Ali Struthers
@dralistruthers.bsky.social
Reader at Warwick Law School | SFHEA | Child Rights | Public Legal Education | Widening Access | #TaskmasterEducation Co-founder | Creator of @schooltasking.bsky.social | Munro-bagging Scot 🏴
“Surprisingly socially functional for an academic"
“Surprisingly socially functional for an academic"
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Ali Struthers
@dralistruthers.bsky.social
· Apr 30
School tasking in UK primary schools: widening access through early intervention and gameful design
School Tasking is a successful, university-led primary school outreach programme in law based on the format of the hit television show, Taskmaster. It borrows the fun, interactivity, and gentle com...
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New #SchoolTasking article in the Journal of Further & Higher Education is now available open access.
It discusses why early intervention is so important in outreach (at a time when many universities are moving in the opposite direction) & why gameful design has been key to the project's success.
It discusses why early intervention is so important in outreach (at a time when many universities are moving in the opposite direction) & why gameful design has been key to the project's success.
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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✔️NEW Call for Papers from HRER
✔️Intercultural history, human rights and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies
✔️Scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts by 6 January 2026
✔️Invited papers due by 31 May 2026
For further details visit
global-iahre.org/get-involved/
✔️Intercultural history, human rights and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies
✔️Scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts by 6 January 2026
✔️Invited papers due by 31 May 2026
For further details visit
global-iahre.org/get-involved/
Human Rights Education Review
Special Issue 2027: Intercultural history, human rights, and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies Call for Papers: deadline for abstract submission – 6 January 2026&n…
global-iahre.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
✔️NEW Call for Papers from HRER
✔️Intercultural history, human rights and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies
✔️Scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts by 6 January 2026
✔️Invited papers due by 31 May 2026
For further details visit
global-iahre.org/get-involved/
✔️Intercultural history, human rights and citizenship education for inclusion in diverse societies
✔️Scholars are encouraged to submit abstracts by 6 January 2026
✔️Invited papers due by 31 May 2026
For further details visit
global-iahre.org/get-involved/
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Glen Etive, Highlands. Pic: IG/shadyron74
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Glen Etive, Highlands. Pic: IG/shadyron74
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We're so excited and proud to be shortlisted for this award in a category with so many brilliant initiatives 🏆🤞 @timeshighered.bsky.social
School Tasking is up for Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year at tonight’s @timeshighered.bsky.social Awards 2025 🏆
Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼
And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩
Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼
And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We're so excited and proud to be shortlisted for this award in a category with so many brilliant initiatives 🏆🤞 @timeshighered.bsky.social
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Very happy to be representing the hard work of the School Tasking team!
Good luck to all the @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social projects shortlisted at #THEawards in 2025
🎊🎉🥳🏆
Good luck to all the @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social projects shortlisted at #THEawards in 2025
🎊🎉🥳🏆
School Tasking is up for Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year at tonight’s @timeshighered.bsky.social Awards 2025 🏆
Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼
And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩
Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼
And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Very happy to be representing the hard work of the School Tasking team!
Good luck to all the @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social projects shortlisted at #THEawards in 2025
🎊🎉🥳🏆
Good luck to all the @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social projects shortlisted at #THEawards in 2025
🎊🎉🥳🏆
School Tasking is up for Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year at tonight’s @timeshighered.bsky.social Awards 2025 🏆
Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼
And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩
Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼
And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
School Tasking is up for Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year at tonight’s @timeshighered.bsky.social Awards 2025 🏆
Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼
And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩
Representing the best project team ever is the wonderful @philjemmett.bsky.social, so please wish us luck 🤞🏼
And well done & good luck to everyone nominated 🤩
Bucket list item well and truly ticked off in beautiful Reykjavik tonight 💚
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Bucket list item well and truly ticked off in beautiful Reykjavik tonight 💚
There’s nowhere quite like home, even on a dreich Autumn day.
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
There’s nowhere quite like home, even on a dreich Autumn day.
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Late light at Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchus #Scotland #Rothiemurchus #Aviemore #Cairngorms www.damianshields.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Late light at Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchus #Scotland #Rothiemurchus #Aviemore #Cairngorms www.damianshields.com
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For anyone who may not be following Gail Myerscough, she has a lovely and unique design aesthetic.
So much of her work seems to draw on the past while somehow imagining the future.
It gives her designs a timeless feel.
And she's having a sale!
Click through and have a look:
So much of her work seems to draw on the past while somehow imagining the future.
It gives her designs a timeless feel.
And she's having a sale!
Click through and have a look:
I’ve just launched my #Christmas Gift Guide
Here’s an offer that might tempt you to have a look
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
Here’s an offer that might tempt you to have a look
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-gi...
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
For anyone who may not be following Gail Myerscough, she has a lovely and unique design aesthetic.
So much of her work seems to draw on the past while somehow imagining the future.
It gives her designs a timeless feel.
And she's having a sale!
Click through and have a look:
So much of her work seems to draw on the past while somehow imagining the future.
It gives her designs a timeless feel.
And she's having a sale!
Click through and have a look:
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My GP just gave me a new response the next time something goes wrong at work
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My GP just gave me a new response the next time something goes wrong at work
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October 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Quote post with your favourite reaction gif of all time
(working in academia, I use this one a *lot*...)
(working in academia, I use this one a *lot*...)
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Quote post with your favourite reaction gif of all time
(working in academia, I use this one a *lot*...)
(working in academia, I use this one a *lot*...)
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Outreach initiatives such as ‘School Tasking’ help academics connect with young learners and make higher education feel approachable, write Ali Struthers and Alex Horne: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/snail... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky
Snails, Jaffa Cakes and rubber ducks: making outreach playful
Outreach initiatives like ‘School Tasking’ show how academics can break down barriers, engage young learners, and make higher education feel accessible rather than intimidating
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Outreach initiatives such as ‘School Tasking’ help academics connect with young learners and make higher education feel approachable, write Ali Struthers and Alex Horne: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/snail... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Another fabulous shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over Suotojärvi Lake, Sweden, by Petr Horálek, with the colorful Aurora Borealis lighting up the sky.
More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and
fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154...
#Astronomy
More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and
fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154...
#Astronomy
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Another fabulous shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over Suotojärvi Lake, Sweden, by Petr Horálek, with the colorful Aurora Borealis lighting up the sky.
More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and
fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154...
#Astronomy
More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and
fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1154...
#Astronomy
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When there are three people at the table sharing a joke, and a Nazi sits down with them and joins in the laughter, there are four Nazis at the table.
This is basic.
This is basic.
October 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
When there are three people at the table sharing a joke, and a Nazi sits down with them and joins in the laughter, there are four Nazis at the table.
This is basic.
This is basic.
We wrote a thing! But, perhaps more importantly, this @timeshighered.bsky.social article contains an exclusive on whether @alexhorne.bsky.social considers Jaffa Cakes to be cakes or biscuits... 👀
New article in @timeshighered.bsky.social by @dralistruthers.bsky.social & (Dr) @alexhorne.bsky.social on the importance of being playful in outreach with children 🤩
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/snail...
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/snail...
Snails, Jaffa Cakes and rubber ducks: making outreach playful
Outreach initiatives like ‘School Tasking’ show how academics can break down barriers, engage young learners, and make higher education feel accessible rather than intimidating
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We wrote a thing! But, perhaps more importantly, this @timeshighered.bsky.social article contains an exclusive on whether @alexhorne.bsky.social considers Jaffa Cakes to be cakes or biscuits... 👀
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Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.
October 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.
I was going to be good tonight & do the opposite to last week: watch Taskmaster in real time & catch-up with Celebrity Traitors tomorrow night.
But then the Celia Imrie Flatulence Incident happened & the compulsion to watch Traitors is now even stronger 🤣
But then the Celia Imrie Flatulence Incident happened & the compulsion to watch Traitors is now even stronger 🤣
October 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I was going to be good tonight & do the opposite to last week: watch Taskmaster in real time & catch-up with Celebrity Traitors tomorrow night.
But then the Celia Imrie Flatulence Incident happened & the compulsion to watch Traitors is now even stronger 🤣
But then the Celia Imrie Flatulence Incident happened & the compulsion to watch Traitors is now even stronger 🤣
I've just written a book chapter about things that have gone wrong in a very successful project that I run.
It's a case study in a book I'm co-authoring & there are already plenty of 'all the things that went right' chapters about the project elsewhere. Time for the shit show of all the disasters 😂
It's a case study in a book I'm co-authoring & there are already plenty of 'all the things that went right' chapters about the project elsewhere. Time for the shit show of all the disasters 😂
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
🧵
Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I've just written a book chapter about things that have gone wrong in a very successful project that I run.
It's a case study in a book I'm co-authoring & there are already plenty of 'all the things that went right' chapters about the project elsewhere. Time for the shit show of all the disasters 😂
It's a case study in a book I'm co-authoring & there are already plenty of 'all the things that went right' chapters about the project elsewhere. Time for the shit show of all the disasters 😂
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‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘
‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’
‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’
How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...
How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment
Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.
www.cnbc.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘
‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’
‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’
People often give very little consideration to their children's privacy when they post about them online.
An acquaintance once shared a photo on Facebook of her taking a selfie in the bathroom with her daughter on a potty in the background saying 'no such thing as privacy anymore!' Erm...
An acquaintance once shared a photo on Facebook of her taking a selfie in the bathroom with her daughter on a potty in the background saying 'no such thing as privacy anymore!' Erm...
Parents who film their children crying for clicks should take a good look at themselves | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Parents who film their children crying for clicks should take a good look at themselves | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Toddlers have big feelings. But sharing their tantrums and pain on social media is not a ‘teachable moment’. It’s cruel, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
People often give very little consideration to their children's privacy when they post about them online.
An acquaintance once shared a photo on Facebook of her taking a selfie in the bathroom with her daughter on a potty in the background saying 'no such thing as privacy anymore!' Erm...
An acquaintance once shared a photo on Facebook of her taking a selfie in the bathroom with her daughter on a potty in the background saying 'no such thing as privacy anymore!' Erm...
If I had to select a specialist subject for Mastermind, I reckon the geographic spread of these guys across the UK would now see me to victory.
A productive afternoon with littlest family member ahead of her party tomorrow 🎩
A productive afternoon with littlest family member ahead of her party tomorrow 🎩
October 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If I had to select a specialist subject for Mastermind, I reckon the geographic spread of these guys across the UK would now see me to victory.
A productive afternoon with littlest family member ahead of her party tomorrow 🎩
A productive afternoon with littlest family member ahead of her party tomorrow 🎩