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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to Robin Pawlett-Howell from the Department of Philosophy, one of our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Robin's main research specialisations are in existential phenomenology and social/political philosophy.

Photo of Robin sitting on a bench outdoors

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 8d

Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 12d

We are continuing to welcome our HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 Today we are featuring Yorgos Paschos from Archaeology. Yorgos will be conducting research focusing on the role of euphoric value in heritage significance assessment.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 16d

Welcome to Lore Lixenberg, one of this year's HRC Postdoctoral Fellows. Lore will explore how AI can reimagine the vocal and compositional techniques of the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, asking how new technologies might offer new ways of engaging with medieval music.

Lore presenting at the Tate, standing at a lectern with a laptop and performing/speaking to a mic. Lore is wearing sunglasses.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 23d

Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are welcoming Ishita Krishna from @school-of-act.bsky.social Ishita's research engages with a study of objects in western modernist drama, looking at different representations of objects, objectification, and subject-object encounters.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Aug 22

Introducing you to our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! 🎉 We are delighted to be welcoming Bryony Aitchison, whose PhD explored queer gardens in the poetry and life writing of modernist women writers. She examined how the embodied act of gardening generates queer organic forms in modernist texts.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Aug 8

Delighted to be welcoming Xinrui Zhang from History of Art as an HRC Postdoctoral Fellow 🎉 Xinrui's doctoral research examined how international artists have facilitated public discourse on China’s ecological issues in relation to the country’s environmental governance.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Aug 4

Introducing the 2025-2026 HRC Postdoctoral Fellows 🎉starting with @marisapmichaud.bsky.social whose PhD examined an illuminated manuscript of the hagiography of Colette of Corbie examining the early visual culture of the Colettine Poor Clares.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jul 29

Throwback to the Doctoral Competition back in May! We are really proud of our wonderful HRC Doctoral Fellows, selected by their academic units through a competitive process. In May we all got together to hear about their wonderful work and for an exciting prize giving event.

Photo taken from the back of the room, we see the seated audience and at the front of the room a projector screen that says 'Announcement of Winners'. Karen Baker is doing the announcements at the centre and Mariana Lopez and Craig Taylor are standing to the sides of the room.

Photo taken from the back of the room, we can see the seated audience and Karen Baker announcing the winners next to a screen that says 'Announcement of winners'

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jul 24

Aimee Little and Andy Needham, Department of Archaeology's @cama-york.bsky.social have just released some new research with colleagues from the University of Helsinki, identifying how Mesolithic people may have extracted animal teeth for personal ornaments link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Rows of animal teeth of different shapes and sizes

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jul 14

Congratulations to Lesley Schatzberger, who teaches clarinet at @school-of-act.bsky.social and was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2025 for services to children with life-limiting illnesses and communication difficulties jessiesfund.org.uk/founder-lesl...

A child's hands around a clarinet. The child here is both feeling the vibrations of the clarinet and invited to respond on the drum.

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jul 8

We are proud to share this wonderful Research Journey piece about @helenlouisecowie.bsky.social from the Department of History. While most historians focus their attention on the lives of humans in the past, Helen has chosen to uncover the often forgotten lives of animals 🐾 tinyurl.com/bdzyxwh5

YORK RESEARCH JOURNEYS - Helen Cowie

features.york.ac.uk

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jul 3

We love a research story about wolf cubs...especially Ice Age ones 🐾 Anne Kathrine Runge from Archaeology used ancient DNA methods to learn that the pups were from the same litter and they had eaten woolly rhinoceros and a wagtail before dying in their den tinyurl.com/msavwu8n

Famous Ice Age ‘puppies’ likely wolf cubs and not dogs, study shows

New analysis of the remains of two ‘puppies’ dating back more than 14,000 years ago has shown that they are most likely wolves, and not related to domestic dogs, as previously suggested.

www.york.ac.uk

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congratulations to the amazing Megan Russell for her YUSU Excellence Award for her work on Supporting Student Voice Activities and Partnerships 🏆 So well deserved, and we are delighted that the wonderful work she does is being recognised by our community 😊

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jun 23

This September the @school-of-act.bsky.social is hosting the #DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries as part of the #EnhancingAD project. Early bird registration closes end of June 🐥 enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Celebrating Qualitative Research Conference 2025 is taking place next week and there's still time to register 😀 One of the organising team members, @claunader.bsky.social, is one of our wonderful HRC Postdoctoral Fellows www.york.ac.uk/business-soc...

Celebrating Qualitative Research Conference 2025

The Celebrating Qualitative Research Conference 2025 aims to provide a platform for York researchers to reflect on research and development, synthesise and apply knowledge and best practices in qualit...

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HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · Jun 18

They did an amazing job 🥳

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