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Anselm Böhmer @eduglobe.bsky.social · 19d

„Denn wenn Universitäten sich immer öfter darauf berufen, gesellschaftlich oder unternehmerisch verwertbares Wissen zu erzeugen, dann werde die Wissenschaft zunehmend nach diesen Kriterien bewertet.“

«Die Wissenschaft ist kein Lieferdienst»

Über 20 Jahre lang war Michael Hagner Professor für Wissenschaftsforschung an der ETH Zürich. Er hielt der Wissenschaft den Spiegel vor und setzte sich für ihre Freiheit ein. Was er zu seinem Abschied...

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Sazana Jayadeva @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social · Jul 7

Happy to share a new article, just published open access in @socresonline.bsky.social: 'Getting Back on Track: Student Migration From India to Germany as a Route to Desirable Employment'.

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Getting Back on Track: Student Migration From India to Germany as a Route to Desirable Employment - Sazana Jayadeva, 2025

This article examines the rising postgraduate-level student migration of Indian engineers to Germany, drawing on interviews with 42 Indians who were applying to...

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Reuben Rose-Redwood @reubenroseredwood.bsky.social · Jul 3

Just published an article in The Conversation on international student activism & the politics of higher ed that follows up on the book we published last year in light of the current targeting of international students in the US theconversation.com/internationa... @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social

International student activism histories show how education can foster democracy

The very presence of international students on university campuses is a political matter that depends on a measure of good will between the host and home countries.

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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · Jun 8

Morning run magic. Happy Sunday! 💛

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · Jun 1

Last week on Wonkhe: Developing drawing and creative skills has impacts beyond visual literacies. Zoë Allman and Chris Wright explore how this can be embedded into university life

Getting students drawing can help belonging and mental health

Developing drawing and creative skills has impacts beyond visual literacies. Zoë Allman and Chris Wright explore how this can be embedded into university life

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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · May 22

Thank you! Looks very interesting!

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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · May 16

We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP

Deadline: 9 June

Please repost- thanks!

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Job Details

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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · May 16

📖📚 Have you registered for our upcoming ECR RIS reading group?

20 May 2025
3.00-4.30pm BST

✒️ register here: lnkd.in/edviAa_E

@risnetwork.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social

Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · May 7

📆RIS ECR Reading Group @risnetwork.bsky.social

20 May 2025
3.00-4.30pm BTS | 10.00-11.30 CLT

✒️Register: forms.gle/2nWPwLksPp4S...

📖Sazana Jayadeva (2020), Keep calm and apply to Germany: How online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany:
doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Keep calm and apply to Germany: how online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany

This paper draws attention to the increasingly central yet understudied role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. More specifically, it explores the emergence of online mutu...

doi.org

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Klara Raiber @klararaiber.bsky.social · May 7

Come work with us!

Radboud Gender & Diversity Studies @radboudgender.bsky.social · May 7

Interested in how how migration reshapes fatherhood, emotional life, and gender performances?
@klararaiber.bsky.social and Francesco Cerchiaro are hiring a PhD candidate for an exiting project at Radboud University.

Find all information here: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Deadline: June 1st

PhD Position: Fatherhood, Emotions and Masculinity in Migration | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Fatherhood, Emotions and Masculinity in Migration at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social · May 12

'Island of strangers' is scary, dangerous language. Also what rules is he talking about? The 'rules' regulating immigration mean it's already difficult and expensive to come to the UK.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says

PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements

www.theguardian.com

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · May 12

Breaking: Government plans levy on universities’ overseas fee income.

Immigration white paper also proposes cut in duration of graduate visas to 18 months.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Government plans levy on universities’ overseas fee income - Research Professional News

Immigration white paper also proposes cut in duration of graduate visas to 18 months

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taz @taz.de · May 11

Eine Umweltaktivistin verschwindet im Süden Chiles. Die Suche führt zu einem Konflikt um indigenes Land – und einem Unternehmer mit deutschen Wurzeln.

Verschwundene Aktivistin in Chile: Wo ist Julia Chuñil?

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · May 5

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.

👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'

The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...

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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · May 9

In the run-up to the Uk-EU summit on 19 May, @johannawaters.bsky.social has written a great piece about the value of even a time-limited youth mobility scheme. There’s also brief mention of our forthcoming book!

#ISM #Turing #HE #Europe

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Even a capped, time-limited youth visa scheme would be of value to young people in the UK and EU

More than 60 Labour MPs have signed a letter calling on the government to support a youth mobility agreement with the EU.

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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · May 7

Please consider submitting a paper for the upcoming BSA Postgraduate Forum event! It’s a great opportunity to share your work, engage in discussions, and connect with fellow researchers.

Find more PG and ECR events here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/

@britsoci.bsky.social @lunayihanfu.bsky.social

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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · May 7

📆RIS ECR Reading Group @risnetwork.bsky.social

20 May 2025
3.00-4.30pm BTS | 10.00-11.30 CLT

✒️Register: forms.gle/2nWPwLksPp4S...

📖Sazana Jayadeva (2020), Keep calm and apply to Germany: How online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany:
doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Keep calm and apply to Germany: how online communities mediate transnational student mobility from India to Germany

This paper draws attention to the increasingly central yet understudied role of social media in facilitating student mobility from India. More specifically, it explores the emergence of online mutu...

doi.org

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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · May 2

New piece for @wonkhe.bsky.social on ‘paradoxical parenting practices’ drawing on research with @juliacook.bsky.social & @drdanwoodman.bsky.social

@education.ox.ac.uk #parenting #HE

Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · May 2

NEW on Wonkhe: Are parents intervening more in their children’s higher education – and if so, why? Rachel Brooks looks at paradoxical parenting practices buff.ly/5zlalBM

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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · May 2

Interesting read - makes me wonder how this plays out in other contexts.

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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · Apr 30

Do sign up for our webinar asking 'Does Higher Education Politicise Today's Students?' on 3 June, 2-4pm

Talks from @ralphscott.bsky.social, @robfordmancs.bsky.social, @janmcarthur.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen, & launch of @studentspolitics.bsky.social

www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...

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Nathalie Weidhase @nweidhase.bsky.social · Apr 28

Join us and our line-up of fantastic speakers on 21st May for our joint MeCCSA Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial network and Women's network event Paradoxes of Visibility: Negotiating Race and Gender in the UK Political and Media Landscape on Zoom! You can register here: tinyurl.com/4mn29cc4

Registration is now open for the joint network event Paradoxes of Visibility: Negotiating Race and Gender in the UK Political and Media Landscape.

MeCCSA Race, Ethnicity, and Postcolonial Network and MeCCSA Women’s Network present:

Wednesday 21st May 2025

Please join us for Paradoxes of Visibility: Negotiating Race and Gender in the UK Political and Media Landscape', a half-day symposium exploring key issues of representation in contemporary media.

2pm: Welcome

2.15pm to 3.15pm Panel 1: Women of Colour in British Politics

Sophia Kanaouti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) ‘Bureaucratization of politics: identity without responsibility’
Craig Ryder (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich) ‘Fringe platforms and the prevalence of digital macroaggressions against UK female leaders’
Anna Sanders and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield (University of York) ‘The Glass Cliff in Contemporary British Politics: The non-traditional aspect of contemporary leadership contests and their gendered and intersectional consequences’

3.30pm to 4.15pm Panel 2: The Politics of Visibility

Tina Frederikke Kristensen (University of Sunderland) ‘”#metoo was started by a black woman, @Tarana Burke!!! Give credit where it’s due! <3" (Marqueza, 2017): The discursive strategies used to increase visibility of people of colour in the #MeToo movement on Twitter’
Hannah Yelin (Oxford Brookes University) ‘Trans and nonbinary youth navigating celebrity culture and the risks of visibility’

You can register for the event here: https://buytickets.at/universityofsurrey1/1651077.

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Luna Fu @lunayihanfu.bsky.social · Apr 7

Hi everyone! 🌞 We warmly welcome you to sign up for our BSA-funded event:

‘Insider-Outsider’: Navigating Challenges and Complexities in Cross-national and Cross-cultural Fieldwork

Registration is OPEN, please see more information and register at:

www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

See you soon💗

‘Insider-Outsider’: Navigating Challenges and Complexities in Cross-national and Cross-cultural Fieldwork

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Sazana Jayadeva @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social · Mar 21

Registration is now open for our @srhe.bsky.social webinar on international student mobility from and to India! There will be 3 panels, 9 papers, and lots of Q&A!

When: 16 May, 10 am - 1.05 pm (UK time)

For more details & registration: srhe.ac.uk/civicrm/?civ...

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Society for Research into Higher Education @srhe.bsky.social · Apr 2

On 28 April, @rachelbrooks.bsky.social and @professorliwei.bsky.social will examine the role of multilingualism in HE and research, and address the challenges and opportunities that multilingualism presents in contemporary universities. Register and join us: bit.ly/4i8i7z2

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Vera Spangler @ve-spa.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congratulations! Looking forward to following this.

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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · Mar 27

Does HE politicise today's students?

Come along to the launch of a new ESRC-funded project on students and politics

Online, 3 June, 2-4pm with @robfordmancs.bsky.social @janmcarthur.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & Gritt Nielsen

www.researchcghe.org/events/does-...

Does higher education politicise today’s students? | Centre for Global Higher Education

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