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Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. Co-Ed @areajournal.bsky.social. My views. She/Her 🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
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Gender and Justice publishes feminist research that tackles gender related injustice. Our view of (in)justice is broad; it includes the economic, social, criminal, distributive, environmental, cultural and the political. Submit a paper today buff.ly/ldRJU7W #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

📢📢📢We are excited to announce booking is now open for our 2025 Conference, More-Than-Human Mappings" on April 24 - 25th in London. Join us for 2 days of talks, workshops and an exhibition. Link for more information & tickets here!! (Concessions Available) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-than-...

⏰ | NEW REPORT: No child should grow up in hardship due to their parents’ immigration status, but nearly half of children in the UK with parents born abroad are living in poverty. @amreenqureshi.bsky.social and @marleymorris.bsky.social explore the solutions 👇

Lovely to see these cool projects get seed funding - and see a few familiar faces @andyharrod.bsky.social @kristina-s.bsky.social @parsnipsparsons.bsky.social congratulations xx www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) raised serious concerns about the UK government’s failure to uphold human rights across the country. That included fears over the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) welfare reforms

We are absolutely delighted to bring you the 1st issue of Gender and Justice! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... A HUGE thank you to all of the Authors, Reviewers & Editors who contributed to this issue #GenderSky #GenderStudies @sharronfitz.bsky.social @lexnetwork.bsky.social

Thrilled to have this report out exploring the experiences of LGBTQIA+ young people in greater Manchester 👇 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Academic abuse isn’t rare—it’s systemic. The Global Academic Abuse News Dashboard tracks real cases worldwide, exposing how deep the problem runs. See the data: buff.ly/3W5dVb2 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

We start 14 days of strike action tomorrow @newcastleucu.bsky.social, in response to the threat of compulsory redundancies and other cost-cutting measures - please send vibes of solidarity and please don’t cross our picket lines (virtual and IRL).

📢Abstract submission extended until 1st April! Please send us your abstracts for the Political Geography Research Group workshop - and see you at @newcastleuni.bsky.social in June👇

📌 Join us next week! We present our joint article recently published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics - on Pluralising Social Reproduction Approaches 📅 March 6 at 5pm GMT 📍At @SOAS SALT & Zoom 📷Info and registration➡️: shorturl.at/djuB5

Important piece in today’s Observer about Long Covid. Sadly many similarities in people’s stories of being disbelieved and forgotten with our research on Energy Limiting Conditions (incl. Long Covid). See: youtu.be/AtdpgiNs_xg?... and disbeliefdisregard.uk/wp-content/u...

Update: in dialogue with the journal editors now. Thanks to those who stepped up as allies and friends to also raise their concerns. While I'm disappointed in the research quality, I'm more cut up by the class discrimination. I wouldn't wish "a taste for deprivation" on anyone else.

New post up on the SAW Website Teaching Tools Section! saw.americananthro.org/pub/lhwerzc7...

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Does Geography have a (working) class problem? If you don't already know the answer, this should help; www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Ps fwiw, most chippies where I'm from are owned by Greek or Chinese families, but funnily enough this isn't even considered.

📣Online Event: #Gender & economic #insecurity 📅 March 3: 15h-17h 🗣️ LISER researcher @douccap.bsky.social will share insights on the intersection of #housing & gender #inequalities 💡Join discussions on gender differences/commonalities w/ experts across various fields. ℹ️ www.uni.lu/en/events/ge...

Tomorrow! It'll be dead good.

Exciting opportunity to join the @changingrealities.bsky.social team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Q for Dubliners - is the forgotten zine archive still running??? If not, can you recommend other zine archives/libraries in Dublin area, please and thank you?? X

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Average rent in Britain is now £1332/month whilst average wage is £2406/month This means that the *average* person is paying 55% of their wage to their landlord. Fifty five per cent.

The sass.l!! I wasn't even out that late!

🌱📚This March, come get creative making your own zine with Zinesters Hamja Ahsan, Seleena Laverne Daye & Dal Kular each running an online zine workshop with us exploring different themes of racial justice & mental health! 🔗Register your free place using link in bio @nsunnews.bsky.social

I'm not an EastEnders viewer, but I enjoyed reading this. Soaps are a fantastic portrayal of (sometimes incredibly dramatic and fantastical!) everyday working-class life x

We're recruiting a Research Fellow to work on our Leverhulme Trust funded project using materials in the Mass Observation Archive to study how political understandings develop over the life course. With @leverhulme.bsky.social and @massobsarchive.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP947/r...

SARG's Laura Fenton @soc-researcher.bsky.social was quoted in a Times article last week about young people drinking less alcohol than their parents. Laura was heavily involved in our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded 'Youth Drinking in Decline' project which looked at these trends in depth 👇