
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My cousin's daughter, currently in US grade 7 (I think) was busily annotating an actual paper book by hand last week, and I'm definitely borrowing that for future classes.
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I will believe this when I see my Liverpool-based colleagues agree to a 9am in-person meeting
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The British hostages weren't released until 91 though, which kept the image of general lawlessness going.
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Yes, I mean it's never been feasible to check everything but a peer reviewer who knows the field should know how to spot when checks are needed.
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We have some of these and they work when they're a genuine cluster on a very specific thing that becomes the go-to group for consultancy. But it doesn't work for loose clusters of lone scholars or small project-specific teams.