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Christopher Dodd
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Postdoc at Brookes - PhD from NTU - Health and Social Care Researcher - erstwhile historian.
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Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 2
www.history.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Check out this event and its details on our website: www.thevictorianhand.uk/alison-bashf...
October 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is a really important study that can build an evidence base to better support patients. Please share widely and sign up if eligible. Thank you.🙏🏻
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August 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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So as we near the end of the working year, what have I been up to this year as one of those lazy, Ivory Tower-style dons? Back in February, I wrote for Research Professional News about the danger to Arts and Humanities in our universities (1/5): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Saving humanities - Research Professional News
Glen O’Hara argues that arts and humanities subjects are victims of a chaotic system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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You can't save your university by cutting. That's an illusion. You can only weaken it further. See: the logic of Mr George Osborne, 2010-c.2013. Every redundancy programme in fact takes you closer to the edge. How can there still be people out there who don't realise this?
November 26, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Oooh new paperbacks just dropped! 👏 I'm still proud of this book, even more so now copies are actually affordable
September 24, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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NEW again... Kate Ashbrook from the Open Spaces Society has written some very kind and interesting thing about our Oxford Brookes/ Newcastle University 'All Our Footsteps' project. Do take a look: campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/i...
In All Our Footsteps
I was pleased, though sad, to join the closing event for the In All Our Footsteps project, with which I have been involved for the past three years as a member of the advisory board. The project is fu...
campaignerkate.wordpress.com
September 23, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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📢New #MedHums event📢
Digital Wellbeing: A Critical Creative Workshop, featuring the very fabulous Sophie King-Hill and Jwana Aziz.

13 Sept, 10:30-12 UK time

Details and free registration:
eventbrite.ie/e/digital-we...
#MentalHealthHumanities #MedicalHumanities #MedHums
Digital Wellbeing: A Critical Creative Workshop
Co-organised by the Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network and ‘Imagining Wellbeing’ researchers at the Centre for Urban Wellbeing.
eventbrite.ie
September 11, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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100% increase in followers in a week. Twitter well and truly crumbling. Any views on strategies for next week? One focus for me would be getting a few more keystone institutions to move over - big publications, think tanks, charities, etc.
August 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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In case you missed it before, our AHRC-funded 'All Our Footsteps' project has carried a great piece by Kerri Andrews on the Right to Roam in Scotland... Read it here! www.allourfootsteps.uk/newwriting/l...
Land, access, right? — In All Our Footsteps
Kerri Andrews reflects on the Right to Roam in Scotland.
www.allourfootsteps.uk
August 7, 2024 at 6:09 PM