Lucy Whelan
@lucywhelan.bsky.social
Art historian of modern France | gender, subjectivity, environments | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at Sciences Po, Paris
📘 Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, https://shorturl.at/mvQB0
📍Durham, UK
📘 Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, https://shorturl.at/mvQB0
📍Durham, UK
Thanks Marta, I was OK but livid that this could happen to someone who didn't have the support I had!
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thanks Marta, I was OK but livid that this could happen to someone who didn't have the support I had!
Hope that all helps someone! 🤷♀️
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Hope that all helps someone! 🤷♀️
6. Finally, you might not know at the point of application that you'll be needing maternity leave (I didn't). But if it is your plan, know that by starting and then quitting you will lose months - yes, months - in the stressful admin vortex of visas, social security etc, especially post-Brexit
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
6. Finally, you might not know at the point of application that you'll be needing maternity leave (I didn't). But if it is your plan, know that by starting and then quitting you will lose months - yes, months - in the stressful admin vortex of visas, social security etc, especially post-Brexit
5. If you are pregnant during the first months of your MSCA, while your social security still isn't set up, you won't have any paid-for healthcare during your pregnancy - this is pretty terrifying!
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
5. If you are pregnant during the first months of your MSCA, while your social security still isn't set up, you won't have any paid-for healthcare during your pregnancy - this is pretty terrifying!
4. On an MSCA, you are an employee of the University, who is reimbursed by the European commission. So it's your university's terms you are on. Different universities may differ. That's what to check before applying! I didn't 🙃
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
4. On an MSCA, you are an employee of the University, who is reimbursed by the European commission. So it's your university's terms you are on. Different universities may differ. That's what to check before applying! I didn't 🙃
3.... And it might well be zero! As a recent arrivee, you've no accrued privileges with your employer, the university, or the state. And you may have no social security to get government pay either
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
3.... And it might well be zero! As a recent arrivee, you've no accrued privileges with your employer, the university, or the state. And you may have no social security to get government pay either
2. The Marie Curie appear to have a scheme for paid maternity leave. However, in their formula, your pay is a multiple of whatever pay you are getting from your university. If that is zero, you are paid zero
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
2. The Marie Curie appear to have a scheme for paid maternity leave. However, in their formula, your pay is a multiple of whatever pay you are getting from your university. If that is zero, you are paid zero
1. In the UK, 12 months unpaid leave is a right. Not so in most other countries! If you're a recent arrivee, you may just have the legal minimum. In France that's just 10 weeks after birth! (you can lengthen this by suspending the fellowship but only for a limited no of months)
October 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
1. In the UK, 12 months unpaid leave is a right. Not so in most other countries! If you're a recent arrivee, you may just have the legal minimum. In France that's just 10 weeks after birth! (you can lengthen this by suspending the fellowship but only for a limited no of months)
I also have covid which is making me grumpy 👍
October 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I also have covid which is making me grumpy 👍
Yes my emails largely went unanswered, and I'm not sure the bursars I badgered really gave a damn - but hope in the dark, and all that. My way of nudging the ladder down for other ECRs
October 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yes my emails largely went unanswered, and I'm not sure the bursars I badgered really gave a damn - but hope in the dark, and all that. My way of nudging the ladder down for other ECRs
Includes discussion of Surrealists and their variable attitudes to the sexualisation of adolescents too. In case anyone was wondering, there are next to no images in this article on principle, and no money paid to Balthus's estate for rights. Dirty work but somebody had to do it, etc.
June 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Includes discussion of Surrealists and their variable attitudes to the sexualisation of adolescents too. In case anyone was wondering, there are next to no images in this article on principle, and no money paid to Balthus's estate for rights. Dirty work but somebody had to do it, etc.