Cathy Elliott
@profcathyelliott.bsky.social
Vice Dean Education in UCL Social and Historical Sciences Faculty. SFHEA. Regular contributor to ALPS blog. Co-Director UCL Centre for the Pedagogy of Politics. Politics of pedagogy and nature.
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The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies - Cathy Elliott, Ellen Watts, Kalina Zhekova, Keith Smith, Rose Gann, Madeleine Le Bourdon, 2025
In recent years, the number of academic jobs in research-intensive universities that are described as ‘academic education route’, ‘teaching and scholarship’, or...
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Really excited that our @politicsjournal.bsky.social article on the Joy of the Teaching Track ✨ is out! Co-authored with the brilliant @ellenfelicity.bsky.social, Keith Smith, Kalina Zhekova, @rosegann.bsky.social @mlebourdon.bsky.social – we advocate for enjoying our jobs!
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Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
January 24, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
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Our own @profcathyelliott.bsky.social is talking about careers for slackers tomorrow for @aspirenetwork.bsky.social. Even if you do not self-identify as a slacker.... you might hear some good tips! All Aspire members welcome
We were already massively looking forward to @profcathyelliott.bsky.social’s “Meet the T&S Prof” ASPIRE event tomorrow.
That excitement has been taken to a whole new level now she has shared her opening slide.
As all ways - all ASPIRE members are invited. See you tomorrow at 1pm!
That excitement has been taken to a whole new level now she has shared her opening slide.
As all ways - all ASPIRE members are invited. See you tomorrow at 1pm!
January 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Our own @profcathyelliott.bsky.social is talking about careers for slackers tomorrow for @aspirenetwork.bsky.social. Even if you do not self-identify as a slacker.... you might hear some good tips! All Aspire members welcome
Do come and see me talking about enjoying your life and not poring endlessly over promotion criteria tomorrow for @aspirenetwork.bsky.social!
(Spoiler: I think you might even be successful on the education-focused route, too, if you follow my tentative advice for slackers....)
(Spoiler: I think you might even be successful on the education-focused route, too, if you follow my tentative advice for slackers....)
We were already massively looking forward to @profcathyelliott.bsky.social’s “Meet the T&S Prof” ASPIRE event tomorrow.
That excitement has been taken to a whole new level now she has shared her opening slide.
As all ways - all ASPIRE members are invited. See you tomorrow at 1pm!
That excitement has been taken to a whole new level now she has shared her opening slide.
As all ways - all ASPIRE members are invited. See you tomorrow at 1pm!
January 19, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Do come and see me talking about enjoying your life and not poring endlessly over promotion criteria tomorrow for @aspirenetwork.bsky.social!
(Spoiler: I think you might even be successful on the education-focused route, too, if you follow my tentative advice for slackers....)
(Spoiler: I think you might even be successful on the education-focused route, too, if you follow my tentative advice for slackers....)
The last long-haul flight I took was in December 2019 and the last short-haul in January 2011. My life has been all the better for it with lots of trains/boats!
I am taking the flight free challenge again this year.... Could you join me? #FlightFree2026 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk
I am taking the flight free challenge again this year.... Could you join me? #FlightFree2026 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk
Flight Free UK
Fight climate change: make the pledge to be flight free in 2026
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January 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM
The last long-haul flight I took was in December 2019 and the last short-haul in January 2011. My life has been all the better for it with lots of trains/boats!
I am taking the flight free challenge again this year.... Could you join me? #FlightFree2026 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk
I am taking the flight free challenge again this year.... Could you join me? #FlightFree2026 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk
I'm talking this afternoon at the UCL Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain about teaching about Britain and Britishness. I thought throughout making my presentation that I would be talking about anger and ambivalence but in fact it turns out to be a presentation about love. Do come along!
Teaching Britain and Britishness: challenges and dilemmas
A Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain round table discussion on how contemporary understandings and practices of British values, citizenship and belonging are being addressed in education with ...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm talking this afternoon at the UCL Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain about teaching about Britain and Britishness. I thought throughout making my presentation that I would be talking about anger and ambivalence but in fact it turns out to be a presentation about love. Do come along!
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The role of pedagogical research in education-focused careers: Getting started in learning and teaching scholarship and why you should do it
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September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The role of pedagogical research in education-focused careers: Getting started in learning and teaching scholarship and why you should do it
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pedagogical first: diligent student asks permission to skip concluding lecture because (with a bunch going on this week including possible city occupation) they're worried they won't finish novel in time and really really don't want spoiler of Moll Flanders
September 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
pedagogical first: diligent student asks permission to skip concluding lecture because (with a bunch going on this week including possible city occupation) they're worried they won't finish novel in time and really really don't want spoiler of Moll Flanders
Happy to be at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Network conference at RHUL! And by appropriate and lucky chance I can also share @rosegann.bsky.social's @alpsblog.bsky.social blog on pedagogical research in education-focused careers!
activelearningps.com/2025/09/03/t...
activelearningps.com/2025/09/03/t...
September 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Happy to be at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Network conference at RHUL! And by appropriate and lucky chance I can also share @rosegann.bsky.social's @alpsblog.bsky.social blog on pedagogical research in education-focused careers!
activelearningps.com/2025/09/03/t...
activelearningps.com/2025/09/03/t...
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Kate and I are delighted to see our article on spacious learning published in @politicsjournal.bsky.social. In it, we advocate for slower spaces that centre ‘being’ rather than rushing to do or produce. We share three practices from our own teaching as examples: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Kate and I are delighted to see our article on spacious learning published in @politicsjournal.bsky.social. In it, we advocate for slower spaces that centre ‘being’ rather than rushing to do or produce. We share three practices from our own teaching as examples: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This week on @alpsblog.bsky.social, we are publishing a short series on the role of pedagogical research in education-focused careers. My intro to the series is here: activelearningps.com/2025/09/02/t...
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The role of pedagogical research in education-focused careers: a short series
Following on from the new innovation of the ‘SoTL roundup’ at the start of the month, which Jeremy got the ball rolling with yesterday, we’re also going to start the new academic …
activelearningps.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This week on @alpsblog.bsky.social, we are publishing a short series on the role of pedagogical research in education-focused careers. My intro to the series is here: activelearningps.com/2025/09/02/t...
@aspirenetwork.bsky.social
@aspirenetwork.bsky.social
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I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
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August 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
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“Nature is under stress.” The signs are all around us. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#climatechangeseasons
#climatechangeseasons
Early ripening of berries in UK shows nature is under stress, say experts
Hot summer also causing trees to shed their leaves as concerns raised over ‘food gap’ for wildlife in autumn
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
“Nature is under stress.” The signs are all around us. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#climatechangeseasons
#climatechangeseasons
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"Ecologists are only just beginning to grasp the full threat that extreme heat poses to the world’s wildlife populations, and how quickly it can drive species towards extinction.
...It has become a driver of biodiversity loss on a par with – or worse than – deforestation and habitat loss."
...It has become a driver of biodiversity loss on a par with – or worse than – deforestation and habitat loss."
Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction
Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction
With the number of very hot days rising as well as average temperatures, more and more animals are vulnerable. But while some species can adapt, others are seeing huge population declines
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"Ecologists are only just beginning to grasp the full threat that extreme heat poses to the world’s wildlife populations, and how quickly it can drive species towards extinction.
...It has become a driver of biodiversity loss on a par with – or worse than – deforestation and habitat loss."
...It has become a driver of biodiversity loss on a par with – or worse than – deforestation and habitat loss."
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"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge,
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
August 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge,
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
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We're so excited to share our first book review, part of a new series here at EHN. Kate Prengel discusses #clifi and the new Climate Fiction Prize shortlist envhistnow.com/2025/07/22/h...
Hope and Dystopia: Learning from Climate Fiction
A new literary prize asks how storytelling can drive greater optimism – and action – in the face of climate change.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We're so excited to share our first book review, part of a new series here at EHN. Kate Prengel discusses #clifi and the new Climate Fiction Prize shortlist envhistnow.com/2025/07/22/h...
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I teach this! It's a seminar for first-year undergrads called The Science of How to Study and they love it. (But it only reaches a very small number of students, would be great to have as a regular part of the curriculum)
Effective Learning Strategies.
A focused class on how people learn, study, and memorize. A kind of health class for the educational process that encouraged students to think critically about how they're managing their studies in other classes and why things do or don't work for them.
A focused class on how people learn, study, and memorize. A kind of health class for the educational process that encouraged students to think critically about how they're managing their studies in other classes and why things do or don't work for them.
8. What is a school subject that doesn't exist, but you wish existed in schools?
August 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I teach this! It's a seminar for first-year undergrads called The Science of How to Study and they love it. (But it only reaches a very small number of students, would be great to have as a regular part of the curriculum)
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Everyone is secretly hoping someone else will be the one to yell DO YOU WANT TO BE FRIENDS at them.
August 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Everyone is secretly hoping someone else will be the one to yell DO YOU WANT TO BE FRIENDS at them.
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AIPedagogy.org from Harvard's metaLAB was already the best-designed introduction to AI for educators I knew of.
I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas.
Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.
I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas.
Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.
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Creative and critical engagement with AI in education AI Guide Looking for a step-by-step introduction to AI? Our guide is designed to help you understand what AI is, how it works, and what it can and...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
AIPedagogy.org from Harvard's metaLAB was already the best-designed introduction to AI for educators I knew of.
I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas.
Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.
I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas.
Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.
Reposted by Cathy Elliott
Hear me read 'Frog Song' through the Aftershock Review substack
Along with my other new poems given a doorway to readers by @maxwallis.bsky.social, Frog Song is going to be in my 3rd collection Emergency Dream, publishing with @serenbooks.bsky.social in March 2026. #Swims #PondLife #BeMoreFrog
Along with my other new poems given a doorway to readers by @maxwallis.bsky.social, Frog Song is going to be in my 3rd collection Emergency Dream, publishing with @serenbooks.bsky.social in March 2026. #Swims #PondLife #BeMoreFrog
Frogsong by Polly Atkin
Today, I don’t want to write about abandonment / or anger, about the limits of love, / or the invisible border where our worlds meet that dissolves / all mutual care – how to shed it – to go on /
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August 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Hear me read 'Frog Song' through the Aftershock Review substack
Along with my other new poems given a doorway to readers by @maxwallis.bsky.social, Frog Song is going to be in my 3rd collection Emergency Dream, publishing with @serenbooks.bsky.social in March 2026. #Swims #PondLife #BeMoreFrog
Along with my other new poems given a doorway to readers by @maxwallis.bsky.social, Frog Song is going to be in my 3rd collection Emergency Dream, publishing with @serenbooks.bsky.social in March 2026. #Swims #PondLife #BeMoreFrog
Slightly diminish a band: symptomatic relief
Slightly diminish a band: The Indifferent Dead
August 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Slightly diminish a band: symptomatic relief
Slightly diminish a band: Cumbria Constabulary
(In honour of your current listening, @jeremymoulton.bsky.social)
(In honour of your current listening, @jeremymoulton.bsky.social)
Slightly diminish a band: The Indifferent Dead
August 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Slightly diminish a band: Cumbria Constabulary
(In honour of your current listening, @jeremymoulton.bsky.social)
(In honour of your current listening, @jeremymoulton.bsky.social)
Slightly diminish a band: PET NICE TO HAVES
Slightly diminish a band: The Indifferent Dead
August 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Slightly diminish a band: PET NICE TO HAVES
Slight diminish a band: Public Service Podcast
Slightly diminish a band: The Indifferent Dead
August 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Slight diminish a band: Public Service Podcast
Slightly diminish a band: Arcade Ashes
Slightly diminish a band: The Indifferent Dead
August 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Slightly diminish a band: Arcade Ashes
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This is a useful read - not on board with everything here (section 2 gives me pause) but "students need to be prepared and ready to unlearn and rebuild" is such an interesting point I've not seen noted: the ability to deconstruct and reorientate when necessary is key to academa, and rarely explicit.
'What is the greater risk? Biases in oral assessment? Or generating cohorts of graduates with skills to complete unseen, closed-book exams that are likely to be of limited value?'
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/14/t...
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/14/t...
Transforming higher education learning, assessment and engagement in the AI revolution: the how - HEPI
AI demands a radical shift in education, fostering adaptability, creativity, ethics, and collaboration to thrive in a transformed world.
www.hepi.ac.uk
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is a useful read - not on board with everything here (section 2 gives me pause) but "students need to be prepared and ready to unlearn and rebuild" is such an interesting point I've not seen noted: the ability to deconstruct and reorientate when necessary is key to academa, and rarely explicit.