There are two senior media relations officer roles at Queen Mary University of London, working with me and other supportive, smart comms colleagues; deadline 16 May jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF259/sen…

'The proportion of schools cutting spending on trips & outings (50%) ... is at the highest level since The Sutton Trust polling began in 2017'

This reflects Geographical Association & #geographyteachers experience & how reduction in fieldwork is more likely in schools serving disadvantaged pupils.

Official photos from #GAConf24 now up on Flickr - can you spot yourself? flickr.com/photos/geograp…

Tomorrow is my last day working Medical Museion after almost five wonderful years on my postdoctoral project Body Time. I've written a short blog about doing history in an interdisciplinary environment involving scientific collaborations and curation: museion.ku.dk/en/blog/doing-…

First day of ‘Expanding Victorian Studies’ conference Department of English at Royal Holloway has been excellent. Great papers, stimulating discussions, mind-expanding performance workshop, and cracking Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture by Adrian S. Wisnicki on Victorian Studies and Generative AI + moonlit Vicky

All ready and looking forward to 2-day London Victorian Studies Colloquium 'Expanding Victorian Studies' at @RHUL (a nerve centre of Victorian Studies) tomorrow and Friday. Speaking on 'Victorian Inheritance' (my The Leverhulme Trust fellowship) and flying flag for QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies #LVSC2024

This afternoon QMUL School of Geography we celebrated Eid-al-Fitr with some sensational food and very good company #EidMubarak

Great to start Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Student Researcher Bursary project 'Dr Barnardo's East London' in collaboration with Ragged School Museum Museum to create app-based walking tour. The very talented Geographer Inayah Uddin is our researcher. We took in our first site close to the museum!

Living in a gas tower — a niche form of gentrification, here taking shape on the banks of the Regents Canal, east London.

Building momentum for #HackneyHalf in five weeks’ time. Check out my run on Strava.
strava.app.link/i4dtoxlbNIb

Ravioli and burrata salad tonight!

Always love conference invitation spam: ‘As per your background in Nano Science and Technology area, we are sincerely welcoming you to deliver a Speech about “People and Things on the Move: Domestic Material Culture, Poverty and Mobility in Victorian London”.

Not run for almost a fortnight but this wasn’t too stretching…

Job opportunity Geographical Association. We're looking for FT & PT writer/s from July 2024 to support our KS3 work with Oak National Academy . To discuss/apply contact Elaine Anderson [email protected]

More info on geography.org.uk/ks3-geography-…

Great article. If only I still taught #QMULDurham — it would be assigned reading! #GeographyTeacher

The new income requirement for UK family visas comes into effect today. In our commentary, we explore how families might be affected and how the UK policy compares to others around the world 👇

Like this uncovered ‘ghost sign’ on Cambridge Heath Road E3— when was this the Taj Mahal Restaurant — 1980s, earlier?

Late opportunity (Deadline TOMORROW 11 April) The The Open University 'Amar bari, amar jibon' (My home, my life) project working with Bangladeshi elders in east London is looking for Professional Stakeholder Engagement and Impact Lead (20 days over 2 years) housinglin.org.uk/_assets/Resour…

Fantastic to see Jalal speak so well in Channel 4 Defiance. His and other youths experience also in Battle of Brick Lane in my recent book Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain as well as my memories of those struggles. Here is Akikur (left) and Jalal (right) 1970s.

Eid Mubarak to all my Muslim friends and colleagues!