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Rob Sharp

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Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex (UK) (migration, asylum, media, voice, recognition, citizenship) https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p349998-rob-sharp

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Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Nov 24

Just to introduce myself on here, so I can pin. I specialise in voice, recognition, participation (inc. participatory methodologies) + citizenship across M&C and Migration Studies. My book on voice and recognition was released in March.

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · 17d

Justin Webb on Today on migration — airlifted from the 19th century?

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jul 12

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 27

It’s great, isn’t it. Matthew Goode is amusingly grumpy

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 19

Two people I know have had their phones snatched in Hackney in the past week. I had good advice to stand by a lamppost if you need to check. Better still just don’t get your phone out at all.

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thank you to the participants; happy to discuss this work.

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 10

*The regulation by social media companies of the ways in which non-citizen activists might organise protest or employ labour to moderate posts littered with disinformation;

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 10

*The performative social benefit of solidarity being rearticulated in ways that align with the nation-state’s bordering practices over time;

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 10

*The ontological insecurity of experiencing welcome (albeit on regulated terms) in a host society alongside unrelenting social media content from the front line;

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 10

*The interaction of overlapping political, funding and emotional abandonment (media framing, funding shifts, host relationships changing) as mutually contradictory or reinforcing;

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 10

Have a new publication published — re.: solidarity long-term re.: Ukraine (open access)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 7

“‘Our vision is that, over time, A.I. would become part of the core infrastructure of higher education,’ Leah Belsky, OpenAI’s vice president of education, said in an interview.” 🫠

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

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Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · May 22

Authors of Care Manifesto on ‘Care Stripping’ www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Care-stripping: Beyond the Pretence of Care

Five years ago, we published The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. It was a small volume that provided a large overview of what we described as the ‘structural carelessness’ of our worl...

www.versobooks.com

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · May 19

I think - I may have misunderstood the system! - that media studies qualifies as being in the lowest of the "price groups" which receive additional funding for being high cost. But at that level the additional funding is so small - not much over £100 per student - that any saving here is tiny.

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · May 19

On what planet is Media and Comms an expensive course

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · May 19

Education secretary targeting expensive subjects including “journalism and media studies” www.ft.com/content/ec74...

Funding for ‘high-cost’ university courses to be cut in England

Education secretary says top-up support for subjects including media must be scaled back in ‘challenging’ fiscal situation

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · May 19

There’s always salami left in the salami stand:

Funding for ‘high cost’ university courses to be cut in England

Education secretary says top-up support for subjects including media must be scaled back because of ‘extremely challenging’ fiscal environment

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · May 12

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · May 12

From the white paper: "The Government will explore introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students, to be reinvested into the higher education and skills system"

?? by definition the fees paid to universities are already going in to the HE system??

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · May 12

University accounting teams react to news of a new government tax especially just for them.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · May 6

A question that I haven't heard a good answer to: if cutting migration by a third in a year hasn't changed the narrative on it at all - what would make you think cutting it by another third (or half] would?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · May 6

Immigration fell by a third in the 9 months after General Election. (From 1.2m visas to 800k in year to March 2025). The new lower headline migration figure (the 12 months of 2024) will come out 10 days after the white paper. Saying net migration is 700k (last stat: year to June 2024) is out of date

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V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · Apr 22

Hey, academics! Have you signed a book contract lately?
You should report your royalty/advance rate anonymously on this spreadsheet.
Are you negotiating, or about to be negotiating, a book contract? You should take a look at the spreadsheet.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Academic publishing rates sharing

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Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Apr 20

Came across Mind Field — a group of therapists, many with backgrounds as conflict journalists and aid workers. They offer therapy and support for people still working in war and crisis zones. Could be a useful resource for those working with conflict-affected communities themindfield.world/about-us

themindfield.world

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Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social · Apr 17

The inimitable @kat-hig.bsky.social is organising this extremely timely symposium on bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right at @mediacomgold.bsky.social, 6th June. EPIC lineup of speakers!! 😍🔥💪

BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

Feminism and the Far-Right

A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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ECREA - Diaspora Migration and the Media (DMM) @ecreadmm.bsky.social · Apr 14

📢 Call for Sessions is now open for the ETMU Conference 2025!
🗓️ Helsinki, 13–14 November
🌐 Theme: Breaking (Digital) Barriers
🔗 elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/134301/lomake.html
#ETMU2025 #BreakingDigitalBarriers @helsinki.fi

E-Lomake - Call for Sessions: Breaking (digital) barriers: Designing and conceptualizing technologies of inclusive societies

elomake.helsinki.fi

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Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Mar 27

Quick note - the festival guide says free which is true, but it is also ticketed.. And places are limited…

Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Feb 16

I’m in this year’s festival! Share far and wide!

brightonfestival.org/whats-on/X9M...

Festival of Ideas: Whose Streets? Mapping Places, Mapping Protests / Brighton Festival 2025 - Brighton Festival

This event will focus on the ways in which the People of Brighton and Hove have responded to threats from the far right in the past and imagine the ways in which communities can come together to oppos...

brightonfestival.org

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Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Apr 9

Work for my Whose Streets project which will map memories of Antifacist and Antiracist protest in Brighton and Hove.