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ciantocallaghan.bsky.social
Urban geographer in Trinity College Dublin
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The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Solidarity to friends and colleagues @newcastleucu.bsky.social! And at Dundee, Cardiff, Hull and more: "So far, this academic year, university employers have announced their intention to cut over 5,000 jobs (5,361)"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote this opinion piece with two colleagues in response to the concerted effort by Government, supported by conservative commentators and media, to undermine Irish neutrality. Original title was 'Co-ordinated attack on our neutrality is anti-democratic'. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

The JustHousing project has a website. With @kevincredit.bsky.social & Fiadh Tubridy, we're working with community orgs & the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) to strengthen links between housing + climate justice. The 3 year project is funded by @epaireland.bsky.social mu.ie/justhousing

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Solidarity to colleagues in the UK with this bleak news

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

In Scotland, over 50% of people lived in council homes (closer to 60% by the late 70s), down to 12% in 2022. Any discussion on solutions to the housing crisis has to take this into account. Private developers will never build their way out of high profits.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

submitted 59 days ago • 64 comments

In a nice last min end of the year update (which equally serves for early new year), a book review forum on my edited collection with Cesare Di Feliciantonio has been published in Space and Policy (Vol 28:1). Thanks to Mark Boyle and Debangana Bose www.tandfonline.com/toc/cspp20/2...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

This is very good. And in very basic sense the message holds true for the election result overall: the status quo over the unpredictability of changing the system. The problem of course is the system remains broken. The voter aspiration of the property ladder is structurally untenable for the masses

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Cranes on the downtown skyline, it’s a sight to see for some, it ought to make a few reputations, in the cult of number one

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Solidarity with colleagues at the University of Wollongong in geography, history, language, maths, environmental science, physics and public health. Entire units being cut, short sighted and devastating. Petition here: betteruniversities.work/uow-petition...

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Not a bad first post to share this podcast conversation with Rory Hearne @mickbyrne.bsky.social and others. Good to see this out

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments