Prof. Bethan Evans
@drbevans.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their 🏳️⚧️
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If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social
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Please join us at SOAS and online for HOW WE APPEAR AND HOW WE ARE FELT: A Conversation w Dr Khairani Barokka about ANNAH, INFINITE.
Can’t wait to be in convo w Dr Anandi Rao and with all of you via Q and A.
JAN 29, 5-7PM BST, Register via QR code
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Can’t wait to be in convo w Dr Anandi Rao and with all of you via Q and A.
JAN 29, 5-7PM BST, Register via QR code
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
January 16, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Please join us at SOAS and online for HOW WE APPEAR AND HOW WE ARE FELT: A Conversation w Dr Khairani Barokka about ANNAH, INFINITE.
Can’t wait to be in convo w Dr Anandi Rao and with all of you via Q and A.
JAN 29, 5-7PM BST, Register via QR code
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Can’t wait to be in convo w Dr Anandi Rao and with all of you via Q and A.
JAN 29, 5-7PM BST, Register via QR code
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
States of precarity in UK Higher Education geography
Findings from a discipline-focused research project exploring the lived realities of precarious academic work within UK Higher Education geography.
www.rgs.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Today we launch States of Precarity in UK HE Geography.
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
Thank you to the 364 colleagues whose experiences shaped this work.
Download the report, share widely, and join us in advocating for change.
Launch event (1:00-2:30GMT):
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
Read report:
www.rgs.org/research/hig...
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2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
Early Career Researcher Network
An inclusive, researcher-led network for UK-based early career researchers working in the humanities and social sciences
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
December 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3
My top 2025 fiction read:
‘When There are Wolves Again’ by EJ Swift. Beautifully written exploration of ways of living with more-than-human others in the context of climate change. I highly recommend for geographers & env sci/humanities folk as well as SF fans. It deserves to win all the awards.
‘When There are Wolves Again’ by EJ Swift. Beautifully written exploration of ways of living with more-than-human others in the context of climate change. I highly recommend for geographers & env sci/humanities folk as well as SF fans. It deserves to win all the awards.
December 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My top 2025 fiction read:
‘When There are Wolves Again’ by EJ Swift. Beautifully written exploration of ways of living with more-than-human others in the context of climate change. I highly recommend for geographers & env sci/humanities folk as well as SF fans. It deserves to win all the awards.
‘When There are Wolves Again’ by EJ Swift. Beautifully written exploration of ways of living with more-than-human others in the context of climate change. I highly recommend for geographers & env sci/humanities folk as well as SF fans. It deserves to win all the awards.
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1) Moving paper by young ME/CFS researcher Katherine Cheston. She was aware of the great disability it causes but "encountering the reality of this suffering first-hand was still shocking and deeply saddening."
She gives examples of patients who do not get appropriate care.
She gives examples of patients who do not get appropriate care.
December 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
1) Moving paper by young ME/CFS researcher Katherine Cheston. She was aware of the great disability it causes but "encountering the reality of this suffering first-hand was still shocking and deeply saddening."
She gives examples of patients who do not get appropriate care.
She gives examples of patients who do not get appropriate care.
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New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social for inviting @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Ana Bê Periera and I to discuss creating inclusive research cultures for people with energy limiting conditions as part of this brilliant podcast series
A brand new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture, a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast, is out now!
Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
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Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
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LinkedIn
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December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thanks to @elainagmamaril.bsky.social for inviting @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social Ana Bê Periera and I to discuss creating inclusive research cultures for people with energy limiting conditions as part of this brilliant podcast series
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In this episode, we discuss:
- The management labour needed to create a disability-inclusive workplace
- Access intimacy
- How disabled-led research informs collaborative and co-production relationships
- The management labour needed to create a disability-inclusive workplace
- Access intimacy
- How disabled-led research informs collaborative and co-production relationships
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In this episode, we discuss:
- The management labour needed to create a disability-inclusive workplace
- Access intimacy
- How disabled-led research informs collaborative and co-production relationships
- The management labour needed to create a disability-inclusive workplace
- Access intimacy
- How disabled-led research informs collaborative and co-production relationships
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Disabled researchers are here now. Bethan Evans, Anna Ruddock, Alison Allam, and Morag Rose have developed inclusive methods for researchers and participants with energy limiting conditions and illnesses, showcasing what research led by disabled scholars can look like.
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Disabled researchers are here now. Bethan Evans, Anna Ruddock, Alison Allam, and Morag Rose have developed inclusive methods for researchers and participants with energy limiting conditions and illnesses, showcasing what research led by disabled scholars can look like.
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A brand new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture, a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast, is out now!
Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
lnkd.in/e-dgr7Md
Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
lnkd.in/e-dgr7Md
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A brand new episode of #CrippingResearchCulture, a Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Culture podcast, is out now!
Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
lnkd.in/e-dgr7Md
Listen to “Disabled-led Research with Bethan Evans et al” wherever podcasts are found.
lnkd.in/e-dgr7Md
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Women's Organisations "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/
Women's Orgs "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats
Two culturally significant women's organisations have reversed long-standing trans inclusive approaches, citing "reference to legal challenge" in communications
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Women's Organisations "pressured" and forced to exclude Trans+ people, amid legal threats 👇
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/organisations-pressured-and-forced-to-exclude-trans-people-amid-legal-threats/
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When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
What’s happened to Research Rabbit? It’s gone from one of my most frequently recommended tools to utterly unusable 😩
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What’s happened to Research Rabbit? It’s gone from one of my most frequently recommended tools to utterly unusable 😩
Even in the rain Glow at Bridgewater gardens is beautiful. Well worth a visit, and all bar a tiny bit wheelchair accessible
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Even in the rain Glow at Bridgewater gardens is beautiful. Well worth a visit, and all bar a tiny bit wheelchair accessible
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This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?
UKRI exploring use of AI in grant review - this will prompt debate but interested to know if people think it’d encourage novelty or the opposite? www.chemistryworld.com/news/ukri-op...
UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review
Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers
www.chemistryworld.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?
If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social
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This event was really important and informative. If you have not done so, please check out the 'creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions' guidance. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the project website soon
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This event was really important and informative. If you have not done so, please check out the 'creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions' guidance. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the project website soon
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/
This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces
Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is on Monday. Do join us if you can and are interested in more inclusive academic workplaces
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States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social
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Obit from @thesicktimes.org by Alice’s friend @mileswgriffis.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Obit from @thesicktimes.org by Alice’s friend @mileswgriffis.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1
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This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. Ho...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This article broke my heart, and underlines the shocking state children’s mental health care today - the erosion of children’s and parents’ rights, unqualified and inexperienced staff, corporations who don’t care, and so much more.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
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Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social
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Solidarity to colleagues at Leicester Uni:
"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"
"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"
University of Leicester confirms formal redundancy consultation
The University and College Union's local branch says staff are planning strike action.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Solidarity to colleagues at Leicester Uni:
"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"
"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"