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Gavin Brewis

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PhD Candidate researching Neds & Ned Culture (1995-2008) through an Oral History of Trauma and Emotions. SGSAH Doctoral Research Committee. Education For Tomorrow Advisory Board. #emotions #trauma #violence #culture

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Jul 6

New Publication: Open Acces.

Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. Volume 28 Issue 1-2.

Contextual explorations of the interconnections of 'class', 'race', and 'place' as they relate to education in Glasgow, Scotland and First Nations Australia.

search.informit.org/toc/jaiis/28...

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 22h

Brilliant presentation today in class. Really proud of the students. Looking forward to the rest of them across the next few weeks.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, they've just totally snatched mine. Changed the email and name and now it's like it never existed. Ah well. Hope it helps them out a wee bit. I have another four year to build it up now until my next job. 😆

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 2d

I think what they do is take the accounts then sell them, or use them to promote these buy-for-followers schemes.

I hope it's that at least. Otherwise they're going to be pretty bored looking through work-related jargon and mundane networking messages all evening. 😆

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 2d

Someone decided to hack my @linkedin.com account. So, if you don't see me on there anymore, then that's why. Hearing this more often now, especially with larger accounts. Not completely bothered, just annoying they've done it now after years of building up contacts.

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 7d

That's no worries, Steph. If there's ever anything I can help with then I will be happy to share/promote.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 7d

Thesis in. Viva 16th December.

Four years of pure drama - little of which involved the research itself. I just hope I've done my participants, and my class proud.

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die".

🚬 😎

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks, Heidi. Looking forward to getting going.

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you ❤️

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks, Brian. Hope you're keeping well big man.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks, brother. Hope you and the family are well.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks, sister. Really didn't see it coming so today's been quite overwhelming. So excited about it though.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 18d

I'm most excited because this is the reason I came to academia - because of what can be done.

It's not just research, but about real material change, policies, inspiring solidarity, carving spaces for the empowerment of the people. Co-production, co-ownership. Community action!

Exciting!

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 18d

Got the call today to say that I've bagged the Research Fellow role at Queen's University, Belfast.

A four-year place-based research and policy project that involves working in and with working-class communities across multiple sites in Ireland, Scotland, and England.

Bit of an emotional day.

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Dr Charles Mansfield @drcharlesmansfield.bsky.social · 26d

The UK ERASMUS+ Engagement deadline for your organisation or university is 28 November 2025. Estimated contract start is 1 July 2026. More information from UK GOV here www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/04926...

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · 29d

Fantastic series.

Great story, but given that I wasn't too familiar with the Yakuza prior to this, the symbolism and the rituals throughout, however limited they are, gives the show another layer - very well done. After this, I plan to read a lot more about them; really fascinating.

Recommend.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 11

To my students from last term, I'll be doing politics and history again this semester. The module handbooks should be available now, so if you want to get a head start, you've got a week before classes begin. Looking forward to seeing you all again. Let's step it up this year.✌️

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Always, mate. My local.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Aura.

Happy Friday.

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 4

The essay was largely theoretical, but I believe also easily measurable when using the correct methods – some of which I've briefly applied in my thesis – and tools for analysis I've utilised in recent outputs.

If you can assist me here or support in some way, please let me know. Thanks.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Do any of my friends or colleagues here have any experience of Leverhume Trust proposals for early career researchers?

I have written an in-depth proposal that is linked to my intergenerational psychosocial work, and it would be seeking to provide a material basis for the essay I wrote last year.

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Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · Sep 3

Recently @vawright10.bsky.social and I were interviewed for a podcast about the Scottish new towns book which we recently co-wrote (and which is available Open Access for free download via bloomsburycollections, though you can also buy a copy in print if you wish!)

Edinburgh College of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social · Sep 3

🔉 Listen in! Dr @alistairfair.bsky.social & Dr @vawright10.bsky.social: Building Modern Scotland - The Social Histories of New Towns. Ep3, s2 of Artful Inquiry, the ECA research podcast.

Listen in on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1qDQ...

More about the series: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/eca-research...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

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Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not enough of this is being done. It's time for new emphasis, and new people employing these tactics which have been obvious to so many, for so long!

Rest in Peace to this young lad, John. We need to do our best to ensure it is not a life lost without action, and care for the future.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Paid mentoring roles in the schemes, more emphasis on the poverty which allows it to develop, attention to (sub)cultural norms which perptuate these behaviours that are by no means exclusive to young people, and emphasis on private companies who sell weapons while facing no threat of penalisation.

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 3

My work which explored the previous wave (and it is a wave, not just ideologically, but materially), proposes various ways through which to combat this growing, but preventable issue. The following section reveals those I see as most crucial in addressing this at the level it requires:

Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Another young man with his life stolen, a young boy who has ruined his own, and families hurt, broken, sad, and angry.

Unfortunately, amid the moral panic around immigration and the deepening crisis of poverty, youth violence has been creeping back on us.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

First pic of man who died in Edinburgh 'stabbing' as family share devastation

John McNab was hailed as "one in a million" and "the loveliest boy ever" after news of his death broke on social media.