UCU @ MMU
Updates from the Manchester Metropolitan University branch of the University and College Union.
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@ucu.org.uk
UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
@louisesavage.bsky.social
Mum to teenage boys and wife to Rob | Live in Nottingham | Ski enthusiast, book lover, gig-goer | Rugby Fan | Higher Ed professional | University of Nottingham - School of Education | Proud Luton Town supporter
@anniefoley.bsky.social
Criminologist, fighting social injustice. Racists and misogynists not welcome. UCU EDI chair at UWE
@samillingworth.com
Professor of Creative Pedagogies | Poet | Game Designer | Bridging creativity and communities through poetry, games, and GenAI. #SciComm #HigherEd #Poetry https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth
@strengthcards.bsky.social
We design & supply resources to help children, teens and adults to explore, express emotions and grow in resilience, we are proud winners of Theo Paphitis Small Business award. #SBS #UKTeaching #EduSky www.Strengthcards.co.uk
@stuartjtaylor.bsky.social
PhD (EngLit), SFHEA. Lecturer, DLTE, Edinburgh Napier University. #ECR Ed. Dev., contemp. #literature & #maths📐🔬#litsci 🔭he/him.
@madashellsista.bsky.social
Mother/Ma. Grandma/Pudgy. Wifey/Xwifey, Sister/Auntie, Niece, Cuz, and Friend
@andrewcrines.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in British Politics & Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Chair of the Board of Examiners & Incoming Assessment Lead | Views Own https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/ Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
@drannanotaro.bsky.social
European Media scholar (AI, Dig. Art, Cultural Studies) at Dundee University (Scotland), passionate about HE, ED&I, (DEI), politics, Dark Choc, Inter Milan. Personal capacity posts
@annakime.bsky.social
Reader/Associate Professor Man Met Uni. Post Grad + Programme Lead for MSc Advanced Clinical Practice Apprenticeship. SFHEA. Always a red #lfc 🌹.Views my own
@forthe100.bsky.social
Campaigning ForThe100 ~ Higher education providers owe a duty of care to their students. It’s that simple. We want students safety to be a legal must. 💛 🌐 https://www.forthe100.org.uk/ ForThe100 Mailing List: https://bit.ly/3Q3GD9g
@duncanabrahart.bsky.social
Composer, Student union advocate, Disability competence standards boffin, Eventually decomposer.
@debssutton.bsky.social
Teaches South Asian History at Lancaster University, UK. Currently working on deserts in India, especially soils, water and salination. Delhiphile and runner.
@ewanmg.bsky.social
🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social + CBR, Cambridge 🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights 🌍Cares about economic democracy, reversing climate damage + making big tech safe 🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
@drasko-kascelan.bsky.social
linguist interested in bi/multilingualism, autism, DLD | lecturer at University of Essex | views my own | he/him
@mattlodder.com
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
@derry-group.bsky.social
Championing an independent cross-border university for the North West - the last-remaining North Ireland Civil Rights campaign. Garrett Hargan's investigative history of the 60-year fight, A Scandal in Plain Sight, is available from colmcillepress.com.
@colmcille.bsky.social
Publishing house in northwest Ireland, celebrating 1500 years of great writing from Derry and Donegal. Ken McCormack’s Derry Volume III: The Lady in Black is now in stock. Gaeilge agus fáilte. colmcillepress.com
@cqualmann.bsky.social
Artist, walker, lecturer, library-lover, urban forager, drawing every day. Co-editor Lines of Desire at Living Maps, co-founder walking artists network
@calebday.bsky.social
Created neurodivergent (autistic, kinetic, etc). Made Christian, disabled, parent, trade unionist, he/him, among other things. Christian ethics (teaching/PhD), @ducu.bsky.social, @uniteucu.bsky.social. NZer in England. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5048-0282
@stephmulrine.bsky.social
Academic activist in UK. Sociologist using qualitative methods to research care, health inequalities, socially-produced vulnerabilities, social class, and death and bereavement. Trustee of Thrive Teesside. (she/her)
@autogestioa.bsky.social
Ekonomialari ta sindikalgintzan. Sozialista libertarioa 🏴☠️. Kolaboratzailea @argia @HORDAGO_ElSalto @ICE_Autogestion https://mastodon.eus/@autogestioa
@ukhenews.bsky.social
Watching the slow-motion suicide of UK universities evolve into its next phase: fast-motion suicide.
@emizuc.bsky.social
Lecturer, Roman History, Royal Holloway; social conflict, riots, methodology buff; chair of the Gramsci Research Network; editor Menelique; he/him, bi🏳️🌈, ADHD; Marxist glasses with intersectional shades 🍉; MINOTAURist
@rfmacdonald.bsky.social
Social Scientist/ Professor (Honorary - Durham) South Shields, UK. The usual stuff: ‘left-wing flim-flam’/ sociology (youth, inequality, class etc)/ hills/ birds/ dogs/ politics/ punk/ MCFC/ archaeology/ the North East, & those sort of things. 💙&✌🏽
@kirstkirst138.bsky.social
X-ile. UK based. Interested in politics, dry humour, education, all sorts of other stuff. Loathes bullies. And stalkers.
@asianastroboy.bsky.social
Dr. of Performance Capture. POC in Play. DVRS Games Festival 2025 tix available now https://is.gd/DVRS2025
@sam-marsh.bsky.social
Mathematician, trade unionist, pension scheme trustee and novice diver from Sheffield. Sometimes wrong, but usually not in isolation.
@sizzleleg.bsky.social
She/her. Trade Unionist 📢/ Higher Ed 🎓/ Videogames 🎮/ Filums 🎥/ Fitba ⚽ (Sunlun 🔴⚪)/ Music n Gigs 💃 Branch Chair at UNISON Glasgow Uni, Co-chair of UNISON Scotland HE Committee. Views my own, obvs.
@ucu-btc.bsky.social
UCU Further Education Branch Spreading the word.
@hannaeldarwish.bsky.social
PhD researcher in Psychology at the University of Sussex. Interested in meaning in life and existential threats to everyday life.
@saladinmeckled.bsky.social
Human Rights Academic; UCLUCU Vice President; Author and researcher; political philosophy All posts are in my personal capacity only. Re-posting does not necessarily imply approval.
@unisonmmu.bsky.social
The branch of UNISON for professional services staff at Manchester Metropolitan University, the students' union and the Royal Northern College of Music. All posts are our own.
@finnegansquark.bsky.social
Applied mathematician and amateur statistician, into superfluidity, plant disease, archaeology, brewing, cycling and running - everyone has their kicks.
@katrinamcchesney.bsky.social
Researcher of inclusive higher education | Co-Editor of Studies in Graduate & Postdoctoral Education | Lover of coffee ☕, Christmas lights ✨ and all things pink 🌸 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3991-6265 https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/Katrina.McChesney