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Amy Walker

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Geographer, Post-doc Researcher and Lecturer at MLU, Halle, Germany & at EU Centre for Just Transitions Researching (post)industrial/'left-behind' places + (un)just transitions + ethnography | ⚽️ WBA fan | rageful, especially about transphobia | she/they

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Amy Walker @awalkergeogs.bsky.social · May 7

New paper out! 📄💥
Loved working with Kate Moles and Jürgen Viet Ahn Höpfel on this —thinking through how UK austerity co-opted the nostalgia + resilience of ex-mining communities to justify neoliberalism.

Out now in Memory Studies' special issue on Communities + Change: tinyurl.com/bdft66fj

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Amy Walker @awalkergeogs.bsky.social · May 7

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Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social · Feb 21

I’m a professor who failed most of his A-levels. My life was changed by an admissions tutor who looked past a teenage crisis and gave me a chance. Cardiff’s bid for “better quality students” is disgustingly elitist. Our students are outstanding people who deserve respect.

Andy Williams @llantwit.bsky.social · Feb 21

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

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