Critical Unversity Studies
Feed for anyone interested in Critical Unversity Studies, HE policy and alternatives to the corporatised university.
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@lizmorrish.bsky.social
@queergeog.bsky.social
queer geographer extraordinaire / phd geography, minor in gender studies / food culture, race, development / philosophy of space & subjectivity / phenomenology, assemblage / queer, feminist & trans studies / DEI in HE / grant writer / editor / artist
@yaelharlap.bsky.social
Canadian academic in Norway. I research higher ed teaching and learning, race, inclusion, equity, power. Discourse analysis. Otherwise: Knitting. Figure skating. Trying to keep my plants alive.
@deevybee.bsky.social
Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
@drmarcspooner.bsky.social
Professor, Fac of Ed, University of Regina. Social/ political commentator. Say no to irresponsible austerity! opinions are yours
@unsocialtheory.bsky.social
Feral theorist. Anthropologist&sociologist by training, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; migrant&green rep, @ducu.bsky.social. If found, please return to a beach somewhere, preferably in SoCal.
@14prinsp.bsky.social
Was born curious and in trouble and nothing has or will change. Open, distributed and digital learning research #highered #edtech #socialjustice #humanrights #learninganalytics #privacy #life Blog at: https://opendistanceteachingandlearning.wordpress.com
@jameswilsdon.bsky.social
undisciplined metascientist | director, Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @RoRInstitute.bsky.social | professor of research policy, UCL
@amcgettigan.bsky.social
Author The Great University Gamble. University funding & financing. But also chess, shogi and tai chi. andrewjmcgettigan AT gmail
@petersuber.bsky.social
I post to #Mastodon more than #Bluesky. But see my bridge account for many of those M posts (Sorry, doesn't work for M threads.) https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy Follow that account (more posts), this one (fewer), or both.
@ddubdrahcir.bsky.social
He/Him. Lecturer in Higher Education, Lancaster University, UK HE, in particular social justice, lived experience (esp. students), decolonising, policy, geographies, organisational cultures. I think out loud on here: https://ddubdrahcir.wordpress.com
@peterwoelert.bsky.social
Researching higher education policy, governance, and organisation & science policy - and administrative burden in universities. Based at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
@bradrtaylor.bsky.social
Political theorist at University of Southern Queensland. Excessive decoupler. liberal. New Zealander in Australia. PPE, public policy, social + political epistemology, tech politics and ethics, institutions.
@parrasaiani.bsky.social
Full Prof. @UniGenova Interested in social research history & methodology, social indicators, factual and political knowledge, fraud in science, circulation of knowledge.
@hallymk1.bsky.social
Prof of Education and Technology #walsallfc NTF PFHEA #decolonising The Hopeless University http://bit.ly/3plYOdB Alienated Academic http://bit.ly/2HjFQL6 #freepalestine 🇵🇸
@21group.bsky.social
The 21 Group campaigns against the complaisant acceptance of bullying by UK Universities. We provide support for those experiencing bullying in academia.
@xuanluu.bsky.social
Public health social scientist. Interested in mental health, gendered violence, organisations, and higher education (among many things). he/they. Views are mine, not those of my employer.
@juliecupples79.bsky.social
Geography, media and cultural studies, Latin American studies. Co-author of Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence (Rutgers University Press). Witness to the destruction of the UK university 🏳️⚧️
@omarakk.bsky.social
US independent scholar. African/Africana Studies, global lgbtiq studies, critical higher ed critiques, urban studies
@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
@rilleraaper.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Sociology of HE @School of Education, Durham University
@cerasellachis.bsky.social
doing some stuff, sometimes | she/comrade (Marxism & Disability Network | BSA Theory Study Group | Society for Disability Studies | Politics of Disablement & Precarious Work project | precarious teacher, UoBirmingham - what next? no idea)
@auralflaneur.bsky.social
Professor at Oxford. Politics of listening, continental philosophy, music and sound studies, academic freedom. On the left.
@leefallin.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 EdD SFHEA FRGS FRSA #MIEExpert 💼 Lecturer in Education @ UniOfHull ❤️ #HigherEd #EdTech #AI #loveLD #Inclusion 🏫 JLDHE Section Editor & School Governor 🏷️ #AcademicSky #Geographer #Education 🔶 Liberal Democrat #LibDems 💭 Speaking for me, not my employer
@frootle.bsky.social
Director of Eastern Arc, a regional consortium in the UK comprising the universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent and Sussex. You know the score: views all my own. But that's because no one else would want them. www.easternarc.ac.uk www.fundermentals.org
@theworkfluss.bsky.social
Writer on how work and religion equate both in practice and effects. Also using musical metaphors to explain our organisational lives. Don't be giving 'em ideas! https://socrel.medium.com/religion-and-the-world-of-work-the-organisational-quest-for-coher
@therealrw.bsky.social
The Research Whisperer is dedicated to the topic of doing research in academia. We’re here to support, encourage, and work towards better academic lives. Created and managed by @tseenster and @jod999 Blog: https://researchwhisperer.org/
@drrhianelinor.bsky.social
Socialist feminist. HE worker (historian: gender based violence/medicine/psychiatry/🇬🇭/🇰🇪). Trade unionist: UCU NEC. Cat lady. 🏳️🌈.
@mfsm.bsky.social
Researcher and educator, Reader at Cranfield University UK. Interested in how governance structures influence behaviour and well-being. Currently focused on quantification, commensuration, complexity, and the all-present AI. Trained in quants, loving quals
@fadiadk.bsky.social
Rhythm scholar | Philosophy and Theory of Higher Ed | Critical University Studies | Board member PaTHES | Editorial board Time&Society, Ethics and Education, Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education | Somewhere in Birmingham and other places.
@coastsofbohemia.bsky.social
Author and retired academic. British/Canadian. Unapologetically woke. Loves food, drink, music, travel, and our standard poodles Luci and Alice. Free Palestine! I write at https://substack.com/@dereksayer1
@workfluss.bsky.social
Si thi. Don't be giving 'em ideas. Writer and researcher. Sociology of religion, work & organisations. Contrarian Lancastrian https://socrel.medium.com/religion-and-the-world-of-work-the-organisational-quest-for-coherence-cb498bc42189
@processed.bsky.social
Fascinated by what change is and how it occurs. Using process philosophy and complexity to think about how we can better understand change in work, especially in education.
@radziwinowiczowna.bsky.social
I research migrations & deportations, work at University of Warsaw. I have two kids and a 🐕
@ncdominie.bsky.social
University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
@gair.bsky.social
Artist and senior lecturer at DJCAD Scotland. Video photography and text mainly. Art, technology, romanticism, science, futures and (indefinitely postponed) fantasies of progress. www.atomtown.org
@sokate.bsky.social
Exploring experience design for uncertain situations. Higher education sceptic. Climate worrier. Mostly over at aus.social.
@cjpope.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Sociology, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care, Oxford
@ronaldhartz.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany | organization studies | critical management studies | alternative forms of organization | higher education | he/him
@patthomson.bsky.social
Academic, educator, silversmith. Researching arts ed, school change, leaders work. Patter academic writing blog - Patthomson.net. Semi-retired. Working part-time @ U Nottingham & U South Australia. #FAcSS
@emmakeddev.bsky.social
She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own.
@profdcotton.bsky.social
Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Plymouth Marjon University, UK. Interested in all things HE. Sustainability education and behaviour change researcher. Accidental AI expert. NTF.
@catherinecronin.bsky.social
open & higher education | social justice | co-editor, Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures #HE4Good | Bronxite who now calls Ireland home | she/her | http://catherinecronin.net/
@jlyons1991.bsky.social
Retired academic. Will definitely be photographs, esp. of a small Golden Retriever, Saffy, tho. He/him.
@tseenster.bsky.social
Researcher developer at #DeakinRDA | 1/2 of @TheRealRW | Critical university studies, research culture, academic identities | Creator #SadChairsOfAcademia and #TiredBagsOfMelbourne | tseenster.com ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-061X
@sumingkhoo.bsky.social
Sociologist. Interested in development, human rights, higher education, books, transdisciplinary stuff. Posts personal. #academicsky
@amyfuller.bsky.social
Historian of colonial Mexico; senior lecturer; ‘80s kid. Writes about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion. Host of Challenging Colonial Narratives Seminar Series. Called William H. Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC.
@nataliejester.bsky.social
Chickpea-lover and Kadis-Kot champion. Lecturer @ Uni of Gloucestershire. Security studies, digital things. Bring back old Twitter. She/her
@vickyblake.bsky.social
♥️education ♥️unions ♥️democracy Widening Participation @ Leeds Uni UCU NEC, negotiator, Educ'n Comm Chair, Climate+Ecological Emergency Comm Co-chair @leedsucu Branch Sec vickyblakeucu.uk Neurodivergent, LC #EduSky #AbortionIsHealthcare #CleanTheAir
@lucyjones.bsky.social
She/her. Sociolinguist researching language, gender & sexuality - especially LGBTQ+ youth identity and intersectionality. Associate Professor at University of Nottingham, UK. https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/ ORCID: 0000-0002-8947-9577 Views my own
@dramdarcy.bsky.social
Dubliner, FSA, FRHistS; mostly medieval with an unhealthy interest in James Joyce.
@punkacademic.bsky.social
Historian and politics academic. Anarchist. MS/CKD/PTSD. He/him. Evertonian. Saints RLFC, Boston Celtics, Sale Sharks RUFC.
@drbenwhitham.bsky.social
Senior Policy and Research Officer at Refugee Action | Research Associate at SOAS | Assistant Instructor at Tiger Crane Kung Fu, London | Trade unionist, martial artist, antifascist. Views my own. https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/ben-whitham
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@eve.gd
Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
@elimeyerhoff.bsky.social
building new worlds in the shell of the old / trusting kids / abolition / decolonization / Free Palestine! / anti-Zionist, diasporist Jewishness / https://abolition.university / Beyond Education: Radical studying for another world / http://elimeyerhoff.com
@jelena3121.bsky.social
Sociologist | Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies | HU Berlin Current project: https://jelenabrankovic.net/datafying-universities/ Temporarily following student-led protests in #Serbia. Until their demands are met.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Researching data, tech, futures, and biological sciences in education | Senior Lecturer and co-director at the Centre for Research in Digital Education | University of Edinburgh | Editor of Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social
@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social
Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of researcher development at ANU. I do research on research and think about stuff. Here to support researchers. Find my writing and podcasts on www.thesiswhisperer.com #realtwin
@plashingvole.bsky.social
Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun. Read books; join unions; block cookies.
@jennypickerill.bsky.social
Professor at Sheffield University UK, geographer, feminist, photographer, + into all things environmental, esp. eco-housing + eco-communities. She/ her www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@ikax.bsky.social
I'm an education-focussed academic at the Uni of Melbourne & the Head of School, Culture & Communication. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
I am writing — at the intersection of geography/medical humanities — about ‘the university’ since the university worker strike of 2018 (my own views, not my employer’s). Editor, History of the Human Sciences.
@lizgloyn.bsky.social
Reader at the Classics dept at Royal Holloway; mater; CofE ordinand; comms for RHUL UCU; feminist. Sharing my thoughts, not those of my employer. She/her. #TinyJoys creator.
@jessifer.bsky.social
Irascibly optimistic. Ungrading. Critical Digital Pedagogy. Professor at U of Denver. Owner of PlayForge. Co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy. Author of Undoing the Grade and An Urgency of Teachers. One of Hazel’s dads. he/him. https://www.jessestommel.com
@pwgtennant.bsky.social
Epidemiologist with an interest in causal inference methods at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Check out my Intro to Causal Inference Course: https://www.causal.training/ #Epidemiology, #EpiSky, #CausalInference, #CausalSky, #AcademicSky
@drcompton.bsky.social
Sociology Prof (social psyc, methodology, and some demography!). Usually thinking about food, sexualities, masculinities, and sneakers. 🏳️⚧️ He/they/them/him NOLA/DC
@raulpachecovega.bsky.social
Professor @ FLACSO Mexico. I study comparative public policy, water governance, waste management, public administration, environmental politics, homelessness, eldercare and care work, mixed/experimental methods.
@lizmorrish.bsky.social
UK independent scholar. Critical University Studies. Fascinated by US politics. Tweets mostly about Higher Ed issues. Open Water swimmer.