Huddersfield announces huge cuts. 12% redundancies.
Potentially 200 individuals affected.
No voluntary severance scheme.
huducu.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/hud…

A wrecking ball is swinging through UK higher education.

This is utterly devastating news for friends & colleagues at my old place.
When there are 3, 4, 5 rounds of redundancy in the same number of years how can we not talk of gross mismanagement?
Huddersfield UCU UCU #huddersfield

🚨Cluster member Intigam Mamedov published his first article in The Conversation

❗️‘Russia and the Taliban: here’s why Putin wants to get closer to Afghanistan’s current rulers’

📢Check it out here:

theconversation.com/russia-and-the…

📢Tuesday 16th April, 12 - 1pm

📍Lipman Hub, Ground Floor

❗️Topical Talk- Current Events in Russia.

Join us for our second Topical Talk, discussing current events in Russia. We hope to see you there!!!

!❗️More succes for cluster member Intigam Mamedov published in El País English Edition commenting on the #RussianElections

❗️Check it out here:

Putin, the leader courted by the West, perpetuates the dictatorship of an increasingly bellicose Russia english.elpais.com/international/…

❗️Cluster member Intigam Mamedov published an article in The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst.

❗️Check it out here:

Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Distant Perspective of Peace, Cooperation and Narratives of Trust cacianalyst.org/publications/a…

Terrible news from the University of Kent: 'we have taken the decision to phase out Anthropology, Art History, Health & Social Care, Journalism, Music & Audio Technology, and Philosophy/Religious Studies' kent.ac.uk/news/statement…

📢 Wednesday 20th March: 12-1pm

📍lipman Hub, ground floor.

❗️Topical Talk Week 1 - Join our very first CSFP Northumbria team for our student-staff lunchtime discussion about the global political implications of the war in Gaza.

#CSFPcluster #IsraelPalestineConflict

Another HE announcement of budget cuts, this time Northumbria. I know it's exhausting, but please sign: speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-job-cuts-…

🚨Publication Alert!
Check out our CSFP Cluster members Leonie B Jackson & Ariane Bogain article, '‘Mamie Djihad’ and ‘the white widow’: constructing French and British national identities in terrorist times of crisis':
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My book review of Barbara Sutton's Bulletproof Fashion is out now in Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG, a book which explores how bulletproof clothing is both marketed and perceived as it becomes increasingly prevalent in civilian sectors.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#securitystudies #fashionstudies

'By not repatriating Shamima Begum, the UK is washing its hands of continuing Islamic State terror' - new from me on The Conversation
Royal Holloway Law and Criminology CVTRC
theconversation.com/by-not-repatri…

A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

👉Call for working-class student participants: UG/PGT/PGR.

Would you like to contribute to development of a new book designed to help staff in higher education to better support #workingclassstudents ? If yes, consider joining our student advisory board 🤩

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🥳 Ian Cook & I @northumbriauni are hosting two Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Sciences events on experiences of public space. There’s a TOUR (info/register here: bit.ly/underpasstour) and CREATIVE WORKSHOP (info/register: bit.ly/publicspacewor…) Come along to either. All welcome!

1000 episodes in and In Our Time is without doubt the greatest podcast ever created

CSFP member Xander Kirke is featured in this BISA - British International Studies Association article: tinyurl.com/3fxa4uas discussing his recent co-authored article 'Ontological security, myth, and existentialism', which you can find here: tinyurl.com/46uj5kps

A really fantastic Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG conference - it is so wonderful to hear about the work being done in this field. Thank you so much Dr Amna Kaleem Alice Ella Finden 🏳️‍🌈 and Tom Pettinger for putting this together!