Karen Boyle
@profkarenboyle.bsky.social
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Feminist Media Studies, Head of Humanities University of Strathclyde.
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
profkarenboyle.bsky.social
Following on from mentoring session with @meccsawomensnet.bsky.social I thought it would be useful to share this 🧵 on academic job applications again.
profkarenboyle.bsky.social
I am reading a *lot* of job applications atm so here’s a thread of my dos and donts for academic job applications. My experience is Humanities in UKHE so may play out differently elsewhere. 🧵
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ref2029.bsky.social
The names of panel members for the criteria-setting phase of REF 2029 have now been announced on our panels pages. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...
Expert panels appointed for REF 2029  – REF 2029
2029.ref.ac.uk
profkarenboyle.bsky.social
Wow Margot that’s a phenomenal achievement. Congratulations on this milestone!
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alisonphipps.bsky.social
It’s arrived. The best theoretical text I’ve ever read on the figure and experience of the refugee.

Congratulations @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

Order here for your library www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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meccsa2025.bsky.social
For those attending the MeCCSA conference in September - you can now see further information on the schedule at screenacademyscotland.ac.uk/meccsa/confe...

we look forward to welcoming you!
#MeCCSA25 #MeCCSAConference
Conference Programme - Screen Academy Scotland
*Please note this is the draft programme and is subject to change - draft Wednesday 6th August
screenacademyscotland.ac.uk
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strathjmc.bsky.social
📢 Article Alert!

"To warn or not to warn? Trigger warnings in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences in UK HE", by JMC researchers @profkarenboyle.bsky.social, Melanie McCarry & Melody House, has been selected for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence Editors’ Collection Choice! 👏

🆓 Free access here:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
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ailise-bulfin.bsky.social
This may be of interest: on creative works about child sexual abuse & the cultural ramifications of creative works (& we'd appreciate a repost) @mike-salter.bsky.social @ruthbeecher.bsky.social @amybeddows.bsky.social @profkarenboyle.bsky.social @joannabourke.bsky.social @victoriabates.bsky.social
ailise-bulfin.bsky.social
Join us for the CSAReps project online launch event Apr 29th & 30th

With esteemed speakers @drcisme.bsky.social @theflyingchild.bsky.social @hazelklarkin.bsky.social @brenrooney.bsky.social Chris Godwin David Hanauer & Emilie Pine

Register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/csareps-pr...
Contact: [email protected]
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karinevarley.bsky.social
Delighted to learn that my book, Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, is now available in paperback. @strathhumanities.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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strath-gender.bsky.social
Hello #AcademicSky! We are the team behind the Applied Gender Studies masters course @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Follow for updates on our amazing students, faculty projects, groundbreaking research, events and more! 📣📚
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strath-gender.bsky.social
📣 Upcoming Event with Strath's Feminist Network! 📣
Join us as we welcome Professor Emeritus Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths) for a discussion on 50 years of the feminist sociology of girlhood.
Wednesday, 2 April | 1:00–2:30 PM
📍 Room TL 455, Strathclyde
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/angela-mcr...
Angela McRobbie - What Is a/the Girl Today?
Eminent feminist scholar Angela McRobbie discusses the feminist sociology of girlhood over the last fifty years.
www.eventbrite.com
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strathhumanities.bsky.social
Journalist Billy Sloan gave a lecture to Journalism students, he regaled the group with tales of celebrity interviews with The Who, Paul McCartney, David Bowie & Rod Stewart. Billy said: “It was a pleasure to meet & chat with the students. I enjoyed the experience, & I hope they found it useful.”
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davidwilsonhist.bsky.social
Come join @tanjabueltmann.net and I at Strathclyde for a funded PhD on built heritage and Glasgow’s slaving links, centred around Tobacco Merchant’s House.

Excellent ops to engage with heritage industry via co-supervision by Scottish Civic Trust!

Details below!

Any questions - get in touch!
profkarenboyle.bsky.social
First Bus Glasgow app and bus stop displays are so far beyond useless they might as well not exist. So far this evening three promised buses have disappeared without trace. This is not a rare occurrence. Public transport here is a joke.
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suejohn.bsky.social
Today @womenslibrary.bsky.social launches its new Spring events programme, taking us all the way into June. What a lovely thought. There will also be things to do, to see, lovely people to chat to, a book sale, tea and cake - wall to wall joy, in fact. Join us! womenslibrary.org.uk/event/spring...
Spring 2025 Programme Launch | Glasgow Women's Library
Be the first to hear about our new programme of events coming up this Spring.
womenslibrary.org.uk
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gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it
profkarenboyle.bsky.social
If you’re in St Andrews check out this exhibition co curated by Camila Cavacante-Pereira who is a SGSAH funded PhD student working with Catherine Spencer in Art History at St Andrews & me @strathjmc.bsky.social. Great supervision mtg today followed by exhibition tour. Heading back home energised.
poster for Say No! Exhibition subtitle Art, Activism & Feminist Refusal. Banner in red & white showing a range of women’s liberation movement periodicals as part of the Say No exhibition. Titles include Lilith, Red Rag, Manchester Women’s Liberation Newsletter, Aberdeen Women’s Newsletter & Scarlet Women. 
Photos of two black & white posters from the original Edinburgh Women’s Committee Zero Tolerance campaign. First poster shows a comfortable living room, a white woman sitting on the floor reading a magazine, accompanied by words: She lives with a successful businessman, loving father and respected member of the community. Last we he hospitalised her.” with the distinctive white Z on a black background of the Zero Tolerance campaign. The other poster shows a group of young women of mixed ethnicity in a relaxed group environment. Text reads: when they say no they mean no. Some men don’t listen.’ Again accompanied by the white Z.
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
What a shitshow of a decade this month was
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
This article underestimates the number of job losses (already reported elsewhere to have exceeded 10,000) and employs the misleading adjective 'leading' universities (meaning what, to whom?), but if you've been living under a rock and need a quick introduction to the topic, you could start here.
Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls
Up to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring
www.theguardian.com
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Sarah Cowan at the British Academy: “We have called and continue to call on the government to trigger an urgent review of higher education funding to deliver a sustainable model that delivers a wide breadth of subjects and is resilient to regional inequalities in provision."
robinbisson.bsky.social
The financial crisis in higher education can feel like a slow drip of bad news, but the scale of job losses in the last fortnight (1000+) has been stark

Research funders and learned societies are making increasingly urgent calls for ministers to act

So far, there's not been much response
Calls for ministers to act as university job losses accelerate - Research Professional News
Funding bodies and learned societies weigh in as over 1,000 redundancies announced within a fortnight
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
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number10cat.bsky.social
January has been a hell of a year
profkarenboyle.bsky.social
Our JMC account has made it over to where the skies are blue 👇 give us a follow.
strathjmc.bsky.social
Hi #AcademicSky! 🎉 Journalism, Media & Communication at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social is here!
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