Yesterday’s Ballintotis4RoadRace is easily the best road race I’ve done. Perfect organisation (parking, route prep, start & finish), the friendliest volunteers, supportive & involved community, we were even fed after & it is the most gorgeous setting. Thank you, Ballintotis! (33:38min)

Me, after several years of research, readings, note-taking & presentations: “It’s all there. The final chapters of my PhD are basically gonna write themselves.”

My PhD: Not writing itself …

The Language Centre is delighted to offer new English language scholarships for members of the Sanctuary communities  in Ireland.
Sponsored by Apple, places are allocated to those for whom English is a barrier to progression in their education or career.

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Uyu munsi (na buri munsi) turibuka 🙏 🕯️

Re-reading Last Moyo ‘s brilliant decolonial critique of and new directions for the decolonisation of media & comms studies.
Beyond many points challenging & orienting me in my own work, the provided definition of the Global South is one of the best I’ve read (p. 23)

An insightful and moving feature of exiled journalist Salman Jamal inside the refugee system in Ireland.
By Sorcha Pollak for The Irish Times

Undecided whether it’s a great starting point or an impossible task to use 25k words written a year ago to almost entirely restructure the first chapter of a PhD …

Throwback to fighting for press freedom and recognition of exile journalism on the big academic stages 😉✊✍️🕊️

What a great reminder of how my project started, thanks Elly Walters for the shoutout!
The early recognition by and discussion at French Studies were such a boost! ✨

Important new piece on #exile #journalism (challenges, support possibilities & needs) by Reuters Institute ‘s Laura Dulce-Romero , featuring organisations like NEMO, JX Fund (@NanaPenelope), Körber Stiftung. Hopefully, Ex-press will fit into this list soon.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/hundreds-…

'I wake every morning thinking about my team in Bangladesh. Most of the time it feels like I’m running an intelligence agency'

Tasneem Khalil words here will resonate with Luz Mely Reyes Carlos F Chamorro Carlos Dada and so many brave journalists working from exile
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